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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 895

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: funding for a battery collection and recycling program and making an appropriation. (FE)

Business Natural resources department of — Environmental protection Recycling

  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 appropriates to the Department of Natural Resources all moneys received by DNR as fees from battery stewardship organizations, as required in a separate bill. If that bill is not enacted into law, this bill is void.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Tomczyk (R)

2 cosponsors

Kitchens (R) , Miresse (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 4

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 adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Mar 2, 2026 official source full page

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

Senate: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Mar 2, 2026 official source full page

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

Full history

  1. Jan 27, 2026 · Senate

    Introduced by Senator Tomczyk; cosponsored by Representative Kitchens

  2. Jan 27, 2026 · Senate

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

  3. Feb 12, 2026 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  4. Feb 17, 2026 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Tomczyk

  5. Feb 17, 2026 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Feb 17, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Miresse added as a cosponsor

  7. Mar 2, 2026 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  8. Mar 2, 2026 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  9. Mar 2, 2026 · Senate

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  10. Mar 2, 2026 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  11. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1