republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2023/sb-894.md

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Bill	Relating to: a technology and innovation hub grant to BioForward, Inc., and making an appropriation. (FE)	Relating to: a technology and innovation hub grant to BioForward, Inc., and making an appropriation. (FE)	us/states/wi	Wisconsin Legislature	2023	SB 894	Wisconsin SB 894 (2023)	bill		enacted	Ballweg Felzkowski Quinn Smith Spreitzer Stroebel	1	35	4	2024-01-05T06:00:00+00:00	2024-02-21T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/79c1c69f-c4b0-4c70-9ea0-518c4fdecd98	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb894	2f0ed6ec604d35e6f0ad57f873b590cb2f4bdd7335c511fd9a16ffbb58ab723d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wi

Wisconsin SB 894 (2023) — Relating to: a technology and innovation hub grant to BioForward, Inc., 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

Votes

• Report passage recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0 — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCURRENCE — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE — 31–1 (pass) · upper
• Report passage recommended by Committee on Economic Development and Technical Colleges, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ballweg — primary (person)
• Felzkowski — primary (person)
• Quinn — primary (person)
• Smith — primary (person)
• Spreitzer — primary (person)
• Stroebel — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-05T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced by Senators Stroebel, Ballweg, Felzkowski, Quinn, Smith and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Nedweski, Zimmerman, Gustafson, C. Anderson, Armstrong, Dittrich, Duchow, Goeben, Gundrum, Kitchens, Macco, Maxey, Murphy, Mursau, Petryk, Rettinger, Sapik and Steffen introduction
• 2024-01-05T06:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development and Technical Colleges reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-01-09T06:00:00+00:00 Representative O'Connor added as a cosponsor
• 2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senator Pfaff added as a coauthor
• 2024-01-17T06:00:00+00:00 Fiscal estimate received receipt
• 2024-01-17T06:00:00+00:00 Public hearing held
• 2024-01-19T06:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2024-01-19T06:00:00+00:00 Report passage recommended by Committee on Economic Development and Technical Colleges, Ayes 5, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-19T06:00:00+00:00 Available for scheduling
• 2024-01-31T06:00:00+00:00 Withdrawn from committee on Senate Organization and rereferred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)
• 2024-02-01T06:00:00+00:00 Representative Jacobson added as a cosponsor
• 2024-02-01T06:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2024-02-02T06:00:00+00:00 Report passage recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-02T06:00:00+00:00 Available for scheduling
• 2024-02-09T06:00:00+00:00 Placed on calendar 2-13-2024 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
• 2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading reading-3
• 2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
• 2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and passed, Ayes 31, Noes 1 passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00 Received from Senate receipt
• 2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00 Read
• 2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended to withdraw from Senate message and take up
• 2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading reading-3
• 2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended
• 2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and passed, Ayes 96, Noes 0 passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00 Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor
• 2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2024-02-14T06:00:00+00:00 Received from Assembly concurred in receipt
• 2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Report correctly enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor on 2-19-2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-02-21T06:00:00+00:00 Representative Emerson added as a cosponsor
• 2024-02-21T06:00:00+00:00 Report approved by the Governor on 2-21-2024. 2023 Wisconsin Act 96 executive-signature
• 2024-02-21T06:00:00+00:00 Published 2-22-2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/79c1c69f-c4b0-4c70-9ea0-518c4fdecd98. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).