- 2026 LEGISLATURE LRBs0420/1LRB-4589/1 MPG:wljMPG:cdc ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTEBILL AMENDMENT446 1,September TO19, ASSEMBLY2025 BILL- 446Introduced Februaryby 17,RepresentativesUSLER, 2026DALLMAN -, OfferedDITTRICH, DONOVAN , EMERSON , GUNDRUM , GUSTAFSON , KNODL , KREIBICH , MURPHY , O'CONNOR , ORTIZ-VELEZ, SUBECK and W ICHGERS , cosponsored by RepresentativeSenators THUTTON USLER, .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’svictim's or group of victims’victims' actual or perceived race, religion, color, or national origin.

Constitution,Constitution or to conflict with federal or state antidiscrimination laws,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- at2026 anyLegislature public- school2 in- WisconsinLRB-4589/1 orMPG:cdc atASSEMBLY anyBILL University446 SECTION 1 The people of Wisconsinthe Systemstate institutionof orWisconsin, technicalrepresented college.in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

TheSECTION people1. of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

S ECTION 1.

(1) D EFINITIONSEFINITIONS. .

(2) CCONSIDERATION ONSIDERATION 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’svictim's or group of victims’victims' actual or perceived race, religion, color, or national origin.

(3)- CONSTRUCTIONS2026 .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)END 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.

Constitution at any public school in this state or at any University of Wisconsin System institution or technical college.

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