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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 399

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Relating to: requirement for certain telecommunications providers to provide basic voice service.

Public service commission Telecommunications

  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 eliminates a provision enacted in

2011 Wisconsin Act 22

that has since been made ineffective. The provision required incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs), to make basic voice service, defined as two-way voice communication service within a local calling area, available to all residential customers within the ILEC’s local exchange area. An ILEC is a telecommunications provider that resulted from the breakup of the Bell System pursuant to a federal antitrust action. The provision also required PSC to grant a waiver from this requirement when requested if in the public interest or if effective competition existed in the local exchange area. Current law sunsets these requirements after April 30, 2013.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Dittrich (R) , Goodwin (D) , Gundrum (R) , Knodl (R) , O'Connor (R) , Penterman (R)

2 cosponsors

Nass (R) , Ratcliff (D)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Energy and Utilities, Ayes 13, Noes 0

Passed 13–0 Nov 20, 2025 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Aug 29, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Penterman, O'Connor, Gundrum, Dittrich, Knodl and Goodwin; cosponsored by Senator Nass

  2. Aug 29, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Energy and Utilities

  3. Oct 14, 2025 · Assembly

    Senator Ratcliff added as a cosponsor

  4. Oct 15, 2025 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Nov 20, 2025 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  6. Nov 20, 2025 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Energy and Utilities, Ayes 13, Noes 0

  7. Nov 20, 2025 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  8. Jan 8, 2026 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 1-13-2026 by Committee on Rules

  9. Jan 13, 2026 · Assembly

    Laid on the table

  10. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1