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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 489

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: voluntary prohibitions on purchasing a handgun and making an appropriation. (FE)

Firearms and dangerous weapons Justice department of

  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 requires the Department of Justice to allow individuals to prohibit themselves from purchasing a handgun. Under the bill, DOJ must maintain a database of individuals who voluntarily prohibit themselves from purchasing a handgun. An individual may request inclusion in the database by submitting a request to DOJ. The request must include a method of contacting the individual so that DOJ may verify that the individual made the request. The request must also indicate the length of the prohibition the individual is requesting: a one-year, irrevocable prohibition; a five-year prohibition, the first year being irrevocable; or a 20-year prohibition, the first year being irrevocable. During a revocable period, an individual may remove the prohibition by submitting to DOJ a request for removal. Upon receiving a request for removal, DOJ may not remove the individual from the database until after 48 hours lapse since receipt of the request. The bill also requires DOJ, when responding to a request for a background check from a licensed firearm dealer regarding an individual who is in the database, to indicate that the individual is prohibited from purchasing a handgun.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Andraca (D) , Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Brown (D) , Clancy (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Haywood (D) , Hong (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Madison (D) , Mayadev (D) , McCarville (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Neubauer (D) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Palmeri (D) , Phelps (D) , Rivera-Wagner (D) , Roe (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D)

9 cosponsors

Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Habush Sinykin (D) , Hesselbein (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Keyeski (D) , Larson (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 2

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. Oct 9, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Snodgrass, Andraca, Anderson, Arney, Bare, Brown, Clancy, DeSmidt, Emerson, Fitzgerald, Haywood, Hong, Joers, Johnson, Madison, Mayadev, McCarville, Moore Omokunde, Neubauer, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Phelps, Rivera-Wagner, Roe, Sinicki, Stroud, Subeck, Tenorio, Udell and Stubbs; cosponsored by Senators Roys, Habush Sinykin, Dassler-Alfheim, Hesselbein, Keyeski, Larson, Ratcliff and Spreitzer

  2. Oct 9, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety

  3. Feb 9, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor

  4. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1