Bills by subject

Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, Department of

176 bills and resolutions. 33 became law, 4 were vetoed, and 74 never got a public hearing. They span 3 sessions, from the 2009–10 session to the 2025–26 session.

This is the Legislature's own subject heading, not our category, so a bill is here only if the Legislature filed it under this term. Each count comes from the bill's official history.

Latest activity

The 5 bills on this subject with the newest recorded action.

AB 202 Voidable provisions in residential rental agreements and the application of the Wisconsin Consumer Act to leases. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor. Last action May 13, 2026
AB 554 The sale, service, and labeling of food products containing lab-grown animal cells and providing a penalty. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor. Last action May 13, 2026
SB 45 State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Became law. Last action May 13, 2026
SB 622 Fees related to animal markets, animal dealers, animal truckers, and animal transport vehicles. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor. Last action May 13, 2026
SB 225 Regulation of amusement rides located at campgrounds. (FE)
Became law. Last action Apr 6, 2026

Every bill on this subject

2025–26 session: 99

Mar 23, 2026
AB 50: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 93: The distribution and labeling of fertilizers and soil or plant additives produced from manure. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 117: Hunting of sandhill cranes, programs related to sandhill crane damage, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 118: A transition to grazing pilot program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 142: Algorithmic software for residential housing, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 154: Use of certified seed potatoes in planting potatoes and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 172: Consumer data protection and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
May 13, 2026
AB 202: Voidable provisions in residential rental agreements and the application of the Wisconsin Consumer Act to leases. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 243: Regulation of amusement rides located at campgrounds. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 310: Creating a nutrient loss reduction grant program. (FE)
Stopped in committee.

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Mar 23, 2026
AB 318: A requirement for fair organizations that seek state aid.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 386: An agricultural purchase program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 411: Creation of a farmland link program. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 413: Exempting certain farm owners from campground licensing.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 436: Requiring animal testing facilities and breeders to offer certain dogs and cats for adoption to releasing agencies and providing a penalty. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 544: A statewide retail food establishment food grading system, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 547: Regulating medical cannabis, the prescription drug monitoring program, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
May 13, 2026
AB 554: The sale, service, and labeling of food products containing lab-grown animal cells and providing a penalty. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 627: Fees related to animal markets, animal dealers, animal truckers, and animal transport vehicles. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 689: Displaying gas taxes on gas pumps. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 721: Income tax credits for beginning farmers and owners of farm assets and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 732: Prohibiting noncommercial uses of neonicotinoid pesticides. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 747: Regulating hemp-derived cannabinoid products.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 748: Exemptions from food product licensing requirements for sale of pickled fruits and vegetables, baked goods, and other shelf-stable food products prepared in a person’s home and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 769: Food waste reduction grants, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 782: Prohibiting food and beverages from being served in foam polystyrene packaging and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 804: Farm to fork grants, farm to school grants, matching funds for the federal farm to school program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 805: Sandhill crane damage abatement assistance for corn producers, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 836: Increasing the number of authorized positions for the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection for regional farmer support and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 845: Creating a grant program for farmers who implement certain sustainable practices, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 846: Funding for Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin grants, the “Something Special from Wisconsin” promotion, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 850: Spending cap for the Wisconsin agricultural exports program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 851: The agricultural conservation easement purchase program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 852: Farmland preservation implementation grants, maximum acres of agricultural enterprise areas, indexing the farmland preservation tax credit for inflation, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 875: County conservation staff for climate change resiliency purposes and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 893: Grants for regional biodigesters, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 894: Terms and conditions of gift certificates, gift cards, and other gift obligations and providing a penalty.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 902: Prohibiting the quarantine of certain animals based on exposure to chronic wasting disease.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 27, 2026
AB 928: Required livestock premises activities (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection).
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 960: Requiring social media platforms to provide mental health warnings and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 962: App stores and app developers and providing a penalty.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 963: Social media accounts for minors and providing a penalty.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 965: Artificial intelligence systems that simulate humanlike relationships with children and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1051: Creating a deicer applicators registration program.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 24, 2026
AB 1061: Legalizing the possession of cannabis; medical cannabis; expunging or adjusting past convictions for marijuana-related crimes; regulating the production, processing, transportation, testing, and sale of cannabis; granting rule-making authority; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1071: Testing and labeling related to toxic heavy metals in baby food and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1099: Moratorium on data centers.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1119: Rent abatement and retaliatory conduct and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1139: Disposition of property left behind by a tenant and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 30, 2026
AB 1190: Algorithmic pricing of essential consumer goods, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1213: A dairy agriculture resilience investment now grant pilot program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
May 13, 2026
SB 45: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 27, 2026
SB 78: The distribution and labeling of fertilizers and soil or plant additives produced from manure. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 112: Hunting of sandhill cranes, programs related to sandhill crane damage, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 113: A transition to grazing pilot program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 142: Algorithmic software for residential housing, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Dec 10, 2025
SB 164: Use of certified seed potatoes in planting potatoes and providing a penalty. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 166: Consumer data protection and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 6, 2026
SB 225: Regulation of amusement rides located at campgrounds. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 326: Creating a nutrient loss reduction grant program. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 328: A requirement for fair organizations that seek state aid.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 408: An agricultural purchase program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 412: Creation of a farmland link program. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 414: Requiring animal testing facilities and breeders to offer certain dogs and cats for adoption to releasing agencies and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 415: Exempting certain farm owners from campground licensing.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 534: Regulating medical cannabis, the prescription drug monitoring program, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 560: The sale, service, and labeling of food products containing lab-grown animal cells and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
May 13, 2026
SB 622: Fees related to animal markets, animal dealers, animal truckers, and animal transport vehicles. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 662: Displaying gas taxes on gas pumps. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 682: Regulating hemp-derived cannabinoid products.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 709: Prohibiting noncommercial uses of neonicotinoid pesticides. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 723: Income tax credits for beginning farmers and owners of farm assets and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 739: Exemptions from food product licensing requirements for sale of pickled fruits and vegetables, baked goods, and other shelf-stable food products prepared in a person’s home and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 741: Food waste reduction grants, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 770: Farm to fork grants, farm to school grants, matching funds for the federal farm to school program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 775: Sandhill crane damage abatement assistance for corn producers, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 779: Prohibiting food and beverages from being served in foam polystyrene packaging and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 786: Food allergen training and certificates of food protection practices, rules addressing food allergens, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 811: Increasing the number of authorized positions for the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection for regional farmer support and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 823: Spending cap for the Wisconsin agricultural exports program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 829: Funding for Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin grants, the “Something Special from Wisconsin” promotion, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 840: The agricultural conservation easement purchase program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 841: Farmland preservation implementation grants, maximum acres of agricultural enterprise areas, indexing the farmland preservation tax credit for inflation, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 854: County conservation staff for climate change resiliency purposes and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 871: Creating a grant program for farmers who implement certain sustainable practices, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 878: Grants for regional biodigesters, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 891: Prohibiting the quarantine of certain animals based on exposure to chronic wasting disease.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 900: Terms and conditions of gift certificates, gift cards, and other gift obligations and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 907: Required livestock premises activities (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection).
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 933: Requiring social media platforms to provide mental health warnings and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 936: Social media accounts for minors and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 937: App stores and app developers and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 939: Artificial intelligence systems that simulate humanlike relationships with children and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1019: Creating a deicer applicators registration program.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 25, 2026
SB 1045: Legalizing the possession of cannabis; medical cannabis; expunging or adjusting past convictions for marijuana-related crimes; regulating the production, processing, transportation, testing, and sale of cannabis; granting rule-making authority; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1061: Moratorium on data centers.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1076: Rent abatement and retaliatory conduct and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 30, 2026
SB 1140: Algorithmic pricing of essential consumer goods, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1146: A dairy agriculture resilience investment now grant pilot program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.

2011–12 session: 29

Mar 23, 2012
AB 34: Eliminating the fee for having land rezoned out a farmland preservation zoning district and eliminating the program for purchasing agricultural conservation easements.
Stopped in committee.
Aug 2, 2012
AB 40: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2011 legislature.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 111: Prohibiting certain telephone calls using electronically prerecorded messages, rules for requesting a listing in the nonsolicitation directory, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 200: Temporary alcohol beverages licenses issued for fairgrounds and eligibility for state aid for fairs.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 489: Financial assistance for the livestock premises registration program, a tax credit for livestock identification tags and tag-reading equipment, and making an appropriation.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 498: Regulating certain substitutes for ozone-depleting refrigerants.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 511: Zinc air button cell batteries and providing penalties.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 579: Licensing of plants that process certain foods made with milk or milk products.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 602: Designation, modification, and termination of agricultural enterprise areas.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 605: The pest abatement authority of the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.

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Mar 23, 2012
AB 606: Brucellosis testing of milk, cream, and cattle and restrictions on moving or sale of American bison and other animal species.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 634: The prohibition on telephone solicitations to residential customers, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 654: Contracting with residential contractors.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 655: The regulation of aquaculture.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 4, 2012
AB 727: Manufacture and sale of food and beverage containers that contain bisphenol A and providing penalties.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 16: Prohibiting certain telephone calls using electronically prerecorded messages, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 24: Eliminating the fee for having land rezoned out a farmland preservation zoning district and eliminating the program for purchasing agricultural conservation easements.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 27: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2011 legislature.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 108: The sale of unpasteurized milk products and an exemption from rules and licensing and permitting requirements for certain dairy farms.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 155: Temporary alcohol beverages licenses issued for fairgrounds and eligibility for state aid for fairs.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Apr 10, 2012
SB 349: The confidentiality of information related to exemptions from the requirement to register livestock premises; membership of county land conservation committees; vehicle scale operators; and changing a reporting requirement for pesticide sales (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection).
Became law.
Apr 5, 2012
SB 370: Regulating certain substitutes for ozone-depleting refrigerants.
Became law.
Apr 16, 2012
SB 396: Financial assistance for the livestock premises registration program, a tax credit for livestock identification tags and tag-reading equipment, and making an appropriation.
Became law.
Apr 5, 2012
SB 407: Zinc air button cell batteries and providing penalties.
Became law.
Apr 16, 2012
SB 496: Brucellosis testing of milk, cream, and cattle and restrictions on moving or sale of American bison and other animal species.
Became law.
Apr 10, 2012
SB 497: Designation, modification, and termination of agricultural enterprise areas.
Became law.
Apr 10, 2012
SB 498: The pest abatement authority of the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
Became law.
Apr 5, 2012
SB 517: Licensing of plants that process certain foods made with milk or milk products.
Became law.
Apr 5, 2012
SB 537: The regulation of aquaculture.
Became law.

2009–10 session: 48

Apr 28, 2010
AB 10: A report on food safety programs.
Stopped in committee.
May 26, 2010
AB 75: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2009 legislature.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 93: Prohibiting certain automated telephone solicitations.
Stopped in committee.
Nov 18, 2009
AB 153: Membership of the State Fair Park Board.
Became law.
Mar 5, 2010
AB 166: The use of pesticides by veterinarians and veterinary technicians.
Became law.
Feb 9, 2010
AB 229: The sale of home-canned food.
Became law.
Dec 2, 2009
AB 250: Regulation of persons who sell dogs or operate animal shelters or animal control facilities, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty.
Became law.
Mar 16, 2010
AB 261: Soliciting purchases of goods or services using unsolicited checks or money orders and providing a penalty.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 279: Registration of livestock premises.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 299: Products containing mercury and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.

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