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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 619

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Relating to: electronic copies of operators’ licenses and identification cards. (FE)

Data processing Identification cards Motor vehicle — Drivers license Transportation department of — Vehicles

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill allows the Department of Transportation to issue a copy of an operator’s license or identification card in an electronic format to the person to whom the operator’s license or identification card is issued.

Under current law, a licensee must have his or her license document in his or her immediate possession when operating a motor vehicle and must display the license document upon demand from a traffic officer. Under this bill, the license document may be produced in either printed or electronic format.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Carpenter (D) , Hesselbein (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D)

17 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Bare (D) , Clancy (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Madison (D) , Miresse (D) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Prado (D) , Roe (D) , Sheehan (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 2

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. Nov 6, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Roys, Carpenter, Hesselbein, L. Johnson, Larson, Ratcliff and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Bare, Anderson, Clancy, DeSmidt, Fitzgerald, Johnson, Madison, Miresse, Prado, Roe, Sheehan, Stubbs, Tenorio and Udell

  2. Nov 6, 2025 · Senate

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

  3. Nov 24, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor

  4. Dec 12, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Joers added as a cosponsor

  5. Jan 2, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a cosponsor

  6. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1