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Bills from the 2025–26 session

Assembly Bill 428

The University of Wisconsin Missing-in-Action Recovery and Identification Project, funding for the veterans housing and recovery program, eligibility changes for the veterans and surviving spouses property tax credit, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Topics: Chippewa Falls, City of, Income tax: Credit, Property tax, University of Wisconsin: Madison, University of Wisconsin: Regents, Veteran, 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

    Sep 15, 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 411. 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 requires the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System to provide funding in the 2025-27 fiscal biennium to the UW Missing-in-Action Recovery and Identification Project (MIA Recovery Project) for missions to recover and identify Wisconsin veterans who are missing in action. At the conclusion of the 2025-27 fiscal biennium, the MIA Recovery Project must submit to the Board of Regents, the Joint Committee on Finance, each legislative standing committee dealing with veterans matters, the governor, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Military Affairs a report on findings and the accounting of expenditures related to the MIA Recovery Project’s missions.

The bill also provides to DVA $900,000 in 2025-26 and $1,050,000 in 2026-27 to increase funding for supplies and services costs in the veterans housing and recovery program and for costs associated with leasing a different facility for the Chippewa Falls-based veterans housing and recovery program.

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In addition, the bill reduces the eligibility threshold for an eligible veteran, the spouse of an eligible veteran, and the unremarried surviving spouse of an eligible veteran to claim the veterans and surviving spouses property tax credit under the individual income tax system. Under the bill, a claimant may claim the credit if the claimant’s service-connected disability rating is at least 80 percent. Currently, that rating must be 100 percent.

Under the bill, the maximum credit that a claimant may claim is multiplied by the percentage of the claimant’s service-connected disability rating. Also, for an individual whose service-connected disability is less than 100 percent, the amount of the credit claimed may not exceed the amount of property taxes paid on the first $350,000 of the property’s assessed value for the tax year the credit is claimed.

The bill does not affect a claimant who claims the credit based on his or her individual unemployability rating. Under current law, an individual with a 100 percent disability rating based on individual unemployability may also claim the credit.

Who's behind it

6 representatives are its ⁠. All 6 are Republicans.

4 more lawmakers ⁠.

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Authors (6)

Signed on in support (4)

What it would cost

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

What happened

  1. Mar 23, 2026

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Oct 28, 2025 to Oct 30, 2025

    2 more representatives signed on in support.

  3. Oct 2, 2025

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  4. Sep 26, 2025

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  5. Sep 24, 2025

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  6. Sep 15, 2025

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs.

  7. Sep 15, 2025

    Introduced in the Assembly.

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  1. Sep 15, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Franklin, Behnke, Dittrich, Goeben, Kreibich and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senators Jacque and Quinn

  2. Sep 15, 2025 · Assembly

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

  3. Sep 24, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Sep 26, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Sep 26, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Oct 2, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  7. Oct 28, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Maxey added as a coauthor

  8. Oct 30, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Tucker added as a coauthor

  9. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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Cost estimate

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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

Public hearing

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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

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Author

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Official term: Author, coauthor

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Signed on in support

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Official term: Cosponsor

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Cost estimate

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Official term: Fiscal estimate

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