AB 1 · WI ASSEMBLY
Relating to: changes to the educational assessment program and the school and school district accountability report.
Motion: PASSAGE
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Calvin Callahan
RAssembly Member · District 35
On the ballot Nov 3, 2026: Wisconsin Assembly District 35
Biography
Calvin Callahan is a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from District 35, who took office on January 4, 2021, and is seeking re-election in the November 3, 2026 general election against Democrat Elizabeth McCrank.[1][2] In a Ballotpedia survey, he described himself as a lifelong Lincoln County resident and a former Lincoln County Board member.[3]
In a Ballotpedia survey, Calvin Callahan said he was first elected to the Lincoln County Board in 2018, also served on the board of the Town of Wilson and chaired the Lincoln County Republican Party.[3] Ballotpedia lists his career experience as working as a regional field director with the Republican Party of Wisconsin.[1]
Callahan defeated Tyler Ruprecht in the November 3, 2020 general election for Assembly District 35, then won re-election in 2022 against Todd Frederick and in 2024 against Elizabeth McCrank.[1] For 2025-2026 he chairs the Consumer Protection Committee and is vice-chair of the Insurance Committee.[1] In the survey he cited affordability and tax relief as his main campaign message, including co-authoring legislation ending state income tax on overtime that passed both houses before a veto, and said he authored 2025 Wisconsin Act 230 on property insurance claims.[3]
- 1.Calvin Callahan · Ballotpedia Reference
- 2.Wisconsin State Assembly elections, 2026 · Ballotpedia Reference
- 3.Calvin Callahan (Candidate Connection survey responses) · Ballotpedia Candidate's own words
Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21. Not yet independently fact-checked.
Wisconsin Assembly District 35
Calvin Callahan is on the Nov 3, 2026 ballot for Wisconsin Assembly District 35 as R. Not researched in depth — candidate list only.
Other candidates for this seat
Votes by issue
Their recorded votes on bills that divided the chamber (unanimous votes left out), grouped by topic. A bill can sit under more than one topic. "With" and "against" compare each vote with how most Republicans voted. How topics are assigned
Jobs & cost of living50 with · 0 against50 votes
Most contested
- Yes
Relating to: requiring state employees to perform their work at the offices of their employer.
On the version voted Oct 14, 2025: Requires state agencies to have employees work in person at agency offices for at least 80 percent of scheduled hours each month, exempting duties performed off site before March 2020 and the State of Wisconsin Investment Board.
Sep 11, 2025 · Passed 51–44 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Relating to: requirements for proposed administrative rules that impose any costs.
Lowers the threshold at which an agency must halt a proposed rule from $10 million in expected two-year compliance costs to any amount, unless it removes the costs, offsets them with another rule that year, or a bill allows the rule.
Feb 12, 2026 · Passed 53–45 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Relating to: the expiration of administrative rules.
Makes each administrative code chapter expire on January 1 of the seventh year after it takes effect unless the agency readopts it by notice or rule; the rules committee may extend a deadline by up to one year, with a second extension for some chapters.
Feb 12, 2026 · Passed 53–45 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Education & families49 with · 0 against49 votes
Most contested
- Yes
Relating to: admission to University of Wisconsin System institutions.
Requires University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate admission decisions, starting 2027-28, to be predominantly based on ACT, SAT or similar test performance or objective testing measures, except for applicants admitted through the guaranteed admission program.
Feb 12, 2026 · Passed 52–45 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Relating to: school board policies related to changing a pupil’s legal name and pronouns.
On the version voted Feb 11, 2026: Requires school boards to adopt policies to change a pupil's name or pronouns in school records only on a parent's or adult pupil's notarized request, and bar staff from using a minor's name or pronouns not matching biological sex without a parent's notarized authorization.
Mar 20, 2025 · Passed 50–43 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
As amended, requires University of Wisconsin and technical college athletic teams to be designated male, female or coed by biological sex (sex at birth per original birth certificate), bars male-sex students from female teams, and requires one-sex locker rooms, with exceptions and accommodations.
Mar 20, 2025 · Passed 50–43 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Rights & public safety43 with · 0 against43 votes
Most contested
- Yes
Relating to: prohibiting funding for health services for unlawfully present individuals.
Prohibits state, local and pass-through federal funds from paying for health care for people not lawfully present in the U.S., unless federal law requires payment or federal funds would be lost.
Sep 11, 2025 · Passed 51–44 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
As amended, requires University of Wisconsin and technical college athletic teams to be designated male, female or coed by biological sex (sex at birth per original birth certificate), bars male-sex students from female teams, and requires one-sex locker rooms, with exceptions and accommodations.
Mar 20, 2025 · Passed 50–43 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Relating to: race-based higher education programs and requirements.
Changes higher education programs for minority students to cover disadvantaged students instead, defined by a student's demonstrated economic and social disadvantage (personal narrative, net worth statement) without regard to race or sex, and repeals minority enrollment targets for a medical school and a dental school.
Feb 12, 2026 · Passed 53–45 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Health & care16 with · 0 against16 votes
Most contested
- Yes
Relating to: prohibiting funding for health services for unlawfully present individuals.
Prohibits state, local and pass-through federal funds from paying for health care for people not lawfully present in the U.S., unless federal law requires payment or federal funds would be lost.
Sep 11, 2025 · Passed 51–44 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Bans health care providers from performing or referring minors under 18 for medical treatment meant to align the body with a sex other than their biological sex, with exceptions, and requires licensing boards to revoke violators' licenses.
Mar 20, 2025 · Passed 50–43 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Relating to: a civil cause of action for a minor injured by a gender transition procedure.
Lets a person injured by a gender transition procedure performed as a minor sue the provider before age 33. Defense: two years of documented perceived gender, two providers certifying it is the only treatment for any mental health concern, and consent of minor and parent.
Feb 12, 2026 · Passed 53–45 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Climate & energy11 with · 0 against11 votes
Most contested
- Yes
Reauthorizes the Knowles-Nelson stewardship program through 2027-28 with a combined annual limit of $13.25 million, ends forestry account transfers to the capital improvement fund, and appropriates forestry account money directly for small land purchases, property development and grants.
Jan 22, 2026 · Passed 53–44 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Reauthorizes the Knowles-Nelson stewardship land conservation program through 2027-28, cutting yearly borrowing limits to $1 million for land acquisition and $9.25 million for development and local aid, and adds wildlife habitat grants.
Jan 22, 2026 · Passed 53–44 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Relating to: prohibiting rights of nature ordinances.
Bars cities, villages, towns and counties from enacting ordinances that give legal rights to natural resources to exist, be protected against pollution, or maintain a healthy ecosystem.
Feb 19, 2026 · Passed 54–41 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Technology & privacy10 with · 0 against10 votes
Most contested
- Yes
Bars state agencies and other operators from contracts or technology giving foreign-adversary-linked entities access to critical infrastructure, bars telecom providers from using FCC-banned equipment (removal, annual certification, fines), and bars foreign nationals from contributing to referendum committees.
Feb 17, 2026 · Passed 54–45 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Bans medical and research facilities receiving state money from using genetic sequencers or analysis software made in China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia or Maduro-era Venezuela, and bars storing Wisconsin residents' genome data in those countries.
Jan 22, 2026 · Passed 53–44 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Relating to: use restrictions on state and local government electronic devices.
On the version voted Feb 18, 2026: Bars state agencies from using devices to access social media, software or generative AI controlled by foreign adversaries such as China and Russia, and requires state, legislative and court technology policies on such products, effective January 31, 2027.
Jan 22, 2026 · Passed 53–44 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Foreign affairs & defense9 with · 0 against9 votes
Most contested
- Yes
Bars state agencies and other operators from contracts or technology giving foreign-adversary-linked entities access to critical infrastructure, bars telecom providers from using FCC-banned equipment (removal, annual certification, fines), and bars foreign nationals from contributing to referendum committees.
Feb 17, 2026 · Passed 54–45 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Bans medical and research facilities receiving state money from using genetic sequencers or analysis software made in China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia or Maduro-era Venezuela, and bars storing Wisconsin residents' genome data in those countries.
Jan 22, 2026 · Passed 53–44 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Raises a crime's penalty class one level when committed as an agent of a foreign government or terrorist group to intimidate or silence dissidents and others, makes unapproved enforcement of foreign laws a Class E felony (three-year minimum prison term), and requires DOJ training.
Jan 22, 2026 · Passed 53–44 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Housing & rent7 with · 0 against7 votes
Most contested
- Yes
Relating to: pay for performance grant requirements.
Requires the state to withhold 10 to 50 percent of homelessness grants for nine months, paying it only if recipients meet housing, employment or reduced-return-to-homelessness goals, and requires recipients to report data.
Feb 12, 2026 · Passed 52–46 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Adds homeless shelter premises and the area within 1,000 feet of them to the places where the maximum prison term for delivering or possessing with intent to deliver certain controlled substances increases by five years.
Feb 12, 2026 · Passed 56–42 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Requires cities and villages to grant rezoning for residential development that meets plan, density and nearby-development conditions unless denial is needed to avoid overburdened public facilities or safety threats; also allows longer tax incremental district extensions for housing.
Oct 7, 2025 · Passed 55–39 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Transportation2 with · 0 against2 votes
Most contested
- Yes
On the version voted Jun 18, 2025: Lets motor fuel suppliers keep the 1.35 percent administrative allowance on diesel fuel tax, as for gasoline, lets retailers claim a refund of 0.5 percent of fuel tax paid for evaporation and shrinkage, and credits wholesaler distributors for the resulting tax reduction.
Feb 20, 2026 · Passed 56–37 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Relating to: alternative methods of providing pupil transportation services.
Raises the number of passengers a non-school-bus vehicle may carry for school transportation from 9 to 14 besides the driver, and the emergency-exception threshold from 10 to 15 or more.
Feb 17, 2026 · Passed 60–39 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
- Yes
Where they stood out
Voted with most of their party on all 179 party-divided votes on file.
Their votes on the most contested roll calls
The votes in their chamber that came out closest and most divided by party, among those they voted on. How we rank
- Yes
With most of their party · Passed 50–44 · Yes 50–No 44 · Democrats 0–44, Republicans 50–0
Sep 11, 2025Official record ↗
- Yes
Relating to: admission to University of Wisconsin System institutions.
With most of their party · Passed 52–45 · Yes 52–No 45 · Democrats 0–45, Republicans 52–0
Feb 12, 2026Official record ↗
- Yes
SUSPENSION OF RULES PROMULGATED BY STATE AGENCIES
With most of their party · Passed 52–45 · Yes 52–No 45 · Democrats 0–45, Republicans 52–0
Feb 12, 2026Official record ↗
- Yes
Relating to: prohibiting funding for health services for unlawfully present individuals.
With most of their party · Passed 51–44 · Yes 51–No 44 · Democrats 0–44, Republicans 51–0
Sep 11, 2025Official record ↗
- Yes
Relating to: requiring state employees to perform their work at the offices of their employer.
With most of their party · Passed 51–44 · Yes 51–No 44 · Democrats 0–44, Republicans 51–0
Sep 11, 2025Official record ↗
- Yes
With most of their party · Passed 50–43 · Yes 50–No 43 · Democrats 0–43, Republicans 50–0
Mar 20, 2025Official record ↗
- Yes
Relating to: school board policies related to changing a pupil’s legal name and pronouns.
With most of their party · Passed 50–43 · Yes 50–No 43 · Democrats 0–43, Republicans 50–0
Mar 20, 2025Official record ↗
- Yes
With most of their party · Passed 50–43 · Yes 50–No 43 · Democrats 0–43, Republicans 50–0
Mar 20, 2025Official record ↗
Substantive votes concern legislation or nominations; procedural votes concern how the chamber considers them. A Yes vote applies to the motion shown, which may not be final passage.
YesVOTED
AB 1 · WI ASSEMBLY
Relating to: changes to the educational assessment program and the school and school district accountability report.
Motion: SUSPEND RULES
AB 387 · WI ASSEMBLY
Relating to: correction bill for 2025 Wisconsin Act 15 and making an appropriation.
Motion: PASSAGE
AB 884 · WI ASSEMBLY
Relating to: who may purchase certain contractual services and technical changes to tax provisions related to qualified retirement plans and the film production services credit.
Motion: PASSAGE
SB 179 · WI ASSEMBLY
Relating to: applying the motor vehicle fuel tax supplier’s administrative allowance to diesel fuel, a motor vehicle fuel tax refund for evaporation losses, and making an appropriation.
Motion: CONCURRENCE AS AMENDED
On the version voted Jun 18, 2025: Lets motor fuel suppliers keep the 1.35 percent administrative allowance on diesel fuel tax, as for gasoline, lets retailers claim a refund of 0.5 percent of fuel tax paid for evaporation and shrinkage, and credits wholesaler distributors for the resulting tax reduction.
AI summary — read the bill text ↗
AB 870 · WI ASSEMBLY
Relating to: adopting changes to the federal Internal Revenue Code for state tax purposes and modifying administrative rules related to such changes.
Motion: PASSAGE
Conforms Wisconsin income and franchise tax law to the federal Internal Revenue Code as of December 31, 2025, changes charging-order rules for creditors of limited liability company members, and requires local government employees who operate heavy equipment on highway improvements to hold a state license.
AI summary — read the bill text ↗
AB 839 · WI ASSEMBLY
Relating to: allowing the Town of Three Lakes in Oneida County to create a tax incremental district in the same manner as a city or village.
Motion: PASSAGE
SB 181 · WI ASSEMBLY
Relating to: a levy limit exemption for regional emergency medical systems and eligibility for the expenditure restraint incentive program.
Motion: CONCURRENCE
AB 1027 · WI ASSEMBLY
Relating to: requiring information relating to the food stamp program to be compiled and provided to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Motion: PASSAGE
Changes FoodShare rules to match 2025 federal law, raising the work-requirement age cutoff from 50 to 65, narrowing the child exemption to under 14, limiting eligibility to qualified immigrants, and requiring DHS to share recipient data with USDA.
AI summary — read the bill text ↗
AB 180 · WI ASSEMBLY
Relating to: requiring the Department of Health Services to seek any necessary waiver to prohibit the purchase of candy or soft drinks with FoodShare benefits.
Motion: PASSAGE
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