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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 469

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Relating to: the unemployment insurance waiting period.

Unemployment insurance Unincorporated territory

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Currently, a claimant must wait one week after becoming eligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits before the claimant may receive benefits for a week of unemployment, except for periods during which the waiting period is suspended. The waiting period does not affect the maximum number of weeks of a claimant’s benefit eligibility.

This bill permanently deletes the one-week waiting period, thus permitting a claimant to receive UI benefits beginning with his or her first week of eligibility.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Andraca (D) , Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Brown (D) , Clancy (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Emerson (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Kirsch (D) , Madison (D) , McCarville (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Neubauer (D) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Palmeri (D) , Phelps (D) , Roe (D) , Sheehan (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D)

14 cosponsors

Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Habush Sinykin (D) , Hesselbein (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Keyeski (D) , Larson (D) , Pfaff (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Sinicki (D) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wall (D) , Wirch (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 3

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

  1. Sep 26, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives DeSmidt, Kirsch, Tenorio, Ortiz-Velez, Emerson, Bare, Roe, McCarville, Stroud, Miresse, Stubbs, Arney, Snodgrass, Subeck, Udell, Moore Omokunde, Neubauer, Madison, Clancy, Phelps, Joers, Johnson, Brown, Palmeri, Andraca and Sheehan; cosponsored by Senators Smith, Pfaff, Roys, Ratcliff, Wall, Larson, Hesselbein, Spreitzer, Habush Sinykin, Wirch, Dassler-Alfheim and Keyeski

  2. Sep 26, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment

  3. Nov 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Sinicki added as a coauthor

  4. Jan 8, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor

  5. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1