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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 605

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Relating to: retention of environmental repair fees by certain municipal solid waste facilities. (FE)

Natural resources department of — Environmental protection Solid waste management

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Assembly, completed
  3. Passes Senate, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, a generator of solid waste must pay an environmental repair fee for each ton of solid waste that is disposed of at a licensed solid waste disposal facility. The owner or operator of a licensed solid waste disposal facility must collect environmental repair fees and pay the collected amounts to the Department of Natural Resources.

Under current law, DNR administers the Clean Water Fund Program (CWFP), which provides financial assistance to municipalities for projects to control water pollution. One type of financial assistance under the CWFP is making loans at or below the market rate interest.

Under this bill, if the owner or operator of a municipal solid waste facility receives a CWFP loan for waste water treatment infrastructure, the owner or operator may retain, of the environmental repair fees it collects, an amount equal to the total principal and interest owed on the loan while the loan is in repayment.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: B. Jacobson (R) , Behnke (R) , Brown (D) , Knodl (R) , Miresse (D) , O'Connor (R) , Penterman (R) , Tittl (R)

1 cosponsors

Tomczyk (R)

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

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Local Government, Ayes 9, Noes 0

Passed 9–0 Jan 14, 2026 official source full page

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

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

Passed 15–0 Feb 3, 2026 official source full page

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

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Feb 9, 2026 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. Oct 29, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives B. Jacobson, Miresse, Behnke, Knodl, O'Connor, Penterman, Tittl and Brown; cosponsored by Senator Tomczyk

  2. Oct 29, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Local Government

  3. Nov 12, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Nov 12, 2025 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Jan 7, 2026 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  6. Jan 14, 2026 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Local Government, Ayes 9, Noes 0

  7. Jan 14, 2026 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  8. Jan 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 1-22-2026 by Committee on Rules

  9. Jan 22, 2026 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  10. Jan 22, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  11. Jan 22, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  12. Jan 22, 2026 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  13. Jan 22, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  14. Jan 22, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  15. Jan 26, 2026 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

  16. Jan 26, 2026 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  17. Jan 26, 2026 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  18. Jan 29, 2026 · Senate

    Withdrawn from committee on Senate Organization and rereferred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)

  19. Feb 3, 2026 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  20. Feb 3, 2026 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

  21. Feb 3, 2026 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  22. Feb 9, 2026 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

  23. Feb 9, 2026 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-11-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  24. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Read a second time

  25. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  26. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  27. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in

  28. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  29. Feb 12, 2026 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  30. Feb 13, 2026 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 2-13-2026

  31. Apr 1, 2026 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 4-1-2026

  32. Apr 2, 2026 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 4-2-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 169

  33. Apr 2, 2026 · Assembly

    Published 4-3-2026