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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 438

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: requiring certain sales invoices and sales receipts to include tariff costs.

Retail establishment Sales Trade practice

  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 requires retailers to provide a sales invoice or sales receipt to a person purchasing a consumer good that clearly states the total cost of any tariff imposed on the sale of that consumer good. “Retailer” is defined in the bill to mean persons who, in the preceding calendar year, sold a total amount of consumer goods the gross value of which was $3,000,000 or more.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Habush Sinykin (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Keyeski (D) , Larson (D) , Pfaff (D) , Ratcliff (D)

18 cosponsors

Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Haywood (D) , Hysell (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Kirsch (D) , Madison (D) , McCarville (D) , Miresse (D) , Phelps (D) , Prado (D) , Rivera-Wagner (D) , Roe (D) , Sheehan (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 3

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. Sep 29, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Pfaff, Habush Sinykin, Hesselbein, Keyeski, Larson and Ratcliff; cosponsored by Representatives Hysell, Bare, Prado, McCarville, Phelps, Joers, Kirsch, Madison, Miresse, Rivera-Wagner, Roe, Sheehan, Tenorio, Udell, Johnson and Haywood

  2. Sep 29, 2025 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Licensing, Regulatory Reform, State and Federal Affairs

  3. Nov 12, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Arney added as a cosponsor

  4. Jan 9, 2026 · Senate

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor

  5. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1