---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: registers of deeds, transportation project plats, and providing a penalty. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: registers of deeds, transportation project plats, and providing a penalty. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 445"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 445 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Behnke", "Fitzgerald", "Kaufert", "Kirsch", "Knodl", "Krug", "Miresse", "Murphy", "Mursau", "Novak", "O'Connor", "Piwowarczyk", "Snodgrass", "Subeck", "Tittl", "VanderMeer", "Wichgers"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 39
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-09-19T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e9d890c5-5c14-433a-8bcb-79047c11623f"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab445"
source_hash: "053027ba9092f6fe469c56db458947f7e1be0687f48581bef84e769fe11e53b6"
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 445 (2025) — Relating to: registers of deeds, transportation project plats, and providing a penalty. (FE)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Assembly Substitute Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB445-ASA1)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB445)

## Votes

- Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2 — **3–2** (pass) · upper
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Local Government, Ayes 10, Noes 0 — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Local Government, Ayes 10, Noes 0 — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Behnke — primary (person)
- Fitzgerald — primary (person)
- Kaufert — primary (person)
- Kirsch — primary (person)
- Knodl — primary (person)
- Krug — primary (person)
- Miresse — primary (person)
- Murphy — primary (person)
- Mursau — primary (person)
- Novak — primary (person)
- O'Connor — primary (person)
- Piwowarczyk — primary (person)
- Snodgrass — primary (person)
- Subeck — primary (person)
- Tittl — primary (person)
- VanderMeer — primary (person)
- Wichgers — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-09-19T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Krug, Kaufert, Knodl, Miresse, Murphy, Mursau, Novak, O'Connor, Piwowarczyk, Snodgrass, Subeck, Tittl, VanderMeer, Wichgers, Kirsch, Fitzgerald and Behnke; cosponsored by Senators James and Nass `introduction`
- **2025-09-19T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-09-22T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Palmeri added as a coauthor
- **2025-10-06T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a coauthor
- **2025-10-10T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-10-31T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2026-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Krug
- **2026-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Local Government, Ayes 10, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Local Government, Ayes 10, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Made a special order of business at 1:18 PM on 2-18-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 13
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Neubauer
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2026-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Transportation and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
- **2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 3-17-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Smith added as a cosponsor
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
- **2026-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** LRB correction (Assembly Substitute Amendment 1)
- **2026-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 3-27-2026 `enrolled`
- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 4-8-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 234 `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Published 4-9-2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e9d890c5-5c14-433a-8bcb-79047c11623f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).