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type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: consent to admissions to certain health care facilities by patient representatives without requiring a petition for guardianship or protective placement. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: consent to admissions to certain health care facilities by patient representatives without requiring a petition for guardianship or protective placement. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 598"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 598 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dittrich", "Donovan", "Doyle", "Goodwin", "Gundrum", "Hurd", "Johnson", "Knodl", "Kreibich", "Kurtz", "McCarville", "Melotik", "Mursau", "Novak", "O'Connor", "Palmeri", "Penterman", "Piwowarczyk", "Prado", "Rivera-Wagner", "Rodriguez", "Roe", "Sheehan", "Sinicki", "Snyder", "Stroud", "Stubbs", "Subeck", "Swearingen", "Wittke"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 50
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-10-29T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19780f7c-4b32-4ad7-8cfb-7e5c2cca0090"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab598"
source_hash: "9f9d9e96e577797eef394d6733ef46df742b143a4956eac516ca712fd33dcf23"
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 598 (2025) — Relating to: consent to admissions to certain health care facilities by patient representatives without requiring a petition for guardianship or protective placement. (FE)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Assembly Substitute Amendment 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB598-ASA3)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB598)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **7718** (pass) · lower
- CONCURRENCE — **285** (pass) · upper
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 12, Noes 3 — **123** (pass) · lower
- Report Assembly Amendment 2 adoption recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 14, Noes 1 — **141** (pass) · lower
- Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 14, Noes 1 — **141** (pass) · lower
- Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2 — **32** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Dittrich — primary (person)
- Donovan — primary (person)
- Doyle — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Gundrum — primary (person)
- Hurd — primary (person)
- Johnson — primary (person)
- Knodl — primary (person)
- Kreibich — primary (person)
- Kurtz — primary (person)
- McCarville — primary (person)
- Melotik — primary (person)
- Mursau — primary (person)
- Novak — primary (person)
- O'Connor — primary (person)
- Palmeri — primary (person)
- Penterman — primary (person)
- Piwowarczyk — primary (person)
- Prado — primary (person)
- Rivera-Wagner — primary (person)
- Rodriguez — primary (person)
- Roe — primary (person)
- Sheehan — primary (person)
- Sinicki — primary (person)
- Snyder — primary (person)
- Stroud — primary (person)
- Stubbs — primary (person)
- Subeck — primary (person)
- Swearingen — 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 Snyder, Subeck, Dittrich, Donovan, Doyle, Goodwin, Gundrum, Hurd, Johnson, Knodl, Kreibich, Kurtz, McCarville, Melotik, Mursau, Novak, O'Connor, Palmeri, Penterman, Piwowarczyk, Prado, Rivera-Wagner, Rodriguez, Roe, Sheehan, Sinicki, Stroud, Stubbs, Swearingen and Wittke; cosponsored by Senators Wimberger, Cabral-Guevara, Feyen, James and Quinn `introduction`
- **2025-10-29T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-11-12T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-11-12T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Moses added as a coauthor
- **2025-12-17T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Palmeri withdrawn as a coauthor `withdrawal`
- **2026-01-06T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Roe withdrawn as a coauthor `withdrawal`
- **2026-01-07T06:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Prado withdrawn as a coauthor `withdrawal`
- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Snyder
- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Johnson withdrawn as a coauthor `withdrawal`
- **2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Snyder
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Stroud withdrawn as a coauthor `withdrawal`
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 14, Noes 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Amendment 2 adoption recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 14, Noes 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 12, Noes 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 2-17-2026
- **2026-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Sheehan withdrawn as a coauthor `withdrawal`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Snyder
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Made a special order of business at 1:22 PM on 2-18-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 13
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Neubauer
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 offered by Representative Snyder
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 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, Ayes 77, Noes 18 `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
- **2026-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Brown added as a coauthor
- **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)
- **2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Kitchens added as a coauthor
- **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 28, Noes 5 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Smith added as a cosponsor
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
- **2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** LRB correction (Assembly Substitute Amendment 3)
- **2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 3-18-2026 `enrolled`
- **2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 3-19-2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Emerson added as a coauthor
- **2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor
- **2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 3-20-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 115 `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Published 3-21-2026 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19780f7c-4b32-4ad7-8cfb-7e5c2cca0090`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).