Wisconsin bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Wisconsin AB 17
Relating to: creating an employee ownership conversion costs tax credit, a deduction for capital gains from the transfer of a business to employee ownership, and an employee ownership education and outreach program. (FE)
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became law
Sponsors
- Stroud (Democratic)
- Wichgers (Republican)
- Udell (Democratic)
- Tusler (Republican)
- Prado (Democratic)
- Piwowarczyk (Republican)
- Novak (Republican)
- Miresse (Democratic)
- Maxey (Republican)
- Kreibich (Republican)
- Hysell (Democratic)
- Hong (Democratic)
- Gundrum (Republican)
- Goodwin (Democratic)
- Goeben (Republican)
- DeSmidt (Democratic)
- Cruz (Democratic)
- Clancy (Democratic)
- Anderson (Democratic)
- Madison (Democratic)
- Kaufert (Republican)
- Franklin (Republican)
- Sortwell (Republican)
Summary
No official summary is available for this bill.
Latest action(Mar 23, 2026): Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
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Roll-call votes
State vote data last updated Oct 15, 2026, 8:04 PM.
| Date | Vote | Result | Your legislators |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2025 House | PASSAGE | pass | Set your home in Wisconsin to see |
| May 29, 2025 House | Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0 | pass | Set your home in Wisconsin to see |
| May 29, 2025 House | Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0 | pass | Set your home in Wisconsin to see |
Actions
- Mar 23, 2026 · Senate
Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1 - Jan 8, 2026 · Senate
Public hearing held - Aug 28, 2025 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received - Jun 27, 2025 · Senate
Read first time and referred to committee on Agriculture and Revenue - Jun 24, 2025 · Senate
Received from Assembly - Jun 24, 2025 · House
Ordered immediately messaged - Jun 24, 2025 · House
Read a third time and passed, Ayes 96, Noes 0 - Jun 24, 2025 · House
Rules suspended - Jun 24, 2025 · House
Ordered to a third reading - Jun 24, 2025 · House
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted - Jun 24, 2025 · House
Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted - Jun 24, 2025 · House
Read a second time - Jun 24, 2025 · House
Representatives O'Connor and Stubbs added as coauthors - Jun 20, 2025 · House
Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 6-24-2025 - Jun 10, 2025 · House
Representative Bare added as a coauthor - May 29, 2025 · House
Referred to committee on Rules - May 29, 2025 · House
Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0 - May 29, 2025 · House
Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0 - May 15, 2025 · House
Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Sortwell - May 14, 2025 · House
Executive action taken - May 12, 2025 · House
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Sortwell - Apr 23, 2025 · House
Representative Joers added as a coauthor - Apr 15, 2025 · House
Public hearing held - Apr 14, 2025 · House
Representative Roe added as a coauthor - Apr 11, 2025 · House
Representative Fitzgerald added as a coauthor - Apr 1, 2025 · House
Representative Tenorio added as a coauthor - Feb 21, 2025 · House
Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor - Feb 19, 2025 · House
Fiscal estimate received - Feb 6, 2025 · House
Read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means - Feb 6, 2025 · House
Introduced by Representatives Sortwell, Franklin, Kaufert, Madison, Anderson, Clancy, Cruz, DeSmidt, Goeben, Goodwin, Gundrum, Hong, Hysell, Kreibich, Maxey, Miresse, Novak, Piwowarczyk, Prado, Tusler, Udell, Wichgers and Stroud; cosponsored by Senators James, Larson and Tomczyk