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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 921

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Relating to: personal financial literacy high school graduation requirement.

Financial institution Literacy School — Administration School — Curriculum

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Senate, completed
  3. Passes Assembly, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, a school board may grant a high school diploma to a pupil only if the pupil meets specific statutory requirements, including earning a certain number of credits in various subjects in the high school grades. Beginning with pupils graduating in 2028, current law requires that, to receive a high school diploma, a pupil must earn at least one-half credit of personal financial literacy.

Under the bill, a school board must award one-half credit of personal financial literacy to a pupil who successfully completes a financial literacy program offered by a financial institution at a branch located in a school if the school board determines that the financial literacy program satisfies the personal financial literacy requirement. Under the bill, a “financial institution” is a bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, trust company, or credit union chartered under the laws of this state, another state, or territory, or under federal law.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Cabral-Guevara (R) , Felzkowski (R) , Pfaff (D) , Quinn (R)

37 cosponsors

Behnke (R) , Callahan (R) , Dallman (R) , Dittrich (R) , Donovan (R) , Emerson (D) , Goeben (R) , Goodwin (D) , Green (R) , Gundrum (R) , J. Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Knodl (R) , Kreibich (R) , Krug (R) , Kurtz (R) , Melotik (R) , Moses (R) , Murphy (R) , Mursau (R) , O'Connor (R) , Penterman (R) , Prado (D) , Rivera-Wagner (D) , Sinicki (D) , Smith (D) , Sortwell (R) , Steffen (R) , Subeck (D) , Swearingen (R) , Tucker (R) , Tusler (R) , Udell (D) , VanderMeer (R) , Wichgers (R) , Wittke (R) , Zimmerman (R)

Registered lobbying interests · 5

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 Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Financial Institutions and Sporting Heritage, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Feb 13, 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 Financial Institutions and Sporting Heritage, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Feb 13, 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. Feb 2, 2026 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Felzkowski, Cabral-Guevara, Pfaff and Quinn; cosponsored by Representatives Dallman, Wittke, Behnke, Dittrich, Donovan, Emerson, Goeben, Goodwin, Green, Gundrum, Knodl, Kreibich, Krug, Kurtz, Melotik, Moses, Murphy, Mursau, O'Connor, Penterman, Prado, Rivera-Wagner, Sinicki, Sortwell, Swearingen, Tucker, Tusler, Udell, VanderMeer, Wichgers, Zimmerman, Steffen and Callahan

  2. Feb 2, 2026 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Financial Institutions and Sporting Heritage

  3. Feb 6, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Joers added as a cosponsor

  4. Feb 10, 2026 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  5. Feb 10, 2026 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Felzkowski

  6. Feb 13, 2026 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  7. Feb 13, 2026 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Financial Institutions and Sporting Heritage, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  8. Feb 13, 2026 · Senate

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Financial Institutions and Sporting Heritage, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  9. Feb 13, 2026 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  10. Feb 17, 2026 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-18-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  11. Feb 18, 2026 · Senate

    Read a second time

  12. Feb 18, 2026 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 adopted

  13. Feb 18, 2026 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  14. Feb 18, 2026 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  15. Feb 18, 2026 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  16. Feb 18, 2026 · Senate

    Senator Smith added as a coauthor

  17. Feb 18, 2026 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  18. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  19. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  20. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 11:58 AM on 2-19-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 14

  21. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  22. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  23. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  24. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  25. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  26. Feb 23, 2026 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  27. Feb 25, 2026 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  28. Feb 26, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor

  29. Mar 19, 2026 · Senate

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor

  30. Apr 2, 2026 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026

  31. Apr 9, 2026 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 4-8-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 223

  32. Apr 9, 2026 · Senate

    Published 4-9-2026