---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: a workforce home loan program. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: a workforce home loan program. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 454"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 454 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brooks", "Goeben", "Gundrum", "Gustafson", "Kitchens", "Knodl", "Kreibich", "Melotik", "Miresse", "Moses", "Murphy", "Mursau", "O'Connor", "Ortiz-Velez", "Piwowarczyk", "Rivera-Wagner", "Rodriguez", "Snyder", "Summerfield", "Tusler"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 46
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-09-25T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96f9c0d7-bba0-4104-b7b4-0d168604ec04"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab454"
source_hash: "2e1e93c9135d94e155cf2354d8c5d91f9d64e2b9cd4a0efa41fe22a39d4cb4ec"
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 454 (2025) — Relating to: a workforce home loan program. (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/AB454-AA1)
2. **Assembly Amendment 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB454-AA3)
3. **Assembly Amendment 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB454-AA4)
4. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB454)

## Votes

- Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Housing and Real Estate, Ayes 14, Noes 0 — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCURRENCE — **31–2** (pass) · upper
- Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2 — **3–2** (pass) · upper
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Housing and Real Estate, Ayes 14, Noes 0 — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Report Assembly Amendment 3 adoption recommended by Committee on Housing and Real Estate, Ayes 14, Noes 0 — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brooks — primary (person)
- Goeben — primary (person)
- Gundrum — primary (person)
- Gustafson — primary (person)
- Kitchens — primary (person)
- Knodl — primary (person)
- Kreibich — primary (person)
- Melotik — primary (person)
- Miresse — primary (person)
- Moses — primary (person)
- Murphy — primary (person)
- Mursau — primary (person)
- O'Connor — primary (person)
- Ortiz-Velez — primary (person)
- Piwowarczyk — primary (person)
- Rivera-Wagner — primary (person)
- Rodriguez — primary (person)
- Snyder — primary (person)
- Summerfield — primary (person)
- Tusler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-09-25T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Rodriguez, Snyder, Knodl, Rivera-Wagner, Brooks, Goeben, Gundrum, Gustafson, Kitchens, Kreibich, Melotik, Miresse, Moses, Murphy, Mursau, O'Connor, Ortiz-Velez, Piwowarczyk, Summerfield and Tusler; cosponsored by Senators James, L. Johnson, Dassler-Alfheim, Feyen, Marklein and Pfaff `introduction`
- **2025-09-25T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Housing and Real Estate `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-09-29T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Stubbs added as a coauthor
- **2025-09-30T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-09-30T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Knodl and Rodriguez
- **2025-10-01T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Rivera-Wagner
- **2025-10-01T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 3 offered by Representative Knodl
- **2025-10-02T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-10-02T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Doyle added as a coauthor
- **2025-10-03T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Udell added as a coauthor
- **2025-10-06T05:00:00+00:00** Representatives Snodgrass, Palmeri and Fitzgerald added as coauthors
- **2025-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Housing and Real Estate, Ayes 14, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Amendment 3 adoption recommended by Committee on Housing and Real Estate, Ayes 14, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Housing and Real Estate, Ayes 14, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-10T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Subeck added as a coauthor
- **2025-10-15T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-10-17T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-12-11T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 4 offered by Representative Rodriguez
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Made a special order of business at 11:22 AM on 2-19-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 14
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 3 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 4 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 `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
- **2026-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Brown 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** Senator Ratcliff added as a cosponsor
- **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 31, Noes 2 `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** Representative Emerson added as a coauthor
- **2026-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 3-24-2026 `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 239 `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/96f9c0d7-bba0-4104-b7b4-0d168604ec04`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).