Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Relating to: establishing minimum salaries for public school teachers. (FE)
School — Administration Teacher — Salary
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires a school board to pay a full-time teacher an annual salary in each school year that is not less than the annual salary paid to a state legislator for that school year (base salary). In addition, if a teacher has worked as a teacher for at least 10 school years, the bill requires a school board to pay the teacher an annual salary that is not less than the base salary for the school year plus $15,000. Finally, if a teacher has worked as a teacher for at least 20 school years, the bill requires a school board to pay the teacher an annual salary that is not less than $100,000.
What it would cost
Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs
Sponsors
Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Andraca (D) , Bare (D) , Clancy (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Hong (D) , Hysell (D) , Joers (D) , Kirsch (D) , McCarville (D) , Miresse (D) , Palmeri (D) , Sheehan (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D) , Vining (D)
5 cosponsors
Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Larson (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D)
Registered lobbying interests · 1
Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record
Full history
- Mar 13, 2026 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives McCarville, Hong, Joers, Sheehan, Anderson, Clancy, Stroud, Udell, Tenorio, DeSmidt, Hysell, Kirsch, Miresse, Vining, Stubbs, Palmeri, Bare and Andraca; cosponsored by Senators Larson, Hesselbein, Roys, Dassler-Alfheim and Smith
- Mar 13, 2026 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Education
- Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
- Mar 25, 2026 · Assembly
Fiscal estimate received