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Bills from the 2025–26 session

Assembly Bill 145

Passing legislation to reduce carbon emissions

Topics: Air pollution, Bills, Legislative, Legislature

Stopped in committee

It never got a ⁠, so it never came up for a vote. The last day for votes this session was Mar 19, 2026. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Mar 17, 2025

  2. Committee, stopped here

    Stopped here. No public hearing was held.

  3. Assembly vote, not reached

  4. Senate vote, not reached

  5. Governor, not reached

  6. Law, not reached

Latest entry in the official record, Mar 23, 2026: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Environment. The committee's chair at the time was Joy Goeben. Chairs decide which bills get a hearing. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.

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The same bill was also filed in the Senate as SB 150. That version died when the session ended.

What it would have done

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

This bill requires the legislature, during the 2025-26 legislative session, to pass legislation creating a viable plan to reduce carbon emissions by 52 percent by 2030 and creating a viable plan for achieving carbon neutral emissions by 2050. Any plan created as required under the bill must maximize the impact of the plan on improving economic and racial equity.

Who's behind it

24 representatives are its ⁠. All 24 are Democrats.

17 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 41 names

Authors (24)

Signed on in support (17)

What happened

  1. Mar 23, 2026

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Apr 21, 2025 to Oct 20, 2025

    8 more representatives and 1 senator signed on in support.

  3. Mar 17, 2025

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Environment.

  4. Mar 17, 2025

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Mar 17, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Moore Omokunde, Tenorio, Madison, Hong, Cruz, Phelps, Arney, Andraca, Brown, Clancy, DeSmidt, Fitzgerald, Haywood, Joers, Kirsch, Neubauer, Palmeri, Prado, Rivera-Wagner, Sheehan, Snodgrass, Stroud, Stubbs and Udell; cosponsored by Senators Larson, Habush Sinykin, Ratcliff, Carpenter, Drake, L. Johnson, Smith, Spreitzer and Wirch

  2. Mar 17, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Environment

  3. Apr 21, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor

  4. Apr 23, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Emerson added as a coauthor

  5. Apr 30, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative McCarville added as a coauthor

  6. May 27, 2025 · Assembly

    Representatives Doyle and Sinicki added as coauthors

  7. Jun 18, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Johnson added as a coauthor

  8. Jul 15, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Mayadev added as a coauthor

  9. Sep 26, 2025 · Assembly

    Senator Dassler-Alfheim added as a cosponsor

  10. Oct 20, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Spaude added as a coauthor

  11. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    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.

More in the glossary

Public hearing

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

More in the glossary

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

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