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Bills · Sep 2011 Special Session

AB 5

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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 Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, 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 Revenue, that is provided with health risk assessments.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Committee on Assembly Organization , Lassa , Representative Murtha , Senators Moulton , by request of Governor Scott Walker

2 cosponsors

Moulton and Lassa , Murtha (R)

Full history

  1. Oct 11, 2011 · Assembly

    Introduced by committee on Assembly Organization, by request of Governor Scott Walker, Representative Murtha, Senators Moulton and Lassa

  2. Oct 11, 2011 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Health

  3. Oct 11, 2011 · Assembly

    Representative Murtha added as a coauthor

  4. Oct 11, 2011 · Assembly

    Senators Moulton and Lassa added as a cosponsors

  5. Oct 17, 2011 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Dec 13, 2011 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1