---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: designating and marking a highway interchange in Winnebago County as the Michael G. Ellis Memorial Interchange. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: designating and marking a highway interchange in Winnebago County as the Michael G. Ellis Memorial Interchange. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 1"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 1 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cowles", "Roth"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 28
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-01-23T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-01T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e78bb53c-d549-4f5f-bf9d-0175e0e6b4e3"
source_url: "http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2019/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb1"
source_hash: "17bb077c18daf1fcb0c5a50e5fd06322a362318e55266ae9921e3f3d97a60d4e"
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 1 (2019) — Relating to: designating and marking a highway interchange in Winnebago County as the Michael G. Ellis Memorial Interchange. (FE)

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2019/REG/SB1)

## Votes

- Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation, Veterans and Military Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cowles — primary (person)
- Roth — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-23T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Roth and Cowles; cosponsored by Representatives Rohrkaste, Steineke, Murphy and Stuck `introduction`
- **2019-01-23T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation, Veterans and Military Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received
- **2019-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation, Veterans and Military Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2019-04-05T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 4-9-2019 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2019-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Bernier, Bewley, Carpenter, Craig, Darling, Erpenbach, Feyen, Fitzgerald, Hansen, Jacque, Johnson, Kapenga, Kooyenga, L. Taylor, Larson, LeMahieu, Marklein, Miller, Nass, Olsen, Petrowski, Ringhand, Risser, Schachtner, Shilling, Smith, Stroebel, Testin, Tiffany, Wanggaard and Wirch of the Senate added as coauthors
- **2019-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading
- **2019-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2019-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage`
- **2019-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2019-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate
- **2019-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Read
- **2019-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended and taken up
- **2019-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading
- **2019-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2019-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage`
- **2019-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Schraa added as a cosponsor
- **2019-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2019-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in
- **2019-04-11T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled
- **2019-04-25T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 4-25-2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 5-1-2019. 2019 Wisconsin Act 3 `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Published 5-2-2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e78bb53c-d549-4f5f-bf9d-0175e0e6b4e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).