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Bills from the 2025–26 session

Senate Bill 680

The offering of deer to a meat processing facility for provision to a food pantry

Topics: Charitable corporation, Credit, Farmland preservation, Hunting, Livestock and meat, Nutrition

Stopped in committee

It never got a ⁠, so it never came up for a vote. The last day for votes this session was Mar 19, 2026. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Nov 20, 2025

  2. Committee, stopped here

    Stopped here. No public hearing was held.

  3. Senate vote, not reached

  4. Assembly vote, not reached

  5. Governor, not reached

  6. Law, not reached

Latest entry in the official record, Mar 23, 2026: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

It never got a hearing in the Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Sporting Heritage. The committee's chair at the time was Rob Stafsholt. Chairs decide which bills get a hearing. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.

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The same bill was also filed in the Assembly as AB 693. That version died when the session ended.

What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

This bill exempts certain deer from a prohibition on selling, purchasing, bartering, or trading wild animals. Specifically, a deer is exempt from this prohibition if it is lawfully taken in the central farmland zone and it is offered, in exchange for one or more gift cards or gift certificates to local businesses, to a meat processing facility that agrees to process the deer and that agrees to provide the processed meat to a food distribution service, defined in current law as a program of a private nonprofit organization that provides food products directly to individuals with low incomes or that collects food products for that purpose.

Who's behind it

André Jacque, a Republican, is its ⁠.

11 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 12 names

Author (1)

Signed on in support (11)

Versions and amendments

Every text the Legislature printed for this bill, including proposed changes. Each opens on the Legislature's site.

What happened

  1. Mar 23, 2026

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Dec 9, 2025 to Feb 20, 2026

    2 more representatives signed on in support.

  3. Nov 20, 2025

    Sent to the Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Sporting Heritage.

  4. Nov 20, 2025

    Introduced in the Senate.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Nov 20, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senator Jacque; cosponsored by Representatives Kitchens, Behnke, Brill, Knodl, Mursau, Penterman, Steffen, Wichgers and Novak

  2. Nov 20, 2025 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Financial Institutions and Sporting Heritage

  3. Dec 9, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Palmeri added as a cosponsor

  4. Dec 22, 2025 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Jacque

  5. Feb 20, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Sheehan added as a cosponsor

  6. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

Terms on this page

Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

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Public hearing

A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.

More in the glossary

Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary

Legislative Reference Bureau

The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.

Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary

Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary

From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source

Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

Public hearing

A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.

Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1

Legislative Reference Bureau

The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.

Official term: LRB analysis

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor

Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor