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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to: residency requirements for persons circulating nomination papers or recall petitions."
+description: "Relating to: residency requirements for persons circulating nomination papers or recall petitions."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
+legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "AB 223"
+citation: "Wisconsin AB 223 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["B. Jacobson", "Brooks", "Dittrich", "Duchow", "Gundrum", "Knodl", "Kreibich", "Melotik", "Murphy", "Mursau", "Nedweski", "O'Connor", "Penterman", "Piwowarczyk", "Rodriguez", "Spiros", "Steffen", "Tucker"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 33
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-04-23T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2026-03-27T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8582c3a-773b-4d5a-9bc8-72bd3d69525f"
+source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab223"
+source_hash: "4aee21a38e867e352d371ba37438c7e0afe15f4cc87d78a75f21c0b08a53000e"
+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 AB 223 (2025) — Relating to: residency requirements for persons circulating nomination papers or recall petitions.
+
+## 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/2025/REG/AB223)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCURRENCE — **19–14** (pass) · upper
+- Report passage recommended by Committee on Campaigns and Elections, Ayes 6, Noes 1 — **6–1** (pass) · lower
+- Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development, Ayes 3, Noes 2 — **3–2** (pass) · upper
+- SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND — **18–15** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- B. Jacobson — primary (person)
+- Brooks — primary (person)
+- Dittrich — primary (person)
+- Duchow — primary (person)
+- Gundrum — primary (person)
+- Knodl — primary (person)
+- Kreibich — primary (person)
+- Melotik — primary (person)
+- Murphy — primary (person)
+- Mursau — primary (person)
+- Nedweski — primary (person)
+- O'Connor — primary (person)
+- Penterman — primary (person)
+- Piwowarczyk — primary (person)
+- Rodriguez — primary (person)
+- Spiros — primary (person)
+- Steffen — primary (person)
+- Tucker — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-04-23T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Piwowarczyk, B. Jacobson, Brooks, Dittrich, Duchow, Gundrum, Knodl, Kreibich, Melotik, Murphy, Mursau, Nedweski, O'Connor, Penterman, Rodriguez, Spiros, Steffen and Tucker; cosponsored by Senators Wanggaard, Marklein, Quinn and Tomczyk `introduction`
+- **2025-04-23T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-03T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
+- **2025-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
+- **2025-10-16T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Campaigns and Elections, Ayes 6, Noes 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-10-16T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2025-11-13T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 11-19-2025 by Committee on Rules
+- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
+- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
+- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
+- **2025-11-20T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
+- **2025-11-20T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-07T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
+- **2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
+- **2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development, Ayes 3, Noes 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
+- **2026-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 2-11-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
+- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senators Smith, Carpenter, Hesselbein, L. Johnson, Keyeski, Pfaff, Ratcliff and Wall
+- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Point of order that Senate Amendment 1 was not germane well taken
+- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Decision of the Chair stands as the judgment of the Senate, Ayes 18, Noes 15
+- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
+- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 19, Noes 14 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
+- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
+- **2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 2-13-2026 `enrolled`
+- **2026-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Attempted to present to the Governor on 3-24-2026 by directive of the Speaker
+- **2026-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 3-25-2026 by directive of the Speaker `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 3-27-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 126 `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Published 3-28-2026 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c8582c3a-773b-4d5a-9bc8-72bd3d69525f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).
+