Legislature: Tax Exemptions, Joint Survey Committee on
187 bills and resolutions. 21 became law, 4 were vetoed, and 88 never got a public hearing. They span 3 sessions, from the 2009–10 session to the 2025–26 session.
This is the Legislature's own subject heading, not our category, so a bill is here only if the Legislature filed it under this term. Each count comes from the bill's official history.
Latest activity
The 5 bills on this subject with the newest recorded action.
- SB 1027 Residents’ right to purchase and regulations regarding a mobile or manufactured home community, low-interest loans and tax incentives for owners of mobile or manufactured home communities, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee. Last action Aug 18, 2026
- AB 913 Subtraction for certain income of members of the National Guard and Reserves. (FE)
Became law. Last action Jun 16, 2026
- SB 929 Subtraction for certain income of members of the National Guard and Reserves. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted. Last action Jun 16, 2026
- AB 269 Delivery network couriers and transportation network drivers, Department of Financial Institutions’ approval to offer portable benefit accounts, providing for insurance coverage, modifying administrative rules related to accident and sickness insurance, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor. Last action May 13, 2026
- AB 461 An income tax subtraction for certain overtime compensation. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor. Last action May 13, 2026
Every bill on this subject
2025–26 session: 80
- Mar 23, 2026 AB 10: A sales and use tax exemption for the sale of gun safes. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
- Mar 23, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026 AB 38: An income tax exemption for cash tips paid to an employee. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
- Mar 23, 2026 AB 50: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
- Mar 23, 2026 AB 64: An income tax subtraction for certain expenses paid by a school teacher. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
- Mar 23, 2026
- Mar 24, 2026 AB 82: Exempting certain conveyances between grandparents and grandchildren from the real estate transfer fee. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
- Mar 23, 2026 AB 106: Exempting certain electric vehicle charging stations located at a residence from the electric vehicle charging tax. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
- Mar 23, 2026 AB 177: Sales and use tax exemption for diapers and feminine hygiene products. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 23, 2026 AB 185: Property tax exemption for nonprofit theaters. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
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- Mar 23, 2026 AB 208: An income and franchise tax exemption for broadband expansion grants and for federal high-cost program funding for broadband expansion. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
- Mar 23, 2026 AB 240: A sales and use tax exemption for equipment associated with the use of a search and rescue dog. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
- Mar 23, 2026 AB 245: Modifying the sales and use tax exemption for qualified data centers. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
- May 13, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026 AB 419: A sales and use tax exemption for ski lifts. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
- Mar 23, 2026 AB 423: An annual back-to-school sales tax holiday and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
- May 13, 2026 AB 461: An income tax subtraction for certain overtime compensation. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor.
- Mar 20, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026 AB 583: Resolution of claims against the state for wrongful imprisonment of innocent persons, exempting from taxation certain amounts an individual receives from the claims board or legislature, health benefits and other assistance for wrongfully imprisoned persons, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
- Mar 23, 2026 AB 584: A property tax exemption for prefabricated recreational structures. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
- Mar 23, 2026 AB 594: An income tax subtraction for payments on education loans. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 23, 2026
- Apr 2, 2026
- Apr 3, 2026
- Apr 3, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026 AB 814: A sales and use tax exemption for sales of movie theater projectors. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 23, 2026
- Jun 16, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026
- Apr 13, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026 AB 1031: Sales and use tax exemption for menstrual discharge collection devices. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 23, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026 AB 1082: A sales and use tax exemption for breastfeeding equipment. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 25, 2026 AB 1100: A sales and use tax exemption for the sale of over-the-counter drugs. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 23, 2026
- Apr 8, 2026 AB 1168: Medical debt abolition and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
- May 7, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 12: A sales and use tax exemption for the sale of gun safes. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
- Mar 23, 2026
- May 13, 2026 SB 36: An income tax exemption for cash tips paid to an employee. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor.
- May 13, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 69: An income tax subtraction for certain expenses paid by a school teacher. (FE)
Passed the Senate, then stopped.
- Mar 25, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026
- Apr 9, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 114: Sales and use tax exemption for diapers and feminine hygiene products. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
- May 13, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 185: Property tax exemption for nonprofit theaters. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 237: A sales and use tax exemption for equipment associated with the use of a search and rescue dog. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 244: Modifying the sales and use tax exemption for qualified data centers. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 256: Delivery network couriers and transportation network drivers, Department of Financial Institutions’ approval to offer portable benefit accounts, providing for insurance coverage, modifying administrative rules related to accident and sickness insurance, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
- Mar 23, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 418: A sales and use tax exemption for ski lifts. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 425: An annual back-to-school sales tax holiday and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 454: An income tax subtraction for certain overtime compensation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 534: Regulating medical cannabis, the prescription drug monitoring program, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 536: The sales tax exemption for memberships sold to real estate brokers. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
- Mar 27, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 577: Resolution of claims against the state for wrongful imprisonment of innocent persons, exempting from taxation certain amounts an individual receives from the claims board or legislature, health benefits and other assistance for wrongfully imprisoned persons, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 601: An income tax subtraction for payments on education loans. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 636: A sales and use tax exemption for nuclear fusion technology projects. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 637: A sales and use tax exemption and an income and franchise tax credit for nuclear energy facilities. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 654: Exempting persons engaged in certain contract research services from the sales and use tax. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 674: Individual income tax subtraction for certain theft losses. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 812: A sales and use tax exemption for sales of movie theater projectors. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 859: Adopting changes to the federal Internal Revenue Code for state tax purposes and modifying administrative rules related to such changes. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
- Jun 16, 2026 SB 929: Subtraction for certain income of members of the National Guard and Reserves. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
- Mar 23, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026
- Aug 18, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 1032: A sales and use tax exemption for the sale of over-the-counter drugs. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 23, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026 SB 1104: A sales and use tax exemption for breastfeeding equipment. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
- Apr 8, 2026 SB 1132: Medical debt abolition and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
- May 13, 2026
- Mar 23, 2026
2011–12 session: 49
- Mar 23, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012
- Aug 2, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012 AB 115: A property tax exemption for a nonprofit resale store.
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 23, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012 AB 185: Authorizing certain individuals to contribute to a college savings plan account.
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 23, 2012
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- Mar 23, 2012 AB 225: Federalizing the treatment of capital losses.
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 23, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012 AB 238: The sales and use tax exemption for electricity and natural gas.
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 23, 2012 AB 277: Adopting federal law as it relates to excluding from an employee's income certain payments from an employer related to medical care.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
- Mar 23, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012 AB 280: Exempting from income taxation certain employer-paid fringe benefits for mass transit expenses.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
- Mar 23, 2012 AB 282: Tax-exempt accounts for health care expenditures for an individual's parents.
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 23, 2012
- Apr 5, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012 AB 380: A sales and use tax exemption for building materials that become a part of a facility for a local unit of government or nonprofit organization.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
- Mar 23, 2012 AB 381: A sales and use tax exemption for items and services sold as part of a lump sum contract.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
- Mar 23, 2012 AB 387: A sales and use tax exemption for coins, currency, and commemorative medallions.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
- Mar 23, 2012 AB 466: Creating an individual income tax deduction for certain contributions to a Coverdell Education Savings Account.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
- Mar 23, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012 AB 521: Homemade wine and fermented malt beverages.
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 23, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012 AB 680: Creating a property tax exemption for a nonprofit youth baseball association.
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 23, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012 SB 27: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2011 legislature.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
- Mar 23, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012 SB 66: A property tax exemption for a nonprofit resale store.
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 23, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012 SB 160: Federalizing the treatment of capital losses.
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 23, 2012
- Nov 7, 2011
- Mar 23, 2012 SB 205: The manufacture of wine and fermented malt beverages not offered for sale.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
- Mar 23, 2012 SB 302: Increasing the amount of the individual income tax personal exemption for certain older taxpayers.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
- Mar 23, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012 SB 364: Creating an individual income tax deduction for certain contributions to a Coverdell Education Savings Account.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
- Apr 5, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012 SB 408: A sales and use tax exemption for coins, currency, and commemorative medallions.
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 23, 2012
- Mar 23, 2012
2009–10 session: 58
- Apr 28, 2010
- May 26, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010 AB 135: Allowing an individual income tax deduction for certain amounts contributed by a divorced or legally separated parent to his or her child's college savings account or college tuition and expenses program and limiting the deduction that may be claimed by a married person who files separately.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010 AB 254: A sales tax and use tax exemption for nonprescription drugs.
Stopped in committee.
- Apr 28, 2010 AB 268: Federalizing the treatment of capital losses.
Stopped in committee.
- Apr 28, 2010 AB 301: A real property tax exemption for snowmobile clubs.
Stopped in committee.
- Apr 28, 2010 AB 302: A personal property tax exemption for snowmobile clubs.
Stopped in committee.
- Apr 28, 2010
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- Apr 28, 2010 AB 350: Sales and use tax exemption for motorboats.
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 16, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010 AB 449: A sales tax exemption for fuel used for commercial fishing.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
- Apr 28, 2010 AB 478: Ending combined reporting.
Stopped in committee.
- Apr 28, 2010 AB 523: The sales and use tax exemption for electricity and natural gas.
Stopped in committee.
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010 AB 690: A sales and use tax exemption for food sold by child welfare facilities.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010 AB 794: Nonrefundable individual and corporate income and franchise tax credits for purchasing a thermal biomass heating system and fuel for such a system, property tax exemptions for thermal biomass heating systems and facilities used to store fuel for such systems, and a sales and use tax exemption for purchasing a thermal biomass heating system.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010 AB 802: A sales and use tax exemption for snowmaking and snow-grooming machines and equipment.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010 AB 901: A sales and use tax exemption for textbooks.
Stopped in committee.
- Apr 30, 2010 AB 936: Depreciation and expense deductions for property used in farming.
Stopped in committee.
- May 20, 2010
- May 20, 2010 AB 969: Income and franchise tax deductions for full-time jobs.
Stopped in committee.
- Jun 21, 2010
- May 18, 2010 AB 978: A property tax exemption for a nonprofit theater located in the city of Madison.
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 2, 2009
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010 SB 106: Allowing an individual income tax deduction for certain amounts contributed by a divorced or legally separated parent to his or her child's college savings account or college tuition and expenses program and limiting the deduction that may be claimed by a married person who files separately.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010 SB 176: A sales tax and use tax exemption for nonprescription drugs.
Stopped in committee.
- Apr 28, 2010 SB 214: A real property tax exemption for snowmobile clubs.
Stopped in committee.
- Mar 15, 2010
- May 20, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010 SB 353: Federalizing the treatment of capital losses.
Stopped in committee.
- Apr 26, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010
- Mar 19, 2010
- Apr 26, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010
- Apr 28, 2010
- Jun 17, 2010
- Jun 22, 2010
Dates are each bill's latest recorded action. Every subject