Date of enactment: March 22, 2024
2023 Senate Bill 173 Date of publication*: March 23, 2024
2023 WISCONSIN ACT 171
AN ACT to create 69.18 (1m) (c) 3. of the statutes; relating to: providing additional information fields regarding
occupation on death records.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 69.18 (1m) (c) 3. of the statutes is created
to read:
69.18 (1m) (c) 3. Beginning on September 1, 2025,
data on the decedent’s usual occupation in a format
directed by the state registrar that allows inclusion of up
to 2 additional occupations, if applicable.
* Section 991.11, WISCONSIN STATUTES: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor’s
partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”