Bills by subject

Legislature: Retirement Systems, Joint Survey Committee on

36 bills and resolutions. 6 became law and 13 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 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 158 Changing the conditions of liability for worker’s compensation benefits for emergency medical responders, emergency medical services practitioners, volunteer firefighters, correctional officers, emergency dispatchers, coroners and coroner staff, and medical examiners and medical examiner staff. (FE)
Stopped in committee. Last action Mar 23, 2026
AB 196 Rehired annuitants in the Wisconsin Retirement System. (FE)
Stopped in committee. Last action Mar 23, 2026
AB 376 Rehired annuitants. (FE)
Stopped in committee. Last action Mar 23, 2026

Every bill on this subject

2025–26 session: 8

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 158: Changing the conditions of liability for worker’s compensation benefits for emergency medical responders, emergency medical services practitioners, volunteer firefighters, correctional officers, emergency dispatchers, coroners and coroner staff, and medical examiners and medical examiner staff. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 196: Rehired annuitants in the Wisconsin Retirement System. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 376: Rehired annuitants. (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 168: Changing the conditions of liability for worker’s compensation benefits for emergency medical responders, emergency medical services practitioners, volunteer firefighters, correctional officers, emergency dispatchers, coroners and coroner staff, and medical examiners and medical examiner staff. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 170: Rehired annuitants in the Wisconsin Retirement System. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 301: Rehired annuitants. (FE)
Stopped in committee.

2011–12 session: 11

Mar 23, 2012
AB 58: State finances, compensation and fringe benefits of public employees, the Medical Assistance program, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 127: Payment by employers of contributions under the Wisconsin Retirement System that are required of public safety employees, arbitration under the Municipal Employment Relations Act, allowing municipal employers choice in health care coverage plan providers and health savings accounts that cover public safety employees, and prohibited and permissive subjects of collective bargaining.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 318: Post-retirement employment of annuitants under the Wisconsin Retirement System and granting rule-making authority.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 352: Eligibility for participating employee status and the Wisconsin Retirement System and post-retirement employment of annuitants under the Wisconsin Retirement System.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 482: Payment of employee required contributions under the Wisconsin Retirement System by certain law enforcement officers.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 503: Calculation of creditable military service and treatment of differential wage payments for benefits purposes for participants in the Wisconsin Retirement System.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 539: Authorizing the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System to establish an optional retirement system for its employees.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 550: Payment of employee required contributions under the Wisconsin Retirement System for participating employees activated to serve on military duty in the U.S. armed forces.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 588: Annual medical examinations for individuals receiving duty disability benefits under the Wisconsin Retirement System.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 239: Post-retirement employment of annuitants under the Wisconsin Retirement System and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.

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Mar 1, 2012
SB 413: Calculation of creditable military service and treatment of differential wage payments for benefits purposes for participants in the Wisconsin Retirement System.
Became law.

2009–10 session: 17

May 26, 2010
AB 75: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2009 legislature.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 126: Purchase of creditable service under the Wisconsin Retirement System for active service in the U.S. armed forces.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 194: Administration of certain public assistance programs in Milwaukee County, removing county civil service protections from certain employees, required provisions in certain collective bargaining agreements under the Municipal Employment Relations Act, and making an appropriation.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 199: Classifying members of the Parole Commission; psychologists and corrections classification specialists employed by the Department of Corrections who perform duties related to sexually violent person commitments; clerical employees employed at probation, extended supervision, and parole offices; and state employees who are employed at state correctional institutions, juvenile correctional facilities, the mental health institutes at Mendota and Winnebago, the Wisconsin Resource Center, and secure mental health units or facilities for sexually violent persons as protective occupation participants under the Wisconsin Retirement System.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 312: Authorizing cities and towns, and expanding the authority of villages, to create combined protective services departments.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 337: Payment of employee required contributions under the Wisconsin Retirement System.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 542: Treatment of abandoned employee retirement accounts under a retirement system of a 1st class city.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 634: Collective bargaining and protective occupation participant status under the Wisconsin Retirement System and a county retirement system for county jail employees, county employees of a juvenile detention facility, and state employees who are employed at state correctional institutions, juvenile correctional facilities, the mental health institutes at Mendota and Winnebago, the Wisconsin Resource Center, and secure mental health units or facilities for sexually violent persons.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 644: Establishing a presumption for employment-connected communicable diseases for fire fighters, emergency medical service providers, law enforcement officers, and certain correctional employees.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 776: Classifying county jailers as protective occupation participants for the purposes of the Wisconsin Retirement System.
Stopped in committee.

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Apr 28, 2010
AB 916: Deduction of voluntary payments from retirement annuities under the Wisconsin Retirement System.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 88: Purchase of creditable service under the Wisconsin Retirement System for active service in the U.S. armed forces.
Stopped in committee.
Jun 2, 2009
SB 161: Administration of certain public assistance programs in Milwaukee County, removing county civil service protections from certain employees, required provisions in certain collective bargaining agreements under the Municipal Employment Relations Act, and making an appropriation.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 320: Participation in variable annuity program under the Wisconsin Retirement System.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 390: Deduction of voluntary payments from retirement annuities under the Wisconsin Retirement System.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
May 13, 2010
SB 429: Establishing a presumption for employment-connected communicable diseases for fire fighters, emergency medical service providers, law enforcement officers, and certain correctional employees.
Became law.
Apr 26, 2010
SB 477: Treatment of abandoned employee retirement accounts under a retirement system of a 1st class city.
Became law.

Dates are each bill's latest recorded action. Every subject