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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to: postloss assignment of rights or benefits under property insurance policies to residential contractors and providing a penalty. (FE)"
+description: "Relating to: postloss assignment of rights or benefits under property insurance policies to residential contractors and providing a penalty. (FE)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
+legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 531"
+citation: "Wisconsin SB 531 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dassler-Alfheim", "Felzkowski", "Nass", "Spreitzer"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-10-09T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19afea6f-c4a2-4ec8-ab8b-32df506f3c1b"
+source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb531"
+source_hash: "4eff8700d37e216baf1c0870057878a6e7453d771b1f3f430c1d7089fd81afa3"
+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 531 (2025) — Relating to: postloss assignment of rights or benefits under property insurance policies to residential contractors and providing a penalty. (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/SB531)
+2. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB531-SA1)
+3. **Senate Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB531-SA2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+- Report adoption of Senate Amendment 2 recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dassler-Alfheim — primary (person)
+- Felzkowski — primary (person)
+- Nass — primary (person)
+- Spreitzer — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-10-09T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Felzkowski, Nass, Dassler-Alfheim and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Callahan, Murphy, Piwowarczyk and Dittrich `introduction`
+- **2025-10-09T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-10-15T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
+- **2025-10-24T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Felzkowski
+- **2025-10-29T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
+- **2025-11-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 2 offered by Senator Felzkowski
+- **2025-11-11T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
+- **2025-11-11T06:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-11-11T06:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Amendment 2 recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-11-11T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-11-11T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
+- **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** Senate Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 2 adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **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** Ordered immediately messaged
+- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
+- **2026-01-07T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-08T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 1-13-2026 by Committee on Rules
+- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
+- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
+- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
+- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
+- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
+- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
+- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
+- **2026-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** LRB correction
+- **2026-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2026-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Brown added as a cosponsor
+- **2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Emerson added as a cosponsor
+- **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 230 `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/19afea6f-c4a2-4ec8-ab8b-32df506f3c1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).
+