Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 310

Relating to: time limits on local unit of government chief executive officer emergency power proclamations.

County — Board County — Officers Emergency government Municipality — Officers Town — Board Village — Officers

Introduced, completed
Passes Senate, completed
Passes Assembly, completed
Governor signs, completed
Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, a local unit of government’s chief executive officer may exercise by proclamation the emergency power conferred to the local unit of government if the local unit of government’s governing body is unable to meet promptly. This bill limits the length of such proclamation to 60 days, unless extended by the local unit of government’s governing body. The bill also defines “chief executive officer” as any of the following: 1) the county executive of a county, the county administrator of a county, or, in a county with an administrative coordinator, the county board chair of a county; 2) the mayor or city manager of a city; 3) the village president of a village; 4) the town board chairperson of a town; or 5) a person acting as one of the above stated persons.

Registered lobbying interests · 2

Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record

Votes

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Nov 10, 2025 official source full page

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

Senate: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0