---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: grants to child advocacy centers. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: grants to child advocacy centers. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 232"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 232 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Habush Sinykin", "James"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-29T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-07-03T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a437e2c5-f10d-4874-ab08-0e5b5733c442"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb232"
source_hash: "c87d88e7420c44d9c97208ad7cd00d2ff3075961e589b28d9c94b8c78e976059"
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 232 (2025) — Relating to: grants to child advocacy centers. (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/SB232)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Report passage recommended by Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families, Ayes 4, Noes 1 — **4–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Habush Sinykin — primary (person)
- James — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators James and Habush Sinykin; cosponsored by Representatives Snyder, Novak, Armstrong, Brill, Dittrich, Franklin, Gundrum, Maxey, Melotik, Mursau, Piwowarczyk, Rivera-Wagner, Spiros, Steffen and Wichgers `introduction`
- **2025-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-05-19T05:00:00+00:00** Representatives Emerson and Snodgrass added as cosponsors
- **2025-05-20T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Bare added as a cosponsor
- **2025-05-21T05:00:00+00:00** Representatives Udell and Subeck added as cosponsors
- **2025-05-28T05:00:00+00:00** Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor
- **2025-06-11T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Joers added as a cosponsor
- **2025-06-11T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-06-13T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families, Ayes 4, Noes 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-13T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2025-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 6-18-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Senators Spreitzer, Ratcliff and Carpenter added as coauthors
- **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 passed, Ayes 32, Noes 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-06-20T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to calendar of 6-24-2025 `reading-1`
- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Representatives Fitzgerald, McCarville, O'Connor, Sinicki, Ortiz-Velez 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`
- **2025-06-25T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-25T05:00:00+00:00** Attempted to present to the Governor on 6-25-2025, pursuant to Senate Rule 44m (2)
- **2025-06-26T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 6-26-2025 by directive of the Majority Leader `executive-receipt`
- **2025-07-03T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 7-2-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 13 `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-03T05:00:00+00:00** Published 7-3-2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a437e2c5-f10d-4874-ab08-0e5b5733c442`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).