---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: a tax credit for employer-provided child care. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: a tax credit for employer-provided child care. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 376"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 376 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Feyen", "Nass", "Quinn"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 48
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-07-16T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83441b5d-aeb2-425e-bf49-bfb7dc58e09b"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb376"
source_hash: "3595608ceecf34268ef4cef4b67a8852e1c0526ff9c7996502892014f49f25ca"
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 SB 376 (2025) — Relating to: a tax credit for employer-provided child care. (FE)

## Version chain

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

1. **Assembly Substitute Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB376-ASA1)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/SB376)
3. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB376-SA1)

## Votes

- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Agriculture and Revenue, Ayes 8, Noes 0 — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Report concurrence as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0 — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Agriculture and Revenue, Ayes 8, Noes 0 — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0 — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCURRENCE AS AMENDED — **94–4** (pass) · lower
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 concurred in, Ayes 32, Noes 1 — **32–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Feyen — primary (person)
- Nass — primary (person)
- Quinn — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-16T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Feyen, Nass and Quinn; cosponsored by Representatives Armstrong, Allen, Behnke, Donovan, Goeben, Green, Gundrum, Kreibich, Maxey, Mursau, O'Connor, Sortwell, Steffen and VanderMeer `introduction`
- **2025-07-16T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture and Revenue `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-24T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Dittrich added as a cosponsor
- **2025-07-24T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-08-26T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Feyen
- **2025-08-28T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-09-18T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-09-19T05:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Agriculture and Revenue, Ayes 8, Noes 0 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-09-19T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Agriculture and Revenue, Ayes 8, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-19T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2025-11-14T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 11-18-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed, Ayes 33, Noes 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from committee on Rules and referred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Assembly Rule 24 (3)(a)
- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken by joint committee on Finance
- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Joint Committee on Finance
- **2026-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 2-17-2026
- **2026-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a cosponsor
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Haywood
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 3 offered by Representative Haywood
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Armstrong
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in as amended, Ayes 94, Noes 4 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly amended and concurred in as amended, Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage, receipt`
- **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** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 concurred in, Ayes 32, Noes 1
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Smith added as a coauthor
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Action ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Spreitzer added as a coauthor
- **2026-03-23T05:00:00+00:00** LRB correction (Assembly Substitute Amendment 1)
- **2026-03-23T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 4-3-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 183 `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00** Published 4-4-2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/83441b5d-aeb2-425e-bf49-bfb7dc58e09b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).