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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 719

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: replacing the expenditure restraint incentive program with a municipality payment program and making an appropriation. (FE)

Municipality — Finance Revenue department of Shared revenue

  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 ends payments to municipalities for the expenditure restraint incentive program in 2026 and begins payments to municipalities for the municipality payment program in 2027. The municipality payment program, created by the bill, provides payments to municipalities that received an expenditure restraint incentive program payment in 2024, 2025, or 2026. A municipality’s payment each year is equal to the highest expenditure restraint incentive program payment that the municipality received during the period from 2024 to 2026. Under current law, generally, a municipality is eligible to receive an expenditure restraint incentive program payment if its property tax levy is greater than 5 mills and if the annual increase in its municipal budget is less than the sum of factors based on inflation and the increased value of property in the municipality as a result of new construction.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Goodwin (D) , Palmeri (D) , Prado (D) , Roe (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D)

5 cosponsors

Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Udell (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 3

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

Full history

  1. Dec 3, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Anderson, Fitzgerald, Goodwin, Palmeri, Prado, Roe, Stroud, Stubbs and Subeck; cosponsored by Senators Spreitzer, Dassler-Alfheim, Ratcliff and Roys

  2. Dec 3, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Local Government

  3. Dec 15, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Udell added as a coauthor

  4. Dec 22, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1