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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 911

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Relating to: funding for a battery collection and recycling program and making an appropriation. (FE)

Business Natural resources department of — Environmental protection Recycling

  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

This bill appropriates to the Department of Natural Resources all moneys received by DNR as fees from battery stewardship organizations, as required in a separate bill. If that bill is not enacted into law, this bill is void.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Kitchens (R)

3 cosponsors

Miresse (D) , Smith and Drake , 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 Environment, Ayes 4, Noes 2

Passed 4–2 Jan 30, 2026 official source full page

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

Assembly: PASSAGE

Passed 97–0 Feb 18, 2026 official source full page

Aye · 97

Not voting · 2

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Mar 2, 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 16, Noes 0

Passed 16–0 Mar 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 Mar 16, 2026 official source full page

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

Senate: CONCURRENCE

Passed 33–0 Mar 17, 2026 official source full page

Full history

  1. Jan 26, 2026 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representative Kitchens; cosponsored by Senator Tomczyk

  2. Jan 26, 2026 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Environment

  3. Jan 29, 2026 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Jan 29, 2026 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  5. Jan 30, 2026 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Environment, Ayes 4, Noes 2

  6. Jan 30, 2026 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  7. Feb 13, 2026 · Assembly

    Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 2-17-2026

  8. Feb 17, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Kitchens

  9. Feb 17, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Miresse added as a coauthor

  10. Feb 17, 2026 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 1:32 PM on 2-18-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 13

  11. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Neubauer

  12. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  13. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Kitchens

  14. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adopted

  15. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  16. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  17. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 97, Noes 0

  18. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  19. Feb 19, 2026 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  20. Feb 20, 2026 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Transportation and Local Government

  21. Feb 24, 2026 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  22. Mar 2, 2026 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  23. Mar 2, 2026 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  24. Mar 2, 2026 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  25. Mar 2, 2026 · Senate

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

  26. Mar 3, 2026 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  27. Mar 3, 2026 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0

  28. Mar 3, 2026 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  29. Mar 16, 2026 · Senate

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

  30. Mar 16, 2026 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 3-17-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  31. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Read a second time

  32. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  33. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  34. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 33, Noes 0

  35. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Senators Smith and Drake added as cosponsors

  36. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  37. Mar 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  38. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 3-23-2026

  39. Apr 1, 2026 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 4-1-2026

  40. Apr 2, 2026 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 4-2-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 171

  41. Apr 2, 2026 · Assembly

    Published 4-3-2026