---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: licensure of dental therapists; extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; providing an exemption from rule-making procedures; and granting rule-making authority. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: licensure of dental therapists; extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; providing an exemption from rule-making procedures; and granting rule-making authority. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 689"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 689 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ballweg", "Felzkowski", "Hutton", "James", "Marklein", "Roys", "Spreitzer", "Testin"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 31
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-11-15T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-02-01T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c97f1590-d62f-4a0c-abd3-f01da872c7ad"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb689"
source_hash: "bef3a02f0071b577562b62f41fdd786657a4a23ea0418f93e758bb04f0510a6d"
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 689 (2023) — Relating to: licensure of dental therapists; extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; providing an exemption from rule-making 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/2023/REG/SB689)

## Votes

- Report passage recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 6, Noes 0 — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ballweg — primary (person)
- Felzkowski — primary (person)
- Hutton — primary (person)
- James — primary (person)
- Marklein — primary (person)
- Roys — primary (person)
- Spreitzer — primary (person)
- Testin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-11-15T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Felzkowski, Hutton, James, Marklein, Roys, Spreitzer, Testin and Ballweg; cosponsored by Representatives Plumer, Behnke, Binsfeld, Callahan, Dittrich, Emerson, Goeben, Jacobson, Joers, Mursau, Ohnstad, Oldenburg, Ortiz-Velez, Rozar, Snyder and Tusler `introduction`
- **2023-11-15T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-11-17T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Schutt added as a cosponsor
- **2023-12-07T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2023-12-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senator Cabral-Guevara added as a coauthor
- **2023-12-19T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2023-12-19T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 6, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-12-19T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2023-12-20T06:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2024-01-10T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Drake added as a cosponsor
- **2024-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 1-16-2024 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Representatives Subeck and O'Connor added as cosponsors
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Read
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from Senate message and take up
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2024-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** LRB correction
- **2024-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 1-29-2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 1-31-2024. 2023 Wisconsin Act 87 `executive-signature`
- **2024-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Published 2-1-2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c97f1590-d62f-4a0c-abd3-f01da872c7ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).