---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: requiring the Department of Health Services to seek any necessary waiver to prohibit the purchase of candy or soft drinks with FoodShare benefits. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: requiring the Department of Health Services to seek any necessary waiver to prohibit the purchase of candy or soft drinks with FoodShare benefits. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 180"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 180 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen", "Behnke", "Callahan", "Dittrich", "Goeben", "Gundrum", "Kaufert", "Knodl", "Maxey", "Moses", "Murphy", "Nedweski", "Neylon", "O'Connor", "Penterman", "Snyder", "Wichgers"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 43
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-04-15T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-03-24T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b366c2e-9010-4ec4-aaba-376ac9fd25c0"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab180"
source_hash: "28f118ac878591299ab0c12971c74fbeb8b2e20468c3bf9790d27f9e35e82a10"
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 180 (2025) — Relating to: requiring the Department of Health Services to seek any necessary waiver to prohibit the purchase of candy or soft drinks with FoodShare benefits. (FE)

## 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/AB180-ASA2)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB180)

## Votes

- Report introduction of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 13, Noes 0 — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **71–22** (pass) · lower
- Report passage recommended by Committee on Public Benefit Reform, Ayes 4, Noes 2 — **4–2** (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
- Senate Substitute Amendment 2 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 15 — **18–15** (pass) · upper
- CONCURRENCE — **25–8** (pass) · upper
- Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 11, Noes 2 — **11–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- Behnke — primary (person)
- Callahan — primary (person)
- Dittrich — primary (person)
- Goeben — primary (person)
- Gundrum — primary (person)
- Kaufert — primary (person)
- Knodl — primary (person)
- Maxey — primary (person)
- Moses — primary (person)
- Murphy — primary (person)
- Nedweski — primary (person)
- Neylon — primary (person)
- O'Connor — primary (person)
- Penterman — primary (person)
- Snyder — primary (person)
- Wichgers — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-15T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Moses, Knodl, Kaufert, Allen, Behnke, Callahan, Dittrich, Goeben, Gundrum, Maxey, Murphy, Nedweski, Neylon, O'Connor, Penterman, Snyder and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senators Kapenga, Cabral-Guevara, Nass and Tomczyk `introduction`
- **2025-04-15T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Public Benefit Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Kitchens added as a coauthor
- **2025-05-08T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-05-12T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Brill added as a coauthor
- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-05-28T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-05-29T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Public Benefit Reform, Ayes 4, Noes 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-29T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-13T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Moses
- **2025-11-13T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 11-19-2025 by Committee on Rules
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Made a special order of business at 11:07 AM on 2-19-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 14
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Joers
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Moses
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed, Ayes 71, Noes 22 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2026-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2026-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from committee on Senate Organization and rereferred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)
- **2026-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Report introduction of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 13, Noes 0
- **2026-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 11, Noes 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-11T05:00:00+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** Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators L. Johnson, Dassler-Alfheim, Drake, Habush Sinykin, Hesselbein, Keyeski, Larson, Ratcliff, Roys, Smith, Spreitzer and Wall
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Substitute Amendment 2 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 15
- **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 25, Noes 8 `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** LRB correction (Assembly Substitute Amendment 2)
- **2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 3-18-2026 `enrolled`
- **2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 3-18-2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 3-23-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 116 `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Published 3-24-2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b366c2e-9010-4ec4-aaba-376ac9fd25c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).