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Wisconsin · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

SB 778: Relating to: packaging reduction and recycling, creating a producer responsibility program, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty.

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 778 is a bill introduced in the Wisconsin Senate on December 12, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Relating to: packaging reduction and recycling, creating a producer responsibility program, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. Primary sponsor: Chris Larson (Democratic), Tim Carpenter (Democratic). It lists 14 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (March 23, 2026): Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 16

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Chris LarsonPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate7
Tim CarpenterPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate3
Margaret ArneyCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse18
Ryan ClancyCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse19
Ben DeSmidtCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse65
Joan FitzgeraldCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse46
Alex JoersCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse81
Darrin MadisonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse10
Vinnie MiresseCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse71
Supreme Moore OmokundeCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse17
Lori PalmeriCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse54
Priscilla PradoCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse9
Christine SinickiCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse20
Lee SnodgrassCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse52
Lisa SubeckCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse79
Randy UdellCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse47

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
  2. Read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources, Veteran and Military Affairs
  3. Introduced by Senators Larson and Carpenter; cosponsored by Representatives Snodgrass, Palmeri, Miresse, Arney, Clancy, DeSmidt, Fitzgerald, Joers, Madison, Moore Omokunde, Prado, Sinicki, Subeck and Udell

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source