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- 2026 LEGISLATURE LRB-5855/1 ARG:skw ASSEMBLY BILL 1005 February 3, 2026 - Introduced by RepresentativesUSTAFSON , MURPHY , O'ONNOR , BRILL and D ITTRICH, cosponsored by Senator ESTIN.
Date of enactment:
Referred to Committee on Colleges and Universities.
Assembly Bill 1005 Date of publication*:
A N A CT to amend 36.11 (3) (a);
WISCONSIN ACT A N A CT to amend 36.11 (3) (a);
admission to University of Wisconsin System institutions.
admission to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau Current law requires the University of Wisconsin System to establish a guaranteed admission program.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in sen- 36.11 (3r) O BJECTIVE CRITERIA FOR ADMISSION .
Under this program, Wisconsin high school students who rank in the top 10 percent of their high school class, or in the top 5 percent for UW–Madison, are generally eligible for guaranteed admission.
ate and assembly, do enact as follows:
A student’s class rank is based solely on the student’s grade point average.
(a) In this subsection, “college entrance examination” SECTION 1.
This bill requires undergraduate admission decisions at UW System institutions to be predominantly based on college entrance examination performance or similar objective testing measures, except with respect to applicants admitted through the guaranteed admission program.
36.11 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended means the ACT, as defined in s.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
39.41 (9) (a) 1., the to read:
SECTION 1.
SAT, as defined in s.
36.11 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
39.41 (9) (a) 3., or a similar na- tional or regional test for measuring college readiness.
(3m) and (3r), the board shall establish the policies for admission within the system and within these policies each institution - 2026 Legislature - 2 - LRB-5855/1 ARG:skw ASSEMBLY BILL 1005 SECTION 1 shall establish specific requirements for admission to its courses of instruction.
(3m) and (3r), the (b) The board shall ensure that undergraduate ad- board shall establish the policies for admission within mission decisions at the University of Wisconsin-Madi- the system and within these policies each institution son are predominantly based on college entrance exami- shall establish specific requirements for admission to its courses of instruction.
No sectarian or partisan tests or any tests based upon race, religion, national origin of U.S.
No sectarian or partisan tests or nation performance or similar objective testing mea- sures.
citizens or sex shall ever be allowed in the admission of students thereto.
This paragraph does not apply with respect to ap- any tests based upon race, religion, national origin of plicants admitted through the guaranteed admission U.S.
S ECTION 2.
citizens or sex shall ever be allowed in the admis- program under sub.
36.11 (3r) of the statutes is created to read:
36.11 (3r) O BJECTIVE CRITERIA FOR ADMISSION.
(a) In this subsection, “college entrance examination” means the ACT, as defined in s.
39.41 (9) (a) 1., the SAT, as defined in s.
39.41 (9) (a) 3., or a similar national or regional test for measuring college readiness.
(b) The board shall ensure that undergraduate admission decisions at each institution are predominantly based on college entrance examination performance or similar objective testing measures.
This paragraph does not apply with respect to applicants admitted through the guaranteed admission program under sub.
sion of students thereto.
(1) This act first applies to applications for admission for the 2027-28 academic year.
SECTION 2.
(END)
36.11 (3r) of the statutes is created to (1) This act first applies to applications for admis- read:
sion for the 2027-28 academic year.
* Section 991.11, ISCONSINSTATUTES:
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.”
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