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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to: reduction of penalty surcharge when certain fines or forfeitures reduced. (FE)"
+description: "Relating to: reduction of penalty surcharge when certain fines or forfeitures reduced. (FE)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
+legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 188"
+citation: "Wisconsin SB 188 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Feyen"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-04-14T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37c0c39e-8c7a-42a3-bcad-7524374b6ef4"
+source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb188"
+source_hash: "7653193289d09c0a24260307a78552c3455947c66793722f1cd64f11fcb73dcd"
+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 188 (2025) — Relating to: reduction of penalty surcharge when certain fines or forfeitures reduced. (FE)
+
+## 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/SB188)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 — **8–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Feyen — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-04-14T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senator Feyen; cosponsored by Representatives Brooks, Knodl, Behnke, Moses, Mursau, Novak, Sinicki, Wichgers and O'Connor `introduction`
+- **2025-04-14T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-30T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
+- **2025-05-08T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
+- **2025-05-08T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-08T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
+- **2025-10-15T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
+- **2025-11-14T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 11-18-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
+- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
+- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
+- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senator Ratcliff added as a coauthor
+- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
+- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
+- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 1-20-2026 by Committee on Rules
+- **2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Representatives Madison, Phelps and Clancy added as cosponsors
+- **2026-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
+- **2026-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
+- **2026-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
+- **2026-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
+- **2026-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
+- **2026-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
+- **2026-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
+- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 4-8-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 213 `executive-signature`
+- **2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Published 4-9-2026 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37c0c39e-8c7a-42a3-bcad-7524374b6ef4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).
+