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Bills · 2009-2010 Regular Session

SB 56

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an income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill creates an income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness

programs. The amount of the credit is equal to 30 percent of the amount that an

employer pays in the taxable year to provide a workplace wellness program to any

of the employer's employees who are employed in this state. A workplace wellness

program is a health or fitness program, as defined by administrative rule by the

Department of Commerce, that is provided with health risk assessments.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Darling (R) , Hopper (R) , Kapanke (R) , Kedzie (R) , Lazich (R) , Leibham (R) , Olsen (R) , Schultz (R)

25 cosponsors

A. Ott (R) , Brooks (R) , Davis (R) , Gunderson (R) , Honadel (R) , Huebsch (R) , Knodl (R) , Kramer (R) , LeMahieu (R) , Lehman (D) , Lothian (R) , M. Williams (R) , Meyer (R) , Murtha (R) , Petersen (R) , Ripp (R) , Roth (R) , Spanbauer (R) , Strachota (R) , Suder (R) , Tauchen (R) , Townsend (R) , Van Roy (R) , Vos (R) , Zipperer (R)

Full history

  1. Feb 12, 2009 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Hopper, Erpenbach, Olsen, Darling, Kapanke, Kedzie, Lazich, Leibham and Schultz;Cosponsored by Representatives Murtha, Davis, Brooks, Gunderson, Honadel, Huebsch, Knodl, Kramer, LeMahieu, Lothian, Meyer, A. Ott, Petersen, Ripp, Roth, Spanbauer, Strachota, Suder, Tauchen, Townsend, Van Roy, Vos, M. Williams and Zipperer

  2. Feb 12, 2009 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions

  3. Feb 12, 2009 · Senate

    Senator Lehman added as a coauthor

  4. Feb 18, 2009 · Senate

    Senator Erpenbach withdrawn as a coauthor

  5. Feb 23, 2009 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Feb 26, 2009 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  7. Jul 22, 2009 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  8. Apr 28, 2010 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1