The second year of this legislature was significantly impacted by the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wisconsin.

Senators representing odd-numbered districts were newly elected for this session and were serving the first two years of a four-year term.

Assembly members were elected to a two-year term.

[1] Senators representing even-numbered districts were serving the third and fourth year of their four-year term, having been elected in the general election held on November 8, 2016.

[2] The governor of Wisconsin during this entire term was Democrat Tony Evers, of Dane County, serving the first two years of a four-year term, having won election in the 2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election.