---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: use of certified seed potatoes in planting potatoes and providing a penalty. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: use of certified seed potatoes in planting potatoes and providing a penalty. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 164"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 164 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cabral-Guevara", "Felzkowski", "Marklein", "Pfaff", "Testin"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 31
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-03-27T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-12-10T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80aba4b1-8e53-4f5e-9df2-94f6d13cd3c7"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb164"
source_hash: "a049565c81cea98415facdcf6ee59e7e4a381210a88287c84cface57f563b0c3"
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 164 (2025) — Relating to: use of certified seed potatoes in planting potatoes and providing a penalty. (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/SB164)

## Votes

- Report passage recommended by Committee on Agriculture and Revenue, Ayes 8, Noes 0 — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cabral-Guevara — primary (person)
- Felzkowski — primary (person)
- Marklein — primary (person)
- Pfaff — primary (person)
- Testin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Testin, Cabral-Guevara, Felzkowski, Marklein and Pfaff; cosponsored by Representatives Krug, Callahan, Billings, Mursau, O'Connor, Petersen, Tranel and VanderMeer `introduction`
- **2025-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture and Revenue `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Spreitzer added as a coauthor
- **2025-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Agriculture and Revenue, Ayes 8, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2025-04-17T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-04-18T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 4-22-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2025-04-21T05:00:00+00:00** Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor
- **2025-04-22T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-22T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-22T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2025-04-22T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-22T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-04-22T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-05-27T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-11T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Johnson added as a cosponsor
- **2025-06-20T05:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 6-24-2025
- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Representatives Miresse and Stubbs added as cosponsors
- **2025-09-11T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
- **2025-09-11T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-09-11T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-09-11T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2025-09-11T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-09-11T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-09-11T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2025-09-17T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-12-04T06:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 12-4-2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-12-10T06:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 12-9-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 66 `executive-signature`
- **2025-12-10T06:00:00+00:00** Published 12-10-2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/80aba4b1-8e53-4f5e-9df2-94f6d13cd3c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).