---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: a commercial driver training grant program and making an appropriation. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: a commercial driver training grant program and making an appropriation. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 271"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 271 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cabral-Guevara", "Wimberger"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-05-08T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-03-22T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b52a739d-1af9-4edd-8ad5-300f25fb8f40"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb271"
source_hash: "7ed0b29c5b8d4ec1120780bb4762470d1d40d7f62ad53a3c5e4f68e43dc7ebdb"
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 271 (2023) — Relating to: a commercial driver training grant program and making an appropriation. (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/2023/REG/SB271)
2. **Senate Substitute Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2023/REG/SB271-SSA1)

## Votes

- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Economic Development and Technical Colleges, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Referred to joint committee on Finance by Committee on Senate Organization pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCURRENCE — **93–3** (pass) · lower
- Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Economic Development and Technical Colleges, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and made Available for Scheduling by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cabral-Guevara — primary (person)
- Wimberger — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-08T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Wimberger and Cabral-Guevara; cosponsored by Representatives Pronschinske, Binsfeld, Brandtjen, Callahan, Edming, Green, Magnafici, Mursau, O'Connor, Oldenburg, Petryk, Summerfield and VanderMeer `introduction`
- **2023-05-08T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development and Technical Colleges `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-30T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2023-07-14T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Jacobson added as a cosponsor
- **2023-08-07T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Jacobson withdrawn as a cosponsor `withdrawal`
- **2023-09-26T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Senator Wimberger
- **2023-09-27T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2023-10-11T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2023-10-11T05:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Economic Development and Technical Colleges, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `amendment-passage`
- **2023-10-11T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Economic Development and Technical Colleges, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-10-11T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2023-11-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to joint committee on Finance by Committee on Senate Organization pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0 `referral-committee`
- **2023-11-13T06:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and made Available for Scheduling by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0
- **2023-11-13T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 11-14-2023 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2023-11-14T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on the foot of the 14th order of business on the calendar of 11-14-2023
- **2023-11-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senator Carpenter added as a coauthor
- **2023-11-14T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2023-11-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Substitute Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2023-11-14T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2023-11-14T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2023-11-14T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-11-14T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2023-11-14T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-12-06T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 2-13-2024 by Committee on Rules
- **2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
- **2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 93, Noes 3 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2024-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 3-18-2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 3-21-2024. 2023 Wisconsin Act 153 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Published 3-22-2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b52a739d-1af9-4edd-8ad5-300f25fb8f40`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).