---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: modifications to housing programs under the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: modifications to housing programs under the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 194"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 194 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson", "Armstrong", "B. Jacobson", "Brooks", "Brown", "DeSmidt", "Donovan", "Doyle", "Emerson", "Franklin", "Goeben", "Goodwin", "Green", "Hysell", "Joers", "Kitchens", "Kreibich", "Krug", "Melotik", "Murphy", "Mursau", "Neubauer", "Novak", "O'Connor", "Ortiz-Velez", "Palmeri", "Penterman", "Piwowarczyk", "Roe", "Spiros", "Udell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 43
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-15T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c77771c7-f514-433d-b75d-a5fdbcc27962"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab194"
source_hash: "5305854f6009e5cab7a39d8b94f8a98603b1b764c150e50480366909255ef7dd"
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 194 (2025) — Relating to: modifications to housing programs under the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority. (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/AB194-AA1)
2. **Assembly Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB194-AA2)
3. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB194)

## Votes

- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Housing and Real Estate, Ayes 13, Noes 0 — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Housing and Real Estate, Ayes 12, Noes 1 — **12–1** (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

## Sponsors

- Anderson — primary (person)
- Armstrong — primary (person)
- B. Jacobson — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)
- Brown — primary (person)
- DeSmidt — primary (person)
- Donovan — primary (person)
- Doyle — primary (person)
- Emerson — primary (person)
- Franklin — primary (person)
- Goeben — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Green — primary (person)
- Hysell — primary (person)
- Joers — primary (person)
- Kitchens — primary (person)
- Kreibich — primary (person)
- Krug — primary (person)
- Melotik — primary (person)
- Murphy — primary (person)
- Mursau — primary (person)
- Neubauer — primary (person)
- Novak — primary (person)
- O'Connor — primary (person)
- Ortiz-Velez — primary (person)
- Palmeri — primary (person)
- Penterman — primary (person)
- Piwowarczyk — primary (person)
- Roe — primary (person)
- Spiros — primary (person)
- Udell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-15T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Armstrong, Brooks, Anderson, Brown, DeSmidt, Donovan, Doyle, Emerson, Franklin, Goodwin, Green, Hysell, B. Jacobson, Joers, Kitchens, Kreibich, Krug, Melotik, Murphy, Mursau, Neubauer, Novak, O'Connor, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Penterman, Piwowarczyk, Roe, Spiros, Udell and Goeben; cosponsored by Senators Quinn, Feyen, Jagler, Dassler-Alfheim, Habush Sinykin, James, Pfaff, Ratcliff, Spreitzer, Wall, Wirch and Smith `introduction`
- **2025-04-15T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Housing and Real Estate `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-17T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Rivera-Wagner added as a coauthor
- **2025-04-21T05:00:00+00:00** Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor
- **2025-04-23T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-04-24T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Stroud added as a coauthor
- **2025-04-30T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Kirsch added as a coauthor
- **2025-05-08T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-05-12T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Armstrong
- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-05-19T05:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Housing and Real Estate, Ayes 12, Noes 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-19T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Housing and Real Estate, Ayes 13, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-19T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Miresse added as a coauthor
- **2025-08-27T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Snodgrass added as a coauthor
- **2025-10-03T05:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 10-7-2025
- **2025-10-06T05:00:00+00:00** Representatives Fitzgerald, McCarville and Spaude added as coauthors
- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Stubbs added as a coauthor
- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Brooks
- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 2 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2025-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2026-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Billings added as a coauthor
- **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** 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 `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`
- **2026-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** LRB correction
- **2026-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 3-26-2026 `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 237 `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/c77771c7-f514-433d-b75d-a5fdbcc27962`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).