Wisconsin Legislature: 2023 Wisconsin Act 53

Date of enactment: December 6, 2023
2023 Senate Bill 283 Date of publication*: December 7, 2023

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication."

2023 WISCONSIN ACT 53

An Act to create 7.53 (5) of the statutes; relating to: broadcasting election night proceedings.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

53,1 Section 1. 7.53 (5) of the statutes is created to read:

7.53 (5) Live broadcasts. If a municipality or county or the commission broadcasts canvassing proceedings live in any election, including by live stream on the Internet, the municipality, county, or commission shall record the broadcast. The municipal clerk, county clerk, or commission shall retain the recording for the period specified in s. 7.23 (1) (f), unless, in good faith, the municipal clerk, county clerk, or commission is unable to retain the recording because the recording is maintained on an Internet video streaming service that goes out of business or is otherwise removed from the Internet, if the service has been in operation for at least 10 years and has at least 1,000,000 account holders at the time the municipal clerk, county clerk, or commission posts the recording to the service.