republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2021/sb-51.md

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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: qualification of newspapers to receive compensation for publication of legal notices and requirements relating to publication.	Relating to: qualification of newspapers to receive compensation for publication of legal notices and requirements relating to publication.	us/states/wi	Wisconsin Legislature	2021	SB 51	Wisconsin SB 51 (2021)	bill		enacted	Bewley Cowles Pfaff Testin	2	31	2	2021-01-28T06:00:00+00:00	2021-05-24T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/09516bc6-d9fc-4451-a847-4114b31177da	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2021/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb51	a76e556656044a834e43aff8cec8f9b1231b24eacdd6399aa960f05facbafdc8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wi

Wisconsin SB 51 (2021) — Relating to: qualification of newspapers to receive compensation for publication of legal notices and requirements relating to publication.

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 Committee on Government Operations, Legal Review and Consumer Protection, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Legal Review and Consumer Protection, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bewley — primary (person)
• Cowles — primary (person)
• Pfaff — primary (person)
• Testin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-28T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced by Senators Cowles, Bewley, Pfaff and Testin; cosponsored by Representatives Kitchens, Armstrong, Billings, Doyle, Duchow, James, Knodl, Loudenbeck, Milroy, Moses, Mursau, Novak, Rozar, Skowronski, Steffen, Subeck and Vruwink introduction
• 2021-01-28T06:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations, Legal Review and Consumer Protection reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-02-03T06:00:00+00:00 Representative Spreitzer added as a cosponsor
• 2021-02-04T06:00:00+00:00 Public hearing held
• 2021-04-13T05:00:00+00:00 Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Cowles
• 2021-05-06T05:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2021-05-06T05:00:00+00:00 Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Legal Review and Consumer Protection, Ayes 5, Noes 0 amendment-passage
• 2021-05-06T05:00:00+00:00 Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Legal Review and Consumer Protection, Ayes 5, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-06T05:00:00+00:00 Available for scheduling
• 2021-05-07T05:00:00+00:00 Placed on calendar 5-11-2021 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
• 2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00 Senate Amendment 1 adopted amendment-passage
• 2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading reading-3
• 2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended
• 2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and passed passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00 Received from Senate receipt
• 2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00 Read
• 2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended to withdraw from Senate message and take up
• 2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading reading-3
• 2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended
• 2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and concurred in passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00 Representative Edming added as a cosponsor
• 2021-05-11T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2021-05-12T05:00:00+00:00 Received from Assembly concurred in receipt
• 2021-05-18T05:00:00+00:00 LRB correction
• 2021-05-18T05:00:00+00:00 Report correctly enrolled enrolled
• 2021-05-20T05:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor on 5-20-2021 executive-receipt
• 2021-05-24T05:00:00+00:00 Report approved by the Governor on 5-21-2021. 2021 Wisconsin Act 32 executive-signature
• 2021-05-24T05:00:00+00:00 Published 5-22-2021 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/09516bc6-d9fc-4451-a847-4114b31177da. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).