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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 997

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Relating to: funding for the Department of Financial Institutions for contributions to Trump accounts and making an appropriation. (FE)

Financial institutions department of Retirement — Private plans United states — Treasury department of Youth

  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 provides $60,000,000 in annual funding in the 2025-27 fiscal biennium for the Department of Financial Institutions to make contributions to Trump accounts if these contributions are expressly authorized under state law.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Behnke (R) , Gundrum (R) , Kreibich (R) , Maxey (R) , Moses (R) , Murphy (R) , Piwowarczyk (R) , Rodriguez (R) , Tucker (R)

2 cosponsors

Cabral-Guevara (R) , Quinn (R)

Registered lobbying interests · 1

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 Financial Institutions, Ayes 8, Noes 1

Passed 8–1 Feb 11, 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 62–35 Feb 19, 2026 official source full page

Aye · 62

Not voting · 2

Full history

  1. Feb 2, 2026 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Behnke, Gundrum, Kreibich, Maxey, Moses, Murphy, Piwowarczyk, Rodriguez and Tucker; cosponsored by Senators Cabral-Guevara and Quinn

  2. Feb 2, 2026 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Financial Institutions

  3. Feb 5, 2026 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Feb 11, 2026 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  5. Feb 11, 2026 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Financial Institutions, Ayes 8, Noes 1

  6. Feb 11, 2026 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  7. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 12:00 PM on 2-19-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 14

  8. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adopted

  9. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  10. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  11. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 62, Noes 35

  12. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  13. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Cruz

  14. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  15. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Behnke

  16. Feb 23, 2026 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  17. Feb 24, 2026 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  18. Feb 25, 2026 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Financial Institutions and Sporting Heritage

  19. Mar 4, 2026 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  20. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1