Bill Commons

WI SB 1071

dead

Relating to: constitutional eligibility of candidates for federal office.

Wisconsin · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did WI SB 1071 pass?

No. WI SB 1071 did not pass — it was defeated or died in the legislative process (2026-03-23). Latest recorded action (2026-03-23): Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

What is WI SB 1071 about?

WI SB 1071 is a bill in the 2025-2026 Regular Session titled “Relating to: constitutional eligibility of candidates for federal office.”.

Who sponsors WI SB 1071?

Spreitzer, Ratcliff, Larson and 2 others are the primary sponsors of WI SB 1071.

Introduced
2026-02-26
Latest action
2026-03-23 — Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Bill type
bill
Last updated
—

Sponsors

  • Spreitzerprimary
  • Ratcliffprimary
  • Larsonprimary
  • Dassler-Alfheimprimary
  • Roysprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2026-02-26

    Introduced by Senators Roys, Dassler-Alfheim, Larson, Ratcliff and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Bare, Snodgrass, Kirsch, Arney, Emerson, Fitzgerald, Hong, J. Jacobson, Joers, Miresse, Roe, Sinicki, Tenorio and Udell

    introduction

  2. 2026-02-26

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

    reading-1,referral-committee

  3. 2026-03-02

    Representative Clancy added as a cosponsor

  4. 2026-03-18

    Representative Anderson added as a cosponsor

  5. 2026-03-19

    Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor

  6. 2026-03-19

    Representative Palmeri added as a cosponsor

  7. 2026-03-23

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

    failure

Versions

Documents

Votes

Not provided by source.

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb1071

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:37:42.962855Z

Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:

Source and document changesStatus and relationship changes

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=WI&identifier=SB 1071. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

  • Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
  • Committee referrals are not yet captured.
  • Some documents have no extracted text yet, so version comparison may be limited.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.