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WI SB 217

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Relating to: eliminating the publication requirement for a name change petition seeking to conform an individual’s name with the individual’s gender identity.

Wisconsin · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Introduced
2025-04-16
Status date
Latest action
2026-03-23 — Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Bill type
bill
Last updated

Sponsors

  • Smithprimary
  • Drakeprimary
  • Hesselbeinprimary
  • Larsonprimary
  • Roysprimary
  • Carpenterprimary
  • Dassler-Alfheimprimary
  • Spreitzerprimary
  • Ratcliffprimary

Committees

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Action timeline

  1. 2025-04-16

    Introduced by Senators Ratcliff, Spreitzer, Dassler-Alfheim, Carpenter, Roys, Larson, Hesselbein, Drake and Smith; cosponsored by Representatives Clancy, Snodgrass, Arney, Cruz, Neubauer, Phelps, Rivera-Wagner, Udell, Stroud, DeSmidt, Tenorio, Hong, Fitzgerald, Joers, Madison, Kirsch, Moore Omokunde, Ortiz-Velez, Anderson, Vining, Subeck, Emerson, Bare, Palmeri, Sinicki, Johnson, Roe, Miresse, Sheehan and Mayadev

    introduction

  2. 2025-04-16

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development

    reading-1,referral-committee

  3. 2025-04-18

    Representative Haywood added as a cosponsor

  4. 2026-03-23

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

    failure

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