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2026 Wisconsin Democratic Party platform: Platform

The adopted platform opposes right-to-work legislation and supports mandatory union dues.

H.R.2474: Bill Text • Roll-call Vote

House-passed section 2(k) of H.R.2474 would permit agreements requiring all employees in a bargaining unit to pay representation fees as a condition of employment, notwithstanding state right-to-work laws.

Nationwide Right To Unionize Act (2025): Bill Text • Announcement

The released draft would repeal section 14(b) of the National Labor Relations Act, which authorizes state right-to-work laws. Its released text has no assigned bill number.

2026 Wisconsin Democratic Party resolutions: Resolutions

In its adopted 2026 resolutions, the Wisconsin Democratic Party urges legislators to protect access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth. Resolution 26-JHD-07 does not name surgeries, puberty blockers, or cross-sex hormones or specify treatment-specific age rules.

Transgender Bill of Rights resolution (2026): Resolution Text • Announcement

The Transgender Bill of Rights is a non-binding resolution. It calls for eliminating unnecessary government restrictions on gender-affirming medical care for adults and adolescents and protecting providers who follow recognized standards. It would not itself change the law or authorize procedures, and it does not specify surgeries, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or treatment-specific age rules.

2026 Wisconsin Democratic Party resolutions: Resolutions

The adopted resolutions call for a permanent prohibition on police use of facial-recognition technology. This encompasses scanning people at public protests.

S.681: Bill Text

Introduced section 3 restricts federal use of facial-recognition and biometric technology, with exceptions for uses expressly authorized by Congress with safeguards. Section 4 conditions grants to state and local governments. This is not a permanent state or local prohibition; the measure supplies only a partial match to the policy in this row.

Sanders facial-recognition statement: Statement

The direct statement calls for banning facial-recognition technology for all law enforcement, encompassing scanning people at public protests. The accompanying moratorium has authorization exceptions and state/local grant conditions. The migrated statement is historical and undated; no exact year or current reaffirmation is inferred.

2026 Wisconsin Democratic Party resolutions: Resolutions

The adopted resolutions call for a total ban on police use of tear gas.

H.R.7221: Bill Text

Introduced section 2 prohibits federal use of tear gas and conditions grants on state and local prohibitions. Definitions cover riot-control agents, with disposal and enforcement provisions. Oleoresin capsicum (pepper) spray is expressly excluded; this record does not establish support for a pepper-spray ban.

SB458: Bill Text • Bill History

This bill would restore all-union agreements subject to Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission voting and referendum safeguards.

SJR116: Bill Text • Bill History • Adopted amendment and ballot language

This resolution, as amended by the acted-on Assembly Substitute Amendment 3, retains the tax-and-fee partial-veto prohibition and changes the resolution’s submission provisions.

SJR2: Bill Text • Bill History

This resolution concerns constitutional protection of photo ID, including legislative authority for exceptions and provisional ballots.

AB100: Bill Text • Bill History

This bill, as amended, would prohibit biological males from participating on school athletic teams or in sports designated for females, while retaining mixed-team rules. It would also designate multi-user school locker rooms, including shower rooms, for exclusive use by one biological sex, defined by the original birth certificate. It covers public schools, including charter schools, and private schools participating in parental-choice programs. Ordinary use of female-designated locker rooms would exclude biological males. Exceptions permit entry for custodial work, maintenance or inspection, medical assistance, specified employees performing their duties, children assisted by family or guardians, disability assistance, and emergencies or safety drills. Schools could temporarily redesignate rooms for the opposite sex during special events. Written requests trigger reasonable accommodations, such as single-occupancy or regulated staff locker-room use, and ADA accommodations remain permitted.

AB102: Bill Text • Bill History

This bill, as amended, would prohibit biological males from participating on UW and technical-college athletic teams or in sports designated for females or women, while retaining mixed-team rules. It would also designate multi-user UW and technical-college locker rooms, including shower rooms, for exclusive use by one biological sex, defined by the original birth certificate. Ordinary use of female-designated locker rooms would exclude biological males. Exceptions permit entry for custodial work, maintenance or inspection, medical assistance, specified employees performing their duties, children assisted by family or guardians, disability assistance, and emergencies or safety drills. Institutions could temporarily redesignate rooms for the opposite sex during special events. Written student requests trigger reasonable accommodations, such as single-occupancy or regulated staff locker-room use, and ADA accommodations remain permitted. These provisions do not extend to all private colleges.

SB498: Bill Text • Bill History

This bill protects academic freedom and requires notice, access to evidence, counsel or an advocate, and impartial roles in disciplinary proceedings. More than one due-process violation within five years triggers a two-year tuition freeze; UW institutions also face a corresponding funding reduction. Biennial surveys assess First Amendment rights, academic freedom, bias and self-censorship. Annual instruction covers academic freedom, due process and First Amendment protections.

SB652: Bill Text • Bill History

This bill, as amended, uses individualized social and economic disadvantage, including financial information and a personal narrative, without considering race or sex. It also changes recruitment and retention priorities and removes specified medical- and dental-school minority-enrollment conditions.

AB355: Bill Text • Bill History

This bill’s introduced section 11 allows abortion “at any time during the pregnancy if an abortion is necessary in the professional judgment of the individual’s medical provider.” It does not define “necessary” or enumerate qualifying reasons or limit necessity to saving the mother’s life.

AB355: Bill Text • Bill History

This bill’s introduced sections 1–5 remove existing coverage restrictions and require abortion and related medical-service coverage in state and Group Insurance Board plans if they cover maternity care. Section 20 separately repeals the prohibition on abortion coverage in exchange plans; it permits that coverage rather than requiring it. The bill retains the separate conscience provision in section 253.09.

AB104: Bill Text • Bill History

This bill covers specified surgeries, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and referrals for people under 18. Exceptions cover specified sex-development-disorder treatment, treatment of complications, and procedures necessary to avert imminent death or impairment of a major bodily function. Professional-license enforcement and a six-month tapering transition apply.

AB602: Bill Text • Bill History

This bill would require the governor to elect participation in the federal scholarship tax-credit program, which begins in 2027, and provide for scholarship-organization lists and certification.

AB5: Bill Text • Bill History

This bill preserves copyright protections and existing public-records rights. The Senate rejected Senate Amendment 1; no substantive amendment was adopted.

AB1: Bill Text • Bill History

This bill uses 2019–20 report-card thresholds and descriptions, NAEP-aligned Forward English and math classifications, and 2021–22 PreACT/ACT classifications.

AB103: Bill Text • Bill History • Adopted amendment

This bill, as amended by Assembly Amendment 1, requires written, notarized parental or guardian authorization for covered minor-pupil record changes and staff use of names or pronouns not aligned with biological sex. Pupils 18 or older submit their own notarized requests; specified shortened names are excepted.

SB7: Bill Text • Bill History

This bill’s Assembly substitute covers real property beyond farmland, defined foreign principals and 50%-controlled entities, prospective acquisitions, divestiture and forfeiture, with visa and permanent-resident exclusions. It separately prohibits condemnation for wind and solar development.

AB24: Bill Text • Bill History

This bill would require county cooperation with specified federal immigration-enforcement requests, with funding consequences.