2025-2026 Regular Session • Wisconsin Legislature
SB217: Eliminating the publication requirement for a name change petition seeking to conform an individual’s name with the individual’s gender identity.
Legislative Summary
An Act to renumber and amend 786.37 (4); to create 786.37 (4) (a) (intro.) and 786.37 (4) (a) 2. of the statutes; Relating to: eliminating the publication requirement for a name change petition seeking to conform an individual’s name with the individual’s gender identity.
Bill History
4/16/2025
Introduced
Senate
4/16/2025
Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development
Senate
4/18/2025
Representative Haywood added as a cosponsor
Senate
Status Information
Current Status
Introduced(4/16/2025)
Chamber
Senate
Committee
Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development(Senate)
Sponsors
Democrat: 39
Primary Sponsor
Melissa Ratcliff
Democrat
Co-Sponsors (38)
Mark Spreitzer
Democrat
Kristin Dassler-Alfheim
Democrat
Timothy Carpenter
Democrat
Kelda Roys
Democrat
Christopher Larson
Democrat
Dianne Hesselbein
Democrat
Dora Drake
Democrat
Jeff Smith
Democrat
Ryan Clancy
Democrat
Lee Snodgrass
Democrat
Margaret Arney
Democrat
Angelina Cruz
Democrat
Greta Neubauer
Democrat
Christian Phelps
Democrat
Amaad Rivera-Wagner
Democrat
Randy Udell
Democrat
Angela Stroud
Democrat
Ben DeSmidt
Democrat
Angelito Tenorio
Democrat
Francesca Hong
Democrat
Joan Fitzgerald
Democrat
Alex Joers
Democrat
Darrin Madison
Democrat
Karen Kirsch
Democrat
Supreme Omokunde
Democrat
Sylvia Ortiz-Velez
Democrat
Clinton Anderson
Democrat
Robyn Vining
Democrat
Lisa Subeck
Democrat
Jodi Emerson
Democrat
Mike Bare
Democrat
Lori Palmeri
Democrat
Christine Sinicki
Democrat
Tara Johnson
Democrat
Ann Roe
Democrat
Vinnie Miresse
Democrat
Joe Sheehan
Democrat
Renuka Mayadev
Democrat