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WI SB 590

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

Wisconsin · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Introduced
2025-10-24
Status date
Latest action
2026-03-23 — Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Bill type
bill
Last updated

Sponsors

  • Wirchprimary
  • Wallprimary
  • Spreitzerprimary
  • Roysprimary
  • Ratcliffprimary
  • Larsonprimary
  • Keyeskiprimary
  • L. Johnsonprimary
  • Habush Sinykinprimary
  • Drakeprimary
  • Carpenterprimary
  • Smithprimary
  • Hesselbeinprimary

Committees

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Action timeline

  1. 2025-10-24

    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

    introduction

  2. 2025-10-24

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Universities and Technical Colleges

    reading-1,referral-committee

  3. 2025-11-03

    Fiscal estimate received

    receipt

  4. 2026-03-23

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

    failure

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