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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 320

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Relating to: increasing certain court fees and surcharges and indexing those amounts for inflation. (FE)

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  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Assembly, completed
  3. Passes Senate, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill 1) increases various court fees and surcharges collected by clerks of court, municipal judges, and registers in probate, 2) increases certain court fees paid to witnesses, interpreters, supplemental court commissioners, court reporters, sheriffs, and appraisers, and 3) indexes these and some other fee and surcharge amounts for inflation. For mileage reimbursement rates that are increased under the bill, the bill sets those rates at the rate determined by the federal Internal Revenue Service for the business standard mileage rate for federal income tax purposes.

Under current law, a county must submit a portion of each amount the county collects, as specified in current law, to the Department of Administration for various state uses, and the county may retain the balance for use by the county. The bill generally provides for the county to retain for use by the county the additional amounts collected as a result of the increases in the bill.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Allen (R) , Armstrong (R) , B. Jacobson (R) , Behnke (R) , Brill (R) , Brooks (R) , Dittrich (R) , Donovan (R) , Goeben (R) , Kitchens (R) , Maxey (R) , Melotik (R) , Mursau (R) , O'Connor (R) , Piwowarczyk (R) , Steffen (R)

6 cosponsors

Gundrum (R) , Jacque (R) , James (R) , Kurtz (R) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Wanggaard (R)

Registered lobbying interests · 12

Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 6, Noes 2

Passed 6–2 Jan 14, 2026 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 6, Noes 2

Passed 6–2 Jan 14, 2026 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: PASSAGE

Passed 65–32 Jan 22, 2026 official source full page

Aye · 65

Not voting · 2

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0

Passed 8–0 Feb 2, 2026 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

Passed 15–0 Feb 3, 2026 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: CONCURRENCE

Passed 31–2 Feb 11, 2026 official source full page

Nay · 2

Full history

  1. Jul 8, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Allen, O'Connor, Donovan, Mursau, Armstrong, Behnke, Brill, Brooks, Dittrich, Goeben, B. Jacobson, Kitchens, Maxey, Piwowarczyk, Steffen and Melotik; cosponsored by Senator Wanggaard

  2. Jul 8, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary

  3. Jul 29, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Goodwin added as a coauthor

  4. Sep 18, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Sep 23, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Goodwin withdrawn as a coauthor

  6. Sep 25, 2025 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Allen

  7. Sep 25, 2025 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  8. Oct 17, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Gundrum added as a coauthor

  9. Dec 3, 2025 · Assembly

    Senator Jacque added as a cosponsor

  10. Jan 6, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Allen

  11. Jan 8, 2026 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  12. Jan 8, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a coauthor

  13. Jan 14, 2026 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 6, Noes 2

  14. Jan 14, 2026 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 6, Noes 2

  15. Jan 14, 2026 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  16. Jan 15, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Kurtz added as a coauthor

  17. Jan 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 1-22-2026 by Committee on Rules

  18. Jan 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Allen

  19. Jan 22, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  20. Jan 22, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 withdrawn and returned to author

  21. Jan 22, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Allen

  22. Jan 22, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  23. Jan 22, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  24. Jan 22, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  25. Jan 22, 2026 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  26. Jan 22, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 65, Noes 32

  27. Jan 22, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  28. Jan 22, 2026 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  29. Jan 26, 2026 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary and Public Safety

  30. Jan 28, 2026 · Senate

    Senator James added as a cosponsor

  31. Jan 28, 2026 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  32. Feb 2, 2026 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  33. Feb 2, 2026 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0

  34. Feb 2, 2026 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  35. Feb 2, 2026 · Senate

    Withdrawn from committee on Senate Organization and rereferred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)

  36. Feb 3, 2026 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  37. Feb 3, 2026 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

  38. Feb 3, 2026 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  39. Feb 9, 2026 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-11-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  40. Feb 10, 2026 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Wanggaard

  41. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Read a second time

  42. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 adopted

  43. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  44. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  45. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in as amended, Ayes 31, Noes 2

  46. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  47. Feb 12, 2026 · Assembly

    Received from Senate amended and concurred in as amended (Senate amendment1 adopted)

  48. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Senate Amendment 1 concurred in

  49. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Action ordered immediately messaged

  50. Feb 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 2-23-2026

  51. Apr 2, 2026 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026

  52. Apr 3, 2026 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 4-3-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 179

  53. Apr 3, 2026 · Assembly

    Published 4-4-2026