---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: environmental review prerequisites for certain major highway project actions."
description: "Relating to: environmental review prerequisites for certain major highway project actions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 825"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 825 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pfaff", "Tomczyk"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c930bb80-a383-4ca5-88ce-028ab187ec8f"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb825"
source_hash: "337cf8664fd8468778ccd446d90e73e897535ad4cd6419ee7912eeaaef925f46"
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 825 (2025) — Relating to: environmental review prerequisites for certain major highway project actions.

## 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/SB825)

## Votes

- Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 3, Noes 2 — **3–2** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **24–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pfaff — primary (person)
- Tomczyk — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Tomczyk and Pfaff; cosponsored by Representatives VanderMeer and Hysell `introduction`
- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2026-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 3, Noes 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 2-18-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed, Ayes 24, Noes 9 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Made a special order of business at 11:39 AM on 2-19-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 14
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2026-02-24T06:00:00+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 110 `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/c930bb80-a383-4ca5-88ce-028ab187ec8f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).