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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 507

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Relating to: allowing Social Security Disability Insurance recipients to receive concurrent unemployment insurance benefits. (FE)

Social security Unemployment insurance

  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, in any week in any month that a claimant is receiving a benefit under the federal Social Security Disability Insurance program, that claimant is ineligible for unemployment insurance benefits. This bill repeals that prohibition and allows an otherwise eligible claimant to receive both federal Social Security Disability Insurance benefits and unemployment insurance benefits for the same period.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Carpenter (D) , Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Habush Sinykin (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Keyeski (D) , Larson (D) , Pfaff (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wall (D)

25 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Andraca (D) , Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Brown (D) , Clancy (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Hong (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Kirsch (D) , Madison (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Phelps (D) , Roe (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (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. Oct 2, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Dassler-Alfheim, Ratcliff, Carpenter, Hesselbein, Larson, Pfaff, Spreitzer, Habush Sinykin, Wall and Keyeski; cosponsored by Representatives Sinicki, Kirsch, Emerson, Tenorio, Bare, Roe, Miresse, DeSmidt, Stubbs, Arney, Fitzgerald, Subeck, Snodgrass, Udell, Moore Omokunde, Clancy, Madison, Hong, Phelps, Joers, Anderson, Andraca and Brown

  2. Oct 2, 2025 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development

  3. Oct 3, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Johnson added as a cosponsor

  4. Dec 2, 2025 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Jan 9, 2026 · Senate

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor

  6. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1