republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2025/ab-601.md

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Bill	Relating to: excluding certain event or sports wagers from the definition of “bet”.	Relating to: excluding certain event or sports wagers from the definition of “bet”.	us/states/wi	Wisconsin Legislature	2025	AB 601	Wisconsin AB 601 (2025)	bill		enacted	Anderson August Behnke Dallman Green Gustafson Haywood Kurtz Mursau Novak Penterman Prado Sinicki Stroud Stubbs Wittke	2	35	4	2025-10-29T05:00:00+00:00	2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f8a4e7c5-8a56-4bae-b288-0d093c74e7fb	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab601	bd452716b74c206d5a55ca45952d415662cd1b580526dc6997514f2ec27eeada	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wi

Wisconsin AB 601 (2025) — Relating to: excluding certain event or sports wagers from the definition of “bet”.

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
• CONCURRENCE — 21–12 (pass) · upper
• Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on State Affairs, Ayes 10, Noes 0 — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on State Affairs, Ayes 10, Noes 0 — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Anderson — primary (person)
• August — primary (person)
• Behnke — primary (person)
• Dallman — primary (person)
• Green — primary (person)
• Gustafson — primary (person)
• Haywood — primary (person)
• Kurtz — primary (person)
• Mursau — primary (person)
• Novak — primary (person)
• Penterman — primary (person)
• Prado — primary (person)
• Sinicki — primary (person)
• Stroud — primary (person)
• Stubbs — primary (person)
• Wittke — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-10-29T05:00:00+00:00 Introduced by Representatives August, Haywood, Dallman, Anderson, Behnke, Green, Gustafson, Kurtz, Mursau, Novak, Penterman, Prado, Sinicki, Stubbs, Wittke and Stroud; cosponsored by Senators Marklein, Dassler-Alfheim, Feyen, Spreitzer and Testin introduction
• 2025-10-29T05:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-11-04T06:00:00+00:00 Public hearing held
• 2025-11-11T06:00:00+00:00 Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative August
• 2025-11-12T06:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2025-11-12T06:00:00+00:00 Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on State Affairs, Ayes 10, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-11-13T06:00:00+00:00 Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on State Affairs, Ayes 10, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-11-13T06:00:00+00:00 Referred to committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2025-11-13T06:00:00+00:00 Placed on calendar 11-19-2025 by Committee on Rules
• 2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00 Representative Miresse added as a coauthor
• 2025-12-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senator James added as a cosponsor
• 2026-01-07T06:00:00+00:00 Representative Billings added as a coauthor
• 2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00 Representative Behnke withdrawn as a coauthor withdrawal
• 2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00 Made a special order of business at 11:26 AM on 2-19-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 14
• 2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Assembly Amendment 1 adopted amendment-passage
• 2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading reading-3
• 2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended
• 2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and passed passage, reading-3
• 2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2026-02-23T06:00:00+00:00 Received from Assembly receipt
• 2026-02-25T06:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization referral-committee
• 2026-02-25T06:00:00+00:00 Available for scheduling
• 2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00 Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
• 2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00 Placed on calendar 3-17-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
• 2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading reading-3
• 2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
• 2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 21, Noes 12 passage, reading-3
• 2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00 Received from Senate concurred in receipt
• 2026-03-25T05:00:00+00:00 Report correctly enrolled on 3-25-2026 enrolled
• 2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026 executive-receipt
• 2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00 Report approved by the Governor on 4-9-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 247 executive-signature
• 2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00 Published 4-10-2026 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f8a4e7c5-8a56-4bae-b288-0d093c74e7fb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).