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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 446
September 19, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives
Tusler
,
Dallman
,
Dittrich
,
Donovan
,
Emerson
,
Gundrum
,
Gustafson
,
Knodl
,
Kreibich
,
Murphy
,
O'Connor
,
Ortiz-Velez
,
Subeck
and
Wichgers
, cosponsored by Senators
Hutton
,
Cabral-Guevara
,
Hesselbein
,
James
,
Pfaff
,
Ratcliff
,
Testin
,
Wall
,
Wanggaard
and
Wirch
. Referred to Committee on State Affairs.
AB446,1,4
1
An Act
to create
20.932 of the statutes;
relating to:
consideration of a certain
2
definition of antisemitism for purposes of laws, ordinances, policies, or
3
criminal penalty enhancers concerning discrimination based on race, religion,
4
color, or national origin.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill provides that each state agency or other body in state government, each local governmental unit, and each employee or official of the state or a local governmental unit must consider the definition of antisemitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on May 26, 2016, including its examples, when evaluating evidence of discriminatory intent for any law, ordinance, or policy in Wisconsin that prohibits discrimination based on race, religion, color, or national origin or that provides for enhanced criminal penalties for criminal offenses when the defendant intentionally selects the victim or group of victims or selects the property that is damaged or otherwise affected by the crime because of the victim's or group of victims' actual or perceived race, religion, color, or national origin. The bill specifies that nothing in the bill may be construed to diminish or infringe upon any right protected under the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution or to conflict with federal or state antidiscrimination laws.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
AB446,1
1
Section
1
.
20.932 of the statutes is created to read:
AB446,2,3
2
20.932 Discrimination based on antisemitism.
(1)
Definitions.
In this
3
section:
AB446,2,7
4
(a) “Local governmental unit” means a political subdivision, a special purpose
5
district, an agency or corporation of a political subdivision or special purpose
6
district, a school district, or a combination or subunit of any of the foregoing, in this
7
state.
AB446,2,8
8
(b) “Political subdivision” means a city, village, town, or county.
AB446,2,11
9
(c) “State agency” means an association, authority, board, department,
10
commission, independent agency, institution, office, society, or other body in state
11
government created or authorized to be created by the constitution or any law.
AB446,2,22
12
(2)
Consideration of definition of antisemitism.
Each state agency and
13
local governmental unit and each employee or official of this state or of a local
14
governmental unit shall consider the definition of antisemitism adopted by the
15
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on May 26, 2016, including its
16
examples, when evaluating evidence of discriminatory intent for any law,
17
ordinance, or policy in this state that prohibits discrimination based on race,
18
religion, color, or national origin or that provides for enhanced criminal penalties
19
for criminal offenses when the defendant intentionally selects the victim or group of
20
victims or selects the property that is damaged or otherwise affected by the crime
21
because of the victim's or group of victims' actual or perceived race, religion, color,
22
or national origin.
AB446,3,3
1
(2)
Nothing in this section may be construed to diminish or infringe upon any
2
right protected under the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution or to conflict
3
with federal or state antidiscrimination laws.
AB446,3,4
4
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