Bills affecting your community in Wisconsin — 2026 session

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)

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.

Allowing Social Security Disability Insurance recipients to receive concurrent unemployment insurance benefits. (FE)

Exemptions from minimum wage, overtime pay, and recordkeeping requirements for minor league baseball players.

Eligibility to receive occupational credentials for recipients of deferred action under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. (FE)

Repealing the prohibition against local governments enacting or enforcing an eviction moratorium on a landlord. (FE)

Immunity from prosecution for certain crimes based on assisting a victim of sexual assault, extending the time limit for prosecution of second-degree sexual assault, and the standard for terminating residential residency when tenant is the victim of sexual assault.

A long-term care insurance assessment and a long-term care insurance assessment tax credit. (FE)

An appropriation for refundable long-term care insurance assessment credits and making an appropriation. (FE)

Visitation of a long-term care facility resident or hospital patient during a communicable disease outbreak.

Local minimum wage ordinances. (FE)

Minimum wage for all inmates and residents of state correctional institutions and county jails and making an appropriation. (FE)

Pupil discrimination and private schools participating in a parental choice program or the Special Needs Scholarship Program, discrimination based on gender identity or gender expression, and providing a penalty.

A state minimum wage, allowing the enactment of local minimum wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

Limitations on the definition of abortion.

The statewide policy regarding homelessness, an income tax credit for property taxes paid by senior citizens, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Repealing expired programs within the Department of Veterans Affairs; definition, terminology, and grammatical changes for the Department of Veterans Affairs, mental health services for post-traumatic stress disorder; reporting on rules proposed by the Department of Veterans Affairs; asset calculation for determining eligibility for veterans assistance payments; and deceased veterans’ graves (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Veterans Affairs).

Tuition and fee remission or grants for certain veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System, a technical college, or a private nonprofit institution of higher education; and the University of Wisconsin System nonresident tuition exemption for certain veterans. (FE)

A tuition program for higher education students seeking careers in teaching, firefighting, or law enforcement, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Eliminating criminal defenses of adequate provocation, self-defense, or not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect if the claim is based on the victim’s gender identity or sexual orientation.