---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: residential tax incremental districts. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: residential tax incremental districts. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 480"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 480 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cabral-Guevara", "Feyen", "Marklein"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 49
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-10-02T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21a7e3c3-370b-4c8f-9d21-e2e4981480da"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb480"
source_hash: "0d2f18e48c155a7f50850c713517801bf5d762ea487ab6e5edd668a7bc526f1b"
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 480 (2025) — Relating to: residential tax incremental districts. (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/SB480-AA1)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/SB480)
3. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB480-SA1)
4. **Senate Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB480-SA2)

## Votes

- Assembly Amendment 1 concurred in, Ayes 32, Noes 1 — **32–1** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **30–3** (pass) · upper
- Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0 — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0 — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCURRENCE AS AMENDED — **90–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cabral-Guevara — primary (person)
- Feyen — primary (person)
- Marklein — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-10-02T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Feyen, Marklein and Cabral-Guevara; cosponsored by Representatives Armstrong, B. Jacobson, Brooks, Dittrich, Goeben, Kitchens, Knodl, Kreibich, Murphy, O'Connor, Penterman, Rivera-Wagner, Summerfield, Tranel and Palmeri `introduction`
- **2025-10-02T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-10-06T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Snodgrass added as a cosponsor
- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-10-10T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-10-15T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Feyen
- **2025-10-15T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-10-23T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-10-23T05:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-10-23T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-10-23T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2026-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from committee on Senate Organization and rereferred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)
- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0 `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2026-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 2 offered by Senator Feyen
- **2026-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 2-11-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 2 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed, Ayes 30, Noes 3 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senators Dassler-Alfheim, Ratcliff and Spreitzer added as coauthors
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Armstrong
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Made a special order of business at 12:09 PM 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** 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 concurred in as amended, Ayes 90, Noes 5 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly amended and concurred in as amended, Assembly Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage, receipt`
- **2026-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Brown added as a cosponsor
- **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 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** Representative Emerson added as a cosponsor
- **2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** LRB correction (Senate Amendment 1)
- **2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** LRB correction
- **2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 4-8-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 235 `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/21a7e3c3-370b-4c8f-9d21-e2e4981480da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).