---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: transferring adjudicatory functions for worker’s compensation from the Division of Hearings and Appeals in the Department of Administration to the Department of Workforce Development. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: transferring adjudicatory functions for worker’s compensation from the Division of Hearings and Appeals in the Department of Administration to the Department of Workforce Development. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 232"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 232 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Armstrong", "Dittrich", "Moses", "Murphy", "Sinicki", "Sortwell"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 28
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-05-02T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-08-11T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f88bf57f-5e1a-4c1a-811b-79ac3556b521"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab232"
source_hash: "7c5776b66123f3cc449d06479fd5c86ebc2ce155f6860dd335d306aa9baf4bec"
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 232 (2025) — Relating to: transferring adjudicatory functions for worker’s compensation from the Division of Hearings and Appeals in the Department of Administration to the Department of Workforce Development. (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/2025/REG/AB232)

## Votes

- Report passage recommended by Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment, Ayes 9, Noes 0 — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Armstrong — primary (person)
- Dittrich — primary (person)
- Moses — primary (person)
- Murphy — primary (person)
- Sinicki — primary (person)
- Sortwell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-02T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Sortwell, Armstrong, Dittrich, Moses, Murphy and Sinicki; cosponsored by Senators Testin, Wanggaard, Feyen and Wall `introduction`
- **2025-05-02T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-21T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-05-28T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-06-12T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-06-12T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment, Ayes 9, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-12T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-16T05:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 6-18-2025
- **2025-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Representative O'Connor added as a coauthor
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Ratcliff added as a cosponsor
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Miresse added as a coauthor
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended and taken up
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
- **2025-06-20T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 6-20-2025 `enrolled`
- **2025-08-07T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 8-7-2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-08-11T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 8-8-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 33 `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-11T05:00:00+00:00** Published 8-9-2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f88bf57f-5e1a-4c1a-811b-79ac3556b521`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).