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SB798 • 2025
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
This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.
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Report approved by the Governor on 4-2-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 172
Published 4-3-2026
Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026
LRB correction ( Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 )
Report correctly enrolled
Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 concurred in, Ayes 32, Noes 1
Action ordered immediately messaged
Placed on calendar 3-17-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
LRB correction ( Senate Amendment 1 )
Received from Assembly amended and concurred in as amended, Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adopted
Representative Miresse added as a cosponsor
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Neubauer
Read a second time
Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Mursau
Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adopted
Ordered to a third reading
Rules suspended
Read a third time and concurred in as amended
Ordered immediately messaged
Read first time and referred to committee on Rules
Made a special order of business at 1:24 PM on 2-18-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 13
Received from Senate
Senators Ratcliff , Spreitzer and Smith added as coauthors
Read a second time
Senate Amendment 1 adopted
Referred to joint committee on Finance
Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and taken up
Ordered to a third reading
Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
Read a third time and passed
Ordered immediately messaged
Placed on calendar 2-11-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
Executive action taken
Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Natural Resources, Veteran and Military Affairs , Ayes 5, Noes 0
Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Natural Resources, Veteran and Military Affairs , Ayes 5, Noes 0
Available for scheduling
LRB correction ( Senate Amendment 1 )
Public hearing held
Representative Snodgrass added as a cosponsor
Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Felzkowski
Fiscal estimate received
Introduced by Senators Felzkowski , Jacque , Dassler-Alfheim and Feyen ; cosponsored by Representatives Mursau , Behnke , Doyle , Goeben , Green , Knodl , McCarville , Steffen and Wichgers
Read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources, Veteran and Military Affairs
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 Status: S - Enacted into law