Wisconsin 2025 Regular Session Status: To Executive Bipartisan · 11 R · 3 D cosponsors

AB 446 — Relating to: consideration of a certain definition of antisemitism for purposes of laws, ordinances, policies, or criminal penalty enhancers concerning discrimination based on race, religion, color, or national origin.

Last action — Published 3-28-2026

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Assembly
  4. ✓
    Passed Senate
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been sent to the executive. Introduced September 19, 2025. It awaits signature.

Next likely step: the executive signs it into law or issues a veto.

Prognosis

Likely to advance 90% · high confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

Moderate

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  • To Executive

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 24 sponsors

    1 primary, 23 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Bipartisan support

    Sponsored across 2 parties (11 R · 3 D) — cross-party backing.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 3 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

An Act to create 20.932 of the statutes;

Bill Text

What changed in the latest version

25 added · 29 removed

Plain-language change summary

The recent amendments to Assembly Bill 446 include a section focused specifically on discrimination based on antisemitism. Key changes clarify that this new definition does not diminish the rights protected by the First Amendment or conflict with existing federal and state anti-discrimination laws. This matters because it reinforces the commitment to prevent antisemitism while ensuring that the bill respects free speech rights and aligns with broader legal protections against discrimination.

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- 2026 LEGISLATURE LRBs0420/1 MPG:wlj ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1, TO ASSEMBLY BILL 446 February 17, 2026 - Offered by Representative T USLER .
- 2026 LEGISLATURE LRB-4589/1 MPG:cdc ASSEMBLY BILL 446 September 19, 2025 - Introduced by RepresentativesUSLER, DALLMAN , DITTRICH, DONOVAN , EMERSON , GUNDRUM , GUSTAFSON , KNODL , KREIBICH , MURPHY , O'CONNOR , ORTIZ-VELEZ, SUBECK and W ICHGERS , cosponsored by Senators HUTTON , CABRAL -GUEVARA , HESSELBEIN , AMES , PFAFF, RATCLIFF, TESTIN, W ALL, WANGGAARD and W IRCH.
Referred to Committee on State Affairs.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau This bill provides that each state agency or other body in state government, each local governmental unit, and each employee or official of the state or a local governmental unit must consider the definition of antisemitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on May 26, 2016, including its examples, when evaluating evidence of discriminatory intent for any law, ordinance, or policy in Wisconsin that prohibits discrimination based on race, religion, color, or national origin or that provides for enhanced criminal penalties for criminal offenses when the defendant intentionally selects the victim or group of victims or selects the property that is damaged or otherwise affected by the crime because of the victim’s or group of victims’ actual or perceived race, religion, color, or national origin.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau This bill provides that each state agency or other body in state government, each local governmental unit, and each employee or official of the state or a local governmental unit must consider the definition of antisemitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on May 26, 2016, including its examples, when evaluating evidence of discriminatory intent for any law, ordinance, or policy in Wisconsin that prohibits discrimination based on race, religion, color, or national origin or that provides for enhanced criminal penalties for criminal offenses when the defendant intentionally selects the victim or group of victims or selects the property that is damaged or otherwise affected by the crime because of the victim's or group of victims' actual or perceived race, religion, color, or national origin.
Constitution, to conflict with federal or state antidiscrimination laws, or to - 2026 Legislature - 2 - LRBs0420/1 MPG:wlj SECTION 1 create an additional civil or criminal penalty, including for activity protected under the first amendment to the U.S.
Constitution or to conflict with federal or state antidiscrimination laws.
Constitution at any public school in Wisconsin or at any University of Wisconsin System institution or technical college.
- 2026 Legislature - 2 - LRB-4589/1 MPG:cdc ASSEMBLY BILL 446 SECTION 1 The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
S ECTION 1.
(1) D EFINITIONS .
(1) D EFINITIONS.
(2) C ONSIDERATION OF DEFINITION OF ANTISEMITISM .
(2) CONSIDERATION OF DEFINITION OF ANTISEMITISM .
Each state agency and local governmental unit and each employee or official of this state or of a local governmental unit shall consider the definition of antisemitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on May 26, 2016, including its examples, when evaluating evidence of discriminatory intent for any law, ordinance, or policy in this state that prohibits discrimination based on race, religion, color, or national origin or that provides for enhanced criminal penalties for criminal offenses when the defendant intentionally selects the victim or group of victims or selects the property that is damaged or otherwise affected by the crime - 2026 Legislature - 3 - LRBs0420/1 MPG:wlj S ECTION 1 because of the victim’s or group of victims’ actual or perceived race, religion, color, or national origin.
Each state agency and local governmental unit and each employee or official of this state or of a local governmental unit shall consider the definition of antisemitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on May 26, 2016, including its examples, when evaluating evidence of discriminatory intent for any law, ordinance, or policy in this state that prohibits discrimination based on race, religion, color, or national origin or that provides for enhanced criminal penalties for criminal offenses when the defendant intentionally selects the victim or group of victims or selects the property that is damaged or otherwise affected by the crime because of the victim's or group of victims' actual or perceived race, religion, color, or national origin.
(3) CONSTRUCTIONS .
- 2026 Legislature - 3 - LRB-4589/1 MPG:cdc ASSEMBLY BILL 446 S ECTION 1 (2) Nothing in this section may be construed to diminish or infringe upon any right protected under the first amendment to the U.S.
(a) Nothing in this section may be construed to diminish or infringe upon any right protected under the first amendment to the U.S.
(b) Nothing in this section may be construed to create any additional civil or criminal penalty, including for activity protected under the first amendment to the U.S.
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Constitution at any public school in this state or at any University of Wisconsin System institution or technical college.
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Action History

  1. Published 3-28-2026

  2. Report approved by the Governor on 3-27-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 143

  3. Presented to the Governor on 3-26-2026

  4. Report correctly enrolled on 3-23-2026

  5. Received from Senate concurred in

  6. Ordered immediately messaged

  7. Senator Wirch withdrawn as a cosponsor

  8. Read a third time and concurred in

  9. Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  10. Ordered to a third reading

  11. Read a second time

  12. Placed on calendar 3-17-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  13. Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

  14. Available for scheduling

  15. Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

  16. Received from Assembly

  17. Ordered immediately messaged

  18. Read a third time and passed, Ayes 66, Noes 33

  19. Rules suspended

  20. Ordered to a third reading

  21. Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  22. Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Tusler

  23. Read a second time

  24. LRB correction

  25. Withdrawn from committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 2-17-2026

  26. Referred to committee on Rules

  27. Report passage recommended by Committee on State Affairs, Ayes 8, Noes 2

  28. Executive action taken

  29. Representative Goodwin added as a coauthor

  30. Public hearing held

  31. Senator Ratcliff withdrawn as a cosponsor

  32. Read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs

  33. Introduced by Representatives Tusler, Dallman, Dittrich, Donovan, Emerson, Gundrum, Gustafson, Knodl, Kreibich, Murphy, O'Connor, Ortiz-Velez, Subeck and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senators Hutton, Cabral-Guevara, Hesselbein, James, Pfaff, Ratcliff, Testin, Wall, Wanggaard and Wirch

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 23 co-sponsors · 108 not signed on · 31 voted No

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (23)

Not signed on (108)

108 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

Read a third time and passed

Passed 66 Yea · 33 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Republican 53000
Democrat 123100
Unaffiliated 1200
Total 663300
% of votes cast 67%33%0%0%
How each member voted (99)
Member Party Vote
JOHNSON — Nay
MOORE OMOKUNDE — Nay
SPEAKER — Yea
Anderson, Clinton Democrat Nay
Andraca, Deb Democrat Yea
Arney, Margaret Democrat Nay
Bare, Mike Democrat Nay
Billings, Jill Democrat Yea
Brown, Brienne Democrat Nay
Clancy, Ryan Democrat Nay
Cruz, Angelina Democrat Nay
DeSanto, Karen Democrat Nay
DeSmidt, Ben Democrat Nay
Doyle, Steve Democrat Yea
Emerson, Jodi Democrat Yea
Fitzgerald, Joan Democrat Nay
Goodwin, Russell Democrat Yea
Haywood, Kalan Democrat Nay
Hong, Francesca Democrat Nay
Hysell, Andrew Democrat Nay
Jacobson, Jenna Democrat Yea
Joers, Alex Democrat Nay
Kirsch, Karen Democrat Yea
Madison, Darrin Democrat Nay
Mayadev, Renuka Democrat Nay
McCarville, Maureen Democrat Nay
McGuire, Tip Democrat Nay
Miresse, Vincent Democrat Nay
Neubauer, Greta Democrat Nay
Ortiz-Velez, Sylvia Democrat Yea
Palmeri, Lori Democrat Yea
Phelps, Christian Democrat Nay
Prado, Priscilla Democrat Nay
Rivera-Wagner, Amaad Democrat Nay
Roe, Ann Democrat Nay
Sheehan, Joe Democrat Nay
Sinicki, Christine Democrat Nay
Snodgrass, Lee Democrat Nay
Spaude, Ryan Democrat Yea
Stroud, Angela Democrat Nay
Stubbs, Shelia Democrat Yea
Subeck, Lisa Democrat Yea
Taylor, Sequanna Democrat Nay
Tenorio, Angelito Democrat Nay
Udell, Randy Democrat Nay
Vining, Robyn Democrat Nay
Allen, Scott Republican Yea
Armstrong, David Republican Yea
August, Tyler Republican Yea
Behnke, Elijah Republican Yea
Born, Mark Republican Yea
Brill, Lindee Republican Yea
Brooks, Robert Republican Yea
Callahan, Calvin Republican Yea
Dallman, Alex Republican Yea
Dittrich, Barbara Republican Yea
Donovan, Bob Republican Yea
Duchow, Cindi Republican Yea
Franklin, Benjamin Republican Yea
Goeben, Joy Republican Yea
Green, Chanz Republican Yea
Gundrum, Rick Republican Yea
Gustafson, Nate Republican Yea
Hurd, Karen Republican Yea
Jacobson, Brent Republican Yea
Kaufert, Dean Republican Yea
Kitchens, Joel Republican Yea
Knodl, Daniel Republican Yea
Kreibich, Rob Republican Yea
Krug, Scott Republican Yea
Kurtz, Tony Republican Yea
Maxey, Dave Republican Yea
Melotik, Paul Republican Yea
Moses, Clint Republican Yea
Murphy, David Republican Yea
Mursau, Jeffrey Republican Yea
Nedweski, Amanda Republican Yea
Neylon, Adam Republican Yea
Novak, Todd Republican Yea
O'Connor, Jerry Republican Yea
Penterman, William Republican Yea
Petersen, Kevin Republican Yea
Piwowarczyk, Jim Republican Yea
Pronschinske, Treig Republican Yea
Rodriguez, Jessie Republican Yea
Snyder, Patrick Republican Yea
Sortwell, Shae Republican Yea
Spiros, John Republican Yea
Steffen, David Republican Yea
Summerfield, Rob Republican Yea
Swearingen, Rob Republican Yea
Tittl, Paul Republican Yea
Tranel, Travis Republican Yea
Tucker, Duke Republican Yea
Tusler, Ron Republican Yea
VanderMeer, Nancy Republican Yea
Wichgers, Chuck Republican Yea
Wittke, Robert Republican Yea
Zimmerman, Shannon Republican Yea

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Frequently asked questions

What does AB 446 do?
An Act to create 20.932 of the statutes;
Who sponsors AB 446?
AB 446 is sponsored by Hutton, Cabral-Guevara, Hesselbein, James, Pfaff, Ratcliff, Testin, Wall, Wanggaard, Wirch, Tusler, Ron (Republican), Dallman, Alex (Republican), Dittrich, Barbara (Republican), Donovan, Bob (Republican), Emerson, Jodi (Democrat), Gundrum, Rick (Republican), Gustafson, Nate (Republican), Knodl, Daniel (Republican), Kreibich, Rob (Republican), Murphy, David (Republican), O'Connor, Jerry (Republican), Ortiz-Velez, Sylvia (Democrat), Subeck, Lisa (Democrat), and Wichgers, Chuck (Republican).
What is the current status of AB 446?
This bill has been sent to the executive. Introduced September 19, 2025. It awaits signature.
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