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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 623

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Relating to: issuance of permits for the mining of sulfide ore bodies.

Mines pits and quarries Natural resources department of — Environmental protection Water — Pollution

  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

Current law prohibits mining for nonferrous metallic minerals without a permit issued by the Department of Natural Resources. This bill prohibits DNR from issuing a permit for the mining of a sulfide ore body until DNR determines that a mine has operated in a similar sulfide ore body in the United States or Canada for at least 10 years without polluting groundwater or surface water and that a mine that operated in a similar sulfide ore body in the United States or Canada has been closed for at least 10 years without polluting groundwater or surface water.

Sponsors

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

30 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Andraca (D) , Arney (D) , Brown (D) , Clancy (D) , Cruz (D) , DeSanto (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Goodwin (D) , Hong (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Madison (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Mursau (R) , Palmeri (D) , Phelps (D) , Roe (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Taylor (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 1

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 Habush Sinykin, Carpenter, Larson, Keyeski, Ratcliff, Roys, Spreitzer, Hesselbein, Wirch and Dassler-Alfheim; cosponsored by Representatives Miresse, Tenorio, Clancy, Madison, Palmeri, Udell, Arney, Snodgrass, Taylor, Cruz, DeSanto, Joers, Stroud, Hong, Phelps, Goodwin, DeSmidt, Roe, Emerson, Stubbs, Moore Omokunde, Sinicki, Fitzgerald, Brown, Andraca, Johnson, Anderson and Mursau

  2. Nov 6, 2025 · Senate

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

  3. Nov 24, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor

  4. Feb 9, 2026 · Senate

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor

  5. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1