---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: residency requirements for persons circulating nomination papers or recall petitions."
description: "Relating to: residency requirements for persons circulating nomination papers or recall petitions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 223"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 223 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Jacobson", "Brooks", "Dittrich", "Duchow", "Gundrum", "Knodl", "Kreibich", "Melotik", "Murphy", "Mursau", "Nedweski", "O'Connor", "Penterman", "Piwowarczyk", "Rodriguez", "Spiros", "Steffen", "Tucker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 33
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-04-23T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-03-27T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8582c3a-773b-4d5a-9bc8-72bd3d69525f"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab223"
source_hash: "4aee21a38e867e352d371ba37438c7e0afe15f4cc87d78a75f21c0b08a53000e"
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 223 (2025) — Relating to: residency requirements for persons circulating nomination papers or recall petitions.

## 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/AB223)

## Votes

- CONCURRENCE — **19–14** (pass) · upper
- Report passage recommended by Committee on Campaigns and Elections, Ayes 6, Noes 1 — **6–1** (pass) · lower
- Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development, Ayes 3, Noes 2 — **3–2** (pass) · upper
- SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND — **18–15** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Jacobson — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)
- Dittrich — primary (person)
- Duchow — primary (person)
- Gundrum — primary (person)
- Knodl — primary (person)
- Kreibich — primary (person)
- Melotik — primary (person)
- Murphy — primary (person)
- Mursau — primary (person)
- Nedweski — primary (person)
- O'Connor — primary (person)
- Penterman — primary (person)
- Piwowarczyk — primary (person)
- Rodriguez — primary (person)
- Spiros — primary (person)
- Steffen — primary (person)
- Tucker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-23T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Piwowarczyk, B. Jacobson, Brooks, Dittrich, Duchow, Gundrum, Knodl, Kreibich, Melotik, Murphy, Mursau, Nedweski, O'Connor, Penterman, Rodriguez, Spiros, Steffen and Tucker; cosponsored by Senators Wanggaard, Marklein, Quinn and Tomczyk `introduction`
- **2025-04-23T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-03T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-10-16T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Campaigns and Elections, Ayes 6, Noes 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-10-16T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-13T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 11-19-2025 by Committee on Rules
- **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 passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-11-20T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2025-11-20T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-07T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development, Ayes 3, Noes 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **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** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senators Smith, Carpenter, Hesselbein, L. Johnson, Keyeski, Pfaff, Ratcliff and Wall
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Point of order that Senate Amendment 1 was not germane well taken
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Decision of the Chair stands as the judgment of the Senate, Ayes 18, Noes 15
- **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 concurred in, Ayes 19, Noes 14 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
- **2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 2-13-2026 `enrolled`
- **2026-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Attempted to present to the Governor on 3-24-2026 by directive of the Speaker
- **2026-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 3-25-2026 by directive of the Speaker `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 3-27-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 126 `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Published 3-28-2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c8582c3a-773b-4d5a-9bc8-72bd3d69525f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).