republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2025/sb-798.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: a wetland assured delineation program, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: a wetland assured delineation program, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 798"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 798 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dassler-Alfheim", "Felzkowski", "Feyen", "Jacque"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 43
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-12-22T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c50c0a9b-8211-46e9-9e5b-b4702011b5d2"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb798"
source_hash: "e649a995227b981155bddfa192d0caf0e28ba8de4295ed260dbde19adc995ec3"
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 798 (2025) — Relating to: a wetland assured delineation program, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

## Version chain

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

1. **Assembly Substitute Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB798-ASA2)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/SB798)
3. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB798-SA1)

## Votes

- Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Natural Resources, Veteran and Military Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Natural Resources, Veteran and Military Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 concurred in, Ayes 32, Noes 1 — **32–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dassler-Alfheim — primary (person)
- Felzkowski — primary (person)
- Feyen — primary (person)
- Jacque — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-22T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Felzkowski, Jacque, Dassler-Alfheim and Feyen; cosponsored by Representatives Mursau, Behnke, Doyle, Goeben, Green, Knodl, McCarville, Steffen and Wichgers `introduction`
- **2025-12-22T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources, Veteran and Military Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Felzkowski
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Snodgrass added as a cosponsor
- **2026-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2026-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** LRB correction (Senate Amendment 1)
- **2026-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Natural Resources, Veteran and Military Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Natural Resources, Veteran and Military Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2026-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 2-11-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senators Ratcliff, Spreitzer and Smith added as coauthors
- **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** Referred to joint committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and taken up
- **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 passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Made a special order of business at 1:24 PM on 2-18-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 13
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Miresse added as a cosponsor
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Neubauer
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Mursau
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in as amended `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly amended and concurred in as amended, Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adopted `amendment-passage, receipt`
- **2026-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** LRB correction (Senate Amendment 1)
- **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** Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 concurred in, Ayes 32, Noes 1
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Action ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-03-23T05:00:00+00:00** LRB correction (Assembly Substitute Amendment 2)
- **2026-03-23T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 4-2-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 172 `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00** Published 4-3-2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c50c0a9b-8211-46e9-9e5b-b4702011b5d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).