---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: funding for a battery collection and recycling program and making an appropriation. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: funding for a battery collection and recycling program and making an appropriation. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 911"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 911 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kitchens"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 41
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2026-01-26T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10aed972-1aa7-4ef1-b5f5-89bbf678f8d8"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab911"
source_hash: "9cdcdfd1518e836b68d1f27467948ce21ac200ac00e4781abcec7f7bd4c6f760"
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 911 (2025) — Relating to: funding for a battery collection and recycling program and making an appropriation. (FE)

## Version chain

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

1. **Assembly Substitute Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB911-ASA2)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB911)

## Votes

- Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0 — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCURRENCE — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Report passage 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 concurrence recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kitchens — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representative Kitchens; cosponsored by Senator Tomczyk `introduction`
- **2026-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Environment `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2026-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage 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** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Kitchens
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Miresse added as a coauthor
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Made a special order of business at 1:32 PM on 2-18-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 13
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Neubauer
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Kitchens
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed, Ayes 97, Noes 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2026-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Transportation and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2026-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2026-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from committee on Senate Organization and rereferred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)
- **2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-03T06:00:00+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, Ayes 33, Noes 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Senators Smith and Drake added as cosponsors
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
- **2026-03-23T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 3-23-2026 `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 171 `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/10aed972-1aa7-4ef1-b5f5-89bbf678f8d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).