---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: examinations and licensure of sign language interpreters, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: examinations and licensure of sign language interpreters, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "AB 250"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 250 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson", "Bowen", "Brandtjen", "Brostoff", "Cabrera", "Dittrich", "Emerson", "Hebl", "Hintz", "Kolste", "Kulp", "Loudenbeck", "Neubauer", "Ramthun", "Sargent", "Skowronski", "Snyder", "Spiros", "Spreitzer", "Steffen", "Subeck", "Thiesfeldt", "Tittl", "Tusler", "Vining", "Vruwink"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-05-30T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-07-17T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbae81e6-1d8a-4a64-9d89-69634766ff0a"
source_url: "http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2019/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab250"
source_hash: "41800a456fb0482eca6c7e25d0d972776a515e60f75ee0df302097c4bb67f124"
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 AB 250 (2019) — Relating to: examinations and licensure of sign language interpreters, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Assembly Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2019/REG/AB250-AA1)
2. **Assembly Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2019/REG/AB250-AA2)
3. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2019/REG/AB250)

## Votes

- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Workforce Development, Ayes 14, Noes 0 — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Workforce Development, Ayes 14, Noes 0 — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Anderson — primary (person)
- Bowen — primary (person)
- Brandtjen — primary (person)
- Brostoff — primary (person)
- Cabrera — primary (person)
- Dittrich — primary (person)
- Emerson — primary (person)
- Hebl — primary (person)
- Hintz — primary (person)
- Kolste — primary (person)
- Kulp — primary (person)
- Loudenbeck — primary (person)
- Neubauer — primary (person)
- Ramthun — primary (person)
- Sargent — primary (person)
- Skowronski — primary (person)
- Snyder — primary (person)
- Spiros — primary (person)
- Spreitzer — primary (person)
- Steffen — primary (person)
- Subeck — primary (person)
- Thiesfeldt — primary (person)
- Tittl — primary (person)
- Tusler — primary (person)
- Vining — primary (person)
- Vruwink — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-30T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Skowronski, Brostoff, Thiesfeldt, Dittrich, Anderson, Bowen, Brandtjen, Cabrera, Emerson, Hebl, Hintz, Kolste, Kulp, Loudenbeck, Ramthun, Sargent, Snyder, Spiros, Spreitzer, Steffen, Subeck, Tittl, Tusler, Vining, Vruwink and Neubauer; cosponsored by Senators Testin, Johnson, Carpenter and L. Taylor `introduction`
- **2019-05-30T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Workforce Development `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-03T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Smith added as a cosponsor
- **2019-06-04T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2019-06-04T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Doyle added as a coauthor
- **2019-06-07T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Skowronski `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-12T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Ohnstad added as a coauthor
- **2019-06-12T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2019-06-13T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received
- **2019-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Workforce Development, Ayes 14, Noes 0
- **2019-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Workforce Development, Ayes 14, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 6-20-2019 by Committee on Rules
- **2019-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Rohrkaste added as a coauthor
- **2019-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representatives Thiesfeldt and Brostoff `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-20T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2019-06-20T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2019-06-20T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 2 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2019-06-20T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading
- **2019-06-20T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2019-06-20T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed, Ayes 96, Noes 0 `passage`
- **2019-06-20T05:00:00+00:00** Representatives August and Hesselbein added as coauthors
- **2019-06-20T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2019-06-20T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly
- **2019-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Public Benefits, Licensing and State-Federal Relations `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-26T05:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from committee on Public Benefits, Licensing and State-Federal Relations and rereferred to committee on Senate Organization pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)
- **2019-06-26T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2019-06-26T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from committee on Senate Organization and take up
- **2019-06-26T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2019-06-26T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading
- **2019-06-26T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2019-06-26T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage`
- **2019-06-26T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2019-06-26T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in
- **2019-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 6-28-2019
- **2019-07-12T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 7-12-2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-17T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 7-17-2019. 2019 Wisconsin Act 17 `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-17T05:00:00+00:00** Published 7-18-2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bbae81e6-1d8a-4a64-9d89-69634766ff0a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).