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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 145

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Relating to: passing legislation to reduce carbon emissions.

Air pollution Bills legislative Legislature Legislature — Committees

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

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.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Andraca (D) , Arney (D) , Brown (D) , Clancy (D) , Cruz (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Haywood (D) , Hong (D) , Joers (D) , Kirsch (D) , Madison (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Neubauer (D) , Palmeri (D) , Phelps (D) , Prado (D) , Rivera-Wagner (D) , Sheehan (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D)

17 cosponsors

Carpenter (D) , Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Doyle and Sinicki , Drake (D) , Emerson (D) , Habush Sinykin (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Johnson (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Mayadev (D) , McCarville (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Smith (D) , Spaude (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wirch (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 8

Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record

Full history

  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