Assembly Bill 437
Requiring certain sales invoices and sales receipts to include tariff costs
Topics: Retail establishment, Sales, Trade practice
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.
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Introduced, passed
Sep 19, 2025
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Senate vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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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 Commerce. The committee's chair at the time was Rob Kreibich. 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 438. That version died when the session ended.
Terms on this page
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. 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
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
This bill requires retailers to provide a sales invoice or sales receipt to a person purchasing a consumer good that clearly states the total cost of any tariff imposed on the sale of that consumer good. “Retailer” is defined in the bill to mean persons who, in the preceding calendar year, sold a total amount of consumer goods the gross value of which was $3,000,000 or more.
Who's behind it
17 representatives are its . All 17 are Democrats.
10 more lawmakers .
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Authors (17)
- Mike Bare · Democrat, Assembly
- Kalan Haywood · Democrat, Assembly
- Andrew Hysell · Democrat, Assembly
- Alex Joers · Democrat, Assembly
- Tara Johnson · Democrat, Assembly
- Karen Kirsch · Democrat, Assembly
- Darrin Madison · Democrat, Assembly
- Maureen McCarville · Democrat, Assembly
- Vinnie Miresse · Democrat, Assembly
- Christian Phelps · Democrat, Assembly
- Priscilla Prado · Democrat, Assembly
- Amaad Rivera-Wagner · Democrat, Assembly
- Ann Roe · Democrat, Assembly
- Joe Sheehan · Democrat, Assembly
- Christine Sinicki · Democrat, Assembly
- Angelito Tenorio · Democrat, Assembly
- Randy Udell · Democrat, Assembly
Signed on in support (10)
- Margaret Arney · Democrat, Assembly
- Ryan Clancy · Democrat, Assembly
- Jodi Habush Sinykin · Democrat, Senate
- Dianne Hesselbein · Democrat, Senate
- Jenna Jacobson · Democrat, Assembly
- Sarah Keyeski · Democrat, Senate
- Chris Larson · Democrat, Senate
- Lori Palmeri · Democrat, Assembly
- Brad Pfaff · Democrat, Senate
- Melissa Ratcliff · Democrat, Senate
What happened
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Mar 23, 2026
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Sep 22, 2025 to Jan 8, 2026
4 more representatives signed on in support.
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Sep 19, 2025
Sent to the Assembly Committee on Commerce.
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Sep 19, 2025
Introduced in the Assembly.
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- Sep 19, 2025 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Hysell, Bare, Prado, McCarville, Phelps, Joers, Johnson, Kirsch, Madison, Miresse, Rivera-Wagner, Roe, Sheehan, Tenorio, Udell, Haywood and Sinicki; cosponsored by Senators Pfaff, Habush Sinykin, Hesselbein, Keyeski, Larson and Ratcliff
- Sep 19, 2025 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Commerce
- Sep 22, 2025 · Assembly
Representative Palmeri added as a coauthor
- Sep 26, 2025 · Assembly
Representative Clancy added as a coauthor
- Nov 12, 2025 · Assembly
Representative Arney added as a coauthor
- Jan 8, 2026 · Assembly
Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor
- 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.
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. 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
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor