---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: a tax credit for rail infrastructure modernization. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: a tax credit for rail infrastructure modernization. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 219"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 219 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Armstrong", "Donovan", "Franklin", "Gundrum", "Gustafson", "Melotik", "Mursau", "Novak", "Pronschinske", "Swearingen", "Tranel"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 47
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-04-23T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ca6fb931-1eac-4c61-b450-59fa9c889525"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab219"
source_hash: "981bbf9c87a3ce673caa077019a624433695d3def93c5b35d7a3083259cd283f"
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 219 (2025) — Relating to: a tax credit for rail infrastructure modernization. (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/AB219-ASA1-AA1)
2. **Assembly Substitute Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB219-ASA1)
3. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB219)

## Votes

- Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2 — **3–2** (pass) · upper
- CONCURRENCE — **32–1** (pass) · upper
- Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 9, Noes 0 — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 14, Noes 0 — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 14, Noes 0 — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 9, Noes 0 — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Armstrong — primary (person)
- Donovan — primary (person)
- Franklin — primary (person)
- Gundrum — primary (person)
- Gustafson — primary (person)
- Melotik — primary (person)
- Mursau — primary (person)
- Novak — primary (person)
- Pronschinske — primary (person)
- Swearingen — primary (person)
- Tranel — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-23T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Novak, Tranel, Armstrong, Donovan, Franklin, Gundrum, Melotik, Mursau, Pronschinske, Swearingen and Gustafson; cosponsored by Senators Quinn, Feyen and Tomczyk `introduction`
- **2025-04-23T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Testin added as a cosponsor
- **2025-04-30T05:00:00+00:00** Representative O'Connor added as a coauthor
- **2025-05-06T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-06-16T05:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from committee on Transportation and referred to committee on Ways and Means pursuant to Assembly Rule 42 (3)(c) `referral-committee`
- **2025-09-04T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-10-16T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Novak
- **2025-11-05T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-11-07T06:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 9, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-11-07T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 9, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-11-07T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to joint committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senator Ratcliff added as a cosponsor
- **2025-11-12T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken by joint committee on Finance
- **2025-11-20T06:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 14, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-11-20T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 14, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-11-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-12-03T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Bare added as a coauthor
- **2025-12-12T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a coauthor
- **2026-01-05T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Joers added as a coauthor
- **2026-01-06T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Novak
- **2026-01-08T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 1-13-2026 by Committee on Rules
- **2026-01-08T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Fitzgerald added as a coauthor
- **2026-01-09T06:00:00+00:00** Representative DeSanto added as a coauthor
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed, Ayes 99, Noes 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
- **2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 1-21-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Senator Spreitzer added as a cosponsor
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 32, Noes 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
- **2026-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 1-26-2026 `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 4-9-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 242 `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Published 4-10-2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ca6fb931-1eac-4c61-b450-59fa9c889525`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).