12. This bill prohibits an insurer from discriminating against an individual on the basis of age, residence, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, occupation, gender identity or gender expression, sex, or sexual orientation, and also prohibits motor carriers, automobile insurers, transportation network companies, and real estate brokers and salespersons from discriminating against an individual on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or gender expression.

SB474,,6615.04 (1) (g) Discrimination review. In order to determine whether there is any arbitrary discrimination on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sex, marital status or, gender identity or gender expression, as defined in s. 111.32 (7j), or sexual orientation, as defined in s. 111.32 (13m), examine and assess the statutes under which the head has powers or regulatory responsibilities, the procedures by which those statutes are administered, and the rules promulgated under those statutes. If the department or agency head finds any such discrimination, he or she the agency head shall take remedial action, including making recommendations to the appropriate executive, legislative, or administrative authority.

SB474,,8816.765 (1) Contracting agencies, the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority, the Fox River Navigational System Authority, the Wisconsin Aerospace Authority, the Lower Fox River Remediation Authority, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, and the Bradley Center Sports and Entertainment Corporation shall include in all contracts executed by them a provision obligating the contractor not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, handicap disability, sex, physical condition, developmental disability, as defined in s. 51.01 (5), sexual orientation, as defined in s. 111.32 (13m), gender identity or gender expression, as defined in s. 111.32 (7j), or national origin and, except with respect to sexual orientation or gender identity or gender expression, obligating the contractor to take affirmative action to ensure equal employment opportunities.

SB474,,101016.765 (2) Contracting agencies, the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority, the Fox River Navigational System Authority, the Wisconsin Aerospace Authority, the Lower Fox River Remediation Authority, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, and the Bradley Center Sports and Entertainment Corporation shall include the following provision in every contract executed by them: “In connection with the performance of work under this contract, the contractor agrees not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, handicap disability, sex, physical condition, developmental disability, as defined in s. 51.01 (5), sexual orientation, as defined in s. 111.32 (13m), gender identity or gender expression, as defined in s. 111.32 (7j), or national origin. This provision shall include, but not be limited to, the following: employment, upgrading, demotion or transfer; recruitment or recruitment advertising; layoff or termination; rates of pay or other forms of compensation; and selection for training, including apprenticeship. Except with respect to sexual orientation or gender identity or gender expression, the contractor further agrees to take affirmative action to ensure equal employment opportunities. The contractor agrees to post in conspicuous places, available for employees and applicants for employment, notices to be provided by the contracting officer setting forth the provisions of the nondiscrimination clause”. clause.”

SB474,,121236.09 (1) (e) Subject to par. (em), the board shall appoint a president of the system; a chancellor for each institution; a dean for each college campus; the state geologist; the director of the laboratory of hygiene; the director of the psychiatric institute; the state cartographer; and the requisite number of officers, other than the vice presidents, associate vice presidents, and assistant vice presidents of the system; faculty; academic staff; and other employees and fix the salaries, subject to the limitations under par. (j) and s. 230.12 (3) (e), the duties and the term of office for each. The board shall fix the salaries, subject to the limitations under par. (j) and s. 230.12 (3) (e), and the duties for each chancellor, vice president, associate vice president, and assistant vice president of the system. No sectarian or partisan tests or any tests based upon race, religion, national origin, or sex, gender identity or gender expression, as defined in s. 111.32 (7j), or sexual orientation, as defined in s. 111.32 (13m), shall ever be allowed or exercised in the appointment of the employees of the system.

SB474,,141436.11 (3) (a) The board shall establish the policies for admission within the system and within these policies each institution shall establish specific requirements for admission to its courses of instruction. No sectarian or partisan tests test or any tests test based upon race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin of U.S. citizens or sex, disability, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, as defined in s. 111.32 (13m), gender identity or gender expression, as defined in s. 111.32 (7j), pregnancy, marital status, or parental status shall ever be allowed in the admission of students thereto a student to any service, course, program, or facility of the system or any of its institutions.

SB474,,161636.12 (1) No student may be denied admission to, participation in, or the benefits of, or be discriminated against in, any service, program, course, or facility of the system or its institutions because of the student’s race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, disability, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, as defined in s. 111.32 (13m), gender identity or gender expression, as defined in s. 111.32 (7j), pregnancy, marital status, or parental status of the student or of the student’s parent.

SB474,,181836.29 (1) All gifts, grants, and bequests for the benefit or advantage of the system or any of its institutions, departments, or facilities or to provide any means of instruction, illustration, or knowledge in connection therewith, whether made to trustees or otherwise, shall be valid notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter except as otherwise provided in this subsection and shall be executed and enforced according to the provisions of the instrument making the same, including all provisions and directions in any such instrument for accumulation of the income of any fund or rents and profits of any real estate without being subject to the limitations and restrictions provided by law in other cases; but no such income accumulation shall be allowed to produce a fund more than 20 times as great as that originally given. No investment of the funds of such gifts, grants, or bequests shall knowingly be made in any company, corporation, subsidiary, or affiliate that practices or condones through its actions discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, or sex, gender identity or gender expression, as defined in s. 111.32 (7j), or sexual orientation, as defined in s. 111.32 (13m). Except as otherwise provided in this section, the board may invest not to exceed 85 percent of trust funds held and administered by the board in common stocks. This subsection does not apply to a gift, grant, or bequest that the board declines to accept or that the board is not authorized to accept under this section.

SB474,,202038.04 (13) (b) No person may, on the ground of sex, gender identity or gender expression, as defined in s. 111.32 (7j), sexual orientation, as defined in s. 111.32 (3m), age, race, color, religion, or national origin, be excluded from participating in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity funded in whole or in part with funds made available under this subsection.

SB474,,222238.23 (1) No student may be denied admission to, participation in, or the benefits of, or be discriminated against in, any service, program, course, or facility of the board or any district because of the student’s race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, disability, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, as defined in s. 111.32 (13m), gender identity or gender expression, as defined in s. 111.32 (7j), pregnancy, marital status, or parental status of the student or of the student’s parent.

SB474,,242438.23 (4) Nothing in this section or s. 36.12 prevents institutions from segregating students in dormitories based on sex, except that no person may be denied equal access to the dormitory most consistent with the person’s gender identity.

SB474,,262647.02 (3m) (f) Assure that eligibility for vocational rehabilitation services under this chapter is determined without regard to the sex, gender identity or gender expression, as defined in s. 111.32 (7j), sexual orientation, as defined in s. 111.32 (13m), race, age, creed, color, or national origin of the individual applying for services, that no class of individuals is found ineligible solely on the basis of type of disability, and that no age limitations for eligibility exist which that, by themselves, would result in ineligibility for vocational rehabilitation services.