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SB211 • 2025

exempting tobacco bars from the public smoking ban

exempting tobacco bars from the public smoking ban

Did Not Pass

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Sponsor
Senators Tomczyk, Feyen, Nass, Testin and Cabral-Guevara, cosponsored by Representatives Gustafson, Ortiz-Velez, Armstrong, Behnke, Brill, Callahan, Dallman, Donovan, Green, Goeben, Gundrum, B. Jacobson, Kitchens, Knodl, Krug, Melotik, Murphy, Mursau, Neylon, Penterman, Piwowarczyk, Pronschinske, Rodriguez, Tittl, Tucker, Wichgers, Wittke, Zimmerman, Sinicki and Miresse
Last action
2026-03-23
Official status
S - Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development
Effective date
Not listed

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exempting tobacco bars from the public smoking ban

exempting tobacco bars from the public smoking ban Status: S - Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development

What This Bill Does

  • exempting tobacco bars from the public smoking ban Status: S - Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-23 Sen.

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  2. 2025-11-03 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Tomczyk

  3. 2025-10-29 Sen.

    Public hearing held

  4. 2025-04-23 Sen.

    Representative Kirsch added as a cosponsor

  5. 2025-04-16 Sen.

    Introduced by Senators Tomczyk , Feyen , Nass , Testin and Cabral-Guevara ; cosponsored by Representatives Gustafson , Ortiz-Velez , Armstrong , Behnke , Brill , Callahan , Dallman , Donovan , Green , Goeben , Gundrum , B. Jacobson , Kitchens , Knodl , Krug , Melotik , Murphy , Mursau , Neylon , Penterman , Piwowarczyk , Pronschinske , Rodriguez , Tittl , Tucker , Wichgers , Wittke , Zimmerman , Sinicki and Miresse

  6. 2025-04-16 Sen.

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development

Official Summary Text

exempting tobacco bars from the public smoking ban
Status: S - Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development

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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 SENATE BILL 211
April 16, 2025 - Introduced by Senators
Tomczyk
,
Feyen
,
Nass
,
Testin
and
Cabral-Guevara
, cosponsored by Representatives
Gustafson
,
Ortiz-Velez
,
Armstrong
,
Behnke
,
Brill
,
Callahan
,
Dallman
,
Donovan
,
Green
,
Goeben
,
Gundrum
,
B. Jacobson
,
Kitchens
,
Knodl
,
Krug
,
Melotik
,
Murphy
,
Mursau
,
Neylon
,
Penterman
,
Piwowarczyk
,
Pronschinske
,
Rodriguez
,
Tittl
,
Tucker
,
Wichgers
,
Wittke
,
Zimmerman
,
Sinicki
and
Miresse
. Referred to Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development.
SB211,1,2
1
An Act

to create
101.123 (3) (n) of the statutes;
relating to:
exempting tobacco
2
bars from the public smoking ban.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill exempts tobacco bars from the general prohibition under current law against smoking in indoor locations if the tobacco bar satisfies all of the following: 1) the tobacco bar came into existence on or after June 4, 2009; 2) only the smoking of cigars and pipes is allowed in the tobacco bar; and 3) the tobacco bar is not a retail food establishment. Current law defines a “tobacco bar” as a tavern that generates 15 percent or more of its annual gross income from the sale on the tavern premises, other than from a vending machine, of cigars and pipe tobacco. Also, under current law, tobacco bars that existed on June 3, 2009, are exempt from the general prohibition against smoking in indoor locations.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
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Section

1
.
101.123 (3) (n) of the statutes is created to read:
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4
101.123
(3)
(n) A tobacco bar that satisfies all of the following:
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5
1. The tobacco bar came into existence on or after June 4, 2009.
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1
2. Only the smoking of cigars and pipes is allowed in the tobacco bar.
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2
3. The tobacco bar is not a retail food establishment, as defined in s. 97.30 (1)
3
(c).
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