---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin State Building Trades Negotiating Committee, for the 2023-24 fiscal year, covering employees in the building trades crafts collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin State Building Trades Negotiating Committee, for the 2023-24 fiscal year, covering employees in the building trades crafts collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 847"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 847 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-12-26T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-02-02T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/174f592a-b6ab-475a-9704-8f4589227b62"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb847"
source_hash: "a09e3287fc204b14ef9f6089fe5be517202053702b290cb0e9d2f52d7bebf5d1"
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 847 (2023) — Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin State Building Trades Negotiating Committee, for the 2023-24 fiscal year, covering employees in the building trades crafts collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (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/2023/REG/SB847)

## Votes

- CONCURRENCE — **96–1** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-26T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Joint Committee on Employment Relations `introduction`
- **2023-12-26T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Senate Organization `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-12-26T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **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** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **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, Ayes 32, Noes 0 `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
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from Senate message and take up
- **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
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 96, Noes 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2024-01-19T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 2-1-2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 2-2-2024. 2023 Wisconsin Act 93 `executive-signature`
- **2024-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Published 2-3-2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/174f592a-b6ab-475a-9704-8f4589227b62`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).