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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to: a sales and use tax exemption for nuclear fusion technology projects. (FE)"
+description: "Relating to: a sales and use tax exemption for nuclear fusion technology projects. (FE)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
+legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "AB 657"
+citation: "Wisconsin AB 657 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Behnke", "Callahan", "Franklin", "Gustafson", "Kreibich", "Melotik", "Murphy", "Mursau", "Neylon", "Udell"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 43
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40cfc2c3-6fb1-48ea-9099-6e287639ec72"
+source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab657"
+source_hash: "32f51a030302c73b0be6b31a980104eb3840801d75ab6321fbbc9d0f0c216c2c"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wi"]
+---
+
+# Wisconsin AB 657 (2025) — Relating to: a sales and use tax exemption for nuclear fusion technology projects. (FE)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Assembly Substitute Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB657-ASA1)
+2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB657)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 14, Noes 0 — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **92–6** (pass) · lower
+- Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2 — **3–2** (pass) · upper
+- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0 — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- Report of Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions received, Ayes 9, Noes 0 — **9–0** (pass) · lower
+- Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0 — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- CONCURRENCE — **30–3** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Behnke — primary (person)
+- Callahan — primary (person)
+- Franklin — primary (person)
+- Gustafson — primary (person)
+- Kreibich — primary (person)
+- Melotik — primary (person)
+- Murphy — primary (person)
+- Mursau — primary (person)
+- Neylon — primary (person)
+- Udell — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Franklin, Behnke, Callahan, Gustafson, Kreibich, Melotik, Murphy, Mursau, Neylon and Udell; cosponsored by Senator Feyen `introduction`
+- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-11-21T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Subeck added as a coauthor
+- **2025-12-04T06:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
+- **2025-12-08T06:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
+- **2025-12-17T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Armstrong added as a coauthor
+- **2026-01-08T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
+- **2026-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Franklin
+- **2026-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Franklin
+- **2026-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
+- **2026-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions pursuant to Assembly Rule 45 (4) `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senator Spreitzer added as a cosponsor
+- **2026-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken by joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions
+- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Report of Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions received, Ayes 9, Noes 0 `receipt`
+- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 2-12-2026 by Committee on Rules
+- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
+- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed, Ayes 92, Noes 6 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
+- **2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
+- **2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to joint committee on Finance
+- **2026-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
+- **2026-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 14, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
+- **2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
+- **2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 3-17-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
+- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Senators Ratcliff and Smith added as cosponsors
+- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
+- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 30, Noes 3 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
+- **2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
+- **2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Steffen added as a coauthor
+- **2026-03-23T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 3-23-2026 `enrolled`
+- **2026-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 4-1-2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 4-2-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 165 `executive-signature`
+- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Published 4-3-2026 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/40cfc2c3-6fb1-48ea-9099-6e287639ec72`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).
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