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Bills from the 2025–26 session

Assembly Bill 383

The veterans housing and recovery program and making an appropriation. (FE)

Topics: Veteran: Housing, Veteran: Relief, Veterans Affairs, Department of

Stopped in committee

It never got a ⁠, so it never came up for a vote. 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 31, 2025

  2. Committee, stopped here

    Stopped here. No public hearing was held.

  3. Assembly vote, not reached

  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 ⁠”

It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs. The committee's chair at the time was Will Penterman. Chairs decide which bills get a hearing. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.

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The same bill was also filed in the Senate as SB 385. That version died when the session ended.

What it would have done

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

This bill provides to the Department of Veteran’s Affairs $900,000 in 2025-26 and $1,050,000 in 2026-27 for the veterans housing and recovery program to increase funding for supplies and services costs for the program’s three locations in Chippewa Falls, Green Bay, and Union Grove and for costs associated with leasing a different facility for the Chippewa Falls-based program due to space and facility deficiencies of the current location.

Who's behind it

24 representatives are its ⁠. 22 are Democrats and 2 are Republicans.

21 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 45 names

Authors (24)

Signed on in support (21)

What it would cost

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

Versions and amendments

Every text the Legislature printed for this bill, including proposed changes. Each opens on the Legislature's site.

What happened

  1. Mar 23, 2026

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Sep 12, 2025 to Jan 8, 2026

    5 more representatives signed on in support.

  3. Aug 13, 2025

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  4. Jul 31, 2025

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs.

  5. Jul 31, 2025

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Jul 31, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Emerson, Spaude, Sinicki, Phelps, Brown, Rivera-Wagner, McCarville, Tenorio, Doyle, Cruz, Neubauer, DeSmidt, Sheehan, Roe, Taylor, Goodwin, Andraca, Moore Omokunde, Hysell, Franklin, Fitzgerald, Anderson, Moses and Stroud; cosponsored by Senators Smith, Wall, Hesselbein, Dassler-Alfheim, Ratcliff, Carpenter, Roys, Larson, Spreitzer, James, Keyeski, Habush Sinykin, Drake, Wirch, L. Johnson and Pfaff

  2. Jul 31, 2025 · Assembly

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

  3. Aug 13, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Sep 12, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Haywood added as a coauthor

  5. Sep 19, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Udell added as a coauthor

  6. Sep 23, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Subeck added as a coauthor

  7. Sep 23, 2025 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Emerson

  8. Oct 21, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Mayadev added as a coauthor

  9. Jan 8, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor

  10. 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.

More in the glossary

Public hearing

A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.

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

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.

Public hearing

A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.

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

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

Author

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

Official term: Author, coauthor

Signed on in support

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

Official term: Cosponsor

Cost estimate

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

Official term: Fiscal estimate