---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: regulation of home inspectors, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: regulation of home inspectors, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 74"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 74 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bernier", "Bewley", "Cowles"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 33
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-05T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-05-26T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/262f3406-d531-466d-b69c-f46543442673"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2021/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb74"
source_hash: "e33907faafc20e0d41885e783e67e1612223499aaa0e6f9f820956b6eb44fc91"
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 74 (2021) — Relating to: regulation of home inspectors, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

## 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/SB74)
2. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2021/REG/SB74-SA1)

## Votes

- Report passage recommended by Committee on Insurance, Licensing and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bernier — primary (person)
- Bewley — primary (person)
- Cowles — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Bernier, Bewley and Cowles; cosponsored by Representatives Brooks, Gundrum, Allen, Moses, Ortiz-Velez and Skowronski `introduction`
- **2021-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance, Licensing and Forestry `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2021-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2021-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Callahan added as a cosponsor
- **2021-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Brostoff added as a cosponsor
- **2021-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2021-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Insurance, Licensing and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2021-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senators Bernier and Nass
- **2021-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 3-16-2021 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2021-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2021-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2021-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2021-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2021-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Read
- **2021-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from Senate message and take up
- **2021-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2021-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2021-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2021-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2021-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** LRB correction (Senate Amendment 1)
- **2021-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** LRB correction
- **2021-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2021-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 3-25-2021 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 3-26-2021. 2021 Wisconsin Act 17 `executive-signature`
- **2021-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Published 3-27-2021 `became-law`
- **2021-05-26T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Drake added as a cosponsor

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/262f3406-d531-466d-b69c-f46543442673`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).