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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to: town clerk and treasurer appointments, publication requirements for proposed budget summary and notice of public hearing, and discontinuance of highways. (FE)"
+description: "Relating to: town clerk and treasurer appointments, publication requirements for proposed budget summary and notice of public hearing, and discontinuance of highways. (FE)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
+legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 215"
+citation: "Wisconsin SB 215 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cabral-Guevara", "Feyen", "Jacque", "James", "Marklein", "Pfaff", "Quinn", "Spreitzer"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-04-16T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-12-10T06:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dcd6f744-b231-4e5a-a9e7-bff6d77ca4af"
+source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb215"
+source_hash: "94e881e4058f0c6563d0118f6061afb5e3db3d958fa1645e2f85a247c1208ec0"
+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 215 (2025) — Relating to: town clerk and treasurer appointments, publication requirements for proposed budget summary and notice of public hearing, and discontinuance of highways. (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/SB215)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cabral-Guevara — primary (person)
+- Feyen — primary (person)
+- Jacque — primary (person)
+- James — primary (person)
+- Marklein — primary (person)
+- Pfaff — primary (person)
+- Quinn — primary (person)
+- Spreitzer — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Quinn, Pfaff, Cabral-Guevara, Feyen, Jacque, James, Marklein and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Dallman, O'Connor, Anderson, Armstrong, Callahan, Dittrich, Duchow, Gustafson, Johnson, Knodl, Kreibich, Kurtz, Mursau, Swearingen, VanderMeer, Wichgers and Wittke `introduction`
+- **2025-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-30T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Doyle added as a cosponsor
+- **2025-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Bare added as a cosponsor
+- **2025-05-06T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Roe added as a cosponsor
+- **2025-05-07T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
+- **2025-05-06T05:00:00+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 Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-08T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
+- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 5-15-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
+- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Ratcliff added as a coauthor
+- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
+- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
+- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
+- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
+- **2025-05-27T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-28T05:00:00+00:00** Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor
+- **2025-06-02T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Steffen added as a cosponsor
+- **2025-08-04T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
+- **2025-10-03T05:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 10-7-2025
+- **2025-10-06T05:00:00+00:00** Representatives Fitzgerald and Miresse added as cosponsors
+- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Stubbs added as a cosponsor
+- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
+- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
+- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
+- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
+- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
+- **2025-10-09T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-12-04T06:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 12-4-2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-12-10T06:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 12-9-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 71 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-12-10T06:00:00+00:00** Published 12-10-2025 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dcd6f744-b231-4e5a-a9e7-bff6d77ca4af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).
+