Jobs and Wages

408 bills and resolutions. 61 became law, 14 were vetoed, and 187 never got a public hearing. They span 3 sessions, from the 2009–10 session to the 2025–26 session.

Minimum wage, unemployment, workers' rights. This topic is our grouping of 19 headings from the Legislature's own subject index, listed below. A bill is here only if the Legislature filed it under one of them, and each count comes from the bill's official history.

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

Every bill on this topic

2025–26 session: 170

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.
May 13, 2026
AB 241: Required ratio of journeyworkers to apprentices in apprenticeship programs and contracts.
Vetoed by the governor.
Apr 9, 2026
AB 1203: Net zero emissions, carbon-free and renewable energy standards, and creating an office of sustainability and clean energy, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (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 242: Required ratio of journeyworkers to apprentices in apprenticeship programs and contracts.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1150: Net zero emissions, carbon-free and renewable energy standards, and creating an office of sustainability and clean energy, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 465: Permits authorizing the employment of minors. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 991: Allowing employment of minors in the operation of a pizza-dough roller. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 462: Permits authorizing the employment of minors. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 883: Allowing employment of minors in the operation of a pizza-dough roller. (FE)
Stopped in committee.

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Mar 23, 2026
AB 173: Regulation of pharmacy benefit managers, fiduciary and disclosure requirements on pharmacy benefit managers, and application of prescription drug payments to health insurance cost-sharing requirements. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 220: Discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, education, insurance coverage, national guard, jury duty, and adoption and in the receipt of mental health or vocational rehabilitation services.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 430: Discrimination based on arrest record under the fair employment law.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
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 547: Regulating medical cannabis, the prescription drug monitoring program, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 690: Certain preferential treatment by local governments.
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 1193: Decriminalizing prostitution and creating a sex workers’ bill of rights.
Stopped in committee.
May 26, 2026
AJR 102: Prohibiting governmental entity discrimination (second consideration).
Adopted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 203: Regulation of pharmacy benefit managers, fiduciary and disclosure requirements on pharmacy benefit managers, and application of prescription drug payments to health insurance cost-sharing requirements. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 223: Discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, education, insurance coverage, national guard, jury duty, and adoption and in the receipt of mental health or vocational rehabilitation services.
Stopped in committee.
May 13, 2026
SB 431: Discrimination based on arrest record under the fair employment law.
Vetoed by the governor.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 534: Regulating medical cannabis, the prescription drug monitoring program, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
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 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.
Mar 23, 2026
SJR 94: Prohibiting governmental entity discrimination (second consideration).
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
May 13, 2026
AB 146: Requests for information from employers about unemployment insurance claims.
Vetoed by the governor.
May 13, 2026
AB 162: Workforce metrics. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor.
May 13, 2026
AB 169: Various changes to the unemployment insurance law. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 186: Study of guaranteed employment grant program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 235: Workforce literacy grant program. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
May 13, 2026
AB 269: Delivery network couriers and transportation network drivers, Department of Financial Institutions’ approval to offer portable benefit accounts, providing for insurance coverage, modifying administrative rules related to accident and sickness insurance, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor.
May 13, 2026
AB 281: The employment eligibility verification program and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 297: Performance grants based on improving employment rates for individuals on probation, parole, or extended supervision. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 367: Exemptions from minimum wage, overtime pay, and recordkeeping requirements for minor league baseball players.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 369: A tax credit for employer-provided child care. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 462: Employee misclassification; construction contractor registration; reporting state tax law violations committed by construction industry employers; and granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 470: Eliminating the right-to-work law. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 474: State preemption of local employment regulations. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 476: Prohibiting abusive work environments and creating a cause of action. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 480: Requiring job postings to include salary range and benefits, retaining records of job postings, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 567: Covenants not to compete in employment contracts.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 607: Housing and homelessness; emergency rental assistance program; indigent civil legal services; workforce development; community action agencies; poverty reports; mental health; economic security; reimbursement for nonemergency medical transportation services; urban mass transit aid; lead exposure and abatement services; lead service line replacement; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 30, 2026
AB 651: Various changes to the worker’s compensation law, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 652: Various changes to the unemployment insurance law. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 675: Noncompete clauses for medical practitioners.
Stopped in committee.
May 13, 2026
AB 750: Admission of students to technical college programs.
Vetoed by the governor.
Apr 2, 2026
AB 778: Eligibility for the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional Jobs program. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 794: Independent contractor healthcare workers and healthcare worker platforms.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 889: Creating the Wisconsin Climate Corps program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 3, 2026
AB 1004: Prohibiting education employers from entering into certain agreements related to information about alleged immoral conduct by an employee and civil immunity for information provided to a prospective employer.
Became law.
Jun 16, 2026
AB 1012: The establishment of a family and medical leave insurance program; family leave to care for a family member and for the active duty of a family member; the employers that must allow an employee to take family or medical leave; allowing a local government to adopt ordinances requiring employers to provide leave benefits; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; providing an exemption from rule-making procedures; granting rule-making authority; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1016: Funding for child care provider workforce training and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 2, 2026
AB 1160: Misclassification of employees and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 7, 2026
AB 1179: Creating WisEARNS, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 30, 2026
AB 1180: Prohibitions on postemployment nonsolicitation clauses in employment contracts.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1202: Reporting a contributor’s place of employment.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1229: Prohibitions on nondisparagement clauses in employment contracts.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 151: Requests for information from employers about unemployment insurance claims.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 187: Study of guaranteed employment grant program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 196: Various changes to the unemployment insurance law. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 201: Workforce metrics. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 240: Workforce literacy grant program. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 256: Delivery network couriers and transportation network drivers, Department of Financial Institutions’ approval to offer portable benefit accounts, providing for insurance coverage, modifying administrative rules related to accident and sickness insurance, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
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 302: Performance grants based on improving employment rates for individuals on probation, parole, or extended supervision. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 19, 2026
SB 374: Exemptions from minimum wage, overtime pay, and recordkeeping requirements for minor league baseball players.
Became law.
Apr 6, 2026
SB 376: A tax credit for employer-provided child care. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 458: Eliminating the right-to-work law. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 460: Prohibiting abusive work environments and creating a cause of action. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 464: State preemption of local employment regulations. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 488: Requiring job postings to include salary range and benefits, retaining records of job postings, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 605: Housing and homelessness; emergency rental assistance program; indigent civil legal services; workforce development; community action agencies; poverty reports; mental health; economic security; reimbursement for nonemergency medical transportation services; urban mass transit aid; lead exposure and abatement services; lead service line replacement; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 657: Noncompete clauses for medical practitioners.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 676: Various changes to the worker’s compensation law, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 677: Various changes to the unemployment insurance law. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 767: Eligibility for the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional Jobs program. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 768: Independent contractor healthcare workers and healthcare worker platforms.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1000: Prohibiting education employers from entering into certain agreements related to information about alleged immoral conduct by an employee and civil immunity for information provided to a prospective employer.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Jul 8, 2026
SB 1001: The establishment of a family and medical leave insurance program; family leave to care for a family member and for the active duty of a family member; the employers that must allow an employee to take family or medical leave; allowing a local government to adopt ordinances requiring employers to provide leave benefits; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; providing an exemption from rule-making procedures; granting rule-making authority; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1017: Funding for child care provider workforce training and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 30, 2026
SB 1096: Allowing private individuals, families, and private employers to elect health care coverage through plans offered by the Group Insurance Board, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 7, 2026
SB 1137: Creating WisEARNS, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1157: Reporting a contributor’s place of employment.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 30, 2026
SB 1170: Prohibitions on postemployment nonsolicitation clauses in employment contracts.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1175: Prohibitions on nondisparagement clauses in employment contracts.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1178: Creating the Wisconsin Climate Corps program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SJR 148: Commending employers that permit employees to leave work to perform volunteer emergency medical services duties.
Stopped in committee.
May 13, 2026
AB 461: An income tax subtraction for certain overtime compensation. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1146: Minimum nurse staffing ratios in hospitals, registered nurses’ right to refuse a work assignment, prohibiting mandatory overtime for registered nurses, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 454: An income tax subtraction for certain overtime compensation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1115: Minimum nurse staffing ratios in hospitals, registered nurses’ right to refuse a work assignment, prohibiting mandatory overtime for registered nurses, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 9, 2026
AB 454: A workforce home loan program. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 478: Repealing prohibition on state and local government labor regulation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AJR 16: Recognizing May 1 of each year as St. Joseph the Worker Day in Wisconsin and recognizing and appreciating the dignity of all working men and women in Wisconsin.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 476: A workforce home loan program. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 494: Repealing prohibition on state and local government labor regulation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 24, 2025
SJR 16: Recognizing May 1 of each year as St. Joseph the Worker Day in Wisconsin and recognizing and appreciating the dignity of all working men and women in Wisconsin.
Passed the Senate, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 466: Project labor agreements and public contracts. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1038: An individual income tax subtraction for union dues allocated for education or training. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1052: Prohibiting nonunion employees from receiving nonnegotiated benefits from union.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1200: Contributions by corporations, cooperative associations, labor organizations, and federally recognized American Indian Tribes.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AJR 53: Commemorating the Bay View labor strike and tragedy.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 465: Project labor agreements and public contracts. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1156: Contributions by corporations, cooperative associations, labor organizations, and federally recognized American Indian Tribes.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 164: Various changes to the unemployment insurance law and federal Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment grants. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
May 13, 2026
AB 167: Various changes to the unemployment insurance law and requiring approval by the Joint Committee on Finance of certain federally authorized unemployment benefits. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor.
May 13, 2026
AB 168: Various changes to the unemployment insurance law. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 467: Unemployment insurance work search and registration and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 468: Various changes to the unemployment insurance and worker’s compensation laws. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 469: The unemployment insurance waiting period.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 508: Allowing Social Security Disability Insurance recipients to receive concurrent unemployment insurance benefits. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 532: Unemployment insurance benefits. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 622: Various changes to the unemployment insurance law. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
May 13, 2026
AB 650: Funding for identity verification under the unemployment insurance law and making an appropriation. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 197: Various changes to the unemployment insurance law and federal Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment grants. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 198: Various changes to the unemployment insurance law and requiring approval by the Joint Committee on Finance of certain federally authorized unemployment benefits. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 200: Various changes to the unemployment insurance law. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 457: The unemployment insurance waiting period.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 471: Unemployment insurance work search and registration and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 486: Various changes to the unemployment insurance and worker’s compensation laws. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 500: Various changes to the unemployment insurance law. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 507: Allowing Social Security Disability Insurance recipients to receive concurrent unemployment insurance benefits. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 515: Unemployment insurance benefits. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 675: Funding for identity verification under the unemployment insurance law and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 803: Workforce training grants. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
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 23, 2026
SB 803: Workforce training grants. (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
AB 618: A sales and use tax exemption and an income and franchise tax credit for nuclear energy facilities. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 27, 2026
AB 930: Correcting a cross-reference related to enforcement of regulations applicable to earned wage access service providers (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Financial Institutions).
Became law.
Apr 3, 2026
AB 1025: Earned wage access services.
Became law.
Apr 3, 2026
AB 1148: Grants to school districts to pay student teachers an hourly wage, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 637: A sales and use tax exemption and an income and franchise tax credit for nuclear energy facilities. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 909: Correcting a cross-reference related to enforcement of regulations applicable to earned wage access service providers (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Financial Institutions).
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1028: Earned wage access services.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 9, 2026
SB 1109: Grants to school districts to pay student teachers an hourly wage, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 38: An income tax exemption for cash tips paid to an employee. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 481: Local minimum wage ordinances. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 726: Minimum wage for all inmates and residents of state correctional institutions and county jails and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1158: A state minimum wage, allowing the enactment of local minimum wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1169: A state minimum wage, allowing the enactment of local minimum wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
May 13, 2026
SB 36: An income tax exemption for cash tips paid to an employee. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 463: Local minimum wage ordinances. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 743: Minimum wage for all inmates and residents of state correctional institutions and county jails and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1123: A state minimum wage, allowing the enactment of local minimum wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1126: A state minimum wage, allowing the enactment of local minimum wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 464: Prevailing wage, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 6, 2026
AB 722: Large energy customer fees; electric utility very large customer class; a renewable resource tariff; building requirements for data centers; water usage by large customers; required pay rate on large-scale data center projects; and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 490: Prevailing wage, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 6, 2026
SB 729: Large energy customer fees; electric utility very large customer class; a renewable resource tariff; building requirements for data centers; water usage by large customers; required pay rate on large-scale data center projects; and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
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.
Aug 11, 2025
AB 232: Transferring adjudicatory functions for worker’s compensation from the Division of Hearings and Appeals in the Department of Administration to the Department of Workforce Development. (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 229: Transferring adjudicatory functions for worker’s compensation from the Division of Hearings and Appeals in the Department of Administration to the Department of Workforce Development. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 357: Technical education equipment grants. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
May 13, 2026
AB 366: Emotional support animals in housing; falsely claiming that an animal is a service animal; and providing a penalty. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor.
May 13, 2026
AB 582: Dual enrollment programs, creating the Council on Dual Enrollment, and transfer of postsecondary course credits. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 766: The commercial driver training grant program. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 27, 2026
AB 936: Definition of personal assistance services for the purposes of vocational rehabilitation; updating reference to federal vocational rehabilitation law; updating references to the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014; updating reference to federal law for certificate of registration as a migrant labor contractor; updating statutory reference to federal Social Security Act; and updating references to federal law for safety standards for vehicles used to transport traveling sales crews (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Workforce Development).
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1097: Authorizing a city, village, town, or county to establish a fair housing department to assist and educate residents and enforce local fair housing ordinances, providing a grant program, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 25, 2026
AB 1105: Notice to employees of full-service pharmacies and major grocery stores of permanent business closings and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 327: Emotional support animals in housing; falsely claiming that an animal is a service animal; and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Apr 9, 2026
SB 366: Technical education equipment grants. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 591: Dual enrollment programs, creating the Council on Dual Enrollment, and transfer of postsecondary course credits. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Apr 6, 2026
SB 783: The commercial driver training grant program. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 915: Definition of personal assistance services for the purposes of vocational rehabilitation; updating reference to federal vocational rehabilitation law; updating references to the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014; updating reference to federal law for certificate of registration as a migrant labor contractor; updating statutory reference to federal Social Security Act; and updating references to federal law for safety standards for vehicles used to transport traveling sales crews (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Workforce Development).
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1068: Notice to employees of full-service pharmacies and major grocery stores of permanent business closings and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.

2011–12 session: 108

Mar 23, 2012
AB 445: The hours that a minor may work.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AJR 98: Stating the legislature's support for farm work.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 355: The hours that a minor may work.
Stopped in committee.
Feb 24, 2012
SJR 57: Stating the legislature's support for farm work.
Passed the Senate, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 183: Applicability of the prevailing wage law; the thresholds for applicability of that law; calculation of the prevailing wage rate; the treatment of volunteers, truck drivers, subjourneypersons, and incidental work under that law; the submission to the Department of Workforce Development of payroll records of persons performing work that is subject to that law; the inspection of those records; and the remedies for a violation of that law.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 587: An income tax and franchise tax credit for training apprentices.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 612: Experience requirements for real estate brokers and granting rule-making authority.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 448: An income tax and franchise tax credit for training apprentices.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 455: Experience requirements for real estate brokers and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 535: Experience requirements for real estate brokers and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.

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Aug 2, 2012
AB 40: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2011 legislature.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 68: Mandatory reporting of child abuse or neglect by school district employees; training in child abuse and neglect identification, laws, and procedures for those employees; retaliation against a person who reports child abuse or neglect in good faith, and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 122: Permitting an educational agency to refuse to employ or to terminate from employment an unpardoned felon.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 286: Permitting an employer to refuse to employ or to bar or terminate from employment an individual who has been convicted of a felony and who has not been pardoned for that felony and preempting cities, villages, towns, and counties from adopting provisions concerning employment discrimination based on arrest or conviction record that prohibit activity that is allowed under the state fair employment law.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
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 344: Employment discrimination based on employment status.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 350: Employment discrimination based on credit history.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 436: Prohibiting consideration of the conviction record of an applicant for employment before the applicant has been selected for an interview.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 578: Employment discrimination based on credit history.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 729: Prohibiting discrimination in employment against an individual for signing or refusing to sign a recall petition.
Stopped in committee.
Nov 28, 2011
SB 42: Mandatory reporting of child abuse or neglect by school district employees; training in child abuse and neglect identification, laws, and procedures for those employees; retaliation against a person who reports child abuse or neglect in good faith, and granting rule-making authority.
Became law.
Nov 28, 2011
SB 86: Permitting an educational agency to refuse to employ or to terminate from employment an unpardoned felon.
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 207: Permitting an employer to refuse to employ or to bar or terminate from employment an individual who has been convicted of a felony and who has not been pardoned for that felony and preempting cities, villages, towns, and counties from adopting provisions concerning employment discrimination based on arrest or conviction record that prohibit activity that is allowed under the state fair employment law.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 246: Employment discrimination based on credit history.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 249: Employment discrimination based on employment status.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 309: Prohibiting consideration of the conviction record of an applicant for employment before the applicant has been selected for an interview.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 566: Prohibiting discrimination in employment against an individual for signing or refusing to sign a recall petition.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 16, 2012
SB 572: False claims against the state or a local government and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 3: Tax incentives for job creation, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 17: Tax benefits for hiring new employees and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 41: Preemption of city, village, town, or county ordinances requiring employers to provide employees with leave from employment to deal with family, medical, or health issues.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 129: Creation of the Wisconsin Venture Capital Authority, creation of the badger jobs fund and the jobs now fund certification program, both of which are to be administered by the Wisconsin Venture Capital Authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 213: Adopting federal law as it relates to excluding from an employee's income certain payments from an employer related to medical care.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 220: An income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 277: Adopting federal law as it relates to excluding from an employee's income certain payments from an employer related to medical care.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 280: Exempting from income taxation certain employer-paid fringe benefits for mass transit expenses.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 310: Various changes in the unemployment insurance law, providing a penalty, and making appropriations.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 336: Opportunities to win prizes that are received by employees as compensation from employers.
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.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 457: Various changes in the unemployment insurance law.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 462: Eligibility of certain employees who are affected by labor disputes for unemployment compensation benefits.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 504: Concealment of benefit claim information, availability for work, interest on delinquent payments, and the composition and authority of appeal tribunals under the unemployment insurance law.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 513: A program to employ 10,000 individuals in southeastern Wisconsin.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 556: Requiring participation in the food stamp employment and training program.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 572: Tax credit programs administered by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
May 10, 2012
AB 736: School conference and activities leave.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AJR 79: Expression of support by members of the Wisconsin assembly for the American Jobs Act.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 3: Tax incentives for job creation, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority.
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.
May 9, 2011
SB 23: Preemption of city, village, town, or county ordinances requiring employers to provide employees with leave from employment to deal with family, medical, or health issues.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 32: Ordinances establishing standards for places of employment and public buildings.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 94: Creation of the Wisconsin Venture Capital Authority, creation of the badger jobs fund and the jobs now fund certification program, both of which are to be administered by the Wisconsin Venture Capital Authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 137: Making companies that hire persons who are not legally in the United States ineligible for certain tax exemptions, governmental contracts, grants, and loans, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties.
Stopped in committee.
Dec 12, 2011
SB 151: Opportunities to win prizes that are received by employees as compensation from employers.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 164: An income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 171: Exempting from income taxation certain employer-paid fringe benefits for mass transit expenses.
Stopped in committee.
Nov 7, 2011
SB 203: Adopting federal law as it relates to excluding from an employee's income certain payments from an employer related to medical care.
Became law.
Apr 5, 2012
SB 219: Various changes in the unemployment insurance law, providing a penalty, and making appropriations.
Became law.
Apr 16, 2012
SB 275: Membership of technical college district boards.
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 292: Reporting of the principal place of employment of certain individuals who make political contributions.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 346: Eligibility of certain employees who are affected by labor disputes for unemployment compensation benefits.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 10, 2012
SB 417: Concealment of benefit claim information, availability for work, interest on delinquent payments, and the composition and authority of appeal tribunals under the unemployment insurance law.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 477: Tax credit programs administered by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 495: The return of federal funds to the federal government.
Stopped in committee.
Aug 16, 2012
SB 559: Payment of unemployment insurance benefits under a work-sharing program.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SJR 34: Collective bargaining by employees (first consideration).
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SJR 67: Recognizing that it is the right, duty, and privilege of the legislature to control the expenditure of moneys appropriated by law.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 29: Collective bargaining unit assignments under the State Employment Labor Relations Act.
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
SB 13: Collective bargaining unit assignments under the State Employment Labor Relations Act.
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
AB 591: Political disbursements and obligations by corporations, cooperative associations, and labor organizations and the scope of regulated activity and reporting of certain activity under the campaign finance law.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AR 6: Commemorating the Bay View labor strike and massacre.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 446: Political disbursements and obligations by corporations, cooperative associations, and labor organizations and the scope of regulated activity and reporting of certain activity under the campaign finance law.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 343: Grants to technical college districts to reduce unemployment; 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.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 376: Authorizing the sale or transfer of tax credits in counties experiencing high rates of unemployment.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 437: An income and franchise tax credit for hiring unemployed disabled veterans.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 201: An income and franchise tax credit for hiring unemployed individuals.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 236: Grants to technical college districts to reduce unemployment; 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.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 291: Authorizing the sale or transfer of tax credits in counties experiencing high rates of unemployment.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Apr 6, 2012
SB 369: An income and franchise tax credit for hiring unemployed disabled veterans.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 197: Payment of extended unemployment insurance benefits during certain periods in this state.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 230: Deletion of the waiting period for collection of unemployment insurance benefits.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 412: Requiring the Department of Workforce Development to notify the local workforce development board when a claimant applies for unemployment insurance benefits.
Stopped in committee.
May 23, 2012
AB 450: Participation in certain training by unemployment insurance claimants, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 143: The Wisconsin on indicator for unemployment insurance extended benefit purposes.
Stopped in committee.
Aug 5, 2011
SB 147: Payment of extended unemployment insurance benefits during certain periods in this state.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 352: Participation in certain training by unemployment insurance claimants, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 424: Requiring the Department of Workforce Development, when a claimant applies for unemployment insurance benefits, to notify the local workforce development board, and the job center, serving the area where the claimant resides.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 256: A grant to Milwaukee County to assist men of color in obtaining employment and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 575: Directing the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation to develop a workforce training program and authorizing a technical college district board to obtain a state trust fund loan to provide workforce training.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 128: The amount of the exemption from income tax withholding requirements for employees of a county fair association.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 89: The amount of the exemption from income tax withholding requirements for employees of a county fair association.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 281: A state minimum wage, permitting the enactment of local living wage ordinances, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 187: A state minimum wage, permitting the enactment of local living wage ordinances, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 91: The cost threshold for applicability of the prevailing wage law to a highway, road, street, bridge, sanitary sewer, or water main project contracted by a town.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 233: An exemption from the prevailing wage law for a public works project that is not less than 85 percent privately funded in which the completed facility is dedicated to the state or a local governmental unit for conservation, recreational, or educational purposes.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
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
SB 46: The cost threshold for applicability of the prevailing wage law to a highway, road, street, bridge, sanitary sewer, or water main project contracted by a town.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 230: An exemption from the prevailing wage law for a public works project that is not less than 85 percent privately funded in which the completed facility is dedicated to the state or a local governmental unit for conservation, recreational, or educational purposes.
Stopped in committee.
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.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 182: Assignment of income, prizes, and earnings to pay a municipal court judgment and prohibiting municipal electric or water utilities from collecting certain utility arrearages from owners of rental properties as property liens.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 443: Excluding sports officials from coverage under the worker's compensation law.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 499: Various changes to the worker's compensation law, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 5, 2012
SB 409: Various changes to the worker's compensation law, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 450: Collecting workforce survey information from health care providers.
Stopped in committee.

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May 26, 2010
AB 75: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2009 legislature.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 797: Apprentice contracts, the appointment and composition of the Wisconsin Apprenticeship Council, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 928: Licensing of individuals using cranes and heavy equipment, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 19, 2010
SB 168: Supervision of barber or cosmetologist apprentices.
Became law.
May 13, 2010
SB 586: Apprentice contracts, the appointment and composition of the Wisconsin Apprenticeship Council, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 665: Licensing of individuals using cranes and heavy equipment, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 14: The regulation of traveling sales crews, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing penalties.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 234: An income and franchise tax for hiring certain individuals.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 483: The employment of minors 12 years of age or older by nonprofit organizations in and around the homes of elderly persons and persons with disabilities to perform snow shoveling, lawn mowing, leaf raking, and other similar work usual to those homes.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 528: The regulation of traveling sales crews that solicit contributions for advocacy or political organizations.
Stopped in committee.

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Apr 1, 2009
SB 4: The regulation of traveling sales crews, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing penalties.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 295: Permitting a minor to present musical entertainment or perform in a theatrical performance in a roadhouse, cabaret, dance hall, night club, tavern, or similar place.
Stopped in committee.
Dec 4, 2009
SB 349: The employment of minors 12 years of age or older by nonprofit organizations in and around the homes of elderly persons and persons with disabilities to perform snow shoveling, lawn mowing, leaf raking, and other similar work usual to those homes.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 9: A requirement that all employers in this state grant a paid leave of absence on Veterans Day to employees who are veterans.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 21: Discharge from employment of a passenger-for-hire vehicle operator solely on the basis of having been involved in a single motor vehicle accident.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 22: Prohibiting discrimination in housing because of arrest or conviction record, making it a Class I felony to discriminate in employment or housing because of arrest or conviction record, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 30: Employer monitoring of employee electronic mail usage.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
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 64: Employer monitoring of employee electronic mail usage.
Stopped in committee.
Oct 30, 2009
AB 132: A requirement that an employer grant an unpaid leave of absence to allow an employee to participate in an emergency service operation of the Civil Air Patrol and prohibiting discrimination in employment based on Civil Air Patrol membership.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 152: Mandatory overtime hours and on-call time worked by health care workers and providing penalties.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 367: Employment discrimination based on credit history.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 464: A requirement that an employer permit an employee who is a volunteer fire fighter, emergency medical technician, first responder, or ambulance driver for a volunteer fire department or fire company, a public agency, or a nonprofit corporation to be late for or absent from work if the lateness or absence is due to the employee responding to an emergency that begins before the employee is required to report to work.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 624: The use of the terms college, university, state, and Wisconsin in the name of a school; the issuing, manufacture, or use of a false academic credential; the false use of a legitimate academic credential; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
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 831: Prohibiting discrimination against an employee who declines to attend an employer-sponsored meeting or to participate in any communication with the employer or with an agent, representative, or designee of the employer, the primary purpose of which is to communicate the opinion of the employer about religious or political matters.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 854: Prohibiting consideration of any conviction record of an applicant for employment before the applicant has been selected for an interview.
Stopped in committee.
May 13, 2010
AB 929: Willful misclassification of an employee as a nonemployee by a person engaged in the painting or drywall finishing of buildings or other structures with intent to evade the laws related to income tax withholding, worker's compensation, unemployment insurance, or employment discrimination and providing a penalty.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 945: Prohibiting any limitation on the rights, remedies, or procedures that are provided to an individual or class of individuals under the law prohibiting discrimination in employment.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 11: A requirement that all employers in this state grant a paid leave of absence on Veterans Day to employees who are veterans.
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 108: Mandatory overtime hours and on-call time worked by health care workers and providing penalties.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 275: Employment discrimination based on credit history.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 5, 2010
SB 308: A requirement that an employer permit an employee who is a volunteer fire fighter, emergency medical technician, first responder, or ambulance driver for a volunteer fire department or fire company, a public agency, or a nonprofit corporation to be late for or absent from work if the lateness or absence is due to the employee responding to an emergency that begins before the employee is required to report to work.
Became law.
May 13, 2010
SB 431: The use of the terms college, university, state, and Wisconsin in the name of a school; the issuing, manufacture, or use of a false academic credential; the false use of a legitimate academic credential; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty.
Became law.
May 13, 2010
SB 585: Prohibiting discrimination against an employee who declines to attend an employer-sponsored meeting or to participate in any communication with the employer or with an agent, representative, or designee of the employer, the primary purpose of which is to communicate the opinion of the employer about religious or political matters.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 612: Prohibiting consideration of any conviction record of an applicant for employment before the applicant has been selected for an interview.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 669: Willful misclassification of an employee as a nonemployee by a person engaged in the painting or drywall finishing of buildings or other structures with intent to evade the laws related to income tax withholding, worker's compensation, unemployment insurance, or employment discrimination and providing a penalty.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
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.
May 17, 2010
AB 32: Extending the employer notification program administered by the Department of Transportation to noncommercial motor vehicle drivers.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 40: The filing of a wage claim or the bringing of a wage claim action by a collective bargaining representative on behalf of an employee and the priority of a wage claim lien over a prior lien of a commercial lending institution and over the rights of a purchaser of any property of the employer.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 53: Making companies that employ unauthorized aliens ineligible for certain tax exemptions, governmental contracts, grants, and loans, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 91: An income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 110: Access to employment records of candidates for law enforcement positions.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 116: School conference and activities leave.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
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 252: Prohibiting smoking in indoor areas, in sports arenas, and in public conveyances and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 253: Prohibiting smoking in indoor areas, in sports arenas, in public conveyances, and at certain outdoor locations and providing a penalty.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
May 18, 2009
AB 255: Eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits and payment of extended benefits; excluding recovery and reinvestment act moneys from the calculation of expenditure restraint payments; eligibility for participation in the programs of a community action agency; financial assistance under the Clean Water Fund Program and the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program; the confidentiality of pupil records provided to the Department of Public Instruction; financial assistance for criminal justice programs; authorizing political subdivisions to make residential energy efficiency improvement loans and impose special charges for the loans; definition of low-income household under energy and weatherization assistance programs; eligibility and notice changes for state continuation of coverage for health insurance; changes to enterprise zone jobs credits; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation.
Became law.
Dec 2, 2009
AB 266: The provision of support services information to employees who are affected by a business closing or mass layoff and providing a penalty.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 294: A lifelong learning accounts program and creating income tax modifications and an income tax credit for contributions and withdrawals related to lifelong learning accounts, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 336: Immunity from liability for, and disclosure of patient information by, a health care provider, health care facility, or employee of a health care provider or health care facility that, in good faith, reports or provides information about a violation of the law or of a clinical or ethical standard, unprofessional conduct, or negligence in treating a patient by a health care provider, health care facility, or employee or former employee of a health care provider or health care facility.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 368: Providing descriptions of claims that exceed $10,000.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 586: Reimbursement of a governmental unit that provides public assistance to pay medical costs occasioned by an injury for which worker's compensation is claimed and payment of a percentage of that reimbursement to an injured employee's attorney who obtains an award of worker's compensation for that injury.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 649: Goals for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, for construction of zero net energy buildings and for energy conservation; information, analyses, reports, education, and training concerning greenhouse gas emissions and climate change; energy efficiency and renewable resource programs; renewable energy requirements of electric utilities and retail cooperatives; requiring electric utilities to purchase renewable energy from certain renewable facilities in their service territories; authority of the Public Service Commission over nuclear power plants; motor vehicle emission limitations; a low carbon standard for transportation fuels; the brownfield site assessment grant program, the main street program, the brownfields grant program, the forward innovation fund, grants to local governments for planning activities, the transportation facilities economic assistance and development program, a model parking ordinance; surface transportation planning by the Department of Transportation and metropolitan planning organizations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; environmental evaluations for transportation projects; idling limits for certain vehicles; energy conservation codes for public buildings, places of employment, one- and two-family dwellings, and agricultural facilities; design standards for state buildings; energy efficiency standards for certain consumer audio and video devices, boiler inspection requirements; greenhouse gas emissions and energy use by certain state agencies and state assistance to school districts in achieving energy efficiencies; creating an exception to local levy limits for amounts spent on energy efficiency measures; creating an energy crop reserve program; identification of private forest land, promoting sequestration of carbon in forests, qualifying practices and cost-share requirements under the forest grant program established by the Department of Natural Resources; air pollution permits for certain stationary sources reducing greenhouse gas emissions; allocating a portion of existing tax-exempt industrial development revenue bonding to clean energy manufacturing facilities and renewable power generating facilities; requiring a report on certain programs to limit greenhouse gas emissions; granting rule-making authority; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; and providing a penalty.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 27, 2010
AB 709: Requiring access to toilet facilities in a retail establishment, immunity from civil liability related to use of the toilet facilities, and providing penalties.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 817: Employer-assisted housing.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 853: Tax benefits for hiring new employees and granting rule-making authority.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 868: An income and franchise tax credit for shipbuilding.
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.
May 17, 2010
AB 898: Trial job program and transitional jobs demonstration project and making an appropriation.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 904: Loans to manufacturing businesses for energy improvements, job creation, retooling, or clean energy production; the administration of energy utility programs; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; requiring the exercise of emergency rule-making procedures; and making appropriations.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 939: Compliance by employers with certain laws whose enforcement depends on the proper classification of persons as employees or nonemployees and providing penalties.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 968: Authorizing the governor to award grants and loans for development projects, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations.
Stopped in committee.
May 20, 2010
AB 969: Income and franchise tax deductions for full-time jobs.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 2: The filing of a wage claim or the bringing of a wage claim action by a collective bargaining representative on behalf of an employee and the priority of a wage claim lien over a prior lien of a commercial lending institution and over the rights of a purchaser of any property of the employer.
Passed the Senate, then stopped.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 53: Extending the employer notification program administered by the Department of Transportation to noncommercial motor vehicle drivers.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 56: An income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 82: Access to employment records of candidates for law enforcement positions.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 86: School conference and activities leave.
Stopped in committee.
May 20, 2009
SB 181: Prohibiting smoking in indoor areas, in sports arenas, in public conveyances, and at certain outdoor locations and providing a penalty.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 183: The provision of support services information to employees who are affected by a business closing or mass layoff and providing a penalty.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 187: An income and franchise tax credit for wages paid to an employee who is deployed or called to active duty with the national guard or a reserve unit of the U.S. armed forces.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 189: Eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits and payment of extended benefits; excluding recovery and reinvestment act moneys from the calculation of expenditure restraint payments; eligibility for participation in the programs of a community action agency; financial assistance under the Clean Water Fund Program and the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program; the confidentiality of pupil records provided to the Department of Public Instruction; financial assistance for criminal justice programs; authorizing political subdivisions to make residential energy efficiency improvement loans and impose special charges for the loans; definition of low-income household under energy and weatherization assistance programs; eligibility and notice changes for state continuation of coverage for health insurance; changes to enterprise zone jobs credits; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation.
Passed the Senate, then stopped.
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 246: A lifelong learning accounts program and creating income tax modifications and an income tax credit for contributions and withdrawals related to lifelong learning accounts, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 450: Goals for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, for construction of zero net energy buildings and for energy conservation; information, analyses, reports, education, and training concerning greenhouse gas emissions and climate change; energy efficiency and renewable resource programs; renewable energy requirements of electric utilities and retail cooperatives; requiring electric utilities to purchase renewable energy from certain renewable facilities in their service territories; authority of the Public Service Commission over nuclear power plants; motor vehicle emission limitations; a low carbon standard for transportation fuels; the brownfield site assessment grant program, the main street program, the brownfields grant program, the forward innovation fund, grants to local governments for planning activities, the transportation facilities economic assistance and development program, a model parking ordinance; surface transportation planning by the Department of Transportation and metropolitan planning organizations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; environmental evaluations for transportation projects; idling limits for certain vehicles; energy conservation codes for public buildings, places of employment, one- and two-family dwellings, and agricultural facilities; design standards for state buildings; energy efficiency standards for certain consumer audio and video devices, boiler inspection requirements; greenhouse gas emissions and energy use by certain state agencies and state assistance to school districts in achieving energy efficiencies; creating an exception to local levy limits for amounts spent on energy efficiency measures; creating an energy crop reserve program; identification of private forest land, promoting sequestration of carbon in forests, qualifying practices and cost-share requirements under the forest grant program established by the Department of Natural Resources; air pollution permits for certain stationary sources reducing greenhouse gas emissions; allocating a portion of existing tax-exempt industrial development revenue bonding to clean energy manufacturing facilities and renewable power generating facilities; requiring a report on certain programs to limit greenhouse gas emissions; granting rule-making authority; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 508: Exempting from income taxation certain employer-paid fringe benefits for mass transit expenses.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 534: Employer-assisted housing.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 539: Tax incentives for job creation.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
May 17, 2010
SB 552: Consideration for the purpose of gambling.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 600: Making companies that hire illegal aliens ineligible for certain tax exemptions, governmental contracts, grants, and loans, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 621: Tax benefits for hiring new employees and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
May 14, 2010
SB 651: Loans to manufacturing businesses for energy improvements, job creation, retooling, or clean energy production; the administration of energy utility programs; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; requiring the exercise of emergency rule-making procedures; and making appropriations.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 653: Trial job program and transitional jobs demonstration project and making an appropriation.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
May 13, 2010
SB 672: Compliance by employers with certain laws whose enforcement depends on the proper classification of persons as employees or nonemployees and providing penalties.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 286: Professional employer organizations and professional employer groups.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 716: Professional employer organizations.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Jul 10, 2009
SB 216: Professional employer organizations and professional employer groups.
Became law.
Mar 19, 2010
SB 504: Professional employer organizations.
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 450: Final offer limits under the Municipal Employment Relations Act.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 27, 2010
AB 560: Remedial statutory changes affecting the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (suggested as remedial legislation by the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission).
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 919: Creating a qualified economic offer for school district professional employees in the arbitration process and school board selection of the group health benefits provider for school district employees.
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
AB 829: Applicability of the prevailing wage law to publicly funded private construction projects and to regional transit authorities, the threshold for applicability of that law to a project of public works, the submission to the Department of Workforce Development of payroll records of persons performing work that is subject to that law, the inspection of those records, and the remedies for a violation of that law.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 30, 2010
SB 696: Applicability of the prevailing wage law to publicly funded private construction projects and to regional transit authorities, the threshold for applicability of that law to a project of public works, the submission to the Department of Workforce Development of payroll records of persons performing work that is subject to that law, the inspection of those records, and the remedies for a violation of that law.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 36: Liability of the state for a violation of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, Fair Labor Standards Act, or Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 or of Title I of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 467: Creating an optional holiday for state employees to observe the birthday of Cesar E. Chavez.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 19: Liability of the state for a violation of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, Fair Labor Standards Act, or Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 or of Title I of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 2, 2009
SB 62: State finances and appropriations and making diverse other changes in the statutes.
Became law.
May 13, 2010
SB 523: Unfair labor practices in violation of collective bargaining rights.
Became law.
Dec 15, 2009
AB 172: Requiring instruction in public schools on the history of organized labor in America and the collective bargaining process.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AJR 55: Secret ballot for employee representation elections (first consideration).
Stopped in committee.
Nov 10, 2009
AJR 86: The life and public service of Rudy John Kuzel.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Apr 28, 2010
AR 28: Commemorating the Bay View labor strike and massacre.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 135: Requiring instruction in public schools on the history of organized labor in America and the collective bargaining process.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SJR 30: Memorializing Congress to not enact the Employee Free Choice Act.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SJR 36: Secret ballot for employee representation elections (first consideration).
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SR 5: Memorializing Congress to enact the Employee Free Choice Act.
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.
Jan 29, 2009
AB 5: Payment of Wisconsin supplemental and extended unemployment insurance benefits in this state.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 487: Various changes in the unemployment insurance law and providing a penalty.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
May 13, 2010
AB 884: Various changes in the unemployment insurance law and providing a penalty.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 15: Payment of Wisconsin supplemental and extended unemployment insurance benefits in this state.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 366: Various changes in the unemployment insurance law and providing a penalty.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 649: Various changes in the unemployment insurance law and providing a penalty.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 499: Community supervision services in the Department of Corrections.
Stopped in committee.
May 11, 2010
AB 771: A grant to Wisconsin Workforce Development Association from the Department of Commerce and making an appropriation.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 317: Community supervision services in the Department of Corrections.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 361: The amount of the exemption from income tax withholding requirements for employees of a county fair association.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 41: A state minimum wage, permitting the enactment of local living wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 803: Exempting from the state minimum wage law an individual engaged on a seasonal basis in performing services for a ski resort that are directly related to skiing.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 885: Creation of a wage council to study and make recommendations concerning increases in the living wage, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 1: A state minimum wage, permitting the enactment of local living wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority.
Passed the Senate, then stopped.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 167: The inapplicability of the prevailing wage law to projects in which the construction is contracted for by a private owner or developer and the completed projected is acquired by a local governmental unit or state agency.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 706: Various changes to the worker's compensation law.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 26, 2010
SB 522: Various changes to the worker's compensation law.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 293: Collection of workforce data on registered nurse and licensed practical nurse license renewal forms.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 245: Collection of workforce data on registered nurse and licensed practical nurse license renewal forms.
Stopped in committee.

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