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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 184

Vetoed Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: governmental restrictions based on the energy source of a motor vehicle or other device.

Energy conservation Motor vehicle Municipality Sales State agencies

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Senate, completed
  3. Passes Assembly, stopped here
  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 this bill, no state agency and no local governmental unit may restrict 1) the use or sale of a motor vehicle on the basis of the energy source used to power the motor vehicle, including use for propulsion or use for powering other functions of the motor vehicle, or 2) the use or sale of any other device on the basis of the energy source that is used to power the device or that is consumed by the device.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Bradley (R) , Feyen (R) , Nass (R) , Quinn (R) , Tomczyk (R) , Wanggaard (R)

27 cosponsors

B. Jacobson (R) , Behnke (R) , Brill (R) , Callahan (R) , Dallman (R) , Dittrich (R) , Duchow (R) , Goeben (R) , Green (R) , Gundrum (R) , Knodl (R) , Kreibich (R) , Krug (R) , Maxey (R) , Melotik (R) , Murphy (R) , Novak (R) , O'Connor (R) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Penterman (R) , Piwowarczyk (R) , Snyder (R) , Spiros (R) , Tranel (R) , Tucker (R) , Tusler (R) , Wichgers (R)

Registered lobbying interests · 11

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

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Jun 5, 2025 official source full page

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

Senate: PASSAGE

Passed 18–14 Jun 18, 2025 official source full page

Not voting · 1

Full history

  1. Apr 14, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Tomczyk, Wanggaard, Quinn, Feyen, Nass and Bradley; cosponsored by Representatives Tucker, Green, Piwowarczyk, Brill, Krug, Maxey, B. Jacobson, Callahan, Kreibich, Penterman, Wichgers, Novak, Behnke, Goeben, Murphy, Knodl, Snyder, Dallman, Dittrich, Spiros, Gundrum, Tusler, Melotik, Tranel and O'Connor

  2. Apr 14, 2025 · Senate

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

  3. May 27, 2025 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  4. Jun 4, 2025 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  5. Jun 5, 2025 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 3, Noes 2

  6. Jun 5, 2025 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  7. Jun 17, 2025 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 6-18-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  8. Jun 18, 2025 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 18, Noes 14

  9. Jun 18, 2025 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  10. Jun 18, 2025 · Senate

    Read a second time

  11. Jun 18, 2025 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  12. Jun 18, 2025 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  13. Jun 19, 2025 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  14. Jun 20, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Duchow added as a cosponsor

  15. Jun 24, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a cosponsor

  16. Jul 16, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  17. Sep 9, 2025 · Assembly

    Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 9-11-2025

  18. Sep 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up

  19. Sep 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  20. Sep 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  21. Sep 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  22. Sep 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  23. Sep 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  24. Sep 11, 2025 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  25. Sep 17, 2025 · Senate

    LRB correction

  26. Sep 17, 2025 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  27. Oct 30, 2025 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 10-30-2025

  28. Nov 3, 2025 · Senate

    Report vetoed by the Governor on 10-31-2025

  29. May 12, 2026 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 5-12-2026 pursuant to Joint Rule 82 (2)(a)

  30. May 13, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the Governor pursuant to Joint Rule 82