On November 1, the Wisconsin Assembly passed SB 116, the bill to move the non-presidential primary from September to August. However, the Assembly also amended the bill. The original bill moved the petition deadline for qualifying a new party from June 1 to April 1. However, as amended, the bill now sets a May 1 petition deadline.

There is no change to the number of signatures for a new party, 10,000. Nor is there any change in the existing law that makes it illegal to circulate the party petition in an odd year.

The bill shifts the petitioning periods for independent candidates. Current law says independent presidential petitions are circulated between August 1 and the first Tuesday in September; the bill changes that from July 1 to the first Tuesday in August. Current law says non-presidential independents circulate petitions between June 1 and the second Tuesday in July; the bill changes that to between May 1 and the second Tuesday in June. The bill now goes back to the Senate.