Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Relating to: updating references to PI 34 of the administrative code and eliminating an obsolete grandfather provision related to a license to teach industrial arts (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Public Instruction).
Administrative code Public instruction department of Statutes — Revision Teacher — Certificate
- Introduced, completed
- Passes Assembly, completed
- Passes Senate, completed
- Governor signs, completed
- Law, completed
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What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law includes references to Chapter PI 34 of the Administrative Code, entitled Educator Licenses. Chapter PI 34 was repealed and recreated in 2018. This bill replaces statutory references to PI 34 that no longer exist with cross-references to the current version of PI 34.
Chapter 154, laws of 1971
, created a new provision to prohibit the Department of Public Instruction from issuing a license to teach industrial arts subjects unless an applicant has had three years of practical experience beyond apprenticeship or four years of institutional training in the industrial arts subjects. The same 1971 law also included a grandfather provision for individuals who taught an industrial arts subject on January 1, 1936, that remains in current law. Specifically, current law provides that an individual who taught an industrial arts subject on January 1, 1936, who had five years of practical or teaching experience in the subject is considered to have the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree for purposes of salary schedules and promotion. The bill removes the grandfather provision that applies to individuals who taught an industrial arts subject on January 1, 1936.
For further information, see the
Notes
provided by the Law Revision Committee of the Joint Legislative Council.
Sponsors
Introduced by: Law Revision Committee
1 cosponsors
Carpenter (D)
Votes
Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
Passed 3–2 Mar 16, 2026 official source full pageNo individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.
Full history
- Jan 28, 2026 · Assembly
Introduced by Law Revision Committee
- Jan 28, 2026 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Rules
- Feb 5, 2026 · Assembly
Placed on calendar 2-10-2026 by Committee on Rules
- Feb 10, 2026 · Assembly
Read a second time
- Feb 10, 2026 · Assembly
Ordered to a third reading
- Feb 10, 2026 · Assembly
Rules suspended
- Feb 10, 2026 · Assembly
Read a third time and passed
- Feb 10, 2026 · Assembly
Ordered immediately messaged
- Feb 10, 2026 · Senate
Received from Assembly
- Feb 11, 2026 · Senate
Available for scheduling
- Feb 11, 2026 · Senate
Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization
- Mar 16, 2026 · Senate
Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
- Mar 16, 2026 · Senate
Placed on calendar 3-17-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- Mar 17, 2026 · Senate
Read a second time
- Mar 17, 2026 · Senate
Ordered to a third reading
- Mar 17, 2026 · Senate
Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- Mar 17, 2026 · Senate
Read a third time and concurred in
- Mar 17, 2026 · Senate
Senator Carpenter added as a cosponsor
- Mar 17, 2026 · Senate
Ordered immediately messaged
- Mar 18, 2026 · Assembly
Received from Senate concurred in
- Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly
Report correctly enrolled on 3-23-2026
- Mar 26, 2026 · Assembly
Presented to the Governor on 3-26-2026
- Mar 27, 2026 · Assembly
Report approved by the Governor on 3-27-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 136
- Mar 27, 2026 · Assembly
Published 3-28-2026