Policy Agenda
One agenda, two pillars: grow Wisconsin’s digital economy, and protect the people in it. Growth and trust in the same sentence, so either caucus can hold it.
The framework
The two pillars of Wisconsin’s digital economy
Every topic we work on sits under one of two pillars, and every position we publish is tested against both.
The field
Two pillars, one agenda
Growth without trust does not last, and trust without growth has nothing to protect. Each topic sits under the pillar it serves most.
Select either pillar to explore it.
Pillar 01
Innovation & Opportunity
Growing Wisconsin’s digital economy and keeping the state competitive, the industries, jobs and infrastructure of what comes next.
Pillar 02
Consumer Protection & Trust
Making sure the people who use these technologies are protected, because public trust is the license the whole sector operates on.
The stakes, in numbers
What the 2027 agenda is about
Four figures behind the two priorities: what Wisconsin could direct to its schools, and what it still has not settled.
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$1.6billion
Principal held in the Common School Fund, Wisconsin’s constitutional trust for its public schools since 1848.
Board of Commissioners of Public Lands
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$73.5million
Distributed in 2026, the only state funding Wisconsin’s public school libraries receive.
Board of Commissioners of Public Lands
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10–0committee vote
For AB 172, a comprehensive consumer privacy bill. It died on the calendar, and Wisconsin still has no privacy law.
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2study committees
Legislative Council committees drafting the 2027 bills now: one on cryptocurrency, one on AI in health care.
Priority 1 · 2027 session
Put the GENIUS Act to work in Wisconsin: the schools case
The GENIUS Act set the federal standard for payment stablecoins in July 2025 and left the states to decide what they build on top of it. Wisconsin already has the public purpose waiting: the Common School Fund holds a principal above $1.6 billion, distributed $73.5 million in 2026, and is the sole source of state funding for Wisconsin’s public school libraries, with its traditional revenue eroding.
Our 2027 priority is a state framework holding reserves to the federal standard and directing reserve income to public priorities. It is a schools argument before it is a technology argument. Read the full case.
Two priorities for 2027
The 2025–26 session adjourned sine die and every unpassed bill died with it. Two priorities carry into 2027, and interim committees are drafting the language now.
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Digital assets · stablecoins
Put the GENIUS Act to work in Wisconsin
Federal stablecoin law is settled. Wisconsin’s path is not.
A state path for stablecoin issuers, and payments Wisconsin businesses can actually accept. The cryptocurrency study committee starts with staking, the question AB 892 would have settled before it stalled in the Senate, and its charge reaches any use of crypto that encourages innovation and protects the public.
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Artificial intelligence · data
AI runs on data. Start with the rules for it.
A study committee is writing the AI standard now. Wisconsin still has no privacy law.
A privacy law Wisconsin businesses can follow, and clear statewide terms so the data centers being built here pay their own way. AB 172, a comprehensive consumer privacy bill, cleared committee 10–0 and died on the calendar.
Where the 2027 bills are being written
Two Legislative Council interim study committees are meeting now (one on cryptocurrency, one on the use of AI in health care and insurance), and their recommendations become the introduced text. Meeting dates, staff briefs and agendas are on the legislative tracker, alongside every Wisconsin bill on our beat, graded by pillar.
This agenda depends on the businesses it describes
Two Legislative Council study committees are preparing recommendations for the 2027 session. Members follow that work bill by bill, with the tracker and Intelligence Briefings, and meet each other and the people who study these rules at WDBC forums.