---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: teacher preparatory programs and granting rule-making authority."
description: "Relating to: teacher preparatory programs and granting rule-making authority."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 230"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 230 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carpenter", "Feyen", "Jacque", "Kooyenga", "L. Taylor"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 29
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-05-23T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-02-04T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae1294ad-3228-49a5-b671-2c060638bffd"
source_url: "http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2019/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb230"
source_hash: "ad68f990542e4df9fb5252041c5d86ac3a0935208622c0cde28f45c9824aa241"
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 230 (2019) — Relating to: teacher preparatory programs and granting rule-making authority.

## 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/SB230)

## Votes

- Report passage recommended by Committee on Universities, Technical Colleges, Children and Families, Ayes 7, Noes 0 — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Carpenter — primary (person)
- Feyen — primary (person)
- Jacque — primary (person)
- Kooyenga — primary (person)
- L. Taylor — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-23T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Kooyenga, L. Taylor, Carpenter, Jacque and Feyen; cosponsored by Representatives L. Myers, Rohrkaste, Stubbs, Ohnstad, Crowley and Subeck `introduction`
- **2019-05-23T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Universities, Technical Colleges, Children and Families `referral-committee`
- **2019-07-11T05:00:00+00:00** Representatives Kitchens and Vruwink added as cosponsors
- **2019-07-12T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Bowen added as a cosponsor
- **2019-08-27T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2019-09-25T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2019-09-30T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Universities, Technical Colleges, Children and Families, Ayes 7, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-30T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2019-10-04T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 10-8-2019 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2019-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Miller added as a coauthor
- **2019-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2019-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading
- **2019-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2019-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage`
- **2019-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2019-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate
- **2020-01-07T06:00:00+00:00** Representative C. Taylor added as a cosponsor
- **2020-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 1-21-2020 by Committee on Rules
- **2020-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading
- **2020-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2020-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage`
- **2020-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2020-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in
- **2020-01-27T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled
- **2020-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 1-30-2020 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 2-4-2020. 2019 Wisconsin Act 84 `executive-signature`
- **2020-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Published 2-5-2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae1294ad-3228-49a5-b671-2c060638bffd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).