republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2025/ab-320.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: increasing certain court fees and surcharges and indexing those amounts for inflation. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: increasing certain court fees and surcharges and indexing those amounts for inflation. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 320"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 320 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen", "Armstrong", "B. Jacobson", "Behnke", "Brill", "Brooks", "Dittrich", "Donovan", "Goeben", "Kitchens", "Maxey", "Melotik", "Mursau", "O'Connor", "Piwowarczyk", "Steffen"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 53
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-07-08T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-03T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b1a7ea8-1d3a-4624-afe8-3e885f55b4b0"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab320"
source_hash: "a3d374deb4ad65fe07627173ae6ef758bd48f580a1b7d4d4ba63f89ea06c4dec"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wi"]
---

# Wisconsin AB 320 (2025) — Relating to: increasing certain court fees and surcharges and indexing those amounts for inflation. (FE)

## Version chain

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

1. **Assembly Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB320-ASA1-AA2)
2. **Assembly Substitute Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB320-ASA1)
3. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB320)
4. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB320-SA1)

## Votes

- CONCURRENCE — **31–2** (pass) · upper
- Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0 — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **65–32** (pass) · lower
- Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 6, Noes 2 — **6–2** (pass) · lower
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 6, Noes 2 — **6–2** (pass) · lower
- Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- Armstrong — primary (person)
- B. Jacobson — primary (person)
- Behnke — primary (person)
- Brill — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)
- Dittrich — primary (person)
- Donovan — primary (person)
- Goeben — primary (person)
- Kitchens — primary (person)
- Maxey — primary (person)
- Melotik — primary (person)
- Mursau — primary (person)
- O'Connor — primary (person)
- Piwowarczyk — primary (person)
- Steffen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-08T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Allen, O'Connor, Donovan, Mursau, Armstrong, Behnke, Brill, Brooks, Dittrich, Goeben, B. Jacobson, Kitchens, Maxey, Piwowarczyk, Steffen and Melotik; cosponsored by Senator Wanggaard `introduction`
- **2025-07-08T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-29T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Goodwin added as a coauthor
- **2025-09-18T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-09-23T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Goodwin withdrawn as a coauthor `withdrawal`
- **2025-09-25T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Allen
- **2025-09-25T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-10-17T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Gundrum added as a coauthor
- **2025-12-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senator Jacque added as a cosponsor
- **2026-01-06T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Allen
- **2026-01-08T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-01-08T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a coauthor
- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 6, Noes 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 6, Noes 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Kurtz added as a coauthor
- **2026-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 1-22-2026 by Committee on Rules
- **2026-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Allen
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 withdrawn and returned to author
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Allen
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed, Ayes 65, Noes 32 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2026-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary and Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senator James added as a cosponsor
- **2026-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2026-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2026-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from committee on Senate Organization and rereferred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)
- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2026-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 2-11-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Wanggaard
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **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 as amended, Ayes 31, Noes 2 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate amended and concurred in as amended (Senate amendment1 adopted) `amendment-passage, receipt`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 concurred in
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Action ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 2-23-2026 `enrolled`
- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 4-3-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 179 `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Published 4-4-2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4b1a7ea8-1d3a-4624-afe8-3e885f55b4b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).