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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 756

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: local health officer authority to mandate business closure to control communicable disease.

Business Disease Public health

  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

Under current law, a local health officer may not issue a mandate to close a business to control an outbreak or epidemic of communicable disease for longer than 30 days unless the governing body of the political subdivision in which the order is intended to apply approves an extension, which may not exceed 30 days. This bill eliminates those restrictions.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Arney (D) , Bare (D) , McCarville (D) , Palmeri (D) , Roe (D) , Subeck (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D)

5 cosponsors

Hesselbein (D) , Larson (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 4

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. Dec 17, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Bare, Udell, McCarville, Anderson, Arney, Palmeri, Roe, Subeck and Tenorio; cosponsored by Senators Hesselbein, Larson, Ratcliff, Roys and Spreitzer

  2. Dec 17, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care

  3. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1