---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: allowing advanced practice nurse prescribers to pronounce the date, time, and place of a patient’s death for purposes of the preparation of death records."
description: "Relating to: allowing advanced practice nurse prescribers to pronounce the date, time, and place of a patient’s death for purposes of the preparation of death records."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 43"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 43 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cabral-Guevara", "Nass"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 31
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-02-12T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-08-11T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be9d9214-d2b3-42db-8d40-0f852fb208d9"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb43"
source_hash: "657a081d93f607541e3871ee159f225dde87d3f0e604584ad13d78800b81e450"
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 43 (2025) — Relating to: allowing advanced practice nurse prescribers to pronounce the date, time, and place of a patient’s death for purposes of the preparation of death records.

## 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/SB43)

## Votes

- Report passage recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cabral-Guevara — primary (person)
- Nass — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Cabral-Guevara and Nass; cosponsored by Representatives Summerfield, Dittrich, Gundrum, Knodl, Kreibich, Murphy, O'Connor, Penterman and Steffen `introduction`
- **2025-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Tusler added as a cosponsor
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Miresse added as a cosponsor
- **2025-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2025-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 3-18-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor
- **2025-05-07T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07T05:00:00+00:00** Representatives Stubbs and Fitzgerald added as cosponsors
- **2025-05-08T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Vining added as a cosponsor
- **2025-05-09T05:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 5-13-2025
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2025-05-14T05:00:00+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 19 `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-11T05:00:00+00:00** Published 8-9-2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/be9d9214-d2b3-42db-8d40-0f852fb208d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).