republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2025/sb-14.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: pelvic exams on unconscious patients and creating an administrative rule related to hospital requirements for pelvic exams on unconscious patients."
description: "Relating to: pelvic exams on unconscious patients and creating an administrative rule related to hospital requirements for pelvic exams on unconscious patients."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 14"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 14 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carpenter", "Habush Sinykin", "Hesselbein", "Jacque", "Keyeski", "L. Johnson", "Larson", "Ratcliff", "Spreitzer"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 40
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-03T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-08-11T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9d02175-2888-4ad7-b858-6a2af46cf734"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb14"
source_hash: "13ed07d30a4e295df9197f69b5189c0822200e5f2827354ef92463c0d0023d4d"
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 SB 14 (2025) — Relating to: pelvic exams on unconscious patients and creating an administrative rule related to hospital requirements for pelvic exams on unconscious patients.

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/SB14)
2. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB14-SA1)

## Votes

- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Carpenter — primary (person)
- Habush Sinykin — primary (person)
- Hesselbein — primary (person)
- Jacque — primary (person)
- Keyeski — primary (person)
- L. Johnson — primary (person)
- Larson — primary (person)
- Ratcliff — primary (person)
- Spreitzer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Jacque, Carpenter, Habush Sinykin, Hesselbein, L. Johnson, Keyeski, Ratcliff, Spreitzer and Larson; cosponsored by Representatives Goeben, Subeck, Allen, Anderson, Behnke, Brill, Brooks, Dittrich, Kirsch, Knodl, Maxey, Murphy, Mursau, Neylon, Rodriguez, Tusler and Wichgers `introduction`
- **2025-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senator Wirch added as a coauthor
- **2025-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Sinicki added as a cosponsor
- **2025-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Jacque
- **2025-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Stubbs added as a cosponsor
- **2025-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Vining added as a cosponsor
- **2025-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Emerson added as a cosponsor
- **2025-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Roe added as a cosponsor
- **2025-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2025-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** Representatives Joers and Udell added as cosponsors
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Miresse added as a cosponsor
- **2025-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 3-18-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-04-24T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07T05:00:00+00:00** Representatives Penterman and Fitzgerald added as cosponsors
- **2025-05-09T05:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 5-13-2025
- **2025-05-12T05:00:00+00:00** Representative O'Connor added as a cosponsor
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Representatives Stroud, Clancy and Madison added as cosponsors
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2025-05-14T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `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 22 `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-11T05:00:00+00:00** Published 8-9-2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b9d02175-2888-4ad7-b858-6a2af46cf734`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).