The Wisconsin Educational Assessment and Accountability Reform Act renumbers and amends existing statutes related to educational assessments and accountability reports. It establishes a new framework for evaluating school performance and improvement by utilizing cut scores and performance categories aligned with the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The changes will take effect for the school year beginning on July 1 immediately preceding the effective date of the legislation and will apply to subsequent school years. The act aims to enhance the quality and consistency of educational assessments across the state.

Wisconsin Educational Assessment and Accountability Reform Act

The proposed amendment, to be considered by the 2025 legislature, mandates that no qualified elector may vote without presenting valid photographic identification issued by the state, federal government, or recognized institutions. If an elector cannot provide such identification on election day, they will be allowed to cast a provisional ballot, which will only be counted if valid identification is presented later. The amendment aims to enhance the integrity of the voting process while allowing for exceptions as determined by the legislature. The proposal follows a previous consideration by the 2023 legislature and is set for a public vote in April 2025.

SJR2

Requiring photographic identification to Vote

The session schedule for the 2025-2026 biennial session period.

SJR1

2025-2026 Session Schedule

Senate Bill 374 requires the Department of Revenue (DOR) to conduct a study on the effects of instituting income tax reciprocity between Wisconsin and Minnesota, in conjunction with the Minnesota Department of Revenue, according to procedures specified in the bill. SB 374 establishes requirements applicable to any income tax reciprocity agreement between Wisconsin and Minnesota, including that it be approved by both the Governor and the Joint Committee on Finance.

SB374

Wisconsin Minnesota Income Tax Reciprocity 

This bill requires the Legislative Audit Bureau to conduct a performance audit of election processes following a general election. The bill also requires the Elections Commission to assist the counties and municipalities with the audit. Under the bill, immediately following the state certification of the election results, the commission randomly selects four counties and one city and one village from each of those counties, except that one of the counties must be one of the ten most populous counties in the state. LAB then conducts its audit in the municipalities selected by the commission.

SB736

Mandatory Election Audits

Under current law, married persons filing a joint income tax return may claim an income tax credit equal to 3 percent of the earned income for a taxable year of the spouse with the lower earned income, up to a maximum credit of $480. This bill increases the maximum credit amount to $870

AB1022

Married Couples Tax Credit

This bill increases the amount of the state credit that an individual may claim by increasing the employment-related expense limitation to $10,000 for one qualifying dependent and $20,000 for two or more qualifying dependents.

AB1023

Employment Expense Tax Credit

Proposes a constitutional amendment to Prohibit the governor from using the partial veto to create or increase any tax or fee.

AJR112

No Partial Veto to Raise Taxes

Current law requires school boards to ensure that every administrator holds a license issued by the Department of Public Instruction. Current law provides an exception to this requirement for a school district administrator elected by the school board of a first class city school district (currently, only Milwaukee Public Schools). This bill creates a similar exception for school boards of common, union high, or unified school districts. As a result, under the bill, all school boards are allowed to employ a school district administrator who is not licensed by DPI.

SB335

Removing DPI requirements for School District Administrators

This bill amends the law to make misdemeanor battery into a criminal offense of Felony Battery. 
 
Under current law, the penalty for a Class F felony is a fine not to exceed $25,000 or imprisonment not to exceed 12 years and six months, or both.

SB809

Crime of Battery Penalties

This proposed constitutional amendment, proposed to the 2023 legislature on first consideration, prohibits governmental entities in the state from discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in public employment, public education, public contracting, or public administration.

AJR109

Stop Discrimination in Public Hiring

For tax years beginning after December 31, 2022, 2023 Assembly Bill 480 specifies that no credit may
be claimed for any qualifying acreage on which a photovoltaic solar energy system is located, unless the
solar energy system qualifies as an accessory use, as defined by law.

AB480

Solar Energy Accessory Use

AB 415 creates a commission composed of equal members of Democrats and Republicans, that will be used for the creation of fair legislative maps in the state of Wisconsin.

AB415

Fair Maps Act

This bill prohibits the state from infringing on the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health of their children without demonstrating that the infringement is required by a compelling governmental interest of the highest order as applied to the child, is narrowly tailored, and is not otherwise served by a less restrictive means.  

AB510

Preserving Parents Right

Provides certain guidelines on how a special voting deputy must operate when visiting a facility to help someone fill out their ballot.  Provides penalties for a voting deputies who coerce a citizen to vote a certain way.

AB570

Absentee Ballot Certification Act

Prohibiting firearms merchant category codes in payment card transactions, prohibiting government lists of firearm owners, and providing a penalty.


SB466

PROHIBITING FIREARM CODES ON CREDIT CARD TRANSACTIONS

Under the bill, it is a Class D felony to receive, distribute, produce, possess, or access with intent to view obscene material1 that contains a “depiction of a purported child” engaging in sexually explicit conduct, if both of the following circumstances apply: (1) the person knows that he or she received, distributed, produced, possessed, or accessed the material; and (2) the person knows, or reasonably should know, that the material contains a depiction of a purported child engaging in sexually explicit conduct.

SB314

Providing Penalties for Child Pornography

Bill Prohibits Adults from bringing children(people under 18) to an event where adult participants may expose their intimate parts in a public area.

WI SB477

Protecting our Children from Public Events that Include Nudity

This bill requires technical college governing board members to be United States citizens.

AB545

Legal Technical College District Board Membership

2023 Senate Bill 573 increases the minimum reimbursement amount for annual recertification training from $160 to $320. The bill also requires LESB to provide payment directly to each employing law enforcement agency for the expenses, rather than the political subdivision.

SB573

LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING

Under current law it is a Class C felony to, by use of force or threat to use imminent force, take property from an individual that is owned or under the custody or control of a financial institution. This bill provides that it is also a Class C felony to take such property by creating circumstances that would cause a reasonable person to believe use of force was imminent. A Class C felony is punishable by imprisonment for up to 40 years or a fine of up to $100,000, or both.

SB485

Penalties for Robbing a Financial Institution

AB438 and AB439 allocate $500.8 million over 27 years to repairs and upgrades of the Milwaukee Brewers Stadium.  

The $500.8 million is made up of $365.8 million state funds and $135 million in local contributions. This bill also requires American Family Field to enact an added ticket fee which is hoped to bring in $20.7 Million to repair and upgrade efforts.


AB438

IMPROVEMENT OF BASEBALL PARK FACILITIES

Provides grants to Choose Life Wisconsin and makes an appropriation.

SB345

Choose Life Wisconsin Grant

This bill is the executive budget bill under section 16.47 (1) of the statutes. It contains the governor's recommendations for appropriations for the 2023-25 fiscal biennium.

SB70

Wisconsin Act 19

This Bill proposes a change in the definition of abortion to require informed consent. It specifies that procedures done to prevent the death of a pregnant mother are not to be classified as abortion. This bill also removes the therapeutic abortion exception.

SB343

Definition of Abortion

	This bill prohibits a city, village, town, or county from placing any restriction on the connection or reconnection of a utility service based on the type or source of energy to be provided.


SB49

Protecting Energy Sources in Wisconsin

2023 Wisconsin Act 12 modifies the state’s approach to shared revenue for counties and municipalities,
repeals Wisconsin’s personal property tax, and authorizes the City of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County
to impose sales and use taxes for limited purposes. The act makes various other changes to state law,
including some provisions specific to the City of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County and other
provisions that apply throughout the state.

AB245

Wisconsin Act 12

This bill increases the revenue ceiling to $11,000 for the 2023-24 school year and each school year thereafter. Current law provides a minimum per pupil revenue limit for school districts, known as the “revenue ceiling.” 

SB330

Increases School Choice Revenue Ceiling

Under this bill, no state agency and no local governmental unit may restrict the use or sale of a device based on the energy source that is used to power the device or that is consumed by the device. 

AB141

Protecting Gas Powered Devices

	Under this bill, no state agency and no local governmental unit may restrict the use or sale of motor vehicles based on the energy source used to power the motor vehicle, including use for propulsion or use for powering other functions of the motor vehicle.


AB142

Protecting Gas Powered Vehicles

	This bill requires any state agency or authority that operates, coordinates, or oversees a workforce development program or activity, as defined in the bill, to track and report, at least annually, on the performance of that workforce development program or activity, using the primary indicators of performance under the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.


AB151

The Wisconsin Workforce Metrics Act

It defines the term “serious harm” and amends statutes governing pretrial release to allow a court to impose conditions of release designed to protect members of the community from serious harm. It also permits a court to impose monetary conditions of release based on the totality of the circumstances if an individual is accused of a “violent crime” and defines that term for this purpose.

SB75

2023 Wisconsin Act 3

	This bill reorganizes the carjacking crimes under their own statutory section titled “Carjacking” and changes the statutory references to the carjacking statutes so as to maintain current law. This bill also increases the penalty for carjacking from a Class C felony to a Class B felony 	if the person possesses a weapon and uses or threatens to use force or the weapon. The penalty for a Class C felony is a fine that is not more than $100,000 or imprisonment for not more than 40 years, or both. The penalty for a Class B felony is imprisonment for not more than 60 years.


WI SB76

2023 Wisconsin Act 10

This bill increases the penalty for causing the death of another human being by manufacture, distribution, or delivery of, or by administering or assisting in administering, certain schedule I or schedule II controlled substances, controlled substance analogs, or ketamine or flunitrazepam.  from a Class C to a Class B felony. 	A Class B felony is punishable by imprisonment for up to 60 years.



SB101

2023 Wisconsin Act 29

This act provides tax relief by exempting income from federal restaurant revitalization grants from state income and franchise taxes. Specifically, businesses receiving these grants under the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 are not required to report the grant money as taxable income for Wisconsin state taxes. Additionally, expenses paid directly or indirectly with these grants remain deductible. The tax exemption applies to corporations, partnerships, and tax-option corporations, and the exempted income is treated as tax-exempt for purposes of federal provisions. The act retroactively applies to taxable years starting after December 31, 2020.

AB717

An Income and Franchise Tax Exemption for Restaurant Revitalization Grants

Extension of certain approvals and occupancy permits under the uniform dwelling code, extension of certain approvals that are subject to administrative, judicial, or appellate proceedings, waiver of interest and penalties on late 2021 property tax payments, and waiver of the timely payment requirement for filing certain property tax claims. (FE)

SB254

Property Tax Relief and Dwelling Code Extension Act

This bill gives the state legislature oversight on how certain federal COVID-19 funds are spent in Wisconsin

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