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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 333

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Relating to: increasing certain court fees and surcharges and indexing those amounts for inflation. (FE)

Circuit court Court — Fee Inflation

  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

This bill 1) increases various court fees and surcharges collected by clerks of court, municipal judges, and registers in probate, 2) increases certain court fees paid to witnesses, interpreters, supplemental court commissioners, court reporters, sheriffs, and appraisers, and 3) indexes these and some other fee and surcharge amounts for inflation. For mileage reimbursement rates that are increased under the bill, the bill sets those rates at the rate determined by the federal Internal Revenue Service for the business standard mileage rate for federal income tax purposes.

Under current law, a county must submit a portion of each amount the county collects, as specified in current law, to the Department of Administration for various state uses, and the county may retain the balance for use by the county. The bill generally provides for the county to retain for use by the county the additional amounts collected as a result of the increases in the bill.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Wanggaard (R)

23 cosponsors

Allen (R) , Armstrong (R) , B. Jacobson (R) , Behnke (R) , Bradley (R) , Brill (R) , Brooks (R) , Dittrich (R) , Donovan (R) , Goeben (R) , Goodwin (D) , Gundrum (R) , Jacque (R) , James (R) , Kitchens (R) , Kurtz (R) , Maxey (R) , Melotik (R) , Mursau (R) , O'Connor (R) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Piwowarczyk (R) , Steffen (R)

Registered lobbying interests · 7

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

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 2 recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0

Passed 8–0 Feb 2, 2026 official source full page

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

Senate: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0

Passed 8–0 Feb 2, 2026 official source full page

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

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 2 recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

Passed 15–0 Feb 3, 2026 official source full page

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

Senate: Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

Passed 15–0 Feb 3, 2026 official source full page

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

Full history

  1. Jun 19, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senator Wanggaard; cosponsored by Representatives Allen, O'Connor, Donovan, Mursau, Armstrong, Behnke, Brill, Brooks, Dittrich, Goeben, B. Jacobson, Kitchens, Maxey, Piwowarczyk, Steffen and Melotik

  2. Jun 19, 2025 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety

  3. Jul 29, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Goodwin added as a cosponsor

  4. Sep 19, 2025 · Senate

    Senator Bradley added as a coauthor

  5. Sep 22, 2025 · Senate

    Senator Jacque added as a coauthor

  6. Sep 29, 2025 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  7. Oct 17, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Gundrum added as a cosponsor

  8. Jan 7, 2026 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Senator Wanggaard

  9. Jan 8, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a cosponsor

  10. Jan 15, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Kurtz added as a cosponsor

  11. Jan 26, 2026 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senator Wanggaard

  12. Jan 28, 2026 · Senate

    Senator James added as a coauthor

  13. Jan 28, 2026 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  14. Feb 2, 2026 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  15. Feb 2, 2026 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 2 recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0

  16. Feb 2, 2026 · Senate

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0

  17. Feb 2, 2026 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  18. Feb 2, 2026 · Senate

    Withdrawn from committee on Senate Organization and rereferred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)

  19. Feb 3, 2026 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  20. Feb 3, 2026 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 2 recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

  21. Feb 3, 2026 · Senate

    Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

  22. Feb 3, 2026 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  23. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1