---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: changes to amount of, and criteria for designating recipients of, academic excellence higher education scholarships. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: changes to amount of, and criteria for designating recipients of, academic excellence higher education scholarships. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 210"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 210 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James", "Marklein", "Quinn", "Tomczyk"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 33
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-16T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-12-10T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30cc7a5c-df12-433c-8091-e11d9a89001e"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb210"
source_hash: "8c0452716d121abbcfc171410204d0ad034d986f6d0272753f0ac8b89e0779ee"
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 210 (2025) — Relating to: changes to amount of, and criteria for designating recipients of, academic excellence higher education scholarships. (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/SB210)
2. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB210-SA1)

## Votes

- Report passage recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Amendment 2 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 15 — **18–15** (pass) · upper
- Senate Amendment 1 adopted, Ayes 18, Noes 15 — **18–15** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- James — primary (person)
- Marklein — primary (person)
- Quinn — primary (person)
- Tomczyk — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Tomczyk, James, Quinn and Marklein; cosponsored by Representatives Green, Brill, B. Jacobson, Knodl, Kreibich, O'Connor, Snyder, Spiros, Swearingen and Wittke `introduction`
- **2025-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Mursau added as a cosponsor
- **2025-06-10T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-06-13T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-06-13T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-13T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2025-10-16T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Tomczyk
- **2025-11-14T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 11-18-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 2 offered by Senators Smith, Dassler-Alfheim, Drake, Habush Sinykin, Hesselbein, L. Johnson, Keyeski, Larson, Pfaff, Ratcliff, Roys and Spreitzer
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 adopted, Ayes 18, Noes 15 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 2 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 15
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to joint committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and taken up
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from Senate message and take up
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-11-20T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2025-11-24T06:00:00+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 80 `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/30cc7a5c-df12-433c-8091-e11d9a89001e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).