Bills by subject

University of Wisconsin: Tuition

37 bills and resolutions. 6 became law, 1 was vetoed, and 16 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
SB 532 Course fees at University of Wisconsin System institutions. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor. Last action May 13, 2026
SB 1176 A University of Wisconsin System nonresident tuition exemption. (FE)
Stopped in committee. Last action Apr 24, 2026
AB 1232 A University of Wisconsin System nonresident tuition exemption. (FE)
Stopped in committee. Last action Apr 17, 2026
AB 659 Tuition and fee remission or grants for certain veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System, a technical college, or a private nonprofit institution of higher education; and the University of Wisconsin System nonresident tuition exemption for certain veterans. (FE)
Became law. Last action Apr 2, 2026

Every bill on this subject

2025–26 session: 17

Mar 23, 2026
AB 47: Tuition and fee remission for certain veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System or a technical college. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
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 406: University of Wisconsin System resident undergraduate tuition and fees. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 545: Course fees at University of Wisconsin System institutions. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 579: University of Wisconsin System tuition grant program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 591: Remission of fees for veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System or in a technical college and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 2, 2026
AB 659: Tuition and fee remission or grants for certain veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System, a technical college, or a private nonprofit institution of higher education; and the University of Wisconsin System nonresident tuition exemption for certain veterans. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 30, 2026
AB 1223: A tuition program for higher education students seeking careers in teaching, firefighting, or law enforcement, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 17, 2026
AB 1232: A University of Wisconsin System nonresident tuition exemption. (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.

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Mar 23, 2026
SB 59: Tuition and fee remission for certain veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System or a technical college. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 399: University of Wisconsin System resident undergraduate tuition and fees. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
May 13, 2026
SB 532: Course fees at University of Wisconsin System institutions. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 586: University of Wisconsin System tuition grant program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 587: Remission of fees for veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System or in a technical college and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 640: Tuition and fee remission or grants for certain veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System, a technical college, or a private nonprofit institution of higher education; and the University of Wisconsin System nonresident tuition exemption for certain veterans. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Apr 24, 2026
SB 1176: A University of Wisconsin System nonresident tuition exemption. (FE)
Stopped in committee.

2011–12 session: 8

Aug 2, 2012
AB 40: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2011 legislature.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 133: Remission of fees for veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System or in a technical college and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 141: The Minnesota-Wisconsin student reciprocity agreement, the Wisconsin higher education grant program, and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 143: The Wisconsin higher education grant program, tuition grant program, Lawton minority undergraduate grant program, minority undergraduate retention grant program, and making appropriations.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 241: Differential tuition at certain institutions and colleges of the University of Wisconsin System.
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.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 53: Remission of fees for veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System or in a technical college and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 178: Differential tuition at certain institutions and colleges of the University of Wisconsin System.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.

2009–10 session: 12

May 26, 2010
AB 75: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2009 legislature.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 226: Increases in undergraduate resident tuition and nonallocable segregated fees at the University of Wisconsin System.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 513: The amounts appropriated for tuition grants and for Wisconsin higher education grants for University of Wisconsin system students, technical college students, and tribal college students; grants to technical college districts to reduce unemployment; grants to businesses to make capital expenditures; increasing the total amount of angel investment credits; creating a new individual income tax upper bracket; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 641: A postsecondary education tax credit for businesses; increasing annual limits on angel investment tax credits; awarding grants to the WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc.; business plan competitions and an emerging technology center in the University of Wisconsin System; rural outsourcing grants; requiring the Department of Commerce to award grants to a high-technology business development corporation and grants for converting manufacturing facilities; increasing funding for certain economic development programs; a pilot program providing microloans for the creation of new businesses; increasing funding for certain technical college training program grants; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 702: The veterans tuition reimbursement program.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 738: Limiting nonallocable segregated fee and resident tuition increases at the University of Wisconsin System.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 781: Remission of fees for veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System or in a technical college.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 804: Remission of fees for veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System or in a technical college.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 18: Fee remissions for certain University of Wisconsin System and technical college students.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 85: Eligibility for tuition fee remission for certain veterans and their spouses, surviving spouses, and children.
Stopped in committee.

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