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Bills from the 2025–26 session

Assembly Bill 357

Technical education equipment grants. (FE)

Topics: Industrial development, School: Supplies, Workforce Development, Department of

Stopped before the full Assembly voted

The recommended passing it, but the full Assembly never voted on it. The last day for votes this session was Mar 19, 2026. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Jul 8, 2025

  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, Mar 23, 2026: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

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The same bill was also filed in the Senate as SB 366. That version became law.

What it would have done

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

Current law provides that the Department of Workforce Development may award technical education equipment grants to school districts for certain purposes, including for the enhancement or improvement of a technical education facility or for the acquisition of equipment that is used in advanced manufacturing or construction fields in the workplace, together with any software necessary for the operation of that equipment and any instructional material necessary to train pupils in the operation of that equipment. As a condition of receiving a grant, a grant recipient must provide matching funds, in the form of money or the monetary value of equipment. The match must be 200 percent of the grant amount awarded if any of the match is contributed from school district funds, or 100 percent if the match is purely from other sources.

This bill makes the following changes to the program:

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1. Revises the purposes for which grants may be awarded. Under the bill, grant moneys may be used for additional specified purposes, such as the construction of a new technical education facility and instructional training on the use of tools and equipment used in technical education.

2. Requires the match to be the amount of the grant awarded, regardless of whether any of the match is contributed from school district funds. The bill also allows a match to be provided by someone other than a grant recipient and allows any in-kind contribution to count toward the match requirement, including software, tools, and equipment.

Who's behind it

20 representatives are its ⁠. 12 are Republicans and 8 are Democrats.

11 more lawmakers ⁠.

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Authors (20)

Signed on in support (11)

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 Workforce Development vote to recommend it

Passed, 9 to 0 · Jan 6, 2026

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 Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment, Ayes 9, Noes 0”. Official record · This vote on its own page

What happened

  1. Mar 23, 2026

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Jan 8, 2026 to Feb 10, 2026

    3 more representatives signed on in support.

  3. Jan 6, 2026

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Rules.

  4. Jan 6, 2026

    The committee voted to recommend passing it, 9 to 0.

  5. Nov 18, 2025 to Dec 29, 2025

    2 more representatives and 1 senator signed on in support.

  6. Nov 13, 2025

    The committee held a public hearing.

  7. Jul 28, 2025

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  8. Jul 8, 2025

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment.

  9. Jul 8, 2025

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Jul 8, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Green, Armstrong, Brill, Doyle, Fitzgerald, Franklin, Gundrum, Hysell, Johnson, Kitchens, Kreibich, Maxey, Miresse, Murphy, Mursau, Nedweski, Neubauer, Novak, Sheehan and Sinicki; cosponsored by Senators Stafsholt, Dassler-Alfheim, Drake, Habush Sinykin, Pfaff and Wall

  2. Jul 8, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment

  3. Jul 28, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Nov 13, 2025 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Nov 18, 2025 · Assembly

    Senator Ratcliff added as a cosponsor

  6. Dec 23, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Joers added as a coauthor

  7. Dec 29, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a coauthor

  8. Jan 6, 2026 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  9. Jan 6, 2026 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment, Ayes 9, Noes 0

  10. Jan 6, 2026 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  11. Jan 8, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor

  12. Feb 5, 2026 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 2-10-2026 by Committee on Rules

  13. Feb 10, 2026 · Assembly

    Representatives Anderson and Clancy added as coauthors

  14. Feb 12, 2026 · Assembly

    Laid on the table

  15. Mar 23, 2026 · 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.

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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