republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2025/ab-696.md

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Bill	Relating to: various changes to the laws governing the practice of accounting and modifying various administrative rules promulgated by the Accounting Examining Board relating to accounting.	Relating to: various changes to the laws governing the practice of accounting and modifying various administrative rules promulgated by the Accounting Examining Board relating to accounting.	us/states/wi	Wisconsin Legislature	2025	AB 696	Wisconsin AB 696 (2025)	bill		enacted	Dittrich Knodl Prado Wichgers Wittke	1	31	2	2025-11-26T06:00:00+00:00	2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/d0fa794d-70fc-4dfa-b4b9-a2b7d0f04deb	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab696	70d7b49c12b521fb1da47d86e071329d8cfee46907c292ca2ea7ab84f871d3b5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wi

Wisconsin AB 696 (2025) — Relating to: various changes to the laws governing the practice of accounting and modifying various administrative rules promulgated by the Accounting Examining Board relating to accounting.

Version chain

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

1. 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 passage recommended by Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform, Ayes 7, Noes 0 — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dittrich — primary (person)
• Knodl — primary (person)
• Prado — primary (person)
• Wichgers — primary (person)
• Wittke — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-11-26T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced by Representatives Wittke, Dittrich, Knodl, Prado and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senator Marklein introduction
• 2025-11-26T06:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-12-12T06:00:00+00:00 Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a coauthor
• 2025-12-17T06:00:00+00:00 Public hearing held
• 2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2026-01-15T06:00:00+00:00 Report passage recommended by Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform, Ayes 7, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-01-15T06:00:00+00:00 Referred to committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2026-01-20T06:00:00+00:00 Representative Penterman added as a coauthor
• 2026-01-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senator Drake added as a cosponsor
• 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 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 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00 Received from Senate concurred in receipt
• 2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00 LRB correction
• 2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00 Report correctly enrolled on 2-13-2026 enrolled
• 2026-04-01T05:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor on 4-1-2026 executive-receipt
• 2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00 Report approved by the Governor on 4-2-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 166 executive-signature
• 2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00 Published 4-3-2026 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d0fa794d-70fc-4dfa-b4b9-a2b7d0f04deb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).