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Bills from the 2025–26 session

Senate Bill 817

Healthy food incentive program funding, payment processing equipment and services for farmers’ markets and farmers, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Topics: Credit, Farm produce, Food, Food stamp plan, Health Services, Department of: Health, Public employee

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

    Jan 14, 2026

  2. Committee, stopped here

    Stopped here. No public hearing was held.

  3. Senate vote, not reached

  4. Assembly 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 Senate Committee on Agriculture and Revenue. The committee's chair at the time was Patrick Testin. 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 Assembly as AB 823. 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 provides $1,000,000 in fiscal year 2025-26 and $1,000,000 in fiscal year 2026-27 for the healthy food incentive program. The bill also requires the Department of Health Services to provide electronic benefit transfer (EBT) and credit and debit card processing equipment and services to farmers’ markets and farmers who sell directly to consumers as a payment processing program. The bill specifies that the EBT processing equipment and services must include equipment and services for the food stamp program, which is known as FoodShare. Under the bill, the vendor that processes the EBT and credit and debit card transactions must also process any local purchasing incentives. The bill provides $735,000 for this payment processing program, and included in that amount is funding for a portion of a full-time employee position for DHS to coordinate and provide other services for the payment processing program.

Who's behind it

14 senators are its ⁠. All 14 are Democrats.

37 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 51 names

Authors (14)

Signed on in support (37)

What happened

  1. Mar 23, 2026

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Jan 20, 2026

    1 more representative signed on in support.

  3. Jan 14, 2026

    Sent to the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Revenue.

  4. Jan 14, 2026

    Introduced in the Senate.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Jan 14, 2026 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Keyeski, Spreitzer, Dassler-Alfheim, Drake, Habush Sinykin, Hesselbein, Larson, Pfaff, Ratcliff, Roys, Smith, L. Johnson, Carpenter and Wirch; cosponsored by Representatives Joers, Arney, Anderson, Andraca, Bare, Billings, Brown, Clancy, DeSanto, DeSmidt, Emerson, Fitzgerald, Goodwin, Hong, Hysell, J. Jacobson, Johnson, Kirsch, Madison, McCarville, Miresse, Moore Omokunde, Neubauer, Phelps, Roe, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Tenorio, Udell, Vining, Mayadev, Prado, Sheehan, Stroud, Stubbs and Subeck

  2. Jan 14, 2026 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture and Revenue

  3. Jan 20, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Palmeri added as a cosponsor

  4. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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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

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Author

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Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary

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

A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.

More in the glossary

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

More in the glossary

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor

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Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor

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