republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2025/ab-659.md

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Bill	Relating to: tuition and fee remission or grants for certain veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System, a technical college, or a private nonprofit institution of higher education; and the University of Wisconsin System nonresident tuition exemption for certain veterans. (FE)	Relating to: tuition and fee remission or grants for certain veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System, a technical college, or a private nonprofit institution of higher education; and the University of Wisconsin System nonresident tuition exemption for certain veterans. (FE)	us/states/wi	Wisconsin Legislature	2025	AB 659	Wisconsin AB 659 (2025)	bill		enacted	Behnke Billings Brooks Dittrich Donovan Franklin Joers Kitchens Knodl Kreibich Kurtz Melotik Murphy Mursau Novak O'Connor Palmeri Piwowarczyk Steffen Udell Wichgers	1	42	6	2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00	2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/d87ed353-1b9c-4339-a0c7-f8032ecb4264	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab659	dc5eeb7f04c89d892db5c614464a947fca4fb867353728bc459798223b91640e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wi

Wisconsin AB 659 (2025) — Relating to: tuition and fee remission or grants for certain veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System, a technical college, or a private nonprofit institution of higher education; and the University of Wisconsin System nonresident tuition exemption for certain veterans. (FE)

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2 — 3–2 (pass) · upper
• Senate Amendment 1 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 15 — 18–15 (pass) · upper
• Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0 — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Report passage recommended by Committee on Colleges and Universities, Ayes 11, Noes 0 — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE — 94–2 (pass) · lower
• Assembly Amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 55, Noes 41 — 55–41 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Behnke — primary (person)
• Billings — primary (person)
• Brooks — primary (person)
• Dittrich — primary (person)
• Donovan — primary (person)
• Franklin — primary (person)
• Joers — primary (person)
• Kitchens — primary (person)
• Knodl — primary (person)
• Kreibich — primary (person)
• Kurtz — primary (person)
• Melotik — primary (person)
• Murphy — primary (person)
• Mursau — primary (person)
• Novak — primary (person)
• O'Connor — primary (person)
• Palmeri — primary (person)
• Piwowarczyk — primary (person)
• Steffen — primary (person)
• Udell — primary (person)
• Wichgers — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced by Representatives Kitchens, Franklin, Kurtz, Steffen, Behnke, Billings, Brooks, Dittrich, Donovan, Joers, Knodl, Kreibich, Melotik, Murphy, Mursau, Novak, O'Connor, Piwowarczyk, Udell, Wichgers and Palmeri; cosponsored by Senator Wimberger introduction
• 2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to Committee on Colleges and Universities reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-11-21T06:00:00+00:00 Fiscal estimate received receipt
• 2025-11-21T06:00:00+00:00 Representative Subeck added as a coauthor
• 2025-11-21T06:00:00+00:00 Fiscal estimate received receipt
• 2025-11-24T06:00:00+00:00 Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a coauthor
• 2025-11-24T06:00:00+00:00 Fiscal estimate received receipt
• 2026-01-08T06:00:00+00:00 Public hearing held
• 2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00 Report passage recommended by Committee on Colleges and Universities, Ayes 11, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00 Referred to committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2026-02-09T06:00:00+00:00 Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor
• 2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00 Made a special order of business at 11:27 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 Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Emerson
• 2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Assembly Amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 55, Noes 41 deferral
• 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 passed, Ayes 94, Noes 2 passage, reading-3
• 2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2026-02-23T06:00:00+00:00 Received from Assembly receipt
• 2026-02-25T06:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization referral-committee
• 2026-02-25T06:00:00+00:00 Available for scheduling
• 2026-02-27T06:00:00+00:00 Withdrawn from committee on Senate Organization and rereferred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)
• 2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00 Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00 Available for scheduling
• 2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00 Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
• 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 Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senators Dassler-Alfheim, Larson, Carpenter, Drake, Habush Sinykin, Hesselbein, L. Johnson, Keyeski, Pfaff, Ratcliff, Roys, Smith, Spreitzer, Wall and Wirch
• 2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00 Senators Hesselbein and Smith added as cosponsors
• 2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00 Senate Amendment 1 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 15
• 2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading reading-3
• 2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
• 2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and concurred in passage, reading-3
• 2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00 Received from Senate concurred in receipt
• 2026-03-24T05:00:00+00:00 Report correctly enrolled on 3-24-2026 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 155 executive-signature
• 2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00 Published 4-3-2026 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d87ed353-1b9c-4339-a0c7-f8032ecb4264. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).