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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 288

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: labeling plants as beneficial to pollinators. (FE)

Bees Pests Plants Sales

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

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill prohibits a person that provides plants or that sells plants at retail from labeling or advertising the plant as being beneficial to pollinators if the plant has been treated with an insecticide that contains warnings about pollinator hazards on its label.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Andraca (D) , Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Behnke (R) , Billings (D) , Clancy (D) , Cruz (D) , DeSanto (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Doyle (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Madison (D) , Mayadev (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Palmeri (D) , Phelps (D) , Rivera-Wagner (D) , Roe (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Tenorio (D) , Vining (D)

2 cosponsors

Haywood (D) , Smith (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 6

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. May 30, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Snodgrass, Behnke, DeSanto, Miresse, Anderson, Andraca, Arney, Bare, Billings, Clancy, Cruz, DeSmidt, Doyle, Fitzgerald, J. Jacobson, Joers, Johnson, Madison, Mayadev, Moore Omokunde, Palmeri, Phelps, Rivera-Wagner, Roe, Sinicki, Stubbs, Subeck, Tenorio and Vining; cosponsored by Senator Smith

  2. May 30, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture

  3. Jun 12, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Haywood added as a coauthor

  4. Jul 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1