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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 947

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Relating to: a requirement to report lost or stolen firearms and providing a penalty. (FE)

Crime and criminals Firearms and dangerous weapons Fish and fishing Legislature — Criminal penalties joint review committee on Police Sales

  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

Under this bill, a person who owns a firearm that is stolen or missing must report the theft or loss to a law enforcement agency within 24 hours of discovering the theft or loss. A person who violates this requirement is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor for a first offense and guilty of a Class I felony for a subsequent offense. A person who falsely reports a stolen or lost firearm is guilty of the current-law crime of obstructing an officer and is subject to a fine of up to $10,000 or imprisonment of up to nine months, or both.

This bill also requires a person who commercially sells or transfers a firearm to provide the purchaser or transferee a written notice of the requirement, created in this bill, to report a theft or loss of a firearm within 24 hours of discovering it. A seller or transferor who violates this requirement is subject to a fine of up to $500 or imprisonment for up to 30 days, or both.

Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime, the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a report.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Larson (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D)

15 cosponsors

Andraca (D) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Joers (D) , Keyeski (D) , Kirsch (D) , Mayadev (D) , Palmeri (D) , Prado (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (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. Feb 6, 2026 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Larson, Dassler-Alfheim, Ratcliff and Roys; cosponsored by Representatives Subeck, Sinicki, Andraca, Emerson, Fitzgerald, Joers, Kirsch, Prado, Snodgrass, Stroud, Stubbs and Udell

  2. Feb 6, 2026 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Licensing, Regulatory Reform, State and Federal Affairs

  3. Feb 9, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Palmeri added as a cosponsor

  4. Mar 19, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Mayadev added as a cosponsor

  5. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  6. Mar 30, 2026 · Senate

    Senator Keyeski added as a coauthor