---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: increasing jurisdictional amounts in small claims actions. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: increasing jurisdictional amounts in small claims actions. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 787"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 787 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wanggaard"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-12-22T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/adc647bc-f95f-4bf9-9546-e8ab61b073a8"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb787"
source_hash: "dc87eedea0cb05a56756497494feaa91a6a2c4556b133a00d7e2f65bd8801ab8"
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 787 (2025) — Relating to: increasing jurisdictional amounts in small claims actions. (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/2025/REG/SB787)
2. **Senate Substitute Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB787-SSA1)

## Votes

- Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wanggaard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-22T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senator Wanggaard; cosponsored by Representatives O'Connor, B. Jacobson, Allen, Dittrich, Duchow, Gundrum, Knodl, Murphy and Penterman `introduction`
- **2025-12-22T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Wanggaard
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Senator Wanggaard
- **2026-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2026-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2026-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2026-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 2-11-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Substitute Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 2-17-2026
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2026-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 3-18-2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 3-20-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 105 `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Published 3-21-2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/adc647bc-f95f-4bf9-9546-e8ab61b073a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).