---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: workforce housing and childcare awards under the business development tax credit. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: workforce housing and childcare awards under the business development tax credit. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 280"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 280 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Armstrong", "Behnke", "Dittrich", "Gundrum", "Kaufert", "Kitchens", "Kreibich", "Melotik", "Moses", "O'Connor", "Sheehan", "VanderMeer"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 44
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-05-30T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-12-10T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79d58c9f-333e-4855-80a4-69e695e04499"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab280"
source_hash: "c016ee938f0add0e9d1d80b01cbd8a74f9d7499f9e79c8a8623bf1a117ad199c"
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 280 (2025) — Relating to: workforce housing and childcare awards under the business development tax credit. (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/AB280-AA1)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB280)

## Votes

- CONCURRENCE — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0 — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **92–4** (pass) · lower
- Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0 — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2 — **3–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Armstrong — primary (person)
- Behnke — primary (person)
- Dittrich — primary (person)
- Gundrum — primary (person)
- Kaufert — primary (person)
- Kitchens — primary (person)
- Kreibich — primary (person)
- Melotik — primary (person)
- Moses — primary (person)
- O'Connor — primary (person)
- Sheehan — primary (person)
- VanderMeer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-30T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Armstrong, Behnke, Dittrich, Gundrum, Kaufert, Kitchens, Kreibich, Melotik, Moses, O'Connor, Sheehan and VanderMeer; cosponsored by Senators Feyen, Marklein, Dassler-Alfheim, Habush Sinykin and Spreitzer `introduction`
- **2025-05-30T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Steffen added as a coauthor
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a coauthor
- **2025-07-10T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Tucker added as a coauthor
- **2025-07-22T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Penterman added as a coauthor
- **2025-08-21T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-08-26T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Armstrong
- **2025-08-27T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Snodgrass added as a coauthor
- **2025-09-04T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-09-09T05:00:00+00:00** Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor
- **2025-09-15T05:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-15T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-15T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-03T05:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 10-7-2025
- **2025-10-06T05:00:00+00:00** Representatives Fitzgerald, Spaude and Miresse added as coauthors
- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Stubbs added as a coauthor
- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed, Ayes 92, Noes 4 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-10-07T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2025-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Subeck added as a coauthor
- **2025-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2025-11-14T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
- **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** Senator Ratcliff added as a cosponsor
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to joint committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and taken up
- **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 concurred in, 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 concurred in `receipt`
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 11-19-2025 `enrolled`
- **2025-12-04T06:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 12-4-2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-12-10T06:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 12-9-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 78 `executive-signature`
- **2025-12-10T06:00:00+00:00** Published 12-10-2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79d58c9f-333e-4855-80a4-69e695e04499`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).