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WI AB 961

withdrawn

Relating 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No. WI AB 961 was withdrawn and is no longer under consideration.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
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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

  1. 2026-03-23

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

    amendment-failure

  2. 2026-03-04

    Public hearing held

  3. 2026-02-25

    Read first time and referred to committee on Utilities, Technology and Tourism

    reading-1,referral-committee

  4. 2026-02-23

    Received from Assembly

    receipt

  5. 2026-02-19

    Ordered immediately messaged

  6. 2026-02-19

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 61, Noes 34

    passage,reading-3

  7. 2026-02-19

    Rules suspended

  8. 2026-02-19

    Ordered to a third reading

    reading-3

  9. 2026-02-19

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 adopted

    amendment-passage

  10. 2026-02-19

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 offered by Representative Goeben

    amendment-introduction

  11. 2026-02-19

    Read a second time

    reading-2

  12. 2026-02-19

    Representatives Billings, Emerson, Sinicki and Stubbs withdrawn as coauthors

  13. 2026-02-18

    Made a special order of business at 11:53 AM on 2-19-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 14

  14. 2026-02-18

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Goeben

    amendment-introduction

  15. 2026-02-18

    Assembly Amendment 3 offered by Representative Goeben

    amendment-introduction

  16. 2026-02-13

    Fiscal estimate received

    receipt

  17. 2026-02-12

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Goeben

    amendment-introduction

  18. 2026-02-11

    Referred to committee on Rules

    referral-committee

  19. 2026-02-11

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Children and Families, Ayes 7, Noes 2

    committee-passage-favorable

  20. 2026-02-11

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Children and Families, Ayes 9, Noes 0

    committee-passage-favorable

  21. 2026-02-11

    Executive action taken

  22. 2026-02-11

    Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Billings

    amendment-introduction

  23. 2026-02-10

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Goeben

    amendment-introduction

  24. 2026-02-09

    Representative Fitzgerald withdrawn as a coauthor

    withdrawal

  25. 2026-02-06

    Representative Palmeri withdrawn as a coauthor

    withdrawal

  26. 2026-02-05

    Public hearing held

  27. 2026-02-05

    Representative Udell withdrawn as a coauthor

    withdrawal

  28. 2026-02-02

    Representative Palmeri added as a coauthor

  29. 2026-01-29

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Children and Families

    reading-1,referral-committee

  30. 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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