Bills by subject

Public employee

123 bills and resolutions. 25 became law, 2 were vetoed, and 75 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.

AB 39 Requiring state employees to perform their work at the offices of their employer.
Vetoed by the governor. Last action May 13, 2026
AB 281 The employment eligibility verification program and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor. Last action May 13, 2026
SB 45 State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Became law. Last action May 13, 2026
AB 854 Violence prevention grants and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee. Last action Apr 9, 2026
AB 958 Position authorizations for Internet crimes against children law enforcement. (FE)
Became law. Last action Apr 9, 2026

Every bill on this subject

2025–26 session: 73

May 13, 2026
AB 39: Requiring state employees to perform their work at the offices of their employer.
Vetoed by the governor.
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 57: Requirements concerning assistance in the detention of individuals who are or are alleged to be not lawfully present in the United States.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 28, 2025
AB 95: Ratification of the agreement negotiated between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin State Building Trades Negotiating Committee, for the 2024-25 fiscal year, covering employees in the building trades crafts collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 31, 2025
AB 96: Ratification of the agreement negotiated between the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin State Building Trades Negotiating Committee, for the 2024-25 fiscal year, covering employees in the building trades crafts collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 120: Positions for the Office of School Safety. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 6, 2026
AB 131: Programs and requirements to address PFAS.
Became law.
Mar 24, 2026
AB 180: Requiring the Department of Health Services to seek any necessary waiver to prohibit the purchase of candy or soft drinks with FoodShare benefits. (FE)
Became law.
May 13, 2026
AB 281: The employment eligibility verification program and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 404: The Veterans Outreach and Recovery Program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.

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Mar 23, 2026
AB 490: Implementing a suicide prevention program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 507: The state civil service system. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 577: Funding for the birth defect prevention and monitoring system and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 728: Access to prisons and jails for oversight purposes. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 734: Climate control in state correctional institutions and county jails and houses of correction and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 761: Funding for the department of financial institutions from the college savings program trust fund and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Feb 6, 2026
AB 787: Ratification of the agreement negotiated between the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin State Building Trades Negotiating Committee, for the 2025-26 fiscal year, covering employees in the building trades crafts collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
Became law.
Feb 6, 2026
AB 788: Ratification of the agreement negotiated between the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Wisconsin State Building Trades Negotiating Committee, for the 2025-26 fiscal year, covering employees in the building trades crafts collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 796: Grants to nonprofit religious organizations for security purposes and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 816: Grants to WisconsinEye for the establishment of an endowment fund, creating the Office of the Public Affairs Network to administer a public affairs network in Wisconsin, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 823: Healthy food incentive program funding, payment processing equipment and services for farmers’ markets and farmers, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 836: Increasing the number of authorized positions for the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection for regional farmer support and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 844: Creating a stretch energy code. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 850: Spending cap for the Wisconsin agricultural exports program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 9, 2026
AB 854: Violence prevention grants and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 875: County conservation staff for climate change resiliency purposes and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 888: Green jobs training program grants, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 27, 2026
AB 940: Eliminating defunct references to certain economic development positions (suggested as remedial language by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation).
Became law.
Apr 9, 2026
AB 958: Position authorizations for Internet crimes against children law enforcement. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1035: Expanding the Wisconsin deflection initiative and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1041: Required instruction in African American history in the elementary and high school grades and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1043: Fall prevention and recovery training, CPR and first aid certification, a duty to provide aid in certain residential facilities, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1055: A victim protective services grant program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 24, 2026
AB 1061: Legalizing the possession of cannabis; medical cannabis; expunging or adjusting past convictions for marijuana-related crimes; regulating the production, processing, transportation, testing, and sale of cannabis; granting rule-making authority; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 9, 2026
AB 1124: Creating a Mississippi River erosion control revolving loan program, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1166: Requiring an employer to provide reasonable break time and accommodations for an employee who is breastfeeding the employee’s child to express breast milk for the child. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1222: Creating an office of the ombudsperson for corrections and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 27: Requiring state employees to perform their work at the offices of their employer. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
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 54: Requirements concerning assistance in the detention of individuals who are or are alleged to be not lawfully present in the United States.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 102: Ratification of the agreement negotiated between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin State Building Trades Negotiating Committee, for the 2024-25 fiscal year, covering employees in the building trades crafts collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 103: Ratification of the agreement negotiated between the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin State Building Trades Negotiating Committee, for the 2024-25 fiscal year, covering employees in the building trades crafts collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 119: Positions for the Office of School Safety. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 6, 2026
SB 191: Requiring a subpoena to a law enforcement officer or tribal law enforcement officer served in official capacity to be served at the officer’s work address.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 287: The employment eligibility verification program and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Passed the Senate, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 396: The Veterans Outreach and Recovery Program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 477: Implementing a suicide prevention program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 506: The state civil service system. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 552: Funding for the birth defect prevention and monitoring system and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 713: Access to prisons and jails for oversight purposes. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 715: Climate control in state correctional institutions and county jails and houses of correction and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 720: Veterans cemetery caretaker positions and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 753: Funding for the department of financial institutions from the college savings program trust fund and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 789: Grants to nonprofit religious organizations for security purposes and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 791: Ratification of the agreement negotiated between the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Wisconsin State Building Trades Negotiating Committee, for the 2025-26 fiscal year, covering employees in the building trades crafts collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 794: Ratification of the agreement negotiated between the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin State Building Trades Negotiating Committee, for the 2025-26 fiscal year, covering employees in the building trades crafts collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 807: Grants to WisconsinEye for the establishment of an endowment fund, creating the Office of the Public Affairs Network to administer a public affairs network in Wisconsin, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 811: Increasing the number of authorized positions for the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection for regional farmer support and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 817: Healthy food incentive program funding, payment processing equipment and services for farmers’ markets and farmers, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 823: Spending cap for the Wisconsin agricultural exports program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 827: Creating a stretch energy code. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 7, 2026
SB 842: Violence prevention grants and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 854: County conservation staff for climate change resiliency purposes and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 876: Green jobs training program grants, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 894: A victim protective services grant program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 919: Eliminating defunct references to certain economic development positions (suggested as remedial language by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation).
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 956: Position authorizations for Internet crimes against children law enforcement. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1014: Expanding the Wisconsin deflection initiative and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 7, 2026
SB 1021: Fall prevention and recovery training, CPR and first aid certification, a duty to provide aid in certain residential facilities, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1026: Required instruction in African American history in the elementary and high school grades and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 25, 2026
SB 1045: Legalizing the possession of cannabis; medical cannabis; expunging or adjusting past convictions for marijuana-related crimes; regulating the production, processing, transportation, testing, and sale of cannabis; granting rule-making authority; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 30, 2026
SB 1089: Creating a Mississippi River erosion control revolving loan program, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1131: Requiring an employer to provide reasonable break time and accommodations for an employee who is breastfeeding the employee’s child to express breast milk for the child. (FE)
Stopped in committee.

2011–12 session: 18

Aug 2, 2012
AB 40: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2011 legislature.
Became law.
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.
Jun 16, 2011
AB 148: Changes affecting state finances in the 2010-11 fiscal year and making an appropriation.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 313: Unclassified division administrators in the state civil service system.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 315: Child care facilities for children of state employees in the city of Madison.
Stopped in committee.
Nov 15, 2011
AB 319: Reductions in cost of compensation or fringe benefits to municipal employers without modifying an existing collective bargaining agreement for purposes of 2011 Wisconsin Act 10.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 338: Collective bargaining for public employees, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 641: Making the transitional jobs program permanent, increasing audit and compliance positions in the Department of Revenue, and making appropriations.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 2, 2012
AB 707: Extensions of collective bargaining agreements covering municipal employers without modifying an existing collective bargaining agreement for purposes of 2011 Wisconsin Act 10 or 2011 Wisconsin Act 32.
Stopped in committee.

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Mar 23, 2012
AR 8: Assistant district attorneys.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 15, 2012
AR 26: Privatization of custodial workers at the capitol and executive office buildings.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 27: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2011 legislature.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 153: Permitting governmental employers who are not participating employers in the Wisconsin Retirement System to be covered in the local government health insurance plan offered by the group insurance board.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 233: Collective bargaining for public employees, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 264: Reductions in cost of compensation or fringe benefits to municipal employers without modifying an existing collective bargaining agreement for purposes of 2011 Wisconsin Act 10.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 372: Inspections of unlicensed child care centers, a hotline to receive reports of alleged unlicensed child care centers, and an unlicensed child care center public information and education campaign.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 567: Pilot farm to school programs and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.

2009–10 session: 32

Apr 28, 2010
AB 30: Employer monitoring of employee electronic mail usage.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 64: Employer monitoring of employee electronic mail usage.
Stopped in committee.
May 26, 2010
AB 75: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2009 legislature.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 78: Judicial discretion in certain John Doe proceedings and the provision of attorney representation of state employees at John Doe proceedings.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Jul 24, 2009
AB 95: Preparation time as a mandatory subject of collective bargaining.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 105: Arbitration and fair-share agreements during collective bargaining negotiations under the Municipal Employment Relations Act.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 16, 2010
AB 128: Authorizing a sheriff to depute certain security officers who are employed by the Department of Military Affairs.
Became law.
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 337: Payment of employee required contributions under the Wisconsin Retirement System.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 395: Criteria for determining indigency for purposes of representation by the State Public Defender and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.

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Apr 28, 2010
AB 441: Factors considered in binding interest arbitration under the Municipal Employment Relations Act.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 450: Final offer limits under the Municipal Employment Relations Act.
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 663: Restricting access to and limiting information contained in the Consolidated Court Automation Programs and providing a penalty.
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.
May 13, 2010
AB 746: Promoting the use of locally grown food in school meals and snacks and granting rule-making authority.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 785: An integrated crime alert network and making an appropriation.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 888: Employment eligibility verification requirements for state and local government employees and state procurement and construction contracts.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 907: Funding postretirement health care benefits of local government employees.
Stopped in committee.
Jun 12, 2009
SB 46: Arbitration and fair-share agreements during collective bargaining negotiations under the Municipal Employment Relations Act.
Became law.
Jun 18, 2009
SB 51: Judicial discretion in certain John Doe proceedings and the provision of attorney representation of state employees at John Doe proceedings.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 67: Preparation time as a mandatory subject of collective bargaining.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
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.
Mar 19, 2010
SB 263: Criteria for determining indigency for purposes of representation by the State Public Defender and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
Became law.
Feb 9, 2010
SB 290: Changes in the regulation of boxing contests, regulating mixed martial arts fighting contests, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 385: Factors considered in binding interest arbitration under the Municipal Employment Relations Act.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 430: Collective bargaining over health care coverage for municipal employees, allowing municipal employers to change health care coverage plan providers, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 26, 2010
SB 477: Treatment of abandoned employee retirement accounts under a retirement system of a 1st class city.
Became law.
May 17, 2010
SB 533: An integrated crime alert network and making an appropriation.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 610: Employment eligibility verification requirements for state and local government employees and state procurement and construction contracts.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SJR 71: Prohibiting the state and local governments from discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, an individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ancestry, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting (first consideration).
Stopped in committee.

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