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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 1057

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: access to prospective tenants’ credit scores and consumer credit reports.

Credit Crime and criminals Landlord and tenant

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, 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 landlord may require a prospective tenant to pay the landlord’s actual cost, up to $25, to obtain a consumer credit report on the prospective tenant from a consumer credit reporting agency that compiles and maintains files on consumers on a nationwide basis. The landlord must notify the prospective tenant of the charge before requesting the consumer credit report, and must provide a copy of the report to the prospective tenant.

Under this bill, a landlord may not require that a prospective tenant allow the landlord to obtain access to information regarding the prospective tenant’s credit score or consumer credit report regarding the prospective tenant. A landlord shall inform a prospective tenant that the tenant has the right to decline to allow the landlord access to information regarding the prospective tenant’s credit score and consumer credit report, and if the prospective tenant declines to provide access to the information, the landlord shall provide to the prospective tenant an alternative method of screening the prospective tenant’s ability to pay future rent.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Drake (D) , Wirch (D)

9 cosponsors

Arney (D) , Miresse (D) , Palmeri (D) , Prado (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Taylor (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 1

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. Feb 24, 2026 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Drake and Wirch; cosponsored by Representatives Snodgrass, Arney, Miresse, Palmeri, Prado, Sinicki, Stubbs, Taylor and Stroud

  2. Feb 24, 2026 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry

  3. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1