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Wisconsin · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

SB 173: Relating to: creating a rural creative economy development grant program. (FE)

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 173 is a bill introduced in the Wisconsin Senate on April 3, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Relating to: creating a rural creative economy development grant program. (FE). Primary sponsor: Romaine Quinn (Republican), Patrick Testin (Republican), Brad Pfaff (Democratic), Mark Spreitzer (Democratic). It lists 21 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (March 23, 2026): Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 10 · Republican 15

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Romaine QuinnPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate25
Patrick TestinPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate24
Brad PfaffPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate32
Mark SpreitzerPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate15
Clint AndersonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse45
Dave ArmstrongCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse67
Mike BareCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse80
Elijah BehnkeCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse6
Jill BillingsCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse95
Chanz GreenCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse74
Rick GundrumCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse58
Francesca HongCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse76
Brent JacobsonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse87
Jenna JacobsonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse50
Tara JohnsonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse96
Joel KitchensCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse1
Rob KreibichCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse28
Vinnie MiresseCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse71
Jeff MursauCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse36
Todd NovakCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse51
Jerry O'ConnorCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse60
Lori PalmeriCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse54
David SteffenCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse4
Travis TranelCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse49
Ron TuslerCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse3

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
  2. Representative Emerson added as a cosponsor
  3. Representative Joers added as a cosponsor
  4. Senator Cabral-Guevara added as a coauthor
  5. Representative McCarville added as a cosponsor
  6. Fiscal estimate received
  7. Representative Udell added as a cosponsor
  8. Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry
  9. Introduced by Senators Quinn, Testin, Pfaff and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Novak, Kitchens, Anderson, Armstrong, Bare, Behnke, Billings, Green, Gundrum, Hong, B. Jacobson, J. Jacobson, Johnson, Kreibich, Miresse, Mursau, O'Connor, Palmeri, Steffen, Tranel and Tusler

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source