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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 419

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: a sales and use tax exemption for ski lifts. (FE)

Legislature — Tax exemptions joint survey committee on Recreation Sales tax — Exemption Sanitation and sewerage management

  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 a sales and use tax exemption for the sale of ski lifts and the machines and equipment used exclusively to operate the ski lifts. Under current law, snowmaking and snow-grooming machines and equipment used exclusively and directly for snowmaking and snow grooming at ski hills, ski slopes, and ski trails is exempt from the sales and use tax.

Because this bill relates to an exemption from state or local taxes, it may be referred to the Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions for a report to be printed as an appendix to the bill.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: B. Jacobson (R) , Dittrich (R) , Kurtz (R) , Mursau (R) , Novak (R) , Stubbs (D) , Summerfield (R) , Wittke (R)

6 cosponsors

Cabral-Guevara (R) , Feyen (R) , Keyeski (D) , Pfaff (D) , Tomczyk (R) , Tucker (R)

Registered lobbying interests · 8

Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record

Votes

Assembly: Report of Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions received, Ayes 6, Noes 3.

Passed 6–3 Nov 11, 2025 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 7, Noes 1

Passed 7–1 Nov 20, 2025 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Sep 15, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives B. Jacobson, Kurtz, Dittrich, Mursau, Novak, Stubbs, Summerfield and Wittke; cosponsored by Senators Feyen, Cabral-Guevara, Keyeski, Pfaff and Tomczyk

  2. Sep 15, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means

  3. Sep 17, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Nov 5, 2025 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Nov 7, 2025 · Assembly

    Referred to joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions pursuant to Assembly Rule 45 (4)

  6. Nov 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Executive action taken by joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions

  7. Nov 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Report of Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions received, Ayes 6, Noes 3.

  8. Nov 12, 2025 · Assembly

    Executive action taken by committee on Ways and Means

  9. Nov 20, 2025 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 7, Noes 1

  10. Nov 20, 2025 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  11. Jan 28, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Tucker added as a coauthor

  12. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1