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Welcome to the Capitol Insights: Monday Morning Report!


These emails give you a look at the legislative calendar for the week ahead as well as other legislative and executive branch engagement opportunities.


In addition, these reports include an aggregation of bills that have been introduced during the previous week, as well as draft bills that are being circulated for co-sponsorship.

 

In this week's report:


  • Committee Schedule for the Week
  • Co-Sponsorship Memos
  • Introduced Bills
  • Fundraising Calendar

COMMITTEE SCHEDULE


Monday, March 2

Senate Committee on Transportation and Local Government

Executive Session at 12:00 PM


Senate Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry

Public Hearing at 3:00 PM


Tuesday, March 3

Senate Committee on Education 

Public Hearing at 9:00 AM


Senate Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families

Public Hearing at 9:30 AM


Senate Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety

Executive Session at 10:00 AM


Senate Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development

Public Hearing at 10:30 AM


Joint Committee on Finance

13.10 Meeting at 10:30 AM

Executive Session at 10:31 AM


Wednesday, March 4

Senate Committee on Utilities, Technology, and Tourism

Public Hearing at 11:00 AM


Thursday, March 5

No meetings currently scheduled.


Friday, March 6

No meetings currently scheduled.

CO-SPONSORSHIP MEMOS

LRB #

Author

Relating To

Memo

Deadline

184

Subeck,

Roys

Firearm transfers and possession

that are prohibited under federal

law

LRB-184

Memo

2/27

3155

Roys,

Johnson

Weight limits for certain vehicles

transporting maple sap or syrup

LRB-3155

Memo

3/6

3413

Larson,

Ratcliff,

Hesselbein,

Hong,

Subeck

The Nurse Staffing and Patient

Protection Act

LRB-3413 Memo

3/4

5205

Palmeri,

Rivera-Wagner,

Spreitzer

Funding for passenger rail

operations and making an

appropriation

LRB-5205 Memo

2/27

5643

Hesselbein,

Habush-Sinykin,

Roys,

Udell,

Joers,

Bare

Permitting certain qualified

individuals to make a request for

medication for the purpose of

ending their lives and providing a

penalty

LRB-5643 Memo

3/5

5697

Wall,

Brown

Securitization of power plants

LRB-5697 Memo

3/4

6044

Drake,

Johnson,

Madison,

et.al.

Slavery or involuntary servitude

in punishment of a crime (first

consideration)

LRB-6044 Memo

2/27

6168

Ratcliff,

et.al.

A state minimum wage, allowing

the enactment of local minimum

wage ordinances, and granting

rule-making authority

LRB-6168 Memo

2/27

6198

Kapenga,

Behnke

Creating the penalty of death or

life imprisonment for persons

who are convicted of certain

child sex offenses, providing an

exemption from emergency rule

procedures, and providing a

penalty

LRB-6198 Memo

2/27

6244

Clancy,

Cruz,

Hong,

Madison,

Phelps

Definition of Tenant at Will

LRB-6244 Memo

3/4

6296

Quinn,

Gustafson

Prohibiting recovery of a rate of

return on retired electric

generating facilities; an

exemption from certificate

requirements for constructing a

large electric generating facility;

and a permit dashboard for

applications for certificates of

public convenience and necessity

LRB-6296 Memo

3/6

6449

Roys,

Angelina,

et.al.

A state minimum wage, allowing

the enactment of local minimum

wage ordinances, and granting

rulemaking authority

LRB-6449 Memo

3/10

6500

Roys,

Mayadev

Congratulating the U.S. Olympic

Women’s Ice Hockey Team on

winning the Olympic gold medal

LRB-6500 Memo

3/4

INTRODUCED BILLS

Assembly

AB-1037: Retainage on public construction contracts. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on State Affairs


AB-1038: An individual income tax subtraction for union dues allocated for education or training. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Ways and Means


AB-1039: Penalty for the terrorist crimes against the occupants of a church and providing a penalty. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety


AB-1040: Maintaining a supply of usable opioid antagonist at a public or private school and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care


AB-1041: Required instruction in African American history in the elementary and high school grades and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Education


AB-1042: Driving skills tests for certain drivers. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Transportation


AB-1043: Fall prevention and recovery training, CPR and first aid certification, a duty to provide aid in certain residential facilities, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care


AB-1044: Grants for patient lift devices and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care


AB-1045: the regulation of wake-enhanced boating; ordinances restricting wake-enhanced boating; and civil immunity for local regulation of wake-enhanced boating. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on State Affairs


AB-1046: The membership of the Cosmetology Examining Board. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform


AB-1047: Setback restrictions in shoreland zoning ordinances in Waukesha County. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Housing and Real Estate


AB-1048: Local regulation of landlords. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Housing and Real Estate


AB-1049: Residents’ right to purchase and regulations regarding a mobile or manufactured home community, low-interest loans and tax incentives for owners of mobile or manufactured home communities, and providing a penalty. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Housing and Real Estate


AB-1050: Local regulation of the short-term rental of residential dwellings. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Housing and Real Estate


AB-1051: Creating a deicer applicators registration program. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform


AB-1052: Prohibiting nonunion employees from receiving nonnegotiated benefits from union. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Workforce Development, Labor and Integrated Employment


AB-1053: The state or federal benefits of a child in out-of-home care. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Children and Families


AB-1054: Public affairs network request for proposals. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on State Affairs


AB-1055: A victim protective services grant program and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety


AB-1056: Firearm transfers and possession, law enforcement and prosecution, victims and witnesses, obstruction of justice, mental health and substance use services, hate crimes reporting portal, fraud, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety


AB-1057: Reporting positive rental payment information to credit bureaus. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Financial Institutions


AB-1058: Access to prospective tenants’ credit scores and consumer credit reports. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Financial Institutions


AB-1059: Funding for home-delivered meals and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care


AB-1060: Grants for falls prevention awareness and initiatives and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care


AB-1061: Legalizing the possession of cannabis; medical cannabis; expunging or adjusting past convictions for marijuana-related crimes; regulating the production, processing, transportation, testing, and sale of cannabis; granting rule-making authority; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on State Affairs


AB-1062: Prohibited employment for former members of the Public Service Commission. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Energy and Utilities


AB-1063: Legislator district residency requirements and residency standard for qualified electors. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections


AB-1064: Prohibiting landlords from charging application fees and credit checks and background checks obtained by landlords. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Housing and Real Estate


AB-1065: Requirements for broadband expansion grants, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Energy and Utilities


AB-1066: Prioritizing certain farm projects under the broadband expansion grant program. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Energy and Utilities


AB-1067: Advertising broadband and other Internet speeds and providing a standardized broadband label. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Energy and Utilities


AB-1068: Broadband expansion grants for cities, villages, towns, and counties and telecommunications-related construction projects of cities, villages, and towns. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Energy and Utilities


AB-1069: A study committee on the installation of empty conduit lines for future fiber- optic internet expansion. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Energy and Utilities


AB-1070: The restrictiveness of shoreland zoning ordinances. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Housing and Real Estate


AB-1071: Testing and labeling related to toxic heavy metals in baby food and providing a penalty. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Consumer Protection


AB-1072: The threshold for reporting a motor vehicle accident causing property damage. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety


AB-1073: Sexual contact or sexual intercourse with a child who is at least 16 years old and providing a penalty. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety


AB-1074: Student loans for postsecondary education, requirements related to student loan servicers, creating an office of the student loan ombudsman in the Department of Financial Institutions, and granting rule-making authority

Referred to Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities


AB-1075: The age of juvenile court jurisdiction and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Judiciary


AB-1076: Sharp-tailed grouse hunting permits and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Sporting Heritage


AB-1077: Permits for firearms dealers, firearms transactions and safety, firearms crimes, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety


AB-1078: Creating an innovation grant program for institutions of higher education and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities


AB-1079:Creating an undergraduate assistance grant program for students enrolled in private nonprofit postsecondary institutions and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities


AB-1080: Regulating trampoline parks, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform


AB-1081: Modifying administrative rules relating to regulation of opioid treatment programs and requiring adjustments to the rates for substance use disorder treatment services with medications for opioid use disorder. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Prevention


AB-1082: A sales and use tax exemption for breastfeeding equipment. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Ways and Means


AB-1083: Eliminating recovery by the state for birth expenses paid through the Medical Assistance program. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care


AB-1084: Dental services for pregnant persons under the Medical Assistance program. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care


AB-1085: Reimbursement for doula services under the Medical Assistance program, doulas accompanying Medical Assistance recipients in hospitals and birthing centers, and granting rule-making authority. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care


AB-1086: Reimbursement of maternal mental health screenings under the Medical Assistance program and coverage of maternal mental health screenings by health insurance policies and plans. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care


AB-1087: Special enrollment period for pregnancy. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care


AB-1088: Postpartum home visits. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care


AB-1089: A Medical Assistance coordination working group.

Referred to Assembly Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care


AB-1090: The statewide policy regarding homelessness, an income tax credit for property taxes paid by senior citizens, and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Ways and Means


AJR-142: Celebrating the 115th anniversary of the founding of Scouting America. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Rules


AR-015: Establishing special orders of business for Thursday, February 19, 2026. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Rules


AR-016: Proclaiming May 2026 as Lyme Disease Awareness Month. 

Referred to Assembly Committee on Rules

Senate

SB-1036: Advertising broadband and other Internet speeds and providing a standardized broadband label. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Universities & Technical Colleges


SB-1037: Requirements for broadband expansion grants, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Utilities, Technology & Tourism


SB-1038: A study committee on the installation of empty conduit lines for future fiber-optic internet expansion. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Utilities, Technology & Tourism


SB-1039: Broadband expansion grants for cities, villages, towns, and counties and telecommunications-related construction projects of cities, villages, and towns. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Utilities, Technology & Tourism


SB-1040: Prioritizing certain farm projects under the broadband expansion grant program. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Utilities, Technology & Tourism


SB-1041: Student loans for postsecondary education, requirements related to student loan servicers, creating an office of the student loan ombudsman in the Department of Financial Institutions, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Financial Institutions & Sporting Heritage


SB-1042: The restrictiveness of shoreland zoning ordinances. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Natural Resources, Veterans & Military Affairs


SB-1043: Legislator district residency requirements and residency standard for qualified electors. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Licensing, Regulatory Reform, State & Federal Affairs


SB-1044: Health insurance coverage of vaccines if recommended by certain organizations and consideration of recommendations of certain organizations regarding the state immunization program vaccination schedule. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Health


SB-1045: Legalizing the possession of cannabis; medical cannabis; expunging or adjusting past convictions for marijuana-related crimes; regulating the production, processing, transportation, testing, and sale of cannabis; granting rule-making authority; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty.

Referred to Senate Committee on Licensing, Regulatory Reform, State & Federal Affairs


SB-1046: Permits for firearms dealers, firearms transactions and safety, firearms crimes, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Government Operations, Labor & Economic Development


SB-1047: Modifying administrative rules relating to regulation of opioid treatment programs and requiring adjustments to the rates for substance use disorder treatment services with medications for opioid use disorder. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children & Families


SB-1048: Modifications to the property tax exemption for nonprofit organizations that sell property to low-income persons. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture & Revenue


SB-1049: Regulating trampoline parks, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Licensing, Regulatory Reform, State & Federal Affairs


SB-1050: Requiring school boards to compensate teachers for time spent on nonclassroom services. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Education


SB-1051: Establishing minimum salaries for public school teachers. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Education


SB-1052: Paid preparation time for teachers. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Education


SB-1053: Adding a teacher representative to school boards. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Education


SB-1054: A Medical Assistance coordination working group. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Health


SB-1055: Funding for home-delivered meals and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Health


SB-1056: Speech-language pathologist licenses issued by the Department of Public Instruction and modifying administrative rules promulgated by the Department of Public Instruction. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Education


SB-1057: Access to prospective tenants’ credit scores and consumer credit reports. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues & Forestry


SB-1058: Reporting positive rental payment information to credit bureaus. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues & Forestry


SB-1059: Depositing tires on private property and providing a penalty. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary & Public Safety


SB-1060: Sharp-tailed grouse hunting permits and making an appropriation.

Referred to Senate Committee on Financial Institutions & Sporting Heritage


SB-1061: Moratorium on data centers. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Utilities, Technology & Tourism


SB-1062: Broadband line extension grants and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Universities & Technical Colleges


SB-1063: Prohibiting landlords from charging application fees and credit checks and background checks obtained by landlords. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues & Forestry


SB-1064: Carbon monoxide detection systems on motorboats and providing a penalty. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Financial Institutions & Sporting Heritage


SB-1065: Requiring carbon monoxide detectors in child care centers and schools, grants for placing carbon monoxide detectors in schools, and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Education


SB-1066: Use of artificial intelligence to deny prior authorization for medical necessity or experimental status. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Utilities, Technology & Tourism


SB-1067: Dissemination of personally identifying information of an officer and providing a penalty.

Referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary & Public Safety


SB-1068: Notice to employees of full-service pharmacies and major grocery stores of permanent business closings and providing a penalty. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Government Operations, Labor & Economic Development


SB-1069: Creating an innovation grant program for institutions of higher education and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Universities & Technical Colleges


SB-1070: Public financing of campaigns for the offices of justice of the supreme court, court of appeals judge, and circuit court judge, and making an appropriation.

Referred to Senate Committee on Licensing, Regulatory Reform, State & Federal Affairs


SB-1071: Constitutional eligibility of candidates for federal office. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Licensing, Regulatory Reform, State & Federal Affairs


SB-1072: The assignment of child support orders and arrears to the state when a child enters foster care and the role of the Department of Children and Families, county departments of human and social services, and juvenile courts in referring, collecting, and ordering child support. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children & Families


SB-1073: Installation of a newborn infant safety device at an emergency medical services station. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children & Families


SB-1074: Refundability of the additional child and dependent care tax credit and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture & Revenue


SB-1075: Name, image, and likeness rights for University of Wisconsin System student athletes; maintenance costs for University of Wisconsin–Madison intercollegiate athletic facilities; and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Government Operations, Labor & Economic Development


SB-1076: Rent abatement and retaliatory conduct and granting rule-making authority. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues & Forestry


SB-1077: Health insurance coverage of prosthetic limbs and custom orthotic braces.

Referred to Senate Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues & Forestry


SB-1078: Designating manoomin as the Wisconsin state native grain. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Licensing, Regulatory Reform, State & Federal Affairs


SB-1079: Wisconsin Shares copayment amounts and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Government Operations, Labor & Economic Development


SB-1080: Local regulation of the short-term rental of residential dwellings. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues & Forestry


SB-1081: Prohibiting vaping on public and private school property. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Education


SB-1082: A public health campaign for prevention of tobacco and electronic cigarette use, grants to organizations working on youth vaping and cessation services, and making an appropriation. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Health


SB-1083: Applying the indoor smoking ban to electronic delivery devices and marijuana. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Government Operations, Labor & Economic Development


SB-1084: The sale of property under Department of Natural Resources jurisdiction to prevent the spread of avian flu. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture & Revenue


SJR-136: Recognizing February as Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month.

Referred to Senate Committee on Organization


SJR-137: Recognizing January 27, 2026, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 

Referred to Senate Committee on Organization

If you would like coverage of any above hearing, would like to engage on an above bill, or if you would like to find time to discuss the above matter in more detail, please do not hesitate to reach out to your Michael Best Strategies contact.


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