republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2019/sb-537.md

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Bill	Relating to: veteran-related tuition grants for certain veterans and dependents enrolled in private nonprofit institutions of higher education and making an appropriation. (FE)	Relating to: veteran-related tuition grants for certain veterans and dependents enrolled in private nonprofit institutions of higher education and making an appropriation. (FE)	us/states/wi	Wisconsin Legislature	2019	SB 537	Wisconsin SB 537 (2019)	bill		enacted	Bewley Darling Feyen Kooyenga Olsen Roth Tiffany Wanggaard	2	39	6	2019-10-31T05:00:00+00:00	2020-03-04T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/875d224d-31fd-4bfc-bb5f-38e7158a4d27	http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2019/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb537	186ac5844a254b10a7faa18940ceb4722b6aec0efa0b04dcfa7eaa94485097af	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wi

Wisconsin SB 537 (2019) — Relating to: veteran-related tuition grants for certain veterans and dependents enrolled in private nonprofit institutions of higher education and making an appropriation. (FE)

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. Senate Amendment 1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0 — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCURRENCE — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0 — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Universities, Technical Colleges, Children and Families, Ayes 7, Noes 0 — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Universities, Technical Colleges, Children and Families, Ayes 7, Noes 0 — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bewley — primary (person)
• Darling — primary (person)
• Feyen — primary (person)
• Kooyenga — primary (person)
• Olsen — primary (person)
• Roth — primary (person)
• Tiffany — primary (person)
• Wanggaard — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-10-31T05:00:00+00:00 Introduced by Senators Darling, Kooyenga, Tiffany, Roth, Bewley, Feyen, Olsen and Wanggaard; cosponsored by Representatives Kurtz, Dittrich, Horlacher, Krug, Kulp, Murphy, Mursau, Tusler, VanderMeer, Zimmerman and Thiesfeldt introduction
• 2019-10-31T05:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to Committee on Universities, Technical Colleges, Children and Families referral-committee
• 2019-11-15T06:00:00+00:00 Fiscal estimate received
• 2019-11-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Darling amendment-introduction
• 2019-12-04T06:00:00+00:00 Public hearing held
• 2020-01-09T06:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2020-01-10T06:00:00+00:00 Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Universities, Technical Colleges, Children and Families, Ayes 7, Noes 0 amendment-passage
• 2020-01-10T06:00:00+00:00 Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Universities, Technical Colleges, Children and Families, Ayes 7, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-01-10T06:00:00+00:00 Available for scheduling
• 2020-02-05T06:00:00+00:00 Withdrawn from committee on Senate Organization and rereferred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)
• 2020-02-10T06:00:00+00:00 Representative Wittke added as a cosponsor
• 2020-02-12T06:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2020-02-12T06:00:00+00:00 Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0 amendment-passage
• 2020-02-12T06:00:00+00:00 Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-12T06:00:00+00:00 Available for scheduling
• 2020-02-14T06:00:00+00:00 Placed on calendar 2-19-2020 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
• 2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senator Carpenter added as a coauthor
• 2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Amendment 1 adopted amendment-passage
• 2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading
• 2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended
• 2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and passed, Ayes 33, Noes 0 passage
• 2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senator Nass added as a coauthor
• 2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2020-02-20T06:00:00+00:00 Received from Senate
• 2020-02-20T06:00:00+00:00 Read
• 2020-02-20T06:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended to withdraw from Senate message and take up
• 2020-02-20T06:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2020-02-20T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading
• 2020-02-20T06:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended
• 2020-02-20T06:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 99, Noes 0 passage
• 2020-02-20T06:00:00+00:00 Representatives Skowronski and Spreitzer added as cosponsors
• 2020-02-20T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2020-02-21T06:00:00+00:00 Received from Assembly concurred in
• 2020-02-27T06:00:00+00:00 Report correctly enrolled
• 2020-02-27T06:00:00+00:00 LRB correction
• 2020-02-28T06:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor on 2-28-2020 executive-receipt
• 2020-03-04T06:00:00+00:00 Report approved by the Governor on 3-3-2020. 2019 Wisconsin Act 149 executive-signature
• 2020-03-04T06:00:00+00:00 Published 3-4-2020

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/875d224d-31fd-4bfc-bb5f-38e7158a4d27. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).