-Date 2026of LEGISLATUREenactment: LRB-4587/1 KP:wlj ASSEMBLY BILL 450 September 25, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives P ENTERMAN , KREIBICH , KNODL , PIWOWARCZYK , M URPHY , MELOTIK , BROOKS , ALLEN and W ITTKE, cosponsored by Senators H UTTON , NASS, WANGGAARD , FEYEN, JACQUE and TESTIN.
ReferredAssembly toBill Committee450 onDate Housingof andpublication*: Real Estate.
WISCONSIN ACT A N A CT to create 101.02 (26) of the statutes;
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau Under this bill, the commercial building code rules promulgated by the Department of Safety and Professional Services and in effect on August 1, 2025, apply to a public building, public structure, or place of employmentemploy- ifThe thepeople plansof for the publicstate building, public structure, or place of employmentWisconsin, arerepresented submittedin forsen- examinationate forand complianceassembly, withdo theenact commercialas buildingfollows: code no later than April 1, 2026.
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however,101.02 effective(26) Septemberof 1,the 2025,statutes theis commercialcreated buildingto codeor rulesplace incorporateof byemployment referenceare thesubmitted Internationalto Buildingthe Code.department read:
Becauseor, thisif bill may increase or decrease, directly or indirectly, the costcity, ofvillage, thetown, development, construction, financing, purchasing, sale, ownership, or availabilitycounty ofwithin housingwhich in this state, the Department101.02 of(26) Administration,Chapters asSPS required361 by law, will prepare a report to be366, printedWis. as an appendix to this bill.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
- 2026 Legislature - 2 - LRB-4587/1 KP:wlj ASSEMBLY BILL 450 SECTION 1 S ECTION 1.
101.02 (26) of the statutes is created to read:
101.02 (26) Chapters SPS 361 to 366, Wis.
public building, public structure, or place of employ- Code, in effect on August 1, 2025, apply to a public ment is to be located is authorized to perform examina- building, public structure, or place of employment and s.
SPStions 361.03under (7),s. Wis.
101.12, that city, village, town, or county, SPS 361.03 (7), Wis.
Code, does not apply to the publicno building,later publicthan structure,April or1, place2026. of employment if the plans of the public building, public structure, or place of employment are submitted to the department or, if the city, village, town, or county within which the public building, public structure, or place of employment is to be located is authorized to perform examinations under s.
101.12,* thatSection city,991.11, village,ISCONSINSTATUTES: town, or county, no later than April 1, 2026.
(END)Effective date of acts.
“Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the gov- ernor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”