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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 533

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Relating to: requiring voter education instruction in the elementary and high school grades and incorporating voter education instruction into the state model social studies standards. (FE)

Public instruction department of Public land School — Charter school School — Consolidation or reorganization School — Curriculum Voting Wage — Minimum

  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

This bill requires school boards and operators of independent charter schools to include, as part of the social studies curriculum, at least one hour of voter education instruction in each elementary and high school grade. The bill specifies specific information that must be provided to pupils in the elementary grades, middle school grades, and high school grades. The bill also requires the state superintendent of public instruction to incorporate voter education instruction into the model academic standards for social studies and to develop model curriculum on the same subject.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Andraca (D) , Arney (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Johnson (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Neubauer (D) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Rivera-Wagner (D) , Roe (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stroud (D) , Taylor (D) , Udell (D)

6 cosponsors

Dassler-Alfheim (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wirch (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 2

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. Oct 15, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Rivera-Wagner, Snodgrass, Andraca, Arney, Fitzgerald, Johnson, Miresse, Moore Omokunde, Neubauer, Ortiz-Velez, Roe, Stroud, Taylor and Udell; cosponsored by Senators Wirch, Dassler-Alfheim, L. Johnson, Ratcliff and Spreitzer

  2. Oct 15, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Oct 23, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Feb 9, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor

  5. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1