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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 693

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Relating to: the offering of deer to a meat processing facility for provision to a food pantry.

Charitable corporation Credit Farmland preservation Hunting Identification cards Livestock and meat Nutrition

  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 exempts certain deer from a prohibition on selling, purchasing, bartering, or trading wild animals. Specifically, a deer is exempt from this prohibition if it is lawfully taken in the central farmland zone or southern farmland zone and it is offered, in exchange for one or more gift cards or gift certificates to local businesses, to a meat processing facility that agrees to process the deer and that agrees to provide the processed meat to a food distribution service, defined in current law as a program of a private nonprofit organization that provides food products directly to individuals with low incomes or that collects food products for that purpose.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Behnke (R) , Brill (R) , Duchow (R) , Kitchens (R) , Knodl (R) , Mursau (R) , Novak (R) , Penterman (R) , Steffen (R) , Wichgers (R)

5 cosponsors

Goodwin (D) , Jacque (R) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Palmeri (D) , Sheehan (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 4

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. Nov 26, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Kitchens, Mursau, Novak, Behnke, Brill, Duchow, Knodl, Penterman, Steffen and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senator Jacque

  2. Nov 26, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Sporting Heritage

  3. Dec 9, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Palmeri added as a coauthor

  4. Dec 12, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Goodwin added as a coauthor

  5. Dec 12, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a coauthor

  6. Jan 14, 2026 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  7. Feb 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Sheehan added as a coauthor

  8. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1