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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 294

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Relating to: labeling plants as beneficial to pollinators. (FE)

Bees Pests Pharmacy Plants Sales

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, 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 prohibits a person that provides plants or that sells plants at retail from labeling or advertising the plant as being beneficial to pollinators if the plant has been treated with an insecticide that contains warnings about pollinator hazards on its label.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Carpenter (D) , Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Drake (D) , Habush Sinykin (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Larson (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wall (D) , Wirch (D)

33 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Andraca (D) , Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Behnke (R) , Billings (D) , Clancy (D) , Cruz (D) , DeSanto (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Doyle (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Haywood (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Keyeski (D) , Madison (D) , Mayadev (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Palmeri (D) , Phelps (D) , Rivera-Wagner (D) , Roe (D) , Sheehan (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D) , Vining (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 5

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. May 30, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Smith, Habush Sinykin, Carpenter, Drake, Hesselbein, Larson, Ratcliff, Roys, Spreitzer, Wall, Wirch and Dassler-Alfheim; cosponsored by Representatives Snodgrass, Behnke, DeSanto, Miresse, Anderson, Arney, Bare, Billings, Clancy, Cruz, DeSmidt, Doyle, Fitzgerald, Joers, Johnson, Madison, Mayadev, Moore Omokunde, Palmeri, Phelps, Rivera-Wagner, Roe, Sheehan, Sinicki, Stubbs, Subeck, Tenorio, Vining, Andraca, J. Jacobson and Udell

  2. May 30, 2025 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources, Veteran and Military Affairs

  3. Jun 12, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Haywood added as a cosponsor

  4. Jul 10, 2025 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  6. Jun 1, 2026 · Senate

    Senator Keyeski added as a coauthor