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Bills from the 2023–24 session

Assembly Bill 26

The University of Wisconsin Missing-in-Action Recovery and Identification Project and making an appropriation. (FE)

Stopped before the full Assembly voted

The recommended passing it, but the full Assembly never voted on it. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Feb 10, 2023

  2. Committee, passed

    Approved

  3. Assembly vote, stopped here

    Stopped here. The full Assembly never voted on it.

  4. Senate vote, not reached

  5. Governor, not reached

  6. Law, not reached

Latest entry in the official record, Apr 15, 2024: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

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What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Under this bill, the University of Wisconsin Missing-in-Action Recovery and Identification Project (MIA Recovery Project) may request the Joint Committee on Finance to provide $180,000 in each fiscal year of the 2023-25 fiscal biennium for missions to recover and identify Wisconsin veterans who are missing in action. The request must include a research prospectus and spending plan for the mission for which the funding is requested and must be concurrently provided to the standing committees of each house of the legislature dealing with veterans matters (veterans committees), as well as the governor, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Military Affairs. The veterans committees may submit to JCF a written recommendation regarding the request. JCF considers the request under a 14-day passive review process and, upon JCF's express or implied approval of the request, JCF must provide the requested amount of funding directed to the MIA Recovery Project Fund. If JCF provides funding, by June 30, 2025, the MIA Recovery Project must submit to JCF, each veterans committee, the governor, DVA, and DMA a report on the mission's findings and accounting of expenditures, including specified information. The bill also creates a miscellaneous appropriation of general purpose revenue through which JCF provides the funding.

Who's behind it

37 lawmakers are its ⁠. 19 are Democrats and 18 are Republicans.

18 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 55 names

Authors (37)

Signed on in support (18)

What it would cost

State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

How lawmakers voted

There was one vote on this bill.

Assembly Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs vote to recommend it

Passed, 13 to 0 · Mar 13, 2024

No member-by-member record exists for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Official motion: “Report passage recommended by Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs, Ayes 13, Noes 0”. Official record · This vote on its own page

What happened

  1. Apr 15, 2024

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Mar 13, 2024

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Rules.

  3. Mar 13, 2024

    The committee voted to recommend passing it, 13 to 0.

  4. Mar 23, 2023 to May 11, 2023

    8 more representatives signed on in support.

  5. Mar 23, 2023

    The committee held a public hearing.

  6. Mar 20, 2023

    1 more representative signed on in support.

  7. Feb 21, 2023

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  8. Feb 10, 2023

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs.

  9. Feb 10, 2023

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Feb 10, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Kurtz, Sinicki, Zimmerman, Wittke, Tusler, Tittl, Subeck, Stubbs, Spiros, Shankland, Rozar, Riemer, Ratcliff, Petryk, Petersen, Ortiz-Velez, Ohnstad, Novak, Mursau, Knodl, Kitchens, Joers, Haywood, Gustafson, Emerson, Edming, Donovan, Considine, Conley, Cabrera, Brandtjen, Billings, Baldeh, Armstrong, Andraca, C. Anderson and Jacobson; cosponsored by Senators Cowles, Hesselbein, Wirch, Wanggaard, Taylor, Stafsholt, Spreitzer, Pfaff, Larson, James, Feyen and Carpenter

  2. Feb 10, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs

  3. Feb 21, 2023 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Mar 20, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Bare added as a coauthor

  5. Mar 23, 2023 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. Mar 23, 2023 · Assembly

    Representatives Plumer and Michalski added as coauthors

  7. Mar 27, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative VanderMeer added as a coauthor

  8. Apr 19, 2023 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  9. Apr 26, 2023 · Assembly

    Representatives Palmeri and Steffen added as coauthors

  10. Apr 27, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Rettinger added as a coauthor

  11. May 11, 2023 · Assembly

    Representatives Moore Omokunde and Tranel added as coauthors

  12. Mar 13, 2024 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs, Ayes 13, Noes 0

  13. Mar 13, 2024 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  14. Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

Terms on this page

Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

More in the glossary

Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary

Legislative Reference Bureau

The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.

Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary

Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary

Cost estimate

A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.

Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary

Roll call

A vote where each lawmaker's yes or no is recorded by name.

Official term: Roll call vote. More in the glossary

From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source

Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

More in the glossary

Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1

More in the glossary

Legislative Reference Bureau

The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.

Official term: LRB analysis

More in the glossary

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor

More in the glossary

Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor

More in the glossary

Cost estimate

A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.

Official term: Fiscal estimate

More in the glossary

Roll call

A vote where each lawmaker's yes or no is recorded by name.

Official term: Roll call vote

More in the glossary