---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: postloss assignment of rights or benefits under property insurance policies to residential contractors and providing a penalty. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: postloss assignment of rights or benefits under property insurance policies to residential contractors and providing a penalty. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 531"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 531 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dassler-Alfheim", "Felzkowski", "Nass", "Spreitzer"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-10-09T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19afea6f-c4a2-4ec8-ab8b-32df506f3c1b"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb531"
source_hash: "4eff8700d37e216baf1c0870057878a6e7453d771b1f3f430c1d7089fd81afa3"
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 531 (2025) — Relating to: postloss assignment of rights or benefits under property insurance policies to residential contractors and providing a penalty. (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/SB531)
2. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB531-SA1)
3. **Senate Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB531-SA2)

## Votes

- Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Report adoption of Senate Amendment 2 recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dassler-Alfheim — primary (person)
- Felzkowski — primary (person)
- Nass — primary (person)
- Spreitzer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-10-09T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Felzkowski, Nass, Dassler-Alfheim and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Callahan, Murphy, Piwowarczyk and Dittrich `introduction`
- **2025-10-09T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-10-15T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-10-24T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Felzkowski
- **2025-10-29T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-11-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 2 offered by Senator Felzkowski
- **2025-11-11T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-11-11T06:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-11-11T06:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Amendment 2 recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-11-11T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-11-11T06:00:00+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** Senate Amendment 2 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`
- **2026-01-07T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-08T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 1-13-2026 by Committee on Rules
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2026-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** LRB correction
- **2026-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Brown added as a cosponsor
- **2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Emerson added as a cosponsor
- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 4-8-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 230 `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Published 4-9-2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19afea6f-c4a2-4ec8-ab8b-32df506f3c1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).