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Wisconsin 2025

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)

Source: Open States / PluralUpdated 2026-11-04 04:11:03 UTC.

Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
Wisconsin
Session
2025
Chamber
lower
Classification
bill
Subjects
Community-based residential facility, Constitution, United States, Guardian and ward, Harbor, Hospitals and health care facilities, Medical assistance, Nursing homes and adult care, Reports, Restaurant
Introduced / first action
2025-10-29 05:00:00

Sponsors

Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Published 3-21-2026

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

    executive-signature
  3. Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor

  4. Representative Emerson added as a coauthor

  5. Presented to the Governor on 3-19-2026

    executive-receipt
  6. Report correctly enrolled on 3-18-2026

    enrolled
  7. LRB correction (Assembly Substitute Amendment 3)

  8. Received from Senate concurred in

    receipt
  9. Ordered immediately messaged

  10. Senator Smith added as a cosponsor

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

    passage, reading-3
  12. Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  13. Ordered to a third reading

    reading-3
  14. Read a second time

    reading-2
  15. Representative Kitchens added as a coauthor

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

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

  18. Representative Brown added as a coauthor

  19. Available for scheduling

  20. Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

    reading-1, referral-committee
  21. Received from Assembly

    receipt
  22. Ordered immediately messaged

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

    passage, reading-3
  24. Rules suspended

  25. Ordered to a third reading

    reading-3
  26. Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 adopted

    amendment-passage
  27. Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 offered by Representative Snyder

    amendment-introduction
  28. Read a second time

    reading-2
  29. Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Neubauer

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

  31. Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Snyder

    amendment-introduction
  32. Representative Sheehan withdrawn as a coauthor

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

    referral
  34. Referred to committee on Rules

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

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

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

    committee-passage-favorable
  38. Executive action taken

  39. Representative Stroud withdrawn as a coauthor

    withdrawal
  40. Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Snyder

    amendment-introduction
  41. Representative Johnson withdrawn as a coauthor

    withdrawal
  42. Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Snyder

    amendment-introduction
  43. Representative Prado withdrawn as a coauthor

    withdrawal
  44. Fiscal estimate received

    receipt
  45. Representative Roe withdrawn as a coauthor

    withdrawal
  46. Representative Palmeri withdrawn as a coauthor

    withdrawal
  47. Representative Moses added as a coauthor

  48. Public hearing held

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

    reading-1, referral-committee
  50. 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