Bills by subject

Circuit court

91 bills and resolutions. 19 became law and 36 never got a public hearing. They span 3 sessions, from the 2009–10 session to the 2025–26 session.

This is the Legislature's own subject heading, not our category, so a bill is here only if the Legislature filed it under this term. Each count comes from the bill's official history.

Latest activity

The 5 bills on this subject with the newest recorded action.

SB 45 State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Became law. Last action May 13, 2026
AB 320 Increasing certain court fees and surcharges and indexing those amounts for inflation. (FE)
Became law. Last action Apr 3, 2026
AB 1075 The age of juvenile court jurisdiction and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee. Last action Mar 30, 2026
AB 50 State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted. Last action Mar 23, 2026
AB 67 Venue for actions in which there is a governmental party.
Stopped in committee. Last action Mar 23, 2026

Every bill on this subject

2025–26 session: 20

Mar 23, 2026
AB 50: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 67: Venue for actions in which there is a governmental party.
Stopped in committee.
Oct 31, 2025
AB 75: Department of Justice collection and reporting of certain criminal case data. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 292: The use of artificial intelligence or other machine assisted translation in court proceedings and of telephone or live audiovisual interpretation in criminal trials. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 3, 2026
AB 320: Increasing certain court fees and surcharges and indexing those amounts for inflation. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 476: Prohibiting abusive work environments and creating a cause of action. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 512: Prohibiting an employer from relying on information about a prospective employee’s compensation when making employment decisions or inquiring about a prospective employee’s compensation and from restricting an employee’s right to disclose compensation information, allowing actions in circuit court, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 513: Actions in circuit court alleging discrimination in employment, unfair honesty testing, or unfair genetic testing. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 514: Authorizing additional circuit court and criminal justice system positions. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 617: Applying for and returning absentee ballots; use of central counting locations; election night reporting; court determinations of incompetency and ineligibility to vote; preelection tests of electronic voting equipment, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.

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Mar 30, 2026
AB 1075: The age of juvenile court jurisdiction and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
May 13, 2026
SB 45: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 75: Venue for actions in which there is a governmental party.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 295: The use of artificial intelligence or other machine assisted translation in court proceedings and of telephone or live audiovisual interpretation in criminal trials. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 333: Increasing certain court fees and surcharges and indexing those amounts for inflation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 460: Prohibiting abusive work environments and creating a cause of action. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 540: Prohibiting an employer from relying on information about a prospective employee’s compensation when making employment decisions or inquiring about a prospective employee’s compensation and from restricting an employee’s right to disclose compensation information, allowing actions in circuit court, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 541: Actions in circuit court alleging discrimination in employment, unfair honesty testing, or unfair genetic testing. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 546: Authorizing additional circuit court and criminal justice system positions. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 624: Applying for and returning absentee ballots; use of central counting locations; election night reporting; court determinations of incompetency and ineligibility to vote; preelection tests of electronic voting equipment, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.

2011–12 session: 35

Aug 2, 2012
AB 40: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2011 legislature.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 126: Carrying a concealed weapon; licenses authorizing persons to carry concealed weapons; possessing or transporting a firearm, bow, or crossbow under certain circumstances; disorderly conduct limitations; photographic identification cards for former law enforcement officers; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; making appropriations; and providing penalties.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 153: Absence without leave from a legislative session and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 156: Venue for actions and appeals in which the sole defendant is the state, a state board or commission, or certain state officers, employees, or agents.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 181: Authorizing towns to challenge certain city or village annexation procedures.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 289: Elimination of compensatory and punitive damages for acts of employment discrimination or unfair honesty or genetic testing.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 364: Prohibiting abusive work environments and permitting a person who has been subject to such an environment to bring a civil action.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 12, 2012
AB 379: Keeping certain name changes confidential.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 385: Making a contribution to a crime prevention organization as a surcharge or as an allowable cost in a criminal case, as a condition of probation, or as a surcharge in a forfeiture case.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 391: Creating the Uniform Foreign Country Money Judgments Recognition Act.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.

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Mar 23, 2012
AB 417: Procedures for establishing a claim (suggested as remedial legislation by the Office of the State Treasurer).
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 505: Participating in a veterans court program.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 528: Appointment of a drainage board.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 563: Changes to the local room tax and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 635: Appeals from tax determinations.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 656: The prosecution and venue for trial of certain offenses by certain state residents.
Stopped in committee.
May 18, 2012
AB 703: The age at which a person who is alleged to have violated a criminal law, a civil law, or a municipal ordinance and who has not previously been adjudicated delinquent is subject to circuit court or municipal court rather than juvenile court jurisdiction.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 723: False statements affecting elections and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 8: Conforming the state family and medical leave law to the federal family and medical leave law and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 27: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2011 legislature.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Jul 21, 2011
SB 57: Corrections and sentencing.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 90: Carrying a concealed weapon; licenses authorizing persons to carry concealed weapons; possessing or transporting a firearm, bow, or crossbow under certain circumstances; disorderly conduct limitations; photographic identification cards for former law enforcement officers; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; making appropriations; and providing penalties.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 106: Absence without leave from a legislative session and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Nov 11, 2011
SB 117: Venue for actions and appeals in which the sole defendant is the state, a state board or commission, or certain state officers, employees, or agents.
Became law.
Apr 10, 2012
SB 202: Elimination of compensatory and punitive damages for acts of employment discrimination or unfair honesty or genetic testing.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 277: Prohibiting abusive work environments and permitting a person who has been subject to such an environment to bring a civil action.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 294: Procedures for establishing a claim (suggested as remedial legislation by the Office of the State Treasurer).
Stopped in committee.
Mar 1, 2012
SB 368: Permits for discharges into wetlands; wetland mitigation; wetland mapping and delineation; fees for permits and other authorizations or determinations by the Department of Natural Resources relating to structures, deposits, and other activities in or near navigable waters; making appropriations; and providing penalties.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 384: Participating in a veterans court program.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 435: Appointment of a drainage board.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 438: Changes to the local room tax and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 505: Venue in actions in which the sole defendant is the state, a state board or commission, or certain state officers, employees, or agents.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 516: Appeals from tax determinations.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 541: Making a contribution to a crime prevention organization as a surcharge or as an allowable cost in a criminal case, as a condition of probation, or as a surcharge in a forfeiture case.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 544: Keeping certain name changes confidential.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.

2009–10 session: 36

Apr 28, 2010
AB 31: Authorizing the circuit court to order a person who engages in discrimination in employment to pay compensatory and punitive damages and a surcharge and making an appropriation.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 62: The prosecution and venue for trial of certain offenses by certain state residents.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
May 26, 2010
AB 75: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2009 legislature.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 79: Release of persons who commit operating-while-intoxicated offenses and providing penalties.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 182: Assignment of income, prizes, and earnings to pay a municipal court judgment.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 231: The time within which a complaint may be filed or a civil action may be brought alleging a violation of the family and medical leave law and the procedures governing an appeal of a determination of the Department of Workforce Development under that law.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 305: Notification of alternative dispute resolution in foreclosure actions.
Stopped in committee.
May 21, 2010
AB 333: Limiting disclosure of information gathered by news persons.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 344: Costs of transporting by ferry an arrested person.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 407: Mortgage loan defaults and notification of alternative dispute resolution options.
Stopped in committee.

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Apr 28, 2010
AB 486: Requiring consultation with a child in determining and reviewing his or her permanency plan; requiring agencies, in making reasonable efforts to place a child in a permanent placement, to include efforts to place the child outside this state; requiring juvenile courts to take certain actions to expedite the interstate placement of children; requiring juvenile courts to give a child's out-of-home care provider the right to be heard in proceedings involving the child; requiring notice to relatives when a child is removed from the home; requiring reasonable efforts to place siblings together or to provide for visitation between siblings; requiring agencies to assist children in developing a plan for transition to independent living; requiring health care providers to report cases of infants with controlled substances in their bodily fluids to the agency responsible for investigating suspected child abuse or neglect; authorizing circuit court commissioners to conduct permanency plan reviews and hearings; specifying certain placements for purposes of calculating how long a child has been placed outside the home for purposes of filing a termination of parental rights petition; and permitting disclosure of information to a relative of a child for purposes of facilitating placement of the child with the relative or to a public or private agency in this state or any other state for purposes of investigating a proposed foster or adoptive placement.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 490: Receivership for abatement of residential nuisances.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 524: The jurisdictional amount and court fees in certain small claims actions.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Apr 27, 2010
AB 529: Violations of the Wisconsin Uniform Securities Law and providing a penalty.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 680: Temporary restraining orders and injunctions.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 732: The age at which a person who is alleged to have violated a criminal law, a civil law, or a municipal ordinance is subject to circuit court or municipal court jurisdiction rather than juvenile court jurisdiction; creating a community youth and family aids surcharge; authorizing the Department of Corrections to set the youth aids daily rates for care of a juvenile in a juvenile correctional facility or a treatment facility; providing an exemption from rule-making procedures; and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 747: Crimes against animals and providing a penalty.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 810: Creating a privilege for communications to veteran mentors.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 891: Imposing a surcharge for certain forfeitures and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 894: Prohibiting abusive work environments and permitting a person who has been subject to such an environment to bring a civil action.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AJR 96: Appointment of supreme court justices and elections to consider retention of justices (first consideration).
Stopped in committee.
Jun 12, 2009
SB 20: Authorizing the circuit court to order a person who engages in discrimination in employment to pay compensatory and punitive damages and a surcharge and making an appropriation.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 95: Adding a circuit court branch in Calumet County.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 196: The time within which a complaint may be filed or a civil action may be brought alleging a violation of the family and medical leave law and the procedures governing an appeal of a determination of the Department of Workforce Development under that law.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 197: Damages for frivolous claims.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 213: Notification of alternative dispute resolution in foreclosure actions.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 235: Limiting disclosure of information gathered by news persons.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Nov 17, 2009
SB 251: Costs of transporting by ferry an arrested person.
Became law.
Nov 17, 2009
SB 347: Requiring consultation with a child in determining and reviewing his or her permanency plan; requiring agencies, in making reasonable efforts to place a child in a permanent placement, to include efforts to place the child outside this state; requiring juvenile courts to take certain actions to expedite the interstate placement of children; requiring juvenile courts to give a child's out-of-home care provider the right to be heard in proceedings involving the child; requiring notice to relatives when a child is removed from the home; requiring reasonable efforts to place siblings together or to provide for visitation between siblings; requiring agencies to assist children in developing a plan for transition to independent living; requiring health care providers to report cases of infants with controlled substances in their bodily fluids to the agency responsible for investigating suspected child abuse or neglect; authorizing circuit court commissioners to conduct permanency plan reviews and hearings; specifying certain placements for purposes of calculating how long a child has been placed outside the home for purposes of filing a termination of parental rights petition; and permitting disclosure of information to a relative of a child for purposes of facilitating placement of the child with the relative or to a public or private agency in this state or any other state for purposes of investigating a proposed foster or adoptive placement.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 352: The jurisdictional amount and court fees in certain small claims actions.
Stopped in committee.
Feb 22, 2010
SB 413: Receivership for abatement of residential nuisances.
Became law.
May 10, 2010
SB 464: Temporary restraining orders and injunctions.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 555: Crimes against animals and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 26, 2010
SB 617: Creating a privilege for communications to veteran mentors.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 636: Imposing a surcharge for certain forfeitures and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 674: The age at which a person who is alleged to have violated a civil law or municipal ordinance is subject to circuit court or municipal court jurisdiction rather than to juvenile court jurisdiction and prohibiting a juvenile who has committed a civil law or municipal ordinance violation from being placed in a juvenile detention facility.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.

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