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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to: electronic and remote witnessing and notarization of estate planning documents."
+description: "Relating to: electronic and remote witnessing and notarization of estate planning documents."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
+legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 898"
+citation: "Wisconsin SB 898 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ballweg", "Feyen"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2024-01-11T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2024-03-22T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d39aceab-6506-455a-ba79-5fd85d30d39f"
+source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb898"
+source_hash: "fbb5029e6eb187052ef3d996d2adca067ec1bd8481669c718c60fdd2e8c36301"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wi"]
+---
+
+# Wisconsin SB 898 (2023) — Relating to: electronic and remote witnessing and notarization of estate planning documents.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2023/REG/SB898)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Report passage recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ballweg — primary (person)
+- Feyen — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-11T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Ballweg and Feyen; cosponsored by Representatives Tusler, Baldeh, Behnke, Doyle, Kitchens, O'Connor, Ratcliff, Rettinger and Subeck `introduction`
+- **2024-01-11T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
+- **2024-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
+- **2024-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
+- **2024-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 2-13-2024 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
+- **2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
+- **2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
+- **2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
+- **2024-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-15T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Jacobson added as a cosponsor
+- **2024-02-15T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 2-20-2024 by Committee on Rules
+- **2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
+- **2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
+- **2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
+- **2024-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
+- **2024-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2024-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 3-18-2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 3-21-2024. 2023 Wisconsin Act 130 `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Published 3-22-2024 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d39aceab-6506-455a-ba79-5fd85d30d39f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).
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