Relating to: consent to admissions to certain health care facilities by patient representatives without requiring a petition for guardianship or protective placement. (FE)

Published 3-21-2026

Report approved by the Governor on 3-20-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 115

Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor

Representative Emerson added as a coauthor

Presented to the Governor on 3-19-2026

Report correctly enrolled on 3-18-2026

LRB correction (Assembly Substitute Amendment 3)

Received from Senate concurred in

Ordered immediately messaged

Senator Smith added as a cosponsor

Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 28, Noes 5

Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

Ordered to a third reading

Read a second time

Representative Kitchens added as a coauthor

Placed on calendar 3-17-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

Representative Brown added as a coauthor

Available for scheduling

Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

Received from Assembly

Ordered immediately messaged

Read a third time and passed, Ayes 77, Noes 18

Rules suspended

Ordered to a third reading

Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 adopted

Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 offered by Representative Snyder

Read a second time

Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Neubauer

Made a special order of business at 1:22 PM on 2-18-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 13

Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Snyder

Representative Sheehan withdrawn as a coauthor

Withdrawn from committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 2-17-2026

Referred to committee on Rules

Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 12, Noes 3

Report Assembly Amendment 2 adoption recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 14, Noes 1

Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 14, Noes 1

Executive action taken

Representative Stroud withdrawn as a coauthor

Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Snyder

Representative Johnson withdrawn as a coauthor

Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Snyder

Representative Prado withdrawn as a coauthor

Fiscal estimate received

Representative Roe withdrawn as a coauthor

Representative Palmeri withdrawn as a coauthor

Representative Moses added as a coauthor

Public hearing held

Read first time and referred to Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care

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