republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2025/ab-257.md

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Bill	Relating to: advanced practice registered nurses, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)	Relating to: advanced practice registered nurses, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)	us/states/wi	Wisconsin Legislature	2025	AB 257	Wisconsin AB 257 (2025)	bill		enacted	Andraca Behnke Brown Cruz DeSmidt Emerson Gundrum Joers Kreibich Kurtz Maxey Murphy O'Connor Ortiz-Velez Prado Rodriguez Spiros Stubbs Subeck Tusler Udell Wichgers	1	40	1	2025-05-12T05:00:00+00:00	2025-09-09T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/608ce74e-4233-446d-b216-d758a1584ed9	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab257	350390542dee8e102a713a7b5f5142b43e9c82d6e23e62c61687b52765a5c034	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wi

Wisconsin AB 257 (2025) — Relating to: advanced practice registered nurses, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (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 Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 15, Noes 0 — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Andraca — primary (person)
• Behnke — primary (person)
• Brown — primary (person)
• Cruz — primary (person)
• DeSmidt — primary (person)
• Emerson — primary (person)
• Gundrum — primary (person)
• Joers — primary (person)
• Kreibich — primary (person)
• Kurtz — primary (person)
• Maxey — primary (person)
• Murphy — primary (person)
• O'Connor — primary (person)
• Ortiz-Velez — primary (person)
• Prado — primary (person)
• Rodriguez — primary (person)
• Spiros — primary (person)
• Stubbs — primary (person)
• Subeck — primary (person)
• Tusler — primary (person)
• Udell — primary (person)
• Wichgers — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-12T05:00:00+00:00 Introduced by Representatives Kurtz, Subeck, Rodriguez, Andraca, Behnke, Brown, Cruz, DeSmidt, Emerson, Gundrum, Joers, Kreibich, Maxey, Murphy, O'Connor, Ortiz-Velez, Prado, Spiros, Stubbs, Tusler, Udell and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senators Testin, Cabral-Guevara, Roys, Dassler-Alfheim, Habush Sinykin, Hesselbein, Keyeski, LeMahieu, Marklein, Quinn, Ratcliff, Smith and Spreitzer introduction
• 2025-05-12T05:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-05-12T05:00:00+00:00 Representatives Donovan and Palmeri added as coauthors
• 2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00 Senator Jacque added as a cosponsor
• 2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00 Representatives McCarville, Miresse, Goeben and Knodl added as coauthors
• 2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00 Fiscal estimate received receipt
• 2025-05-14T05:00:00+00:00 Representative Kitchens added as a coauthor
• 2025-05-14T05:00:00+00:00 Public hearing held
• 2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00 Representative Vining added as a coauthor
• 2025-05-19T05:00:00+00:00 Representative Clancy added as a coauthor
• 2025-05-20T05:00:00+00:00 Representative Madison added as a coauthor
• 2025-05-29T05:00:00+00:00 Senators James and Larson added as cosponsors
• 2025-05-30T05:00:00+00:00 Fiscal estimate received receipt
• 2025-05-30T05:00:00+00:00 Representative Snodgrass added as a coauthor
• 2025-06-04T05:00:00+00:00 Representative Moses added as a coauthor
• 2025-06-04T05:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2025-06-06T05:00:00+00:00 Fiscal estimate received receipt
• 2025-06-06T05:00:00+00:00 Report passage recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 15, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-06T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2025-06-16T05:00:00+00:00 Withdrawn from committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 6-18-2025
• 2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading reading-3
• 2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended
• 2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and passed passage, reading-3
• 2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00 Received from Assembly receipt
• 2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00 Senator Carpenter added as a cosponsor
• 2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended and taken up
• 2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading reading-3
• 2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
• 2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and concurred in passage, reading-3
• 2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2025-06-19T05:00:00+00:00 Received from Senate concurred in receipt
• 2025-06-19T05:00:00+00:00 Fiscal estimate received receipt
• 2025-06-23T05:00:00+00:00 Report correctly enrolled on 6-23-2025 enrolled
• 2025-08-07T05:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor on 8-7-2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-08-11T05:00:00+00:00 Report approved by the Governor on 8-8-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 17 executive-signature
• 2025-08-11T05:00:00+00:00 Published 8-9-2025 became-law
• 2025-09-09T05:00:00+00:00 Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/608ce74e-4233-446d-b216-d758a1584ed9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).