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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 728

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Relating to: license fee exemptions for a dog that is a service animal. (FE)

Dogs

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Senate, completed
  3. Passes Assembly, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, every dog specifically trained to lead blind or deaf persons

or to provide support for mobility-impaired persons is exempt from the dog license

tax, and every person owning such a dog receives a free dog license annually from

the local collecting officer upon application.

This bill provides that any dog that is a service animal is exempt from the dog

license tax, and every person owning such a dog receives a free dog license annually

from the local collecting officer upon application. Under the bill, a service animal is

a guide dog, signal dog, or other animal that is individually trained or is being trained

to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including

the work or task of guiding a person with impaired vision, alerting a person with

impaired hearing to intruders or sound, providing minimal protection or rescue

work, pulling a wheelchair, or fetching dropped items.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Cabral-Guevara (R) , Carpenter (D) , Spreitzer (D)

18 cosponsors

Behnke (R) , Brandtjen (R) , C. Anderson (D) , Clancy (D) , Dittrich (R) , Doyle (D) , Gustafson (R) , Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Madison (D) , Magnafici (R) , Murphy (R) , O'Connor (R) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Palmeri (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Sinicki (D) , Subeck (D)

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 6, Noes 0

Passed 6–0 Dec 19, 2023 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Referred to joint committee on Finance by Committee on Senate Organization pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Jan 12, 2024 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and made Available for Scheduling by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Jan 12, 2024 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: CONCURRENCE

Passed 97–0 Feb 15, 2024 official source full page

Aye · 97

Not voting · 2

Full history

  1. Nov 21, 2023 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Cabral-Guevara, Carpenter and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Gustafson, Doyle, C. Anderson, Behnke, Brandtjen, Dittrich, Jacobson, Joers, Magnafici, Murphy, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Ratcliff and Sinicki

  2. Nov 21, 2023 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Health

  3. Dec 7, 2023 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  4. Dec 15, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Clancy added as a cosponsor

  5. Dec 15, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Madison added as a cosponsor

  6. Dec 19, 2023 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  7. Dec 19, 2023 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 6, Noes 0

  8. Dec 19, 2023 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  9. Dec 22, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor

  10. Jan 12, 2024 · Senate

    Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and made Available for Scheduling by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0

  11. Jan 12, 2024 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 1-16-2024 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  12. Jan 12, 2024 · Senate

    Referred to joint committee on Finance by Committee on Senate Organization pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0

  13. Jan 16, 2024 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  14. Jan 16, 2024 · Senate

    Read a second time

  15. Jan 16, 2024 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  16. Jan 16, 2024 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  17. Jan 16, 2024 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  18. Jan 16, 2024 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  19. Jan 16, 2024 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  20. Feb 12, 2024 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  21. Feb 13, 2024 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 2-15-2024 by Committee on Rules

  22. Feb 14, 2024 · Assembly

    Representative O'Connor added as a cosponsor

  23. Feb 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up

  24. Feb 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  25. Feb 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  26. Feb 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  27. Feb 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 97, Noes 0

  28. Feb 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  29. Feb 15, 2024 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  30. Feb 19, 2024 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  31. Mar 18, 2024 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 3-18-2024

  32. Mar 26, 2024 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 3-22-2024. 2023 Wisconsin Act 189

  33. Mar 26, 2024 · Senate

    Published 3-23-2024