Senate Bill 931
Pill tableting devices, pill encapsulation devices, and providing a penalty
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
Jan 19, 2024
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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 15, 2024: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
It never got a hearing in the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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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
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
Under current law, it is a crime to use, or possess with the intent to use, drug paraphernalia, which means all equipment, products, and materials that are used, designed for use, or primarily intended for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance or controlled substance analog. Under current law, pill tableting devices, commonly known as pill presses, and pill encapsulators are not specifically enumerated as drug paraphernalia but meet the definition of drug paraphernalia nonetheless. Possession of drug paraphernalia is punishable by a $500 fine or imprisonment for up to 30 days or both.
This bill provides that no person may possess a pill tableting device or a pill encapsulating device unless any of the following applies:
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1. The person is licensed, or is an employee of a person licensed, under ch. 89, 450, or 466, stats., and the possession is in accordance with the person's license or employment.
2. The person is conducting research or is involved in a program of study at an institution of higher education and the possession occurs in the course of conducting research or completing the program of study.
The bill also provides that no person may deliver, possess with intent to deliver, or manufacture with intent to deliver a pill tableting device or a pill encapsulating device unless any of the following applies:
1. The recipient of the device is licensed under ch. 89, 450, or 466 or is an employee of a person licensed under ch. 89, 450, or 466 and receipt of the device is in accordance with the person's license or employment.
2. The person is conducting research or is involved in a program of study at an institution of higher education and the possession occurs in the course of conducting research or completing the program of study.
Under the bill, any prohibited possession or delivery of a pill tableting or pill encapsulating device is punishable by a fine of up to $10,000 or imprisonment for up to nine months, or both.
Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime, the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a report.
Who's behind it
4 senators are its . 2 are Democrats and 2 are Republicans.
20 more lawmakers .
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Authors (4)
- Dianne Hesselbein · Democrat, Senate
- Jesse James · Republican, Senate
- Lena Taylor · Democrat, Senate
- Van Wanggaard · Republican, Senate
Signed on in support (20)
- Scott Allen · Republican, Assembly
- Rob Brooks · Republican, Assembly
- Clint Anderson · Democrat, Assembly
- Marisabel Cabrera · Democrat, Assembly
- Sue Conley · Democrat, Assembly
- Barbara Dittrich · Republican, Assembly
- Bob Donovan · Republican, Assembly
- Cindi Duchow · Republican, Assembly
- James Edming · Republican, Assembly
- Joel Kitchens · Republican, Assembly
- Dave Maxey · Republican, Assembly
- Paul Melotik · Republican, Assembly
- Amanda Nedweski · Republican, Assembly
- Sylvia Ortiz-Velez · Democrat, Assembly
- Lori Palmeri · Democrat, Assembly
- Peter Schmidt · Republican, Assembly
- Christine Sinicki · Democrat, Assembly
- Shelia Stubbs · Democrat, Assembly
- Lisa Subeck · Democrat, Assembly
- Chuck Wichgers · Republican, Assembly
What happened
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Apr 15, 2024
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Feb 1, 2024
“Representatives Dittrich and Duchow withdrawn as cosponsors” (the official wording)
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Jan 29, 2024
1 more representative signed on in support.
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Jan 19, 2024
Sent to the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety.
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Jan 19, 2024
Introduced in the Senate.
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- Jan 19, 2024 · Senate
Introduced by Senators James, Hesselbein, Wanggaard and Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Donovan, Ortiz-Velez, Allen, C. Anderson, Brooks, Cabrera, Conley, Duchow, Edming, Kitchens, Maxey, Melotik, Nedweski, Schmidt, Sinicki, Stubbs, Wichgers, Dittrich and Palmeri
- Jan 19, 2024 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety
- Jan 29, 2024 · Senate
Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor
- Feb 1, 2024 · Senate
- Apr 15, 2024 · 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
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