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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to: prohibiting hotels, inns, and motels from discriminating against dog handlers who are accompanied by search and rescue dogs."
+description: "Relating to: prohibiting hotels, inns, and motels from discriminating against dog handlers who are accompanied by search and rescue dogs."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
+legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "AB 238"
+citation: "Wisconsin AB 238 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Andraca", "Green", "Mursau", "O'Connor", "Piwowarczyk"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-05-02T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e377641-59e1-4383-9071-bfaba7f79c9e"
+source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab238"
+source_hash: "022cb65e975b8755a7a46cbf47f2e03ab774c406d432dda2560e47b87fd431f9"
+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 238 (2025) — Relating to: prohibiting hotels, inns, and motels from discriminating against dog handlers who are accompanied by search and rescue dogs.
+
+## 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/AB238-AA1)
+2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB238)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 — **8–0** (pass) · upper
+- Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Commerce, Ayes 6, Noes 0 — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Commerce, Ayes 6, Noes 0 — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+- Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2 — **3–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Andraca — primary (person)
+- Green — primary (person)
+- Mursau — primary (person)
+- O'Connor — primary (person)
+- Piwowarczyk — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-05-02T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Green, Andraca, Mursau, O'Connor and Piwowarczyk; cosponsored by Senators James and Wanggaard `introduction`
+- **2025-05-02T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Commerce `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-10T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Stroud added as a coauthor
+- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Sinicki added as a coauthor
+- **2025-10-01T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Green
+- **2025-10-02T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
+- **2025-10-02T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
+- **2025-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Commerce, Ayes 6, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Commerce, Ayes 6, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-10-08T05:00:00+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** Assembly Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **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 Judiciary and Public Safety `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
+- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
+- **2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
+- **2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 1-21-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
+- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Senators Dassler-Alfheim and Smith added as cosponsors
+- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
+- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
+- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
+- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
+- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
+- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
+- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** LRB correction (Assembly Amendment 1)
+- **2026-01-23T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 1-22-2026 `enrolled`
+- **2026-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 4-1-2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 4-2-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 151 `executive-signature`
+- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Published 4-3-2026 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e377641-59e1-4383-9071-bfaba7f79c9e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).
+