Wisconsin bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Wisconsin AB 598
Relating to: consent to admissions to certain health care facilities by patient representatives without requiring a petition for guardianship or protective placement. (FE)
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became law
Sponsors
- Wittke (Republican)
- Swearingen (Republican)
- Stubbs (Democratic)
- Stroud (Democratic)
- Sinicki (Democratic)
- Sheehan (Democratic)
- Roe (Democratic)
- Rodriguez (Republican)
- Rivera-Wagner (Democratic)
- Prado (Democratic)
- Piwowarczyk (Republican)
- Penterman (Republican)
- Palmeri (Democratic)
- O'Connor (Republican)
- Novak (Republican)
- Mursau (Republican)
- Melotik (Republican)
- McCarville (Democratic)
- Kurtz (Republican)
- Kreibich (Republican)
- Knodl (Republican)
- Johnson (Democratic)
- Hurd (Republican)
- Gundrum (Republican)
- Goodwin (Democratic)
- Doyle (Democratic)
- Donovan (Republican)
- Dittrich (Republican)
- Subeck (Democratic)
- Snyder (Republican)
Summary
No official summary is available for this bill.
Latest action(Mar 20, 2026): Published 3-21-2026
Text versions
Roll-call votes
State vote data last updated Oct 15, 2026, 12:03 AM.
| Date | Vote | Result | Your legislators |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 2026 Senate | CONCURRENCE | pass | Set your home in Wisconsin to see |
| Mar 16, 2026 Senate | Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2 | pass | Set your home in Wisconsin to see |
| Feb 19, 2026 House | PASSAGE | pass | Set your home in Wisconsin to see |
| Jan 21, 2026 House | Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 12, Noes 3 | pass | Set your home in Wisconsin to see |
| Jan 21, 2026 House | Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 14, Noes 1 | pass | Set your home in Wisconsin to see |
| Jan 21, 2026 House | Report Assembly Amendment 2 adoption recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 14, Noes 1 | pass | Set your home in Wisconsin to see |
Actions
- Mar 20, 2026 · House
Published 3-21-2026 - Mar 20, 2026 · House
Report approved by the Governor on 3-20-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 115 - Mar 20, 2026 · House
Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor - Mar 19, 2026 · House
Representative Emerson added as a coauthor - Mar 19, 2026 · House
Presented to the Governor on 3-19-2026 - Mar 18, 2026 · House
Report correctly enrolled on 3-18-2026 - Mar 18, 2026 · House
LRB correction (Assembly Substitute Amendment 3) - Mar 18, 2026 · House
Received from Senate concurred in - Mar 17, 2026 · Senate
Ordered immediately messaged - Mar 17, 2026 · Senate
Senator Smith added as a cosponsor - Mar 17, 2026 · Senate
Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 28, Noes 5 - Mar 17, 2026 · Senate
Rules suspended to give bill its third reading - Mar 17, 2026 · Senate
Ordered to a third reading - Mar 17, 2026 · Senate
Read a second time - Mar 16, 2026 · Senate
Representative Kitchens added as a coauthor - Mar 16, 2026 · Senate
Placed on calendar 3-17-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1) - Mar 16, 2026 · Senate
Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2 - Mar 6, 2026 · Senate
Representative Brown added as a coauthor - Feb 25, 2026 · Senate
Available for scheduling - Feb 25, 2026 · Senate
Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization - Feb 23, 2026 · Senate
Received from Assembly - Feb 19, 2026 · House
Ordered immediately messaged - Feb 19, 2026 · House
Read a third time and passed, Ayes 77, Noes 18 - Feb 19, 2026 · House
Rules suspended - Feb 19, 2026 · House
Ordered to a third reading - Feb 19, 2026 · House
Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 adopted - Feb 19, 2026 · House
Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 offered by Representative Snyder - Feb 19, 2026 · House
Read a second time - Feb 18, 2026 · House
Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Neubauer - Feb 17, 2026 · House
Made a special order of business at 1:22 PM on 2-18-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 13 - Feb 17, 2026 · House
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Snyder - Feb 16, 2026 · House
Representative Sheehan withdrawn as a coauthor - Feb 13, 2026 · House
Withdrawn from committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 2-17-2026 - Jan 21, 2026 · House
Referred to committee on Rules - Jan 21, 2026 · House
Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 12, Noes 3 - Jan 21, 2026 · House
Report Assembly Amendment 2 adoption recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 14, Noes 1 - Jan 21, 2026 · House
Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 14, Noes 1 - Jan 21, 2026 · House
Executive action taken - Jan 21, 2026 · House
Representative Stroud withdrawn as a coauthor - Jan 16, 2026 · House
Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Snyder - Jan 14, 2026 · House
Representative Johnson withdrawn as a coauthor - Jan 14, 2026 · House
Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Snyder - Jan 13, 2026 · House
Representative Prado withdrawn as a coauthor - Jan 7, 2026 · House
Fiscal estimate received - Jan 6, 2026 · House
Representative Roe withdrawn as a coauthor - Dec 17, 2025 · House
Representative Palmeri withdrawn as a coauthor - Nov 12, 2025 · House
Representative Moses added as a coauthor - Nov 12, 2025 · House
Public hearing held - Oct 29, 2025 · House
Read first time and referred to Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care - Oct 29, 2025 · House
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