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WI SB763

Bill

Status

Introduced

12/12/2025

Primary Sponsor

Chris Kapenga

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Requires the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) to vote shares held for Wisconsin Retirement System participants solely in their "economic interest," defined as maximizing risk-adjusted investment returns, and prohibits voting that subordinates economic interest to environmental, social, policy, governance, or ideological goals

  • Creates a presumption of compliance when SWIB votes consistently with a security issuer's board of directors (if majority independent); voting against the board's recommendation requires documented economic analysis demonstrating the vote serves participants' sole economic interest

  • Restricts SWIB's use of proxy advisory firms by prohibiting adoption of recommendations unless based on participants' sole economic interest, and bars engagement of firms with conflicts of interest such as receiving fees from issuers or shareholder proposal sponsors

  • Mandates annual reporting to the Department of Employee Trust Funds on all votes inconsistent with issuer board recommendations, including supporting economic analyses, and requires backtesting of economic analysis models every three years

  • Applies identical requirements to the retirement systems of Milwaukee County and the City of Milwaukee, with enforcement authority granted to the attorney general, state treasurer, and district attorneys, plus a private right of action for participants with a three-year statute of limitations

Legislative Description

The management of assets of and the voting of ownership interests in securities by the Wisconsin Retirement System and the retirement systems of the City and County of Milwaukee. (FE)

Last Action

Fiscal estimate received

1/12/2026

Committee Referrals

Licensing, Regulatory Reform, State and Federal Affairs12/12/2025

Full Bill Text

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