---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: time limits on local unit of government chief executive officer emergency power proclamations."
description: "Relating to: time limits on local unit of government chief executive officer emergency power proclamations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 310"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 310 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kapenga", "Tomczyk", "Wanggaard"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-06-04T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-12-10T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b4c73d3-1239-4200-94eb-bd8c1eb67c73"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb310"
source_hash: "1e01a76bd7df712af5455e5fa7bdc2cdcd6a4f1f3cb4308ee3c22fb1aedeb9a3"
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 310 (2025) — Relating to: time limits on local unit of government chief executive officer emergency power proclamations.

## 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/SB310)
2. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB310-SA1)

## Votes

- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kapenga — primary (person)
- Tomczyk — primary (person)
- Wanggaard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Tomczyk, Kapenga and Wanggaard; cosponsored by Representatives B. Jacobson, Ortiz-Velez, Allen, Behnke, Brill, Donovan, Goodwin, Gundrum, Kaufert, Kitchens, Knodl, Krug, Maxey, Melotik, Murphy, O'Connor, Piwowarczyk, Sortwell and Tusler `introduction`
- **2025-06-04T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Tomczyk
- **2025-11-05T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-11-10T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-11-10T06:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-11-10T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-11-10T06:00:00+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** Senate Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **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** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from Senate message and take up
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-11-20T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2025-11-24T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-12-04T06:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 12-4-2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-12-10T06:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 12-9-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 61 `executive-signature`
- **2025-12-10T06:00:00+00:00** Published 12-10-2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b4c73d3-1239-4200-94eb-bd8c1eb67c73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).