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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 395

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Relating to: requirement for certain telecommunications providers to provide basic voice service.

Public service commission Telecommunications

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Senate, completed
  3. Passes Assembly, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill eliminates a provision enacted in

2011 Wisconsin Act 22

that has since been made ineffective. The provision required incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs), to make basic voice service, defined as two-way voice communication service within a local calling area, available to all residential customers within the ILEC’s local exchange area. An ILEC is a telecommunications provider that resulted from the breakup of the Bell System pursuant to a federal antitrust action. The provision also required PSC to grant a waiver from this requirement when requested if in the public interest or if effective competition existed in the local exchange area. Current law sunsets these requirements after April 30, 2013.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Nass (R)

7 cosponsors

Dittrich (R) , Goodwin (D) , Gundrum (R) , Knodl (R) , O'Connor (R) , Penterman (R) , Ratcliff (D)

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Utilities, Technology and Tourism, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Oct 2, 2025 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. Aug 25, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senator Nass; cosponsored by Representatives Penterman, O'Connor, Gundrum, Dittrich, Knodl and Goodwin

  2. Aug 25, 2025 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Utilities, Technology and Tourism

  3. Sep 25, 2025 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  4. Oct 2, 2025 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  5. Oct 2, 2025 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Utilities, Technology and Tourism, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  6. Oct 2, 2025 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  7. Oct 13, 2025 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 10-14-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  8. Oct 14, 2025 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  9. Oct 14, 2025 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  10. Oct 14, 2025 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  11. Oct 14, 2025 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  12. Oct 14, 2025 · Senate

    Senator Ratcliff added as a coauthor

  13. Oct 14, 2025 · Senate

    Read a second time

  14. Oct 14, 2025 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  15. Jan 7, 2026 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  16. Jan 8, 2026 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 1-13-2026 by Committee on Rules

  17. Jan 13, 2026 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up

  18. Jan 13, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  19. Jan 13, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  20. Jan 13, 2026 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  21. Jan 13, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  22. Jan 13, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  23. Jan 14, 2026 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  24. Jan 15, 2026 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  25. Mar 18, 2026 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 3-18-2026

  26. Mar 20, 2026 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 3-20-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 109

  27. Mar 20, 2026 · Senate

    Published 3-21-2026