---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: creating Hmong-Lao Veterans Day."
description: "Relating to: creating Hmong-Lao Veterans Day."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "AB 154"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 154 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Billings", "Bowen", "Cabral-Guevara", "Cabrera", "Edming", "Hong", "Kitchens", "Krug", "Moses", "Murphy", "Ortiz-Velez", "Petryk", "Shankland", "Sinicki", "Snyder", "Spiros", "Thiesfeldt", "Tittl", "Tusler", "Vorpagel", "Vruwink", "Wichgers"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 30
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-05-14T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59a93add-5edc-473b-8a1d-d56ad7b61d74"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2021/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab154"
source_hash: "fbee15d1347ad45e6a6ab439de8af1fb18dcb377b16dc79c96087e64330671a7"
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 154 (2021) — Relating to: creating Hmong-Lao Veterans Day.

## 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/2021/REG/AB154)

## Votes

- Report passage recommended by Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs, Ayes 11, Noes 0 — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Billings — primary (person)
- Bowen — primary (person)
- Cabral-Guevara — primary (person)
- Cabrera — primary (person)
- Edming — primary (person)
- Hong — primary (person)
- Kitchens — primary (person)
- Krug — primary (person)
- Moses — primary (person)
- Murphy — primary (person)
- Ortiz-Velez — primary (person)
- Petryk — primary (person)
- Shankland — primary (person)
- Sinicki — primary (person)
- Snyder — primary (person)
- Spiros — primary (person)
- Thiesfeldt — primary (person)
- Tittl — primary (person)
- Tusler — primary (person)
- Vorpagel — primary (person)
- Vruwink — primary (person)
- Wichgers — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Snyder, Tusler, Spiros, Billings, Bowen, Cabral-Guevara, Cabrera, Edming, Hong, Kitchens, Krug, Moses, Murphy, Ortiz-Velez, Petryk, Shankland, Sinicki, Thiesfeldt, Tittl, Vorpagel, Vruwink and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senators Petrowski, Wimberger, Carpenter, Bradley, Cowles, Jacque, Larson, Marklein, Pfaff, Ringhand, Roth, Smith and Wirch `introduction`
- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Hesselbein added as a coauthor
- **2021-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2021-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2021-05-05T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs, Ayes 11, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-05T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-06T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 5-11-2021 by Committee on Rules
- **2021-05-10T05:00:00+00:00** Representatives Spreitzer, Subeck and Emerson added as coauthors
- **2021-05-10T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Agard added as a cosponsor
- **2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Representatives Loudenbeck, S. Rodriguez and Schraa added as coauthors
- **2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from committee on Senate Organization and take up
- **2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Wanggaard added as a cosponsor
- **2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
- **2021-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 5-13-2021 `enrolled`
- **2021-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 5-13-2021 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-14T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 5-14-2021. 2021 Wisconsin Act 31 `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-14T05:00:00+00:00** Published 5-15-2021 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/59a93add-5edc-473b-8a1d-d56ad7b61d74`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).