republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2017-regular-session/sb-298.md

type, title, description, jurisdiction, legislature, session, identifier, citation, classification, subjects, status, primary_sponsors, version_count, action_count, vote_count, first_action, last_action, source, source_identifier, source_url, source_hash, vintage, source_snapshot, retrieved_at, confidence, tags

type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Relating to: creation of a category of business corporation identified as a benefit corporation.	Relating to: creation of a category of business corporation identified as a benefit corporation.	us/states/wi	Wisconsin Legislature	2017 Regular Session	SB 298	Wisconsin SB 298 (2017 Regular Session)	bill		enacted	Darling Harsdorf Johnson Ringhand Testin Wirch	1	34	2	2017-06-15T05:00:00+00:00	2017-11-27T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/73612dc9-9dc4-4876-8d9b-2a972b290499	http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2017/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb298	e57c8ea54ebe5ad1b71a74762514f04f4d833cee8fd0845611d469cf03aea01d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wi

Wisconsin SB 298 (2017 Regular Session) — Relating to: creation of a category of business corporation identified as a benefit corporation.

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 as amended recommended by Committee on Economic Development, Commerce and Local Government, Ayes 7, Noes 0 — 7–0 (pass) · legislature
• Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Economic Development, Commerce and Local Government, Ayes 7, Noes 0 — 7–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Darling — primary (person)
• Harsdorf — primary (person)
• Johnson — primary (person)
• Ringhand — primary (person)
• Testin — primary (person)
• Wirch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-06-15T05:00:00+00:00 Introduced by Senators Testin, Johnson, Darling, Ringhand, Wirch and Harsdorf; cosponsored by Representatives Skowronski, Hesselbein, Genrich, Horlacher, Ohnstad, Crowley, Subeck, C. Taylor, Kulp, Quinn, Sanfelippo, Spreitzer, Hintz and Kooyenga introduction
• 2017-06-15T05:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development, Commerce and Local Government
• 2017-10-02T05:00:00+00:00 Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Testin
• 2017-10-03T05:00:00+00:00 Public hearing held
• 2017-10-05T05:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2017-10-05T05:00:00+00:00 Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Economic Development, Commerce and Local Government, Ayes 7, Noes 0
• 2017-10-05T05:00:00+00:00 Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Economic Development, Commerce and Local Government, Ayes 7, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-10-05T05:00:00+00:00 Available for scheduling
• 2017-11-01T05:00:00+00:00 Senate Amendment 2 offered by Senator Testin
• 2017-11-03T05:00:00+00:00 Placed on calendar 11-7-2017 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
• 2017-11-07T06:00:00+00:00 Representative Zepnick added as a cosponsor
• 2017-11-07T06:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2017-11-07T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Amendment 1 adopted
• 2017-11-07T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Amendment 2 adopted
• 2017-11-07T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading
• 2017-11-07T06:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended
• 2017-11-07T06:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and passed passage
• 2017-11-07T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2017-11-07T06:00:00+00:00 Received from Senate
• 2017-11-09T06:00:00+00:00 Received from Senate
• 2017-11-09T06:00:00+00:00 Read
• 2017-11-09T06:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended and taken up
• 2017-11-09T06:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2017-11-09T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading
• 2017-11-09T06:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended
• 2017-11-09T06:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and concurred in passage
• 2017-11-09T06:00:00+00:00 Representative Barca added as a cosponsor
• 2017-11-09T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2017-11-10T06:00:00+00:00 Received from Assembly concurred in
• 2017-11-20T06:00:00+00:00 Report correctly enrolled
• 2017-11-20T06:00:00+00:00 LRB correction
• 2017-11-22T06:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor on 11-22-2017 executive-receipt
• 2017-11-27T06:00:00+00:00 Report approved by the Governor on 11-27-2017. 2017 Wisconsin Act 77 executive-signature
• 2017-11-27T06:00:00+00:00 Published 11-28-2017

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/73612dc9-9dc4-4876-8d9b-2a972b290499. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).