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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to: the age at which an infant is covered under the safe haven law."
+description: "Relating to: the age at which an infant is covered under the safe haven law."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
+legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "AB 237"
+citation: "Wisconsin AB 237 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Behnke", "Brill", "Goeben", "Gundrum", "Gustafson", "Kitchens", "Knodl", "Kreibich", "Maxey", "Novak", "O'Connor", "Prado", "Wichgers"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-05-02T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2518beb-dfdc-4477-ae28-0fbdfa0aa572"
+source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab237"
+source_hash: "3292abdcfe1598d40bfbe914c9f3af1d1762a8b6ed5a2ece0a1d38d65b58eb32"
+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 237 (2025) — Relating to: the age at which an infant is covered under the safe haven law.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Assembly Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB237-AA1)
+2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB237)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2 — **3–2** (pass) · upper
+- Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Children and Families, Ayes 9, Noes 0 — **9–0** (pass) · lower
+- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Children and Families, Ayes 9, Noes 0 — **9–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Behnke — primary (person)
+- Brill — primary (person)
+- Goeben — primary (person)
+- Gundrum — primary (person)
+- Gustafson — primary (person)
+- Kitchens — primary (person)
+- Knodl — primary (person)
+- Kreibich — primary (person)
+- Maxey — primary (person)
+- Novak — primary (person)
+- O'Connor — primary (person)
+- Prado — primary (person)
+- Wichgers — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-05-02T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Gundrum, O'Connor, Novak, Brill, Maxey, Kreibich, Prado, Kitchens, Wichgers, Goeben, Behnke, Gustafson and Knodl; cosponsored by Senators Hutton and Cabral-Guevara `introduction`
+- **2025-05-02T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Children and Families `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-21T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
+- **2025-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Kurtz added as a coauthor
+- **2025-09-12T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Piwowarczyk added as a coauthor
+- **2025-11-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senator Marklein added as a cosponsor
+- **2026-01-05T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Gundrum
+- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
+- **2026-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Children and Families, Ayes 9, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Children and Families, Ayes 9, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 2-10-2026 by Committee on Rules
+- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
+- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
+- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
+- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
+- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 2-11-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
+- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended and taken up
+- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
+- **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 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senator Dassler-Alfheim added as a cosponsor
+- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
+- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
+- **2026-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** LRB correction (Assembly Amendment 1)
+- **2026-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 2-16-2026 `enrolled`
+- **2026-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 3-12-2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 3-13-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 94 `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Published 3-14-2026 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d2518beb-dfdc-4477-ae28-0fbdfa0aa572`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).
+