---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: a state matching grant program for recipients of federal per diem payments. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: a state matching grant program for recipients of federal per diem payments. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 597"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 597 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Armstrong", "B. Jacobson", "Behnke", "Brill", "Dittrich", "Donovan", "Franklin", "Goeben", "Green", "Hurd", "Kaufert", "Knodl", "Moses", "Mursau", "O'Connor", "Penterman", "Snyder", "Spiros", "Summerfield", "Tucker", "Wichgers"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-10-27T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f429432a-379e-40eb-b366-e1fe1c3053bd"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab597"
source_hash: "14fe410186a9c7a355094d6b1591d64aac83cad921d065acb432ed1cbd0dce11"
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 597 (2025) — Relating to: a state matching grant program for recipients of federal per diem payments. (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/AB597-AA1)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB597)

## Votes

- Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs, Ayes 12, Noes 0 — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs, Ayes 12, Noes 0 — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Armstrong — primary (person)
- B. Jacobson — primary (person)
- Behnke — primary (person)
- Brill — primary (person)
- Dittrich — primary (person)
- Donovan — primary (person)
- Franklin — primary (person)
- Goeben — primary (person)
- Green — primary (person)
- Hurd — primary (person)
- Kaufert — primary (person)
- Knodl — primary (person)
- Moses — primary (person)
- Mursau — primary (person)
- O'Connor — primary (person)
- Penterman — primary (person)
- Snyder — primary (person)
- Spiros — primary (person)
- Summerfield — primary (person)
- Tucker — primary (person)
- Wichgers — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-10-27T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Franklin, Moses, Hurd, Summerfield, Armstrong, Behnke, Brill, Dittrich, Donovan, Goeben, Green, B. Jacobson, Kaufert, Knodl, O'Connor, Penterman, Snyder, Spiros, Tucker, Wichgers and Mursau; cosponsored by Senators Wimberger, James, Quinn, Stafsholt and Tomczyk `introduction`
- **2025-10-27T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-10-29T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-10-29T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Steffen added as a coauthor
- **2025-11-07T06:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-11-11T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Franklin
- **2025-11-12T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representatives Sinicki, Tenorio, McCarville and Brown
- **2025-11-13T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-11-13T06:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs, Ayes 12, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-11-13T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs, Ayes 12, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-11-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-13T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 11-19-2025 by Committee on Rules
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Representatives Ortiz-Velez and Stubbs added as coauthors
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed, Ayes 98, Noes 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-11-20T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2025-11-20T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2026-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 2-11-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **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 concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senator Spreitzer added as a cosponsor
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
- **2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 2-12-2026 `enrolled`
- **2026-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 4-1-2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 4-2-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 154 `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+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/f429432a-379e-40eb-b366-e1fe1c3053bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).