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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 1169
March 19, 2026 - Introduced by Representatives
Sinicki
,
Miresse
and
Prado
, cosponsored by Senators
Ratcliff
,
Wirch
,
Carpenter
,
Dassler-Alfheim
,
Drake
,
Habush Sinykin
,
Hesselbein
,
L. Johnson
,
Keyeski
,
Pfaff
,
Roys
,
Smith
,
Spreitzer
and
Wall
. Referred to Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment.
AB1169,1,5
1
An Act
to repeal
104.001, 104.01 (5g), 104.01 (7m) and 104.045 (1);
to amend
2
104.045 (title);
to repeal and recreate
104.035;
to create
104.01 (1g) and
3
227.01 (13) (Lw) of the statutes;
relating to:
a state minimum wage, allowing
4
the enactment of local minimum wage ordinances, and granting rule-making
5
authority.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Currently, the state minimum wage law requires that employers pay the applicable minimum wage set in statute to their employees. Under that law, the current minimum wage for most employees is $7.25 per hour. This bill raises the minimum wage for most employees to $15 per hour three months after the effective date of the bill.
Beginning one year after the bill’s effective date, the Department of Workforce Development is required to annually revise the minimum wage established under the bill by determining the percentage difference between the consumer price index for the preceding year and the consumer price index for the year before the preceding year, adjusting the minimum wage then in effect by that percentage difference, and rounding that result to the nearest multiple of five cents. However, DWD is not required to revise the general minimum wage if the consumer price index for the preceding year has not increased over the consumer price index for the year before the preceding year. DWD is required to publish the revised minimum wage in the Wisconsin Administrative Register and on DWD’s website.
The bill also repeals 1) provisions establishing a separate, lower minimum wage for tipped employees; 2) a provision requiring DWD to promulgate rules governing the counting of tips or similar gratuities toward payment of the minimum wage; 3) provisions setting specific meal and lodging allowances; and 4) provisions establishing minimum wages for minor employees, opportunity employees, agricultural employees, and others. The bill requires DWD to establish by rule the minimum wage for those employees.
Finally, current law prohibits a city, village, town, or county from enacting and administering an ordinance establishing a minimum wage. The bill eliminates that prohibition.
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:
AB1169,1
1
Section
1
.
104.001 of the statutes is repealed.
AB1169,2
2
Section
2
.
104.01 (1g) of the statutes is created to read:
AB1169,2,6
3
104.01
(1g)
“Consumer price index” means the average of the consumer price
4
index over each 12-month period for all urban consumers, U.S. city average, all
5
items, not seasonally adjusted, as determined by the bureau of labor statistics of the
6
U.S. department of labor.
AB1169,3
7
Section
3
.
104.01 (5g) of the statutes is repealed.
AB1169,4
8
Section
4
.
104.01 (7m) of the statutes is repealed.
AB1169,5
9
Section
5
.
104.035 of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
AB1169,2,11
10
104.035
Minimum wage; established.
(1)
Employees generally.
Except
11
as provided in subs. (2) and (3), the minimum wage is $15 per hour.
AB1169,2,13
12
(2)
Minimum wage established by department.
The department shall
13
promulgate rules establishing the minimum wage for all of the following:
AB1169,3,1
1
(a) Opportunity employees.
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2
(b) Agricultural employees.
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3
(c) Camp counselors.
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4
(d) Golf caddies.
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5
(e) Employees or workers with a disability covered under a license under s.
6
104.07.
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7
(f) Student learners.
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8
(g) Students employed by an independent college or university for less than 20
9
hours per week.
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10
(3)
Employment exempted by department.
The department shall
11
promulgate rules exempting from the minimum wage requirements under subs. (1)
12
and (2) all of the following:
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13
(a) A person engaged in casual employment in and around an employer’s
14
home on an irregular or intermittent basis for not more than 15 hours per week.
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15
(b) A person who resides in the home of an employer who, due to advanced age
16
or physical or mental disability, cannot care for the employer’s own needs for the
17
purpose of companionship and who spends not more than 15 hours per week on
18
general household work for the employer.
AB1169,3,20
19
(c) An elementary or secondary school student performing student work-like
20
activities in the student’s school.
AB1169,4,9
21
(4)
Department to revise.
(a) Subject to par. (b), by the first day of the 12th
22
month beginning after the effective date of this paragraph .... [LRB inserts date],
23
and annually thereafter, the department shall revise the minimum wage under sub.
1
(1) by calculating the percentage difference between the consumer price index for
2
the 12-month period ending on the last day of the last month for which that
3
information is available and the consumer price index for the 12-month period
4
ending on the last day of the month that is 12 months prior to that month, adjusting
5
the minimum wage then in effect by that percentage difference, and rounding that
6
result to the nearest multiple of 5 cents. The department shall annually send a
7
notice of the revised amount to the legislative reference bureau for publication in
8
the Wisconsin Administrative Register and shall annually publish the revised
9
amount on the department’s website.
AB1169,4,13
10
(b) Paragraph (a) does not apply if the consumer price index for the 12-month
11
period ending on the last day of the last month for which that information is
12
available has not increased over the consumer price index for the 12-month period
13
ending on the last day of the month that is 12 months prior to that month.
AB1169,4,15
14
(5)
Gender-specific minimum wage prohibited.
The department may not
15
establish a different minimum wage for men and women.
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16
Section
6
.
104.045 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB1169,4,17
17
104.045
(title)
Tips, meals,
Meals,
lodging, and hours worked.
AB1169,7
18
Section
7
.
104.045 (1) of the statutes is repealed.
AB1169,8
19
Section
8
.
227.01 (13) (Lw) of the statutes is created to read:
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20
227.01
(13)
(Lw) Adjusts the minimum wage under s. 104.035 (4).
AB1169,9
21
Section
9
. Effective date.
AB1169,5,2
1
(
1
)
Minimum wage.
This act takes effect on the first day of the 3rd month
2
beginning after publication.
AB1169,5,3
3
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