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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 709

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: alternative methods of providing pupil transportation services. (FE)

Motor vehicle School — Conveyance of pupil

  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

Under current law, a school board or the governing body of a private school may provide pupil transportation services using vehicles other than school buses that fall into one of the following categories: 1) a motor vehicle transporting nine or fewer passengers in addition to the operator; or 2) when, at the request of the school board or governing body, the secretary of transportation determines that an emergency exists because no regular transportation is available, a motor vehicle transporting 10 or more passengers in addition to the operator. This bill increases the number of passengers who may be transported absent an emergency from nine to 14 and increases those who may be transported in an emergency from 10 or more to 15 or more.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Behnke (R) , Brill (R) , Dittrich (R) , Goeben (R) , Gundrum (R) , Kitchens (R) , Knodl (R) , Kreibich (R) , Melotik (R) , Murphy (R) , Penterman (R) , Piwowarczyk (R) , Wichgers (R)

6 cosponsors

Goodwin (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , LeMahieu (R) , Marklein (R) , Nass (R) , Ortiz-Velez (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 1

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 Education, Ayes 9, Noes 4

Passed 9–4 Feb 5, 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. Dec 3, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Brill, Behnke, Dittrich, Goeben, Gundrum, Kitchens, Knodl, Kreibich, Melotik, Murphy, Penterman, Piwowarczyk and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senators LeMahieu, Marklein and Nass

  2. Dec 3, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  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. Dec 22, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  7. Jan 21, 2026 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  8. Feb 5, 2026 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  9. Feb 5, 2026 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 9, Noes 4

  10. Feb 5, 2026 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  11. Feb 13, 2026 · Assembly

    Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 2-17-2026

  12. Feb 16, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Palmeri withdrawn as a coauthor

  13. Feb 17, 2026 · Assembly

    Laid on the table

  14. Mar 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor

  15. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1