---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: the use of videoconferencing technology in certain civil actions."
description: "Relating to: the use of videoconferencing technology in certain civil actions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 448"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 448 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James", "Marklein"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 30
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-09-29T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-03-27T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1bbc4356-ddfd-4eb7-8e54-f29d0d14a28d"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb448"
source_hash: "b78f16d42855cb0657ea0bb866f3be9edf25f138523b208a3b7c63888d30cded"
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 448 (2025) — Relating to: the use of videoconferencing technology in certain civil actions.

## 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/SB448)

## Votes

- Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 7, Noes 1 — **7–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-09-29T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators James and Marklein; cosponsored by Representatives Novak, Dittrich, Franklin, Gundrum, B. Jacobson, Kaufert, Kitchens, Knodl, Maxey, Melotik, Murphy, Mursau, Nedweski, O'Connor, Piwowarczyk, Subeck, Wichgers and Palmeri `introduction`
- **2025-09-29T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-10-06T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a cosponsor
- **2025-10-29T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-11-11T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-11-11T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 7, Noes 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-11-11T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **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** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **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** Senators Ratcliff and Smith added as coauthors
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2026-01-09T06:00:00+00:00** Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor
- **2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 1-22-2026 by Committee on Rules
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Miresse added as a cosponsor
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2026-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 3-26-2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 3-27-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 125 `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Published 3-28-2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1bbc4356-ddfd-4eb7-8e54-f29d0d14a28d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).