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WI AB1133

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/13/2026

Primary Sponsor

Brienne Brown

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Origin

State Assembly

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Creates an exception to current state preemption, allowing cities, villages, towns, and counties to enact "good cause" eviction ordinances requiring landlords to make good faith lease renewal offers unless justified reasons for nonrenewal exist

  • Authorizes local governments to establish notice requirements and timeframes for lease renewal offers and tenant responses

  • Permits local ordinances to regulate when landlords may enter occupied premises to show units to prospective tenants and when landlords may sign leases with new tenants for subsequent periods

  • Allows local governments to establish penalties for violations, including private causes of action and mandatory relocation assistance payments from landlords to tenants

  • Permits ordinances to prohibit waiver of these tenant protections in lease agreements

Legislative Description

Local regulation of landlords and tenants.

Last Action

Read first time and referred to Committee on Housing and Real Estate

3/13/2026

Committee Referrals

Housing and Real Estate3/13/2026

Full Bill Text

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