WisconsinQualifying tobacco bars could allow cigar and pipe smoking
The proposed text would let qualifying tobacco bars allow cigar and pipe smoking, while barring people under 21 and requiring plans for air filtration and exhaust.
What it does
A tobacco bar could allow cigar and pipe smoking if it meets requirements for age limits, warning signs, employee acknowledgments, and air filtration.
Argument forAdults 21 and older could smoke cigars or pipes inside qualifying tobacco bars that meet the listed requirements.
Argument againstEmployees could face secondhand smoke at work, even though each must sign an acknowledgment of that exposure.
More detail
The proposed text would exempt a qualifying tobacco bar from the public smoking ban. The tobacco bar must have come into existence on or after June 4, 2009. The bar may allow only cigar and pipe smoking, and it must not be a retail food establishment. It must post a notice that cigar and pipe smoking is allowed, bar people under 21 from entering, and require every employee to sign an acknowledgment of secondhand smoke exposure. When applying for or renewing a Class B liquor license, the bar must include building plans showing enough air filtration and exhaust.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- May 13Failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the Governor pursuant to Joint Rule 82Latest
- May 12Placed on calendar 5-12-2026 pursuant to Joint Rule 82 (2)(a)
- 2025
- Dec 5Report vetoed by the Governor Tony Evers on 12-5-2025Major
- Dec 4Presented to the Governor on 12-4-2025To Governor
- Nov 19Report correctly enrolled on 11-19-2025Minor
- Nov 19Received from Senate concurred inMinor
- Nov 18Ordered immediately messaged
- Vote recorded CONCURRENCE. Result: pass.Upper
- Nov 18Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 18, Noes 15Passed Senate
- Nov 18Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- Nov 18Ordered to a third readingMinor
- Nov 18Read a second timeMinor
- Nov 14Placed on calendar 11-18-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- Nov 12Available for scheduling
- Vote recorded Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development, Ayes 3, Noes 2. Result: pass.Upper
- Nov 12Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development, Ayes 3, Noes 2Minor
- Nov 11Executive action taken
- Oct 29Public hearing held
- Sep 12Read first time and referred to committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic DevelopmentMinor
- Sep 11Received from AssemblyMinor
- Vote recorded PASSAGE. Result: pass.Lower
- Sep 11Ordered immediately messaged
- Sep 11Read a third time and passed, Ayes 57, Noes 37, Paired 2Passed Assembly
- Sep 11Representative Stubbs added as a coauthor
- Sep 11Rules suspended
- Sep 11Ordered to a third readingMinor
- Sep 11Assembly Amendment 1 adoptedMajor
- Sep 11Read a second timeMinor
- Sep 10Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative GustafsonMinor
- Sep 9Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 9-11-2025Minor
- Jul 8Referred to committee on RulesMinor
- Vote recorded Report passage recommended by Committee on State Affairs, Ayes 7, Noes 1. Result: pass.Lower
- Jul 8Report passage recommended by Committee on State Affairs, Ayes 7, Noes 1Minor
- Jun 25Executive action taken
- Jun 17Public hearing held
- Apr 23Read first time and referred to Committee on State AffairsMinor
- Apr 23Introduced by Representatives Gustafson, Ortiz-Velez, Callahan, Gundrum, Armstrong, Zimmerman, Melotik, Brill, Krug, Kitchens, Goeben, Knodl, Tittl, Donovan, Penterman, Wichgers, Pronschinske, Mursau, Murphy, Green, Tucker, B. Jacobson, Behnke, Dallman, Neylon, Wittke, Sinicki, Piwowarczyk, Rodriguez, Miresse and Kirsch; cosponsored by Senators Tomczyk, Feyen, Nass, Testin and Cabral-GuevaraIntroduced
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