republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2021/ab-297.md

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Bill	Relating to: traffic violations when emergency or roadside response vehicles are present and providing a penalty. (FE)	Relating to: traffic violations when emergency or roadside response vehicles are present and providing a penalty. (FE)	us/states/wi	Wisconsin Legislature	2021	AB 297	Wisconsin AB 297 (2021)	bill		enacted	Armstrong Brandtjen Cabral-Guevara Cabrera Callahan Conley Considine Dallman Dittrich Duchow James Kerkman Kitchens Krug Loudenbeck Murphy Mursau Novak Plumer Ramthun Shankland Shelton Sinicki Skowronski Snodgrass Spiros Spreitzer Stubbs Subeck VanderMeer Vruwink Wittke Zimmerman	2	38	3	2021-05-03T05:00:00+00:00	2022-04-08T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/9803dfb2-eb6e-4b68-bbf4-5e2486993087	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2021/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab297	0a707153c7e06b2a7fb219535c5537cb9350d30e337aab964fa8f1b173a41177	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wi

Wisconsin AB 297 (2021) — Relating to: traffic violations when emergency or roadside response vehicles are present 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
2. Senate Amendment 1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 15, Noes 0 — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0 — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0 — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Armstrong — primary (person)
• Brandtjen — primary (person)
• Cabral-Guevara — primary (person)
• Cabrera — primary (person)
• Callahan — primary (person)
• Conley — primary (person)
• Considine — primary (person)
• Dallman — primary (person)
• Dittrich — primary (person)
• Duchow — primary (person)
• James — primary (person)
• Kerkman — primary (person)
• Kitchens — primary (person)
• Krug — primary (person)
• Loudenbeck — primary (person)
• Murphy — primary (person)
• Mursau — primary (person)
• Novak — primary (person)
• Plumer — primary (person)
• Ramthun — primary (person)
• Shankland — primary (person)
• Shelton — primary (person)
• Sinicki — primary (person)
• Skowronski — primary (person)
• Snodgrass — primary (person)
• Spiros — primary (person)
• Spreitzer — primary (person)
• Stubbs — primary (person)
• Subeck — primary (person)
• VanderMeer — primary (person)
• Vruwink — primary (person)
• Wittke — primary (person)
• Zimmerman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-05-03T05:00:00+00:00 Introduced by Representatives Loudenbeck, Novak, Plumer, Shankland, Ramthun, Spiros, Armstrong, Brandtjen, Cabral-Guevara, Cabrera, Callahan, Conley, Considine, Dallman, Dittrich, Duchow, James, Kerkman, Kitchens, Krug, Murphy, Mursau, Shelton, Sinicki, Skowronski, Snodgrass, Spreitzer, Subeck, Stubbs, VanderMeer, Vruwink, Wittke and Zimmerman; cosponsored by Senators Ballweg, Testin, Carpenter, Larson, Marklein and Ringhand introduction
• 2021-05-03T05:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-05-10T05:00:00+00:00 Fiscal estimate received receipt
• 2021-06-03T05:00:00+00:00 Public hearing held
• 2021-06-09T05:00:00+00:00 Representative Emerson added as a coauthor
• 2021-06-10T05:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2021-06-16T05:00:00+00:00 Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 15, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-16T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2021-06-16T05:00:00+00:00 Placed on calendar 6-22-2021 by Committee on Rules
• 2021-06-22T05:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2021-06-22T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading reading-3
• 2021-06-22T05:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended
• 2021-06-22T05:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and passed passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-22T05:00:00+00:00 Representatives Macco and L. Myers added as coauthors
• 2021-06-22T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2021-06-22T05:00:00+00:00 Received from Assembly receipt
• 2021-06-22T05:00:00+00:00 Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0
• 2021-06-22T05:00:00+00:00 Placed on calendar 6-23-2021 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
• 2021-06-23T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to committee on Senate Organization referral-committee
• 2021-10-15T05:00:00+00:00 Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Ballweg
• 2021-10-19T05:00:00+00:00 Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0
• 2021-10-19T05:00:00+00:00 Placed on calendar 10-20-2021 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
• 2021-10-20T05:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2021-10-20T05:00:00+00:00 Senate Amendment 1 adopted amendment-passage
• 2021-10-20T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading reading-3
• 2021-10-20T05:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended
• 2021-10-20T05:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and concurred in as amended passage, reading-3
• 2021-10-20T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2021-10-20T05:00:00+00:00 Received from Senate amended and concurred in as amended (Senate amendment 1 adopted) amendment-passage, receipt
• 2021-10-21T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2021-10-21T05:00:00+00:00 Placed on calendar 10-26-2021 by Committee on Rules
• 2021-10-26T05:00:00+00:00 Senate Amendment 1 concurred in
• 2021-10-26T05:00:00+00:00 Action ordered immediately messaged
• 2021-11-02T05:00:00+00:00 Report correctly enrolled on 1-1-0001 enrolled
• 2021-12-02T06:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor on 12-2-2021 executive-receipt
• 2021-12-07T06:00:00+00:00 Report approved by the Governor on 12-6-2021. 2021 Wisconsin Act 115 executive-signature
• 2021-12-07T06:00:00+00:00 Published 12-7-2021 became-law
• 2022-04-08T05:00:00+00:00 Representative Doyle added as a coauthor

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9803dfb2-eb6e-4b68-bbf4-5e2486993087. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).