# Wisconsin AB131: An Act to renumber 281.58 (8e); to amend 281.61 (6) and 281.75 (7) (c) 2. a.; to create 66.0811 (4), 196.49 (7), 281.58 (8e) (bm), 281.75 (5m), 292.11 (9) (g), 292.315, 292.32 and 292.34 of the statutes; Relating to: programs and requirements to address PFAS. Wisconsin AB131, An Act to renumber 281.58 (8e); to amend 281.61 (6) and 281.75 (7) (c) 2. a.; to create 66.0811 (4), 196.49 (7), 281.58 (8e) (bm), 281.75 (5m), 292.11 (9) (g), 292.315, 292.32 and 292.34 of the statutes; Relating to: programs and requirements to address PFAS., is a 2025-2026 Wisconsin Legislature (Biennial Session) House bill sponsored by David Armstrong (Republican), Brent Jacobson (Republican), Elijah Behnke (Republican) and 13 others; status signed, last action 2026-04-06 (Published 4-7-2026); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-18). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/WI-AB131-2025 - As of: 2026-10-18 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Wisconsin AB131 - State: Wisconsin - Session: 2025-2026 Wisconsin Legislature (Biennial Session) - Title: An Act to renumber 281.58 (8e); to amend 281.61 (6) and 281.75 (7) (c) 2. a.; to create 66.0811 (4), 196.49 (7), 281.58 (8e) (bm), 281.75 (5m), 292.11 (9) (g), 292.315, 292.32 and 292.34 of the statutes; Relating to: programs and requirements to address PFAS. - Status: signed - Chamber: House - Introduced: 2025-03-13 - Last action: 2026-04-06, Published 4-7-2026 - Sponsors: David Armstrong (Republican), Brent Jacobson (Republican), Elijah Behnke (Republican), Benjamin Franklin (Republican), Chanz Green (Republican), Rick Gundrum (Republican), Daniel Knodl (Republican), Dave Maxey (Republican), Jeffrey Mursau (Republican), Todd Novak (Republican), Jerry O'Connor (Republican), John Spiros (Republican), David Steffen (Republican), Rob Swearingen (Republican), Duke Tucker (Republican), Ron Tusler (Republican) - Cosponsors: 9 - Subjects: Administrative rules -- Revisions, Airport, Environmental protection, Fire department, Hygiene laboratory, Land, Municipality -- Finance, Natural Resources, Department of -- Environmental protection, Public Service Commission, Public employee, Reports, Solid waste management, Studies, University of Wisconsin -- Regents, Water -- Pollution, Water supply, Waterworks, Wells - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 1 (93 yes, 0 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 12 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - More help for contaminated water supplies: benefit, high. Wisconsin expands PFAS water assistance for eligible private wells, noncommunity supplies, schools, and licensed child-care providers. Noncommunity supplies can receive up to 60% of eligible costs, or 100% if nonprofit-owned. Eligible schools and child-care providers receive 100%, but cannot qualif… - Residents gain contamination testing and maps: benefit, low. The state must conduct additional voluntary PFAS testing during the 2025–27 budget period. State agencies and the University of Wisconsin System must coordinate studies of PFAS treatment, disposal, destruction, cleanup, and movement through specified waters. They must create an interactive map show… - State can clean up unassigned contamination: benefit, low. The Department of Natural Resources can investigate and clean up PFAS sites when no responsible party is identified. It can also act when the responsible party qualifies for the law's specified exemption. The department may hire contractors for this work. It must prioritize sites with the highest P… - Utilities gain tools for contaminated water: benefit, low. Municipal utilities and metropolitan sewerage districts may pay up to 50% of regular customers' PFAS pretreatment or source-reduction costs. The work must cost less than otherwise-required treatment-plant upgrades, and the utility's governing body must approve the costs. Utilities may also begin em… - Local governments gain contaminated-property liability relief: benefit, low. Local governments that purchase PFAS-contaminated brownfield property can qualify for a property-liability exemption. They must enter an agreement with the Department of Natural Resources ensuring that the law's property-liability conditions are satisfied. Buying contaminated property alone does no… - Testing labs gain training and grants: benefit, low. The state must arrange training and certification help for Wisconsin labs already certified to test for other contaminants. PFAS-certified labs receive help aimed at reducing testing costs and wait times. Wisconsin labs certified for PFAS, or seeking certification, can also seek equipment grants co… - Compensation barred for claimant-caused well contamination: cost, medium. A private-water-supply claim is barred if the claimant intentionally or negligently introduced the contaminant into the well. The same bar applies when someone who directly benefits from payment introduced it intentionally or negligently. - Cleanup exemptions retain safeguards and duties: mixed, low. The law excuses specified property owners, waste spreaders and handlers, fire departments, permit holders, and municipal landfills from listed PFAS response duties. Covered spreading generally must have followed permits or licenses that did not address PFAS; property-owner eligibility also depends… - Sludge spreading faces new contamination safeguards: mixed, low. Sewage-sludge spreading permits must include PFAS limits or conditions when at least two samples average above 20 micrograms per kilogram. The threshold measures combined PFOA and PFOS, two PFAS chemicals; this requirement does not apply once an enforcement standard is established. Within 120 days… - Test wells require added state approval: mixed, low. Test wells need state approval before construction in special well-casing-depth areas designated partly or fully because of PFAS. The Department of Natural Resources must review and approve drilling, casing, and filling-and-sealing plans and specifications. - Cleanup grants require local matching funds: mixed, low. Municipalities can get state grants for PFAS sampling, water-system work, investigations, and cleanup, with priority for private-well projects. Their governing bodies must approve assistance agreements. Local matches must equal at least 20% of the state award for most activities, or 40% for public-… - Airport cleanup grants carry a deductible: mixed, low. Eligible public-use airport owners, operators, and industrial possessors can seek grants to address PFAS discharges. Applicants must notify and consult with the Department of Natural Resources before applying and comply with applicable cleanup duties. Awards may come in phases and depend on availab… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: David Armstrong (Republican), House - Sponsor: Brent Jacobson (Republican), House - Sponsor: Elijah Behnke (Republican), House - Sponsor: Benjamin Franklin (Republican), House - Sponsor: Chanz Green (Republican), House - Sponsor: Rick Gundrum (Republican), House - Sponsor: Daniel Knodl (Republican), House - Sponsor: Dave Maxey (Republican), House - Sponsor: Jeffrey Mursau (Republican), House - Sponsor: Todd Novak (Republican), House - Sponsor: Jerry O'Connor (Republican), House - Sponsor: John Spiros (Republican), House - Sponsor: David Steffen (Republican), House - Sponsor: Rob Swearingen (Republican), House - Sponsor: Duke Tucker (Republican), House - Sponsor: Ron Tusler (Republican), House - Cosponsor: Rachael Cabral-Guevara (Republican), Senate - Cosponsor: Mary Felzkowski (Republican), Senate - Cosponsor: Joel Kitchens (Republican), House - Cosponsor: Steve Nass (Republican), Senate - Cosponsor: Greta Neubauer (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Lori Palmeri (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Mark Spreitzer (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: Cory Tomczyk (Republican), Senate - Cosponsor: Eric Wimberger (Republican), Senate ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026-02-19 | House | Read a third time and passed, Ayes 93, Noes 0 | pass | 93 | 0 | | ## Actions (43) - 2026-04-06: Published 4-7-2026 (House) - 2026-04-06: Report approved by the Governor on 4-6-2026. 2026 Wisconsin Act 201 (House) - 2026-04-03: Representative Palmeri added as a coauthor (House) - 2026-04-02: Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026 (House) - 2026-03-27: Report correctly enrolled on 3-27-2026 (House) - 2026-03-27: LRB correction (Assembly Substitute Amendment 2) (House) - 2026-03-19: Representative Neubauer added as a coauthor (House) - 2026-03-19: Senator Spreitzer added as a cosponsor (House) - 2026-03-18: Received from Senate concurred in (House) - 2026-03-17: Ordered immediately messaged (Senate) - 2026-03-17: Read a third time and concurred in (Senate) - 2026-03-17: Rules suspended to give bill its third reading (Senate) - 2026-03-17: Ordered to a third reading (Senate) - 2026-03-17: Read a second time (Senate) - 2026-03-17: Senators Dassler-Alfheim, Carpenter and Smith added as cosponsors (Senate) - 2026-03-16: Placed on calendar 3-17-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1) (Senate) - 2026-03-16: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2 (Senate) - 2026-03-11: Available for scheduling (Senate) - 2026-03-11: Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 12, Noes 0 (Senate) - 2026-03-11: Executive action taken (Senate) - 2026-03-10: Withdrawn from committee on Senate Organization and rereferred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c) (Senate) - 2026-03-06: Available for scheduling (Senate) - 2026-03-06: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Natural Resources, Veteran and Military Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0 (Senate) - 2026-03-05: Executive action taken (Senate) - 2026-02-27: Read first time and referred to committee on Natural Resources, Veteran and Military Affairs (Senate) - 2026-02-23: Received from Assembly (Senate) - 2026-02-19: Ordered immediately messaged (House) - 2026-02-19: Read a third time and passed, Ayes 93, Noes 0 (House) - 2026-02-19: Rules suspended (House) - 2026-02-19: Ordered to a third reading (House) - 2026-02-19: Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adopted (House) - 2026-02-19: Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Mursau (House) - 2026-02-19: Representatives Billings, Miresse and Brown added as coauthors (House) - 2026-02-19: Read a second time (House) - 2026-02-18: Made a special order of business at 11:06 AM on 2-19-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 14 (House) - 2026-02-18: Referred to committee on Rules (House) - 2026-02-18: Report passage recommended by Committee on Environment, Ayes 4, Noes 2 (House) - 2026-02-18: Executive action taken (House) - 2026-01-21: Public hearing held (House) - 2026-01-19: Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Mursau (House) - 2025-03-14: Representative Kitchens added as a coauthor (House) - 2025-03-13: Read first time and referred to Committee on Environment (House) - 2025-03-13: Introduced by Representatives Mursau, Swearingen, Armstrong, Behnke, Franklin, Green, Gundrum, B. Jacobson, Knodl, Maxey, Novak, O'Connor, Spiros, Steffen, Tucker and Tusler; cosponsored by Senators Wimberger, Cabral-Guevara, Felzkowski, Nass and Tomczyk (House) ## Bill text - Assembly Substitute Amendment 2, 2026-02-19: [HTML](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB131-ASA2), [PDF](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB131-ASA2.pdf) - Bill Text: [HTML](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB131), [PDF](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB131.pdf) ## Related bills - AB913: An Act to create 71.05 (6) (b) 57. of the statutes; Relating to: subtraction for certain income of members of the National Guard and Reserves. 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