Bills by subject

Fire department

60 bills and resolutions. 22 became law and 14 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.

SB 45 State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Became law. Last action May 13, 2026
SB 1148 Authorizing the creation of an emergency services district, authorizing an emergency services district to levy a property tax, and authorizing an emergency services district to impose special charges and issue debt. (FE)
Stopped in committee. Last action May 13, 2026
AB 1188 Authorizing the creation of an emergency services district, authorizing an emergency services district to levy a property tax, and authorizing an emergency services district to impose special charges and issue debt. (FE)
Stopped in committee. Last action May 7, 2026
AB 1204 Residency requirements for certain employees of a local governmental unit. (FE)
Stopped in committee. Last action Apr 8, 2026
SB 1181 Residency requirements for certain employees of a local governmental unit. (FE)
Stopped in committee. Last action Apr 8, 2026

Every bill on this subject

2025–26 session: 28

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 19, 2026
AB 61: Injuring or killing a police or fire animal and providing a penalty.
Became law.
Apr 6, 2026
AB 131: Programs and requirements to address PFAS.
Became law.
Mar 19, 2026
AB 136: Classification of the crime of impersonating law enforcement officers, fire fighters, and certain other emergency personnel and providing a penalty.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 158: Changing the conditions of liability for worker’s compensation benefits for emergency medical responders, emergency medical services practitioners, volunteer firefighters, correctional officers, emergency dispatchers, coroners and coroner staff, and medical examiners and medical examiner staff. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 187: Training completion awards for volunteer firefighters. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 285: Public protective services hearing protection assistance. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 429: Designating the Greg Quinn and Larry Millard Memorial Bridge.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 488: Fire suppression products derived from soybeans.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 30, 2026
AB 651: Various changes to the worker’s compensation law, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Became law.

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Mar 23, 2026
AB 691: Service award program. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
May 7, 2026
AB 1188: Authorizing the creation of an emergency services district, authorizing an emergency services district to levy a property tax, and authorizing an emergency services district to impose special charges and issue debt. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 8, 2026
AB 1204: Residency requirements for certain employees of a local governmental unit. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 30, 2026
AB 1223: A tuition program for higher education students seeking careers in teaching, firefighting, or law enforcement, 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 23, 2026
SB 64: Injuring or killing a police or fire animal and providing a penalty.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Apr 6, 2026
SB 128: Programs and requirements to address PFAS.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 132: Classification of the crime of impersonating law enforcement officers, fire fighters, and certain other emergency personnel and providing a penalty.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 168: Changing the conditions of liability for worker’s compensation benefits for emergency medical responders, emergency medical services practitioners, volunteer firefighters, correctional officers, emergency dispatchers, coroners and coroner staff, and medical examiners and medical examiner staff. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 186: Training completion awards for volunteer firefighters. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Jul 3, 2025
SB 283: Public protective services hearing protection assistance. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 20, 2026
SB 331: Operation of all-terrain and utility terrain vehicles, off-highway motorcycles, and snowmobiles and revision of the Department of Transportation highway maintenance manual.
Became law.
Jan 9, 2026
SB 422: Designating the Greg Quinn and Larry Millard Memorial Bridge.
Became law.
Apr 6, 2026
SB 474: Fire suppression products derived from soybeans.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 676: Various changes to the worker’s compensation law, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 688: Service award program. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
May 13, 2026
SB 1148: Authorizing the creation of an emergency services district, authorizing an emergency services district to levy a property tax, and authorizing an emergency services district to impose special charges and issue debt. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 8, 2026
SB 1181: Residency requirements for certain employees of a local governmental unit. (FE)
Stopped in committee.

2011–12 session: 12

Mar 23, 2012
AB 14: County and municipal expenditures for emergency services.
Stopped in committee.
Aug 2, 2012
AB 40: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2011 legislature.
Became law.
Dec 12, 2011
AB 69: The privilege of self-defense.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 127: Payment by employers of contributions under the Wisconsin Retirement System that are required of public safety employees, arbitration under the Municipal Employment Relations Act, allowing municipal employers choice in health care coverage plan providers and health savings accounts that cover public safety employees, and prohibited and permissive subjects of collective bargaining.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 138: County and municipal expenditures for emergency services.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 192: Provision of police or fire protection services by a county sheriff or municipality.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Nov 21, 2011
AB 212: Throwing or expelling a bodily substance at a public safety worker and providing a penalty.
Became law.
Apr 12, 2012
AB 217: Impersonating certain officials and providing a penalty.
Became law.
Mar 30, 2012
AB 497: Providing immunity from liability to a school board or the governing body of a charter school that provides public access to school grounds for certain recreational activities.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 27: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2011 legislature.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.

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Mar 23, 2012
SB 128: Provision of police or fire protection services by a county sheriff or municipality.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 5, 2012
SB 341: Open doors on authorized emergency vehicles.
Became law.

2009–10 session: 20

May 26, 2010
AB 75: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2009 legislature.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 87: Disposal of ash resulting from the burning of a structure.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 179: Notification to the state and certain public agencies regarding a medical malpractice claim and limits on liability.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 19, 2010
AB 213: Establishing and changing compensation for city and village elective offices; signing village contracts; bidding procedure for village public construction contracts; officer-of-the-peace status of village officers; publication by the city clerk of fund receipts and disbursements; village and 4th class city regulation of political signs; liability of counties and cities for mob damage; means of providing police and fire protection by cities and villages; holdover status of appointed city and village officers; use of the s. 32.05 procedure in villages for certain housing and urban renewal condemnation; and application of public contract bidder prequalification to 1st class cities.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 312: Authorizing cities and towns, and expanding the authority of villages, to create combined protective services departments.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Oct 9, 2009
AB 319: Regional structural collapse teams and granting rule-making authority.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 324: Impersonating certain officials and providing a penalty.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 394: The color and design of special distinguishing registration plates for fire fighters and emergency medical technicians.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 464: A requirement that an employer permit an employee who is a volunteer fire fighter, emergency medical technician, first responder, or ambulance driver for a volunteer fire department or fire company, a public agency, or a nonprofit corporation to be late for or absent from work if the lateness or absence is due to the employee responding to an emergency that begins before the employee is required to report to work.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 602: Designation of the manner of providing fire protection for a town.
Stopped in committee.

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Apr 28, 2010
AB 644: Establishing a presumption for employment-connected communicable diseases for fire fighters, emergency medical service providers, law enforcement officers, and certain correctional employees.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 661: County and municipal expenditures for emergency services.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 775: Throwing or expelling a bodily substance at a public safety worker and providing a penalty.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 954: Requiring municipalities to pay health insurance premiums for survivors of a fire fighter who dies, or has died, in the line of duty.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 18: Fee remissions for certain University of Wisconsin System and technical college students.
Stopped in committee.
May 13, 2010
SB 127: Notification to the state and certain public agencies regarding a medical malpractice claim and limits on liability.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 229: Regional structural collapse teams and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 5, 2010
SB 308: A requirement that an employer permit an employee who is a volunteer fire fighter, emergency medical technician, first responder, or ambulance driver for a volunteer fire department or fire company, a public agency, or a nonprofit corporation to be late for or absent from work if the lateness or absence is due to the employee responding to an emergency that begins before the employee is required to report to work.
Became law.
May 13, 2010
SB 429: Establishing a presumption for employment-connected communicable diseases for fire fighters, emergency medical service providers, law enforcement officers, and certain correctional employees.
Became law.
Oct 11, 2010
SB 520: Requiring municipalities to pay health insurance premiums for survivors of a fire fighter who dies, or has died, in the line of duty.
Became law.

Dates are each bill's latest recorded action. Every subject