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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 699

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Relating to: alternative methods of providing pupil transportation services. (FE)

Motor vehicle School — Conveyance of pupil

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Senate, completed
  3. Passes Assembly, stopped here
  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

Under current law, a school board or the governing body of a private school may provide pupil transportation services using vehicles other than school buses that fall into one of the following categories: 1) a motor vehicle transporting nine or fewer passengers in addition to the operator; or 2) when, at the request of the school board or governing body, the secretary of transportation determines that an emergency exists because no regular transportation is available, a motor vehicle transporting 10 or more passengers in addition to the operator. This bill increases the number of passengers who may be transported absent an emergency from nine to 14 and increases those who may be transported in an emergency from 10 or more to 15 or more.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: LeMahieu (R) , Marklein (R) , Nass (R)

15 cosponsors

Behnke (R) , Brill (R) , Dittrich (R) , Goeben (R) , Gundrum (R) , J. Jacobson (D) , Kitchens (R) , Knodl (R) , Kreibich (R) , Melotik (R) , Murphy (R) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Penterman (R) , Piwowarczyk (R) , Wichgers (R)

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

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Jan 13, 2026 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: CONCURRENCE AS AMENDED

Passed 60–39 Feb 17, 2026 official source full page

Aye · 60

Nay · 39

Full history

  1. Dec 2, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators LeMahieu, Marklein and Nass; cosponsored by Representatives Brill, Behnke, Dittrich, Goeben, Gundrum, Kitchens, Knodl, Kreibich, Melotik, Murphy, Penterman, Piwowarczyk and Wichgers

  2. Dec 2, 2025 · Senate

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

  3. Dec 9, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Palmeri added as a cosponsor

  4. Dec 10, 2025 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Dec 15, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a cosponsor

  6. Jan 6, 2026 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  7. Jan 13, 2026 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  8. Jan 13, 2026 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 3, Noes 2

  9. Jan 13, 2026 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  10. Feb 9, 2026 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-11-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  11. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Read a second time

  12. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  13. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  14. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  15. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  16. Feb 12, 2026 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  17. Feb 13, 2026 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  18. Feb 13, 2026 · Assembly

    Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 2-17-2026

  19. Feb 16, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Palmeri withdrawn as a cosponsor

  20. Feb 17, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Neubauer

  21. Feb 17, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Rivera-Wagner

  22. Feb 17, 2026 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up

  23. Feb 17, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  24. Feb 17, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 offered by Representative Brill

  25. Feb 17, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 adopted

  26. Feb 17, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  27. Feb 17, 2026 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  28. Feb 17, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in as amended, Ayes 60, Noes 39

  29. Feb 17, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  30. Feb 18, 2026 · Senate

    Received from Assembly amended and concurred in as amended, Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 adopted

  31. Mar 16, 2026 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 3-17-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  32. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 concurred in

  33. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Action ordered immediately messaged

  34. Mar 19, 2026 · Senate

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor

  35. Mar 20, 2026 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  36. Apr 2, 2026 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026

  37. Apr 6, 2026 · Senate

    Report vetoed by the Governor on 4-3-2026

  38. May 12, 2026 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 5-12-2026 pursuant to Joint Rule 82 (2)(a)

  39. May 13, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the Governor pursuant to Joint Rule 82