---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: advanced practice registered nurses, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: advanced practice registered nurses, 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: "2025"
identifier: "AB 257"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 257 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andraca", "Behnke", "Brown", "Cruz", "DeSmidt", "Emerson", "Gundrum", "Joers", "Kreibich", "Kurtz", "Maxey", "Murphy", "O'Connor", "Ortiz-Velez", "Prado", "Rodriguez", "Spiros", "Stubbs", "Subeck", "Tusler", "Udell", "Wichgers"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 40
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-05-12T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-09-09T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/608ce74e-4233-446d-b216-d758a1584ed9"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab257"
source_hash: "350390542dee8e102a713a7b5f5142b43e9c82d6e23e62c61687b52765a5c034"
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 257 (2025) — Relating to: advanced practice registered nurses, 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/2025/REG/AB257)

## Votes

- Report passage recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 15, Noes 0 — **15–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Andraca — primary (person)
- Behnke — primary (person)
- Brown — primary (person)
- Cruz — primary (person)
- DeSmidt — primary (person)
- Emerson — primary (person)
- Gundrum — primary (person)
- Joers — primary (person)
- Kreibich — primary (person)
- Kurtz — primary (person)
- Maxey — primary (person)
- Murphy — primary (person)
- O'Connor — primary (person)
- Ortiz-Velez — primary (person)
- Prado — primary (person)
- Rodriguez — primary (person)
- Spiros — primary (person)
- Stubbs — primary (person)
- Subeck — primary (person)
- Tusler — primary (person)
- Udell — primary (person)
- Wichgers — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-12T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Kurtz, Subeck, Rodriguez, Andraca, Behnke, Brown, Cruz, DeSmidt, Emerson, Gundrum, Joers, Kreibich, Maxey, Murphy, O'Connor, Ortiz-Velez, Prado, Spiros, Stubbs, Tusler, Udell and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senators Testin, Cabral-Guevara, Roys, Dassler-Alfheim, Habush Sinykin, Hesselbein, Keyeski, LeMahieu, Marklein, Quinn, Ratcliff, Smith and Spreitzer `introduction`
- **2025-05-12T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-12T05:00:00+00:00** Representatives Donovan and Palmeri added as coauthors
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Jacque added as a cosponsor
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Representatives McCarville, Miresse, Goeben and Knodl added as coauthors
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-05-14T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Kitchens added as a coauthor
- **2025-05-14T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Vining added as a coauthor
- **2025-05-19T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Clancy added as a coauthor
- **2025-05-20T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Madison added as a coauthor
- **2025-05-29T05:00:00+00:00** Senators James and Larson added as cosponsors
- **2025-05-30T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-05-30T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Snodgrass added as a coauthor
- **2025-06-04T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Moses added as a coauthor
- **2025-06-04T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-06-06T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-06-06T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 15, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-06T05:00:00+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
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+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** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Carpenter added as a cosponsor
- **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`
- **2025-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-06-23T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 6-23-2025 `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 17 `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-11T05:00:00+00:00** Published 8-9-2025 `became-law`
- **2025-09-09T05:00:00+00:00** Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/608ce74e-4233-446d-b216-d758a1584ed9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).