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SB293 • 2025

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Did Not Pass

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Sponsor
Senators Smith, Pfaff, Habush Sinykin, Carpenter, Drake, Hesselbein, Larson, Ratcliff, Spreitzer, Wall, Wirch and Dassler-Alfheim, cosponsored by Representatives Snodgrass, Behnke, DeSanto, Miresse, Anderson, Arney, Bare, Billings, Clancy, Cruz, DeSmidt, Doyle, Fitzgerald, Joers, Johnson, Madison, Mayadev, Moore Omokunde, Palmeri, Phelps, Rivera-Wagner, Roe, Sheehan, Sinicki, Stubbs, Subeck, Tenorio, Andraca, J. Jacobson and Udell
Last action
2026-03-23
Official status
S - Natural Resources, Veteran and Military Affairs
Effective date
Not listed

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native prairie and forage plants

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-23 Sen.

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  2. 2025-06-12 Sen.

    Representative Haywood added as a cosponsor

  3. 2025-05-30 Sen.

    Introduced by Senators Smith , Pfaff , Habush Sinykin , Carpenter , Drake , Hesselbein , Larson , Ratcliff , Spreitzer , Wall , Wirch and Dassler-Alfheim ; cosponsored by Representatives Snodgrass , Behnke , DeSanto , Miresse , Anderson , Arney , Bare , Billings , Clancy , Cruz , DeSmidt , Doyle , Fitzgerald , Joers , Johnson , Madison , Mayadev , Moore Omokunde , Palmeri , Phelps , Rivera-Wagner , Roe , Sheehan , Sinicki , Stubbs , Subeck , Tenorio , Andraca , J. Jacobson and Udell

  4. 2025-05-30 Sen.

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources, Veteran and Military Affairs

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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 SENATE BILL 293
May 30, 2025 - Introduced by Senators
Smith
,
Pfaff
,
Habush Sinykin
,
Carpenter
,
Drake
,
Hesselbein
,
Larson
,
Ratcliff
,
Spreitzer
,
Wall
,
Wirch
and
Dassler-Alfheim
, cosponsored by Representatives
Snodgrass
,
Behnke
,
DeSanto
,
Miresse
,
Anderson
,
Arney
,
Bare
,
Billings
,
Clancy
,
Cruz
,
DeSmidt
,
Doyle
,
Fitzgerald
,
Joers
,
Johnson
,
Madison
,
Mayadev
,
Moore Omokunde
,
Palmeri
,
Phelps
,
Rivera-Wagner
,
Roe
,
Sheehan
,
Sinicki
,
Stubbs
,
Subeck
,
Tenorio
,
Andraca
,
J. Jacobson
and
Udell
. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources, Veteran and Military Affairs.
SB293,1,2
1
An Act

to create
20.935 of the statutes;
relating to:
native prairie and forage
2
plants.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires state agencies and other state governmental entities to give preference, where appropriate, to using native prairie and forage plants to benefit native bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. The bill requires the Department of Natural Resources to provide information upon request to support this initiative.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SB293,1
3
Section
1
.
20.935 of the statutes is created to read:
SB293,1,7
4
20.935 Native prairie and forage plants.

(1)

Definition.
In this section,
5
“state agency” means an association, authority, board, department, commission,
6
independent agency, institution, office, society, system, or other body in state
7
government created or authorized to be created by the constitution or any law.
SB293,2,4
1
(2)

Initiative.
Each state agency, where appropriate, shall give preference to
2
using native prairie and forage plants to benefit native bees, butterflies, and other
3
pollinators. The department of natural resources shall provide information to a
4
state agency when requested to support this initiative.
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