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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 42

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Relating to: local regulation of fowl.

Bird County Housing Municipality Poultry Sanitation and sewerage management

  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 political subdivisions and sewerage districts from prohibiting the keeping of up to four chickens or quail (fowl) by property owners or certain lessors on properties zoned for residential use. The bill specifically allows political subdivisions and sewerage districts to do any of the following with regard to the keeping of fowl:

1. Require a keeper of fowl to obtain a permit.

2. Require notification of adjoining land owners.

3. Impose reasonable regulations related to the location of fowl housing on a property.

4. Prohibit the keeping of roosters.

5. Impose reasonable cleanliness standards.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Behnke (R) , Goeben (R) , Piwowarczyk (R) , Sortwell (R) , Wichgers (R)

3 cosponsors

Cabral-Guevara (R) , Mursau (R) , Tusler (R)

Registered lobbying interests · 3

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. Feb 17, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Sortwell, Behnke, Goeben, Miresse, Piwowarczyk, Stroud and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senator Cabral-Guevara

  2. Feb 17, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Local Government

  3. Feb 19, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Tusler added as a coauthor

  4. Mar 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Mursau added as a coauthor

  5. Mar 17, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Stroud withdrawn as a coauthor

  6. Mar 19, 2025 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  7. Mar 19, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Miresse withdrawn as a coauthor

  8. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1