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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 700

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Relating to: an appropriation for refundable long-term care insurance assessment credits and making an appropriation. (FE)

Franchise — Taxation Income tax — Credit Insurance Insurance — Miscellaneous

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

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill provides a sum sufficient appropriation to authorize refundable credit payments for the long-term care insurance assessment credit created by 2025 Assembly Bill .... (LRB-5462/1). If 2025 Assembly Bill .... (LRB-5462/1) is not enacted into law, then this bill is void.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Doyle (D) , Gundrum (R) , Kreibich (R) , O'Connor (R) , Petersen (R) , Piwowarczyk (R) , Subeck (D)

6 cosponsors

Bare (D) , Ortiz-Velez and Kaufert , Smith (D) , Stafsholt (R) , Udell (D) , Wall (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 6

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 passage recommended by Committee on Insurance, Ayes 8, Noes 1

Passed 8–1 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: Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

Passed 15–0 Feb 3, 2026 official source full page

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

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 30–3 Mar 17, 2026 official source full page

Nay · 3

Full history

  1. Nov 26, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Petersen, Doyle, Gundrum, Kreibich, O'Connor, Piwowarczyk and Subeck; cosponsored by Senators Stafsholt and Wall

  2. Nov 26, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance

  3. Dec 2, 2025 · Assembly

    Representatives Ortiz-Velez and Kaufert added as coauthors

  4. Dec 4, 2025 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Dec 4, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Udell added as a coauthor

  6. Dec 5, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Bare added as a coauthor

  7. Dec 23, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  8. Jan 8, 2026 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  9. Jan 14, 2026 · Assembly

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

  10. Jan 14, 2026 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Insurance, Ayes 8, Noes 1

  11. Jan 14, 2026 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  12. Jan 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  13. Jan 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  14. Jan 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  15. Jan 20, 2026 · Assembly

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

  16. Jan 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  17. Jan 20, 2026 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  18. Jan 23, 2026 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry

  19. Jan 29, 2026 · Senate

    Withdrawn from committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry and rereferred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)

  20. Feb 3, 2026 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  21. Feb 3, 2026 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

  22. Feb 3, 2026 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  23. Mar 16, 2026 · Senate

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

  24. Mar 16, 2026 · Senate

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

  25. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Read a second time

  26. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  27. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  28. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 30, Noes 3

  29. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Senator Smith added as a cosponsor

  30. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  31. Mar 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  32. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    LRB correction

  33. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 3-23-2026

  34. Apr 2, 2026 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026

  35. Apr 9, 2026 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 4-8-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 228

  36. Apr 9, 2026 · Assembly

    Published 4-9-2026