---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: limitations on the total value of taxable property that may be included in a tax incremental financing district created in the city of Port Washington. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: limitations on the total value of taxable property that may be included in a tax incremental financing district created in the city of Port Washington. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 140"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 140 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Armstrong", "Brooks", "Melotik", "O'Connor"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-03-17T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-07-08T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9e85477-0822-4348-a0fd-c6fab09339d7"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab140"
source_hash: "43efb0fa595ca6306e2f0ce38f05705d0b5dc7fda7fe22f8ef149bf7c0d3feef"
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 140 (2025) — Relating to: limitations on the total value of taxable property that may be included in a tax incremental financing district created in the city of Port Washington. (FE)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Assembly Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB140-ASA1-AA1)
2. **Assembly Substitute Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB140-ASA1)
3. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB140)

## Votes

- CONCURRENCE — **29–3** (pass) · upper
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0 — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **91–6** (pass) · lower
- Report Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0 — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0 — **10–0** (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 concurrence recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development, Ayes 4, Noes 1 — **4–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Armstrong — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)
- Melotik — primary (person)
- O'Connor — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Brooks, Melotik, Armstrong and O'Connor; cosponsored by Senators Feyen and Habush Sinykin `introduction`
- **2025-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-04-15T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-05-06T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Brooks and Born
- **2025-05-07T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Brooks
- **2025-05-07T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-05-07T05:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-07T05:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-07T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-07T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-09T05:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 5-13-2025
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed, Ayes 91, Noes 6 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2025-05-14T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-02T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-06-03T05:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development, Ayes 4, Noes 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-03T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2025-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
- **2025-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 6-18-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 29, Noes 3 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
- **2025-06-23T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 6-23-2025 `enrolled`
- **2025-06-23T05:00:00+00:00** LRB correction (Assembly Substitute Amendment 1)
- **2025-07-02T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 7-2-2025 by directive of the Speaker `executive-receipt`
- **2025-07-08T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 7-8-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 16 `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-08T05:00:00+00:00** Published 7-9-2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f9e85477-0822-4348-a0fd-c6fab09339d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).