---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: requiring battery stewardship organizations to administer battery collection and recycling programs and providing a penalty. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: requiring battery stewardship organizations to administer battery collection and recycling programs and providing a penalty. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 713"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 713 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Goodwin", "Kitchens", "Kreibich", "Mursau", "Novak"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 33
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-12-03T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3fa5aa4e-dbf3-45d8-9d2d-a1b5966ae039"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab713"
source_hash: "de4beecd1f8f7fc6fa5e39588e8a456661889615f129193cb3fe4dc5194e6021"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wi"]
---

# Wisconsin AB 713 (2025) — Relating to: requiring battery stewardship organizations to administer battery collection and recycling programs and providing a penalty. (FE)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Assembly Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB713-AA1)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB713)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Environment, Ayes 4, Noes 2 — **4–2** (pass) · lower
- Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2 — **3–2** (pass) · upper
- Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Environment, Ayes 5, Noes 1 — **5–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Kitchens — primary (person)
- Kreibich — primary (person)
- Mursau — primary (person)
- Novak — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-12-03T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Kitchens, Novak, Goodwin, Kreibich and Mursau; cosponsored by Senator Tomczyk `introduction`
- **2025-12-03T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Environment `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-12-10T06:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-12-12T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a coauthor
- **2025-12-18T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2026-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Kitchens
- **2026-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Environment, Ayes 5, Noes 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Environment, Ayes 4, Noes 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 2-17-2026
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Miresse added as a coauthor
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed, Ayes 99, Noes 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2026-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
- **2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 3-17-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
- **2026-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 3-26-2026 `enrolled`
- **2026-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 4-1-2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 4-2-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 170 `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Published 4-3-2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3fa5aa4e-dbf3-45d8-9d2d-a1b5966ae039`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).