---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: selling and fitting over-the-counter hearing aids."
description: "Relating to: selling and fitting over-the-counter hearing aids."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 373"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 373 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cabral-Guevara", "Carpenter", "Felzkowski", "Knodl", "Spreitzer", "Taylor"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-08-09T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0ee019e-8d79-4be9-9772-35d074a56514"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb373"
source_hash: "867d6c8aaf3dcb80ba75c873cfa2421fff4c72f40588c4b3f6f7b49ef99f6c05"
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 373 (2023) — Relating to: selling and fitting over-the-counter hearing aids.

## 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/SB373)
2. **Senate Substitute Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2023/REG/SB373-SSA1)

## Votes

- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 6, Noes 0 — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 6, Noes 0 — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cabral-Guevara — primary (person)
- Carpenter — primary (person)
- Felzkowski — primary (person)
- Knodl — primary (person)
- Spreitzer — primary (person)
- Taylor — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-08-09T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Cabral-Guevara, Carpenter, Felzkowski, Knodl, Spreitzer and Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Stubbs, Sortwell, Andraca, Baldeh, Bodden, Cabrera, Dittrich, Goeben, Gustafson, Jacobson, Joers, Moore Omokunde, Mursau, Myers, Ohnstad, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Shankland, Snodgrass, Subeck and Vining `introduction`
- **2023-08-09T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-09-06T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Macco added as a cosponsor
- **2023-09-08T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Senator Cabral-Guevara
- **2023-09-13T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2023-09-13T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Drake added as a cosponsor
- **2023-09-21T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Hurd added as a cosponsor
- **2023-10-04T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2023-10-06T05:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 6, Noes 0 `amendment-passage`
- **2023-10-06T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 6, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-10-06T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2023-10-16T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 10-17-2023 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2023-10-16T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Ratcliff added as a cosponsor
- **2023-10-17T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Hesselbein added as a coauthor
- **2023-10-17T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2023-10-17T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Substitute Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2023-10-17T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2023-10-17T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2023-10-17T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-10-17T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2023-10-17T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-10-19T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Emerson added as a cosponsor
- **2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Made a special order of business at 10:16 AM on 2-22-2024 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 28
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2024-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** LRB correction (Senate Substitute Amendment 1)
- **2024-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 3-18-2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 3-22-2024. 2023 Wisconsin Act 179 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Published 3-23-2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d0ee019e-8d79-4be9-9772-35d074a56514`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).