---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: increasing the penalties for gas pipeline safety violations and providing a penalty."
description: "Relating to: increasing the penalties for gas pipeline safety violations and providing a penalty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 812"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 812 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradley", "Smith"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 29
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-12-15T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-03-28T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da0582e4-b214-4d9d-be3e-5f41a2436bff"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb812"
source_hash: "0af734fd1408686796a18b6639b4446aaa52f5486d9813a514e4ab26c64ff41d"
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 812 (2023) — Relating to: increasing the penalties for gas pipeline safety violations and providing a penalty.

## 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/2023/REG/SB812)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Bradley — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-15T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Bradley and Smith; cosponsored by Representatives Summerfield, Dittrich, O'Connor and Subeck `introduction`
- **2023-12-15T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Utilities and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-12-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senator Spreitzer added as a coauthor
- **2023-12-19T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2024-01-10T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2024-01-10T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Utilities and Technology, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-10T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2024-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Ratcliff added as a cosponsor
- **2024-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 1-16-2024 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 1-18-2024 by Committee on Rules
- **2024-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Gustafson added as a cosponsor
- **2024-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
- **2024-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2024-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2024-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2024-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2024-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 3-21-2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 3-27-2024. 2023 Wisconsin Act 242 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Published 3-28-2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/da0582e4-b214-4d9d-be3e-5f41a2436bff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).