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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to: an optional final hearing by affidavit for the dissolution of a marriage."
+description: "Relating to: an optional final hearing by affidavit for the dissolution of a marriage."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
+legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 189"
+citation: "Wisconsin SB 189 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cabral-Guevara", "Wimberger"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-04-14T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-11-03T06:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b80b6526-5cc7-4dbc-8c68-472c9ad80518"
+source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb189"
+source_hash: "11f6021a18530fc115f5ba68a8f6d177a46642b62a63e31252c6ca2283c764c2"
+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 189 (2025) — Relating to: an optional final hearing by affidavit for the dissolution of a marriage.
+
+## 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/SB189)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Report passage recommended by Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cabral-Guevara — primary (person)
+- Wimberger — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-04-14T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Wimberger and Cabral-Guevara; cosponsored by Representatives Tusler, O'Connor, Doyle, Palmeri and Piwowarczyk `introduction`
+- **2025-04-14T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-07T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
+- **2025-06-11T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
+- **2025-06-13T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-13T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
+- **2025-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 6-18-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
+- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Ratcliff added as a coauthor
+- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
+- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
+- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
+- **2025-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
+- **2025-07-16T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2025-09-09T05:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 9-11-2025
+- **2025-09-11T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
+- **2025-09-11T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
+- **2025-09-11T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-09-11T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
+- **2025-09-11T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-11T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
+- **2025-09-11T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
+- **2025-09-17T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-10-30T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 10-30-2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-11-03T06:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 10-31-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 40 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-11-03T06:00:00+00:00** Published 11-1-2025 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b80b6526-5cc7-4dbc-8c68-472c9ad80518`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).
+