---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: expanding applicability of the room tax, making substantive and technical changes to the local room tax, and providing a penalty."
description: "Relating to: expanding applicability of the room tax, making substantive and technical changes to the local room tax, and providing a penalty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 198"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 198 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ballweg", "Jacque", "Ringhand"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-06-30T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e668bed-bea1-4d73-bc9f-da69aa5f149a"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2021/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb198"
source_hash: "dafa01b230a8a223ac9a8d2b571d21c3c8011eac557e89a24da3d6d7afa9172e"
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 198 (2021) — Relating to: expanding applicability of the room tax, making substantive and technical changes to the local room tax, and providing a penalty.

## 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/SB198)
2. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2021/REG/SB198-SA1)
3. **Senate Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2021/REG/SB198-SA2)

## Votes

- Report adoption of Senate Amendment 2 recommended by Committee on Financial Institutions and Revenue, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Financial Institutions and Revenue, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Financial Institutions and Revenue, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ballweg — primary (person)
- Jacque — primary (person)
- Ringhand — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Ballweg, Jacque and Ringhand; cosponsored by Representatives Kitchens, Billings, Krug, Dallman, Duchow, Edming, Emerson, Mursau, B. Meyers, Novak, J. Rodriguez, Rozar, Skowronski, Spiros, Spreitzer and Subeck `introduction`
- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Financial Institutions and Revenue `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-08T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Armstrong added as a cosponsor
- **2021-04-12T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Ballweg
- **2021-05-06T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 2 offered by Senator Ballweg
- **2021-05-25T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2021-06-03T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2021-06-03T05:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Financial Institutions and Revenue, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `amendment-passage`
- **2021-06-03T05:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Amendment 2 recommended by Committee on Financial Institutions and Revenue, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `amendment-passage`
- **2021-06-03T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Financial Institutions and Revenue, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-03T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2021-06-04T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 6-9-2021 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2021-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2021-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2021-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 2 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2021-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2021-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2021-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed, Ayes 32, Noes 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2021-06-10T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2021-06-15T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-16T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 6-22-2021 by Committee on Rules
- **2021-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
- **2021-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2021-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2021-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2021-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2021-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2021-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2021-06-29T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 6-29-2021 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-30T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 6-29-2021. 2021 Wisconsin Act 55 `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-30T05:00:00+00:00** Published 6-30-2021 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e668bed-bea1-4d73-bc9f-da69aa5f149a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).