Wisconsin legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Wisconsin SB128: 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: Failed, April 6, 2026
What the bill says
To amend 281.61 (6) and 281.75 (7) (c) 2. a.; 2to create 66.0811 (4), 196.49 (7), 281.58 (8e) (bm), 281.75 (5m), 292.11 (9) (g), 3292.315, 292.32 and 292.34 of the statutes; relating to: programs and 4requirements to address PFAS. Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau This bill creates several new programs and requirements relating to PFAS, which is defined in the bill to mean any perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance. Municipal PFAS grant program The bill requires the Department of Natural Resources to create a municipal PFAS grant program, which applies only to types of PFAS for.
From the introduced text, March 14, 2025:
to amend 281.61 (6) and 281.75 (7) (c) 2. a.; 2to create 66.0811 (4), 196.49 (7), 281.58 (8e) (bm), 281.75 (5m), 292.11 (9) (g), 3292.315, 292.32 and 292.34 of the statutes; relating to: programs and 4requirements to address PFAS. Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau This bill creates several new programs and requirements relating to PFAS, which is defined in the bill to mean any perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance. Municipal PFAS grant program The bill requires the Department of Natural Resources to create a municipal PFAS grant program, which applies only to types of PFAS for which there is a state or federal standard, a public health recommendation from the Department of Health Services, or a health advisory issued by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Under the bill, the municipal PFAS grant program provides all of the following grants: 1. Grants to municipalities (defined under current law as a city, town, village, county, county utility district, town sanitary district, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, or metropolitan sewage district) for PFAS testing at municipal water systems and municipal wastewater treatment facilities, or for reimbursement for such testing if performed at properties owned, leased, managed, or contracted for by municipalities and if there are promulgated standards for those types of PFAS. 2. Grants to nonmunicipal entities regulated as public or …