Bills affecting Housing-insecure 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)

Video monitoring or recording in residential care centers for children and youth, group homes, and shelter care facilities.

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

Increasing the maximum penalty for certain controlled substances offenses if the violation occurs near a homeless shelter and providing a penalty.

Information contained in the Consolidated Court Automation Programs Internet site related to dismissed eviction actions. (FE)

Creating an Office of Civil Legal Aid to be overseen by a Civil Legal Aid Board, providing a right to the appointment of counsel at state expense for residential tenants in eviction actions, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Procedures in eviction actions for noncompliance with stipulated judgments of dismissal. (FE)

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

Actions for relief from extrajudicial eviction in small claims court. (FE)

The defense of waiver in eviction actions.