republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2017-regular-session/ab-160.md

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Bill	Relating to: regulation of aquaculture and fish farms, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)	Relating to: regulation of aquaculture and fish farms, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)	us/states/wi	Wisconsin Legislature	2017 Regular Session	AB 160	Wisconsin AB 160 (2017 Regular Session)	bill		enacted	Ballweg Bernier E. Brooks Edming Felzkowski Horlacher Jarchow Kulp Loudenbeck Murphy Mursau Nygren Quinn R. Brooks Ripp Skowronski Snyder Spiros Stafsholt Swearingen Tauchen Tittl	1	35	3	2017-03-20T05:00:00+00:00	2017-06-26T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/d6d12438-1517-4152-b6a2-f9e143cec02b	http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2017/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab160	6a420bd00dc5c44f7d017599c466181c086c44826f21916e8cb4c09ac538b5bc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wi

Wisconsin AB 160 (2017 Regular Session) — Relating to: regulation of aquaculture and fish farms, 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. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Report passage recommended by Committee on Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage, Ayes 9, Noes 5 — 9–5 (pass) · legislature
• Read a third time and passed, Ayes 64, Noes 34 — 64–34 (pass) · legislature
• Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0 — 5–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Ballweg — primary (person)
• Bernier — primary (person)
• E. Brooks — primary (person)
• Edming — primary (person)
• Felzkowski — primary (person)
• Horlacher — primary (person)
• Jarchow — primary (person)
• Kulp — primary (person)
• Loudenbeck — primary (person)
• Murphy — primary (person)
• Mursau — primary (person)
• Nygren — primary (person)
• Quinn — primary (person)
• R. Brooks — primary (person)
• Ripp — primary (person)
• Skowronski — primary (person)
• Snyder — primary (person)
• Spiros — primary (person)
• Stafsholt — primary (person)
• Swearingen — primary (person)
• Tauchen — primary (person)
• Tittl — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-20T05:00:00+00:00 Introduced by Representatives Felzkowski, Stafsholt, Nygren, Mursau, Spiros, Quinn, Kulp, Jarchow, E. Brooks, Horlacher, Edming, Ripp, Skowronski, Murphy, Snyder, Tittl, Swearingen, Ballweg, Tauchen, Loudenbeck, R. Brooks and Bernier; cosponsored by Senators Tiffany, Testin, Moulton, Nass, LeMahieu, Marklein and Stroebel introduction
• 2017-03-20T05:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage
• 2017-03-29T05:00:00+00:00 Public hearing held
• 2017-04-03T05:00:00+00:00 Fiscal estimate received
• 2017-04-10T05:00:00+00:00 Fiscal estimate received
• 2017-04-18T05:00:00+00:00 Fiscal estimate received
• 2017-04-24T05:00:00+00:00 Representative Rohrkaste added as a coauthor
• 2017-04-26T05:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2017-04-26T05:00:00+00:00 Report passage recommended by Committee on Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage, Ayes 9, Noes 5 committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-04-26T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2017-04-27T05:00:00+00:00 Placed on calendar 5-2-2017 by Committee on Rules
• 2017-05-02T05:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2017-05-02T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading
• 2017-05-02T05:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended
• 2017-05-02T05:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and passed, Ayes 64, Noes 34 passage
• 2017-05-02T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2017-05-03T05:00:00+00:00 Received from Assembly
• 2017-05-04T05:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization referral-committee
• 2017-05-04T05:00:00+00:00 Available for scheduling
• 2017-05-05T05:00:00+00:00 Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0
• 2017-05-05T05:00:00+00:00 Placed on calendar 5-10-2017 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
• 2017-05-10T05:00:00+00:00 Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senators Miller, Shilling, Bewley, Hansen, Johnson, Vinehout, Carpenter, Erpenbach, Risser and Ringhand
• 2017-05-10T05:00:00+00:00 Senate Amendment 2 offered by Senators Miller, Shilling, Bewley, Hansen, Johnson, Vinehout, Carpenter, Erpenbach, Risser and Ringhand
• 2017-05-10T05:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2017-05-10T05:00:00+00:00 Senate Amendment 1 rejected
• 2017-05-10T05:00:00+00:00 Senate Amendment 2 rejected
• 2017-05-10T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading
• 2017-05-10T05:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended
• 2017-05-10T05:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and concurred in passage
• 2017-05-10T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2017-05-10T05:00:00+00:00 Received from Senate concurred in
• 2017-05-23T05:00:00+00:00 Report correctly enrolled on 5-23-2017
• 2017-06-21T05:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor on 6-21-2017 executive-receipt
• 2017-06-26T05:00:00+00:00 Report approved by the Governor on 6-23-2017. 2017 Wisconsin Act 21 executive-signature
• 2017-06-26T05:00:00+00:00 Published 6-24-2017

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d6d12438-1517-4152-b6a2-f9e143cec02b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).