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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to: virtual currency kiosks."
+description: "Relating to: virtual currency kiosks."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
+legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "AB 968"
+citation: "Wisconsin AB 968 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Armstrong", "B. Jacobson", "Billings", "Callahan", "DeSmidt", "Dittrich", "Donovan", "Doyle", "Fitzgerald", "Gundrum", "Joers", "Kaufert", "Knodl", "Kreibich", "McCarville", "Melotik", "Murphy", "Mursau", "Novak", "O'Connor", "Ortiz-Velez", "Penterman", "Piwowarczyk", "Sinicki", "Snyder", "Spiros", "Subeck", "Taylor", "Udell"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 45
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2026-01-30T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11a6dcee-c6cd-434e-856d-37ee85b41e51"
+source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab968"
+source_hash: "0f3548ba8ddcfd26871b20fb0121afb854497a16d555643e66d3b2e2e8653d72"
+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 968 (2025) — Relating to: virtual currency kiosks.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Assembly Substitute Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB968-ASA2)
+2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB968)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Report passage recommended by Committee on Financial Institutions, Ayes 8, Noes 1 — **8–1** (pass) · lower
+- Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Utilities, Technology and Tourism, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCURRENCE — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Armstrong — primary (person)
+- B. Jacobson — primary (person)
+- Billings — primary (person)
+- Callahan — primary (person)
+- DeSmidt — primary (person)
+- Dittrich — primary (person)
+- Donovan — primary (person)
+- Doyle — primary (person)
+- Fitzgerald — primary (person)
+- Gundrum — primary (person)
+- Joers — primary (person)
+- Kaufert — primary (person)
+- Knodl — primary (person)
+- Kreibich — primary (person)
+- McCarville — primary (person)
+- Melotik — primary (person)
+- Murphy — primary (person)
+- Mursau — primary (person)
+- Novak — primary (person)
+- O'Connor — primary (person)
+- Ortiz-Velez — primary (person)
+- Penterman — primary (person)
+- Piwowarczyk — primary (person)
+- Sinicki — primary (person)
+- Snyder — primary (person)
+- Spiros — primary (person)
+- Subeck — primary (person)
+- Taylor — primary (person)
+- Udell — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Snyder, Doyle, Gundrum, Novak, Melotik, McCarville, Taylor, Armstrong, Callahan, DeSmidt, Dittrich, Donovan, Fitzgerald, B. Jacobson, Joers, Kaufert, Knodl, Kreibich, Murphy, Mursau, O'Connor, Ortiz-Velez, Penterman, Piwowarczyk, Sinicki, Spiros, Subeck, Udell and Billings; cosponsored by Senator James `introduction`
+- **2026-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Financial Institutions `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Andraca added as a coauthor
+- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Emerson added as a coauthor
+- **2026-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Representatives Kitchens and Franklin added as coauthors
+- **2026-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
+- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Moore Omokunde added as a coauthor
+- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
+- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Stubbs added as a coauthor
+- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Financial Institutions, Ayes 8, Noes 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 2-17-2026
+- **2026-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Representatives Stroud, Miresse and Anderson added as coauthors
+- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Snyder
+- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Arney added as a coauthor
+- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Made a special order of business at 1:34 PM on 2-18-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 13
+- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Neubauer
+- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Snyder
+- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
+- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
+- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
+- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
+- **2026-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Utilities, Technology and Tourism `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
+- **2026-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Brown added as a coauthor
+- **2026-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
+- **2026-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Utilities, Technology and Tourism, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
+- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from committee on Senate Organization and take up
+- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Senators Dassler-Alfheim, Smith and Drake 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 33, Noes 0 `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`
+- **2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Spreitzer added as a cosponsor
+- **2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 3-20-2026 `enrolled`
+- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 4-8-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 226 `executive-signature`
+- **2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Published 4-9-2026 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/11a6dcee-c6cd-434e-856d-37ee85b41e51`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).
+