Wisconsin bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Wisconsin SB 590

Relating to: faculty tenure and probationary appointments at University of Wisconsin System institutions and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

1. Introduced
2. In committee
3. Passed Senate
4. Passed House
5. To Governor
6. Became law

Sponsors

• Wirch (Democratic)
• Wall (Democratic)
• Spreitzer (Democratic)
• Roys (Democratic)
• Ratcliff (Democratic)
• Larson (Democratic)
• Keyeski (Democratic)
• L. Johnson (Democratic)
• Habush Sinykin (Democratic)
• Drake (Democratic)
• Carpenter (Democratic)
• Smith (Democratic)
• Hesselbein (Democratic)

Summary

Text versions

• Bill Text

Roll-call votes

No recorded votes on this bill.

Actions

• Mar 23, 2026 · Senate
  Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
• Nov 3, 2025 · Senate
  Fiscal estimate received
• Oct 24, 2025 · Senate
  Read first time and referred to Committee on Universities and Technical Colleges
• Oct 24, 2025 · Senate
  Introduced by Senators Hesselbein, Smith, Carpenter, Drake, Habush Sinykin, L. Johnson, Keyeski, Larson, Ratcliff, Roys, Spreitzer, Wall and Wirch; cosponsored by Representatives DeSmidt, Vining, Joers, Anderson, Andraca, Arney, Bare, Billings, Brown, Clancy, DeSanto, Emerson, Fitzgerald, Goodwin, Haywood, Hong, Hysell, Johnson, Kirsch, Madison, Mayadev, McCarville, McGuire, Miresse, Moore Omokunde, Neubauer, Palmeri, Phelps, Prado, Rivera-Wagner, Roe, Sheehan, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Spaude, Stroud, Stubbs, Subeck, Taylor, Tenorio, Udell and Ortiz-Velez