---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: requirement for certain telecommunications providers to provide basic voice service."
description: "Relating to: requirement for certain telecommunications providers to provide basic voice service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 395"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 395 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nass"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 27
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-08-25T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4aa01c17-3a33-4d4d-8065-981b28b277f0"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb395"
source_hash: "188d9236d9896f096d9dbe42a09f002063b1ed8fb30f5abf37c490943d990076"
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 SB 395 (2025) — Relating to: requirement for certain telecommunications providers to provide basic voice service.

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/SB395)

## Votes

- Report passage recommended by Committee on Utilities, Technology and Tourism, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nass — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-08-25T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senator Nass; cosponsored by Representatives Penterman, O'Connor, Gundrum, Dittrich, Knodl and Goodwin `introduction`
- **2025-08-25T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Utilities, Technology and Tourism `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-09-25T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-10-02T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-10-02T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Utilities, Technology and Tourism, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-10-02T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2025-10-13T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 10-14-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Ratcliff added as a coauthor
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2026-01-07T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-08T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 1-13-2026 by Committee on Rules
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2026-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 3-18-2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 3-20-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 109 `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Published 3-21-2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4aa01c17-3a33-4d4d-8065-981b28b277f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).