WisconsinWisconsin would publish addresses and contacts for home communities
State officials would publish information about Wisconsin manufactured home communities, including their addresses and owner contact details.
What it does
People could look up each manufactured home community in Wisconsin, its address, and its owner's contact information in a public state record.
Title applications would identify the county where a home is or will be located, and the state would index its public title records by county.
Someone who sells, lists, or markets no more than one new or used manufactured home in a year would not count as a dealer under this definition.
Argument forResidents and buyers could find community owners more easily because the state would publish each community's address and owner contact information.
Argument againstCommunity owners may have less privacy because the state would publish their names and contact information in a public record.
More detail
The Department of Safety and Professional Services would keep a public record of manufactured home communities and their owners. The record would cover each manufactured home community in Wisconsin and include its name and address, plus its owner's name and contact information.
The department would record the county where a manufactured home is or is intended to be located, and use that county to index title records. This applies to manufactured homes for which a certificate of title is required and to the department's records of title applications and certificates.
A person who sells, lists, or markets no more than one manufactured home in a calendar year would be excluded from the dealer definition. The exclusion covers a person selling, listing, or marketing one or fewer new or used manufactured homes in a calendar year. The limit applies within each calendar year.
Where do you stand?
Choose your position
Tell your reps
Take a position to see your representatives and ways to contact them.
Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- May 13Failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the Governor pursuant to Joint Rule 82Latest
- May 12Placed on calendar 5-12-2026 pursuant to Joint Rule 82 (2)(a)
- Mar 27Report vetoed by the Governor Tony Evers on 3-27-2026Major
- Mar 26Presented to the Governor on 3-26-2026To Governor
- Feb 24Report correctly enrolled on 2-24-2026Minor
- Feb 18Received from Senate concurred inMinor
- Vote recorded Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2. Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND. Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 18Ordered immediately messaged
- Feb 18Concurred in
- Feb 18Read a third timeMinor
- Feb 18Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- Feb 18Ordered to a third readingMinor
- Feb 18Decision of the Chair stands as the judgment of the Senate, Ayes 18, Noes 15
- Feb 18Point of order that Senate Substitute Amendment 1 was not germane well taken
- Feb 18Read a second timeMinor
- Feb 18Rules suspended and taken up
- Feb 18Senate Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Senators Smith, Hesselbein, Spreitzer, Drake, Carpenter, Dassler-Alfheim, Habush Sinykin, L. Johnson, Keyeski, Larson, Pfaff, Ratcliff, Roys, Wall and WirchMinor
- Feb 18Placed on calendar 2-18-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- Feb 18Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
- Feb 18Read first time and referred to committee on Senate OrganizationMinor
- Feb 18Received from AssemblyMinor
- Feb 17Ordered immediately messaged
- Feb 17Read a third time and passedPassed Assembly
- Feb 17Rules suspended
- Feb 17Ordered to a third readingMinor
- Feb 17Assembly Amendment 1 adoptedMajor
- Feb 17Read a second timeMinor
- Feb 13Withdrawn from committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 2-17-2026Minor
- Feb 5Referred to committee on RulesMinor
- Vote recorded Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Housing and Real Estate, Ayes 10, Noes 5. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Housing and Real Estate, Ayes 11, Noes 4. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 5Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Housing and Real Estate, Ayes 11, Noes 4Minor
- Feb 5Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Housing and Real Estate, Ayes 10, Noes 5Minor
- Feb 5Executive action taken
- Jan 23Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative BehnkeMinor
- Jan 22Fiscal estimate receivedMinor
- Jan 21Public hearing held
- 2025
- Oct 31Representative Armstrong added as a coauthor
- Oct 15Read first time and referred to Committee on Housing and Real EstateMinor
- Oct 15Introduced by Representatives Behnke, Knodl, Kreibich, Melotik, Mursau, O'Connor, Steffen and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senators Wimberger and NassIntroduced
HousingConsumer Protection