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Bills from the 2019–20 session

Senate Bill 371

Bonding for lead service line replacement and granting bonding authority. (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.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Aug 29, 2019

  2. Committee, stopped here

    Stopped here. No public hearing was held.

  3. Senate vote, not reached

  4. Assembly vote, not reached

  5. Governor, not reached

  6. 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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What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Under current law, the state may contract up to $74,950,000 in public debt for the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program. This bill increases the bonding authority for the program by $40,000,000 and requires the Department of Administration to allocate up to $40,000,000 of the authorized public debt to projects involving forgivable loans to private users of public water systems to cover not more than 50 percent of the cost to replace lead service lines.

Who's behind it

8 senators are its ⁠. All 8 are Democrats.

20 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 28 names

Authors (8)

Signed on in support (20)

What it would cost

State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

What happened

  1. Apr 1, 2020

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Sep 19, 2019

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  3. Sep 6, 2019

    1 more representative signed on in support.

  4. Aug 29, 2019

    Sent to the Senate Committee on Utilities and Housing.

  5. Aug 29, 2019

    Introduced in the Senate.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Aug 29, 2019 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Johnson, Carpenter, L. Taylor, Shilling, Wirch, Ringhand, Bewley and Larson; cosponsored by Representatives Haywood, Brostoff, Zamarripa, Sinicki, Anderson, Bowen, Crowley, Neubauer, Shankland, Stuck, Milroy, Gruszynski, Spreitzer, Billings, Ohnstad, Skowronski, C. Taylor, Considine and Hintz

  2. Aug 29, 2019 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Utilities and Housing

  3. Sep 6, 2019 · Senate

    Representative Vining added as a cosponsor

  4. Sep 19, 2019 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Apr 1, 2020 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

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Public hearing

A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.

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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

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

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor

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