Skip to content

Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 58

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: flags flown, hung, or displayed from a flagpole or the exterior of state and local buildings and eliminating a related administrative rule.

Administrative rules — Revisions Public building School — Building State capitol Symbols state

  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 prohibits, with certain exceptions, any flag other than the U.S. flag and the flag of the state of Wisconsin from being flown, hung, or displayed from a flagpole or the exterior of any state office building or facility, including the state capitol, or from any local government building or school building. The bill also repeals an administrative rule that includes a similar requirement but authorizes the governor to direct otherwise.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Armstrong (R) , B. Jacobson (R) , Behnke (R) , Brooks (R) , Dittrich (R) , Goeben (R) , Green (R) , Gundrum (R) , Knodl (R) , Kreibich (R) , Murphy (R) , O'Connor (R) , Penterman (R) , Wichgers (R)

2 cosponsors

Feyen (R) , Tomczyk (R)

Registered lobbying interests · 8

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 passage recommended by Committee on State Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 1

Passed 5–1 Apr 23, 2025 official source full page

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

Assembly: SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND

Passed 51–44 Sep 11, 2025 official source full page

Aye · 51

Nay · 44

Assembly: PASSAGE

Passed 50–44 Sep 11, 2025 official source full page

Aye · 50

Nay · 44

Not voting · 1

Full history

  1. Feb 24, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives O'Connor, Murphy, Brooks, Goeben, Green, B. Jacobson, Kreibich, Gundrum, Dittrich, Penterman, Armstrong, Wichgers, Knodl and Behnke; cosponsored by Senators Feyen and Tomczyk

  2. Feb 24, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs

  3. Apr 9, 2025 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Apr 10, 2025 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  5. Apr 23, 2025 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on State Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 1

  6. Apr 23, 2025 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  7. Sep 9, 2025 · Assembly

    Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 9-11-2025

  8. Sep 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Decision of the Chair appealed

  9. Sep 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Decision of the Chair upheld, Ayes 51, Noes 44

  10. Sep 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  11. Sep 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  12. Sep 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 50, Noes 44, Paired 4

  13. Sep 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  14. Sep 11, 2025 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  15. Sep 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  16. Sep 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Rivera-Wagner

  17. Sep 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Point of order that Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 not germane under Assembly Rule 54 (3)(f) well taken

  18. Sep 12, 2025 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Licensing, Regulatory Reform, State and Federal Affairs

  19. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1