---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: adding 12 circuit court branches to be allocated by the director of state courts. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: adding 12 circuit court branches to be allocated by the director of state courts. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "AB 470"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 470 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson", "Ballweg", "Bowen", "Crowley", "Edming", "Goyke", "McGuire", "Neubauer", "Petersen", "Petryk", "Schraa", "Spiros", "Summerfield", "Tittl", "Tusler", "Zamarripa"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 33
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-09-24T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-03-06T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c65a75f-e0da-424c-a52b-3e83316e23ce"
source_url: "http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2019/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab470"
source_hash: "71a97041909514efce14e346bdcf7c1d42679b59b4ec8799469c50e497d7abcf"
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 470 (2019) — Relating to: adding 12 circuit court branches to be allocated by the director of state courts. (FE)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Assembly Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2019/REG/AB470-AA1)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2019/REG/AB470)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **94–1** (pass) · lower
- Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0 — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCURRENCE — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Anderson — primary (person)
- Ballweg — primary (person)
- Bowen — primary (person)
- Crowley — primary (person)
- Edming — primary (person)
- Goyke — primary (person)
- McGuire — primary (person)
- Neubauer — primary (person)
- Petersen — primary (person)
- Petryk — primary (person)
- Schraa — primary (person)
- Spiros — primary (person)
- Summerfield — primary (person)
- Tittl — primary (person)
- Tusler — primary (person)
- Zamarripa — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-09-24T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Tusler, Tittl, McGuire, Edming, Anderson, Ballweg, Bowen, Crowley, Goyke, Neubauer, Petersen, Petryk, Schraa, Spiros, Summerfield and Zamarripa; cosponsored by Senators Petrowski, Bewley, Bernier, LeMahieu, Schachtner, L. Taylor, Tiffany and Testin `introduction`
- **2019-09-24T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Joint Committee on Finance
- **2019-09-25T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Vruwink added as a coauthor
- **2019-10-01T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Murphy added as a coauthor
- **2019-10-02T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received
- **2019-10-02T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2019-11-07T06:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and referred to committee on Rules pursuant to Assembly Rule 42 (3)(c)
- **2019-11-07T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 11-12-2019 by Committee on Rules
- **2019-11-11T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Tusler `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-11-12T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2019-11-12T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2019-11-12T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading
- **2019-11-12T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2019-11-12T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed, Ayes 94, Noes 1 `passage`
- **2019-11-12T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2019-11-12T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly
- **2020-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to joint committee on Finance
- **2020-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2020-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2020-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0
- **2020-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 2-19-2020 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senator Jacque added as a cosponsor
- **2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading
- **2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 33, Noes 0 `passage`
- **2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2020-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in
- **2020-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 2-25-2020
- **2020-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 2-28-2020 by directive of the Speaker `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 3-5-2020. 2019 Wisconsin Act 184 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Published 3-6-2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7c65a75f-e0da-424c-a52b-3e83316e23ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).