2025-2026 Wisconsin Legislature

Assembly Bill 961

An Act to create 20.455 (2) (gq), 100.77 and 814.75 (28) of the statutes; Relating to: warning labels for explicit content, creating an explicit content label warning surcharge, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE)

Status: S - Utilities, Technology and Tourism

Important Actions (newest first)

Date / House Action Journal
3/4/2026 Sen.Public hearing held 
2/19/2026 Asm.Read a third time and passed, Ayes 61, Noes 34634

History

Date / House Action Journal
1/29/2026 Asm.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
512
1/29/2026 Asm.Read first time and referred to Committee on Children and Families512
2/2/2026 Asm.Representative Palmeri added as a coauthor519
2/5/2026 Asm.Representative Udell withdrawn as a coauthor536
2/5/2026 Asm.Public hearing held 
2/6/2026 Asm.Representative Palmeri withdrawn as a coauthor536
2/9/2026 Asm.Representative Fitzgerald withdrawn as a coauthor552
2/10/2026 Asm.Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Goeben538
2/11/2026 Asm.Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Billings546
2/11/2026 Asm.Executive action taken 
2/11/2026 Asm.Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Children and Families, Ayes 9, Noes 0546
2/11/2026 Asm.Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Children and Families, Ayes 7, Noes 2547
2/11/2026 Asm.Referred to committee on Rules547
2/12/2026 Asm.Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Goeben571
2/13/2026 Asm.Fiscal estimate received 
2/18/2026 Asm.Assembly Amendment 3 offered by Representative Goeben596
2/18/2026 Asm.Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Goeben596
2/18/2026 Asm.Made a special order of business at 11:53 AM on 2-19-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 14603
2/19/2026 Asm.Representatives Billings, Emerson, Sinicki and Stubbs withdrawn as coauthors610
2/19/2026 Asm.Read a second time634
2/19/2026 Asm.Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 offered by Representative Goeben634
2/19/2026 Asm.Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 adopted634
2/19/2026 Asm.Ordered to a third reading634
2/19/2026 Asm.Rules suspended634
2/19/2026 Asm.Read a third time and passed, Ayes 61, Noes 34634
2/19/2026 Asm.Ordered immediately messaged634
2/23/2026 Sen.Received from Assembly741
2/25/2026 Sen.Read first time and referred to committee on Utilities, Technology and Tourism750
3/4/2026 Sen.Public hearing held 
 
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