---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: prohibiting filing or recording contracts for services or materials that do not improve real estate and providing a penalty. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: prohibiting filing or recording contracts for services or materials that do not improve real estate and providing a penalty. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 172"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 172 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dassler-Alfheim", "Marklein", "Nass", "Quinn", "Spreitzer", "Wall"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 42
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-03T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-11-04T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/84a88fb6-1d89-4c72-8c8a-25a94d3108d0"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb172"
source_hash: "022fb2e751443c1ecd658fa4c2a2e5f79b04308e3a43fde9b298be115bafa55c"
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 172 (2025) — Relating to: prohibiting filing or recording contracts for services or materials that do not improve real estate 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/SB172)
2. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB172-SA1)
3. **Senate Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB172-SA2)

## Votes

- Report adoption of Senate Amendment 2 recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dassler-Alfheim — primary (person)
- Marklein — primary (person)
- Nass — primary (person)
- Quinn — primary (person)
- Spreitzer — primary (person)
- Wall — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Quinn, Marklein, Dassler-Alfheim, Nass, Spreitzer and Wall; cosponsored by Representatives Maxey, Piwowarczyk, Behnke, Dittrich, Knodl, Kreibich, Murphy, Pronschinske, Summerfield and Ortiz-Velez `introduction`
- **2025-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Quinn
- **2025-04-08T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Allen added as a cosponsor
- **2025-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Tucker added as a cosponsor
- **2025-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Udell added as a cosponsor
- **2025-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-04-17T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-04-25T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Wirch added as a coauthor
- **2025-05-06T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 2 offered by Senator Quinn
- **2025-05-09T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Penterman added as a cosponsor
- **2025-05-09T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-05-09T05:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-09T05:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Amendment 2 recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-09T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-09T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 5-15-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Ratcliff added as a coauthor
- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 2 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-05-27T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-28T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **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 Stroud, O'Connor, Miresse and Stubbs added as cosponsors
- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2025-06-26T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `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 32 `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-11T05:00:00+00:00** Published 8-9-2025 `became-law`
- **2025-11-04T06:00:00+00:00** Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/84a88fb6-1d89-4c72-8c8a-25a94d3108d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).