Senate Bill 236
Charging facility grant program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee
It never got a , so it never came up for a vote. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.
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Introduced, passed
May 23, 2019
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Senate vote, not reached
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Apr 1, 2020: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
It never got a hearing in the Senate Committee on Utilities and Housing. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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Committee
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Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
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Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
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Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
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Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
Cost estimate
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Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
This bill requires the Public Service Commission to establish a program for awarding grants to businesses for installing electric vehicle charging facilities along a clean energy corridor that the PSC must designate. The corridor must consist of contiguous state trunk highways that connect Wisconsin to Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, and Illinois. For the designation, the PSC must attempt to connect the corridor with similar corridors in those other states and to designate heavily-travelled highways. The funding source for the grants is moneys received under a settlement that the state received from a legal action against Volkswagen. The bill allows the PSC to award not more than $10,065,000 in total grants. An individual grant may not exceed 50 percent of the cost to purchase, install, and maintain an electric vehicle charging facility. The PSC may award multiple grants to an individual applicant.
In addition, the bill allows a business that is awarded a grant and installs an electric vehicle charging facility to charge a parking fee determined by the business to any person who uses the facility. However, the parking fee must be based on the time length of a session of use and not on the amount of electricity consumed by a person during a session of use.
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The bill provides that the awarding of grants does not confer any ownership interest to the PSC or the state in electric vehicle charging facilities installed under the grants. In addition, the bill provides that a business that is awarded a grant is responsible for the operation and maintenance of a charging station installed under the grant.
Also under the bill, if an electric utility receives revenue collected from rates charged to users of electric vehicle charging facilities for which grants are awarded, the electric utility must remit 20 percent of that revenue to the PSC for deposit in the transportation fund to repay transportation-related bonds. The bill requires the PSC to ensure in rate-making orders that electric utilities recover the amounts remitted to the PSC from their ratepayers.
Who's behind it
Rob Cowles, a Republican, is its .
11 more lawmakers .
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Author (1)
- Rob Cowles · Republican, Senate
Signed on in support (11)
- Scott Allen · Republican, Assembly
- Joel Kitchens · Republican, Assembly
- Scott Krug · Republican, Assembly
- Mike Kuglitsch · Republican, Assembly
- Bob Kulp · Republican, Assembly
- Jeff Mursau · Republican, Assembly
- Adam Neylon · Republican, Assembly
- Warren Petryk · Republican, Assembly
- Ken Skowronski · Republican, Assembly
- John Spiros · Republican, Assembly
- Gary Tauchen · Republican, Assembly
What it would cost
State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.
What happened
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Apr 1, 2020
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Jun 17, 2019
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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Jun 4, 2019
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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May 23, 2019
Sent to the Senate Committee on Utilities and Housing.
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May 23, 2019
Introduced in the Senate.
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- May 23, 2019 · Senate
Introduced by Senator Cowles; cosponsored by Representatives Neylon, Kuglitsch, Allen, Kitchens, Krug, Kulp, Mursau, Petryk, Skowronski, Spiros and Tauchen
- May 23, 2019 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Utilities and Housing
- Jun 4, 2019 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
- Jun 17, 2019 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
- Apr 1, 2020 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary
From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate