2026 Interim Study Committees

The 2025–26 session adjourned sine die on 23 March 2026 and every unpassed bill died with it. There is no live legislation to track until the 2027–28 session convenes in January. This page is the record of where the next bills are being drafted; the tracker holds every bill on our beat, graded by pillar.

Where the 2027 bills are being written

• Study Committee on Cryptocurrency

  Chair: Sen. Rob Stafsholt · Vice-Chair: Rep. Nate Gustafson

  Charge: whether Wisconsin’s securities laws should apply to staking services — the same question AB 892 put to the floor. The committee may also recommend legislation on other uses of cryptocurrency that, in the Legislative Council’s words, “encourages innovation and adequately protects the public.”

  Now live. Staff Brief 2026‑03 was published on 11 August 2026. The committee meets for the first time on 18 August, 10:00 a.m., Room 412 East, and closes that day with a roundtable on members’ priorities — the hour that decides what the study actually covers. It meets again on 15 October in Room 411 South.

  Scheduled to present on 18 August: the UW Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic; DFI’s Division of Securities, including its Enforcement Bureau; the Wisconsin Credit Union League with Corporate Central Credit Union; and the Wisconsin Bankers Association. The preliminary agenda has no digital-asset business on it. Sen. Drake, who authored the WIN Bill, sits on the committee, as do six public members: Michael Adam, Michael Bezoian, Jeni Brantner, Ryan Kamphuis, Phil Suckow and Adam Swanda.

  • Staff Brief 2026‑03 (PDF)
  • Agenda, 18 August (PDF)
  • All committee documents

• Study Committee on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

  Chair: Sen. Rachael Cabral-Guevara · Vice-Chair: Rep. Adam Neylon

  Charge: recommend standards for the use of AI in health care services and insurance. The Joint Legislative Council directed it to consider three things specifically: AI in the patient–provider relationship, AI between insurers or medical assistance programs and patients, and AI between those payers and providers — which is where coverage decisions are made.

  Now live. Staff Brief 2026‑02 was published on 5 August 2026 and the committee meets for the first time on 13 August, 10:00 a.m., Room 411 South. That day ends with a roundtable on members’ priorities, which is where the scope of the study gets set.

  Scheduled to present on 13 August: the National Conference of State Legislatures on AI health legislation nationally; a privacy attorney on state AI law; and three patient-advocacy organisations — the Greater Wisconsin Agency on Aging Resources, AARP Wisconsin and NAMI Wisconsin. As on the cryptocurrency committee, no technology business is on the preliminary agenda. Sen. Keyeski and Rep. Bare sit alongside the chairs, with twelve public members.

  Worth knowing before anyone drafts: Wisconsin already ran an AI study committee in 2024, and its report recommended focusing on data rather than on AI itself, and prioritizing high-risk uses over comprehensive legislation. The Office of the Commissioner of Insurance also issued a bulletin in March 2025 telling insurers to maintain a written program for responsible AI use. This committee is not writing on a blank page.

  • Staff Brief 2026‑02 (PDF)
  • Agenda, 13 August (PDF)
  • All committee documents

Testimony at a study committee is public, free, and on the record. It is also where a bill’s language is set, months before anyone votes on it. Showing up at the floor vote is showing up too late — which is exactly why we work here.

The Legislative Council’s own brief sets out the position Wisconsin is arguing from. In May 2025 the SEC concluded that running a validator node on someone’s behalf is administrative rather than entrepreneurial, and so fails the test that would make it a security. It then dropped its staking case against Coinbase permanently — the dismissal cannot be refiled — and Kentucky, Vermont, South Carolina and Illinois each dropped their parallel actions. Wisconsin’s DFI has neither advanced its 2023 action nor dismissed it. Coinbase offers staking in 45 states and restricts it in five; Wisconsin is one of the five.