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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 469

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Relating to: voluntary prohibitions on purchasing a handgun and making an appropriation. (FE)

Firearms and dangerous weapons Justice department of

  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 the Department of Justice to allow individuals to prohibit themselves from purchasing a handgun. Under the bill, DOJ must maintain a database of individuals who voluntarily prohibit themselves from purchasing a handgun. An individual may request inclusion in the database by submitting a request to DOJ. The request must include a method of contacting the individual so that DOJ may verify that the individual made the request. The request must also indicate the length of the prohibition the individual is requesting: a one-year, irrevocable prohibition; a five-year prohibition, the first year being irrevocable; or a 20-year prohibition, the first year being irrevocable. During a revocable period, an individual may remove the prohibition by submitting to DOJ a request for removal. Upon receiving a request for removal, DOJ may not remove the individual from the database until after 48 hours lapse since receipt of the request. The bill also requires DOJ, when responding to a request for a background check from a licensed firearm dealer regarding an individual who is in the database, to indicate that the individual is prohibited from purchasing a handgun.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Habush Sinykin (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Keyeski (D) , Larson (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D)

31 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Andraca (D) , Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Brown (D) , Clancy (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Haywood (D) , Hong (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Madison (D) , Mayadev (D) , McCarville (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Neubauer (D) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Palmeri (D) , Phelps (D) , Rivera-Wagner (D) , Roe (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (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. Oct 2, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Roys, Habush Sinykin, Dassler-Alfheim, Hesselbein, Keyeski, Larson, Ratcliff and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Snodgrass, Andraca, Anderson, Arney, Bare, Brown, Clancy, DeSmidt, Emerson, Fitzgerald, Haywood, Hong, Joers, Johnson, Madison, Mayadev, McCarville, Moore Omokunde, Neubauer, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Phelps, Rivera-Wagner, Roe, Sinicki, Stroud, Subeck, Tenorio, Udell and Stubbs

  2. Oct 2, 2025 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety

  3. Feb 9, 2026 · Senate

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor

  4. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1