---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: providing utility aid payments for certain energy storage facilities. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: providing utility aid payments for certain energy storage facilities. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 556"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 556 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Feyen", "James", "Marklein", "Spreitzer", "Wanggaard"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 44
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-10-17T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95ac21f9-fb4c-4642-bfbc-5b039b9f3f3f"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb556"
source_hash: "ff46db5fb695ffd58dd394a831c7148e2e1006f95d4a22199633dba634d79d04"
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 556 (2025) — Relating to: providing utility aid payments for certain energy storage facilities. (FE)

## 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/SB556)
2. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB556-SA1)

## Votes

- Report passage recommended by Committee on Utilities, Technology and Tourism, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0 — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0 — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Feyen — primary (person)
- James — primary (person)
- Marklein — primary (person)
- Spreitzer — primary (person)
- Wanggaard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-10-17T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators James, Feyen, Marklein, Spreitzer and Wanggaard; cosponsored by Representatives Rodriguez, Dittrich, Brooks, Fitzgerald, Kaufert, Kreibich, Tittl and Udell `introduction`
- **2025-10-17T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Utilities, Technology and Tourism `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-10-20T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Anderson added as a cosponsor
- **2025-10-28T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Maxey added as a cosponsor
- **2025-11-03T06:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-11-06T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Sheehan added as a cosponsor
- **2025-11-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senator Ratcliff added as a coauthor
- **2025-11-24T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor
- **2025-12-01T06:00:00+00:00** Representative McCarville added as a cosponsor
- **2025-12-18T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Utilities, Technology and Tourism, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2026-01-23T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Doyle added as a cosponsor
- **2026-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator James
- **2026-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** LRB correction
- **2026-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from committee on Senate Organization and rereferred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)
- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0 `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2026-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 2-11-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2026-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senator Smith added as a coauthor
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Read
- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from Senate message and take up
- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2026-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** LRB correction (Senate Amendment 1)
- **2026-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 4-2-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 163 `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-06T05:00:00+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/95ac21f9-fb4c-4642-bfbc-5b039b9f3f3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).