---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: creating a veterinary loan repayment grant program administered by the Higher Educational Aids Board and exempting from taxation amounts received from such a grant program."
description: "Relating to: creating a veterinary loan repayment grant program administered by the Higher Educational Aids Board and exempting from taxation amounts received from such a grant program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 501"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 501 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cabral-Guevara", "Marklein", "Pfaff", "Stafsholt"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 44
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-10-02T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/946c5c06-deb3-4c84-b416-56281271ba43"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb501"
source_hash: "26daa2bfcbc1a0f7167fc573933b23e1250c95eec504f0d977177f53f485183f"
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 501 (2025) — Relating to: creating a veterinary loan repayment grant program administered by the Higher Educational Aids Board and exempting from taxation amounts received from such a grant program.

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/SB501)
2. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB501-SA1)

## Votes

- CONCURRENCE — **89–7** (pass) · lower
- Report passage recommended by Committee on Universities and Technical Colleges, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (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 Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0 — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Report of Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions received, Ayes 9, Noes 0 — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **32–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cabral-Guevara — primary (person)
- Marklein — primary (person)
- Pfaff — primary (person)
- Stafsholt — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-10-02T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Cabral-Guevara, Stafsholt, Marklein and Pfaff; cosponsored by Representatives Kitchens, Tranel, Kreibich, Melotik, Miresse, Mursau, Novak, O'Connor, Piwowarczyk, Rivera-Wagner, Sheehan, Steffen and Stroud `introduction`
- **2025-10-02T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Universities and Technical Colleges `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-10-13T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Keyeski added as a coauthor
- **2025-10-15T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-10-24T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-10-24T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Universities and Technical Colleges, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-10-24T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2025-11-14T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Udell added as a cosponsor
- **2025-12-15T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a cosponsor
- **2026-01-06T06:00:00+00:00** Report of Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions requested
- **2026-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Representative DeSanto added as a cosponsor
- **2026-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Report of Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions received, Ayes 9, Noes 0 `receipt`
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Tucker added as a cosponsor
- **2026-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Cabral-Guevara
- **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
- **2026-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 2-11-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2026-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor
- **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** 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 32, Noes 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senators Carpenter, Spreitzer and Smith 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** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Made a special order of business at 11:24 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** 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, Ayes 89, Noes 7 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2026-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Brown added as a cosponsor
- **2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Penterman added as a cosponsor
- **2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Emerson added as a cosponsor
- **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 4-2-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 177 `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00** Published 4-3-2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/946c5c06-deb3-4c84-b416-56281271ba43`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).