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Bills from the 2025–26 session

Assembly Bill 277

Requirements for proposed administrative rules that impose any costs

Topics: Administrative rules, State agencies

Stopped before the full Assembly voted

The recommended passing it, but the full Assembly never voted on it. The last day for votes this session was Mar 19, 2026. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.

  1. Introduced, passed

    May 30, 2025

  2. Committee, passed

    Approved

  3. Assembly vote, stopped here

    Stopped here. The full Assembly never voted on it.

  4. Senate vote, not reached

  5. Governor, not reached

  6. Law, not reached

Latest entry in the official record, Mar 23, 2026: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

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The same bill was also filed in the Senate as SB 289. That version was vetoed.

What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Under current law, if a proposed administrative rule is reasonably expected to pass along $10,000,000 or more in implementation and compliance costs to businesses, local governmental units, and individuals over any two-year period, the agency proposing the rule must stop working on the proposed rule until 1) the agency modifies the proposed rule to reduce the expected costs or 2) a bill is enacted that allows the agency to promulgate the proposed rule. These requirements do not apply to emergency rules or to certain rules proposed by the Department of Natural Resources that relate to air quality and that are required under federal law.

This bill changes those requirements so that the requirements apply when a proposed rule is reasonably expected to pass along any amount of implementation and compliance costs to businesses, local governmental units, and individuals over any two-year period. Under the bill, the agency proposing such a rule must stop working on the proposed rule until 1) the agency modifies the proposed rule to eliminate the expected costs; 2) a bill is enacted that allows the agency to promulgate the proposed rule; or 3) the agency promulgates or has promulgated a different rule, in the same calendar year as proposing the rule at issue, that is reasonably expected to reduce implementation and compliance costs to businesses, local governmental units, and individuals over any two-year period, in an amount that will offset the amount of costs resulting from the proposed rule at issue.

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The bill also requires an agency, in the economic impact analysis of a proposed rule that the agency is required to prepare, to include an estimate of the total implementation and compliance cost savings that are reasonably expected to be realized by businesses, local governmental units, and individuals as a result of the proposed rule, expressed as a single dollar figure.

Who's behind it

28 representatives are its ⁠. All 28 are Republicans.

8 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 36 names

Authors (28)

Signed on in support (8)

How lawmakers voted

There was one vote on this bill.

Assembly Committee on Government Operations vote to recommend it

Passed, 6 to 3 · Dec 2, 2025

No member-by-member record exists for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Official motion: “Report passage recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Accountability, and Transparency, Ayes 6, Noes 3”. Official record · This vote on its own page

What happened

  1. Mar 23, 2026

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Dec 2, 2025

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Rules.

  3. Dec 2, 2025

    The committee voted to recommend passing it, 6 to 3.

  4. Oct 9, 2025

    The committee held a public hearing.

  5. May 30, 2025

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Government Operations, Accountability, and Transparency.

  6. May 30, 2025

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. May 30, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Gustafson, Nedweski, Knodl, Armstrong, Penterman, O'Connor, Mursau, Krug, Maxey, Green, Murphy, B. Jacobson, Dittrich, Tranel, Piwowarczyk, Kreibich, Gundrum, Brooks, Callahan, Dallman, Behnke, Goeben, Donovan, Kaufert, Tittl, Melotik, Wichgers and Wittke; cosponsored by Senators Bradley, Quinn, Tomczyk, Nass, Kapenga, Feyen, Cabral-Guevara and Hutton

  2. May 30, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations, Accountability, and Transparency

  3. Oct 9, 2025 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Nov 18, 2025 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  5. Dec 2, 2025 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Accountability, and Transparency, Ayes 6, Noes 3

  6. Dec 2, 2025 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  7. Feb 10, 2026 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 2-12-2026 by Committee on Rules

  8. Feb 12, 2026 · Assembly

    Laid on the table

  9. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

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Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary

Legislative Reference Bureau

The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.

Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

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Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary

Roll call

A vote where each lawmaker's yes or no is recorded by name.

Official term: Roll call vote. More in the glossary

From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source

Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

More in the glossary

Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1

More in the glossary

Legislative Reference Bureau

The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.

Official term: LRB analysis

More in the glossary

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor

More in the glossary

Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor

More in the glossary

Roll call

A vote where each lawmaker's yes or no is recorded by name.

Official term: Roll call vote

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