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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 650

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Relating to: funding for identity verification under the unemployment insurance law and making an appropriation. (FE)

Insurance Unemployment insurance Workers compensation Workforce development department of

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Assembly, completed
  3. Passes Senate, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law appropriates funding to the Department of Workforce Development for various costs associated with drug testing under the unemployment insurance law, with the unspent funds being directed to the unemployment program integrity fund at the end of every fiscal year. This bill allows this funding to also be used for costs associated with identity proofing of claimants for which federal funding is unavailable.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

1 cosponsors

Smith (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 4

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 Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment, Ayes 9, Noes 0

Passed 9–0 Jan 6, 2026 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 as amended recommended by Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment, Ayes 9, Noes 0

Passed 9–0 Jan 6, 2026 official source full page

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

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0

Passed 16–0 Jan 14, 2026 official source full page

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

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0

Passed 16–0 Jan 14, 2026 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 as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0

Passed 16–0 Jan 14, 2026 official source full page

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

Assembly: PASSAGE

Passed 97–0 Jan 20, 2026 official source full page

Aye · 97

Not voting · 2

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Mar 16, 2026 official source full page

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

Senate: CONCURRENCE

Passed 33–0 Mar 17, 2026 official source full page

Full history

  1. Nov 13, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment

  2. Nov 13, 2025 · Assembly

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

  3. Nov 13, 2025 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Dec 29, 2025 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Melotik

  5. Jan 6, 2026 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  6. Jan 6, 2026 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment, Ayes 9, Noes 0

  7. Jan 6, 2026 · Assembly

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

  8. Jan 6, 2026 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  9. Jan 13, 2026 · Assembly

    Withdrawn from committee on Rules and referred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Assembly Rule 24 (3)(a)

  10. Jan 14, 2026 · Assembly

    Executive action taken by joint committee on Finance

  11. Jan 14, 2026 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0

  12. Jan 14, 2026 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0

  13. Jan 14, 2026 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0

  14. Jan 14, 2026 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  15. Jan 14, 2026 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 1-20-2026 by Committee on Rules

  16. Jan 14, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Joint Committee on Finance

  17. Jan 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  18. Jan 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Amendment 1 adopted

  19. Jan 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 adopted

  20. Jan 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  21. Jan 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  22. Jan 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 97, Noes 0

  23. Jan 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  24. Jan 20, 2026 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  25. Jan 22, 2026 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  26. Jan 23, 2026 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

  27. Jan 23, 2026 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  28. Mar 16, 2026 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

  29. Mar 16, 2026 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 3-17-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  30. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Read a second time

  31. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  32. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  33. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 33, Noes 0

  34. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Senator Smith added as a cosponsor

  35. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  36. Mar 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  37. Mar 24, 2026 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 3-24-2026

  38. Mar 26, 2026 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 3-26-2026

  39. Mar 30, 2026 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor with partial veto on 3-30-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 144

  40. Mar 30, 2026 · Assembly

    Published 3-31-2026

  41. May 12, 2026 · Assembly

    Partial veto placed on calendar 5-12-2026 pursuant to Joint Rule 82 (2)(a)

  42. May 13, 2026 · Assembly

    Partial veto failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the Governor pursuant to Joint Rule 82