republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2025/ab-237.md

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Bill	Relating to: the age at which an infant is covered under the safe haven law.	Relating to: the age at which an infant is covered under the safe haven law.	us/states/wi	Wisconsin Legislature	2025	AB 237	Wisconsin AB 237 (2025)	bill		enacted	Behnke Brill Goeben Gundrum Gustafson Kitchens Knodl Kreibich Maxey Novak O'Connor Prado Wichgers	2	35	3	2025-05-02T05:00:00+00:00	2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/d2518beb-dfdc-4477-ae28-0fbdfa0aa572	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab237	3292abdcfe1598d40bfbe914c9f3af1d1762a8b6ed5a2ece0a1d38d65b58eb32	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wi

Wisconsin AB 237 (2025) — Relating to: the age at which an infant is covered under the safe haven law.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2 — 3–2 (pass) · upper
• Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Children and Families, Ayes 9, Noes 0 — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Children and Families, Ayes 9, Noes 0 — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Behnke — primary (person)
• Brill — primary (person)
• Goeben — primary (person)
• Gundrum — primary (person)
• Gustafson — primary (person)
• Kitchens — primary (person)
• Knodl — primary (person)
• Kreibich — primary (person)
• Maxey — primary (person)
• Novak — primary (person)
• O'Connor — primary (person)
• Prado — primary (person)
• Wichgers — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-02T05:00:00+00:00 Introduced by Representatives Gundrum, O'Connor, Novak, Brill, Maxey, Kreibich, Prado, Kitchens, Wichgers, Goeben, Behnke, Gustafson and Knodl; cosponsored by Senators Hutton and Cabral-Guevara introduction
• 2025-05-02T05:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to Committee on Children and Families reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-05-21T05:00:00+00:00 Public hearing held
• 2025-06-05T05:00:00+00:00 Representative Kurtz added as a coauthor
• 2025-09-12T05:00:00+00:00 Representative Piwowarczyk added as a coauthor
• 2025-11-10T06:00:00+00:00 Senator Marklein added as a cosponsor
• 2026-01-05T06:00:00+00:00 Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Gundrum
• 2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2026-01-15T06:00:00+00:00 Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Children and Families, Ayes 9, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-01-15T06:00:00+00:00 Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Children and Families, Ayes 9, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-01-15T06:00:00+00:00 Referred to committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2026-02-05T06:00:00+00:00 Placed on calendar 2-10-2026 by Committee on Rules
• 2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00 Assembly Amendment 1 adopted amendment-passage
• 2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading reading-3
• 2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended
• 2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and passed passage, reading-3
• 2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00 Received from Assembly receipt
• 2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization referral-committee
• 2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00 Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
• 2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00 Placed on calendar 2-11-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
• 2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended and taken up
• 2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading reading-3
• 2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
• 2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and concurred in passage, reading-3
• 2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senator Dassler-Alfheim added as a cosponsor
• 2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00 Received from Senate concurred in receipt
• 2026-02-16T06:00:00+00:00 LRB correction (Assembly Amendment 1)
• 2026-02-16T06:00:00+00:00 Report correctly enrolled on 2-16-2026 enrolled
• 2026-03-12T05:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor on 3-12-2026 executive-receipt
• 2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00 Report approved by the Governor on 3-13-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 94 executive-signature
• 2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00 Published 3-14-2026 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d2518beb-dfdc-4477-ae28-0fbdfa0aa572. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).