WI AB 961
withdrawnRelating to: warning labels for explicit content, creating an explicit content label warning surcharge, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Wisconsin · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Quick answers
Did WI AB 961 pass?
No. WI AB 961 was withdrawn and is no longer under consideration. Latest recorded action (2026-03-23): Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
What is WI AB 961 about?
WI AB 961 is a bill in the 2025-2026 Regular Session titled “Relating to: warning labels for explicit content, creating an explicit content label warning surcharge, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE)”.
Who sponsors WI AB 961?
Stubbs, Knodl, Murphy and 13 others are the primary sponsors of WI AB 961, joined by 2 cosponsors.
- Introduced
- 2026-01-29
- Latest action
- 2026-03-23 — Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
- —
Sponsors
- Stubbsprimary
- Knodlprimary
- Murphyprimary
- Emersonprimary
- Fitzgeraldprimary
- Armstrongprimary
- Udellprimary
- Behnkeprimary
- Piwowarczykprimary
- Kreibichprimary
- O'Connorprimary
- Sinickiprimary
- Billingsprimary
- Dittrichprimary
- Brillprimary
- Goebenprimary
- Jacquecosponsor
- Wallcosponsor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
Newest first
2026-03-23
Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
amendment-failure
2026-03-04
Public hearing held
2026-02-25
Read first time and referred to committee on Utilities, Technology and Tourism
reading-1,referral-committee
2026-02-23
Received from Assembly
receipt
2026-02-19
Ordered immediately messaged
2026-02-19
Read a third time and passed, Ayes 61, Noes 34
passage,reading-3
2026-02-19
Rules suspended
2026-02-19
Ordered to a third reading
reading-3
2026-02-19
Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 adopted
amendment-passage
2026-02-19
Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 offered by Representative Goeben
amendment-introduction
2026-02-19
Read a second time
reading-2
2026-02-19
Representatives Billings, Emerson, Sinicki and Stubbs withdrawn as coauthors
2026-02-18
Made a special order of business at 11:53 AM on 2-19-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 14
2026-02-18
Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Goeben
amendment-introduction
2026-02-18
Assembly Amendment 3 offered by Representative Goeben
amendment-introduction
2026-02-13
Fiscal estimate received
receipt
2026-02-12
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Goeben
amendment-introduction
2026-02-11
Referred to committee on Rules
referral-committee
2026-02-11
Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Children and Families, Ayes 7, Noes 2
committee-passage-favorable
2026-02-11
Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Children and Families, Ayes 9, Noes 0
committee-passage-favorable
2026-02-11
Executive action taken
2026-02-11
Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Billings
amendment-introduction
2026-02-10
Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Goeben
amendment-introduction
2026-02-09
Representative Fitzgerald withdrawn as a coauthor
withdrawal
2026-02-06
Representative Palmeri withdrawn as a coauthor
withdrawal
2026-02-05
Public hearing held
2026-02-05
Representative Udell withdrawn as a coauthor
withdrawal
2026-02-02
Representative Palmeri added as a coauthor
2026-01-29
Read first time and referred to Committee on Children and Families
reading-1,referral-committee
2026-01-29
Introduced by Representatives Goeben, Brill, Dittrich, Billings, Sinicki, O'Connor, Kreibich, Piwowarczyk, Behnke, Udell, Armstrong, Fitzgerald, Emerson, Murphy, Knodl and Stubbs; cosponsored by Senators Jacque and Wall
introduction
Versions
Documents
Votes
Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Children and Families, Ayes 9, Noes 0
2026-02-11 · pass · 9-0
Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Children and Families, Ayes 7, Noes 2
2026-02-11 · pass · 7-2
PASSAGE
2026-02-19 · pass · 61-34
Member-level votes (95)
- ALLEN: yes
- ANDERSON: no
- ANDRACA: no
- ARMSTRONG: yes
- ARNEY: no
- AUGUST: yes
- BARE: no
- BEHNKE: yes
- BILLINGS: no
- BORN: yes
- BRILL: yes
- BROOKS: yes
- BROWN: no
- CALLAHAN: yes
- CLANCY: no
- CRUZ: no
- DALLMAN: yes
- DESANTO: no
- DESMIDT: no
- DITTRICH: yes
- DONOVAN: yes
- DOYLE: yes
- DUCHOW: yes
- FITZGERALD: no
- FRANKLIN: yes
- GOEBEN: yes
- GOODWIN: yes
- GREEN: yes
- GUNDRUM: yes
- GUSTAFSON: yes
- HAYWOOD: no
- HONG: no
- HURD: yes
- HYSELL: no
- JACOBSON, B: yes
- JACOBSON, J: yes
- JOERS: no
- KAUFERT: yes
- KIRSCH: no
- KITCHENS: yes
- KNODL: yes
- KREIBICH: yes
- KRUG: yes
- KURTZ: yes
- MADISON: no
- MAXEY: yes
- MAYADEV: no
- MCCARVILLE: no
- MCGUIRE: no
- MELOTIK: yes
- MIRESSE: no
- MOORE OMOKUNDE: no
- MOSES: yes
- MURPHY: yes
- MURSAU: yes
- NEDWESKI: yes
- NEUBAUER: no
- NEYLON: yes
- NOVAK: yes
- O'CONNOR: yes
- ORTIZ-VELEZ: yes
- PALMERI: no
- PENTERMAN: yes
- PETERSEN: yes
- PHELPS: no
- PIWOWARCZYK: yes
- PRONSCHINSKE: yes
- RIVERA-WAGNER: yes
- RODRIGUEZ: yes
- ROE: no
- SINICKI: no
- SNODGRASS: no
- SNYDER: yes
- SORTWELL: yes
- SPAUDE: yes
- SPIROS: yes
- STEFFEN: yes
- STROUD: no
- STUBBS: no
- SUBECK: no
- SUMMERFIELD: yes
- SWEARINGEN: yes
- TAYLOR: no
- TENORIO: no
- TITTL: yes
- TRANEL: yes
- TUCKER: yes
- TUSLER: yes
- UDELL: no
- VANDERMEER: yes
- VINING: yes
- WICHGERS: yes
- WITTKE: yes
- ZIMMERMAN: yes
- SPEAKER: yes
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