republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2025/ab-778.md

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Bill	Relating to: eligibility for the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional Jobs program. (FE)	Relating to: eligibility for the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional Jobs program. (FE)	us/states/wi	Wisconsin Legislature	2025	AB 778	Wisconsin AB 778 (2025)	bill		enacted	Allen Behnke Dittrich Donovan Goodwin Gundrum Kaufert Melotik Mursau O'Connor Ortiz-Velez Penterman Piwowarczyk Prado Rodriguez Steffen	1	33	3	2025-12-17T06:00:00+00:00	2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/27db9282-7c71-4409-b942-135ef7dc494d	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab778	1c798118f8e8048de19e5ce4aba7eeaa9c1ce1eac1d06773aa5277c7caed7216	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wi

Wisconsin AB 778 (2025) — Relating to: eligibility for the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional Jobs program. (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
• Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Report passage recommended by Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment, Ayes 9, Noes 0 — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Allen — primary (person)
• Behnke — primary (person)
• Dittrich — primary (person)
• Donovan — primary (person)
• Goodwin — primary (person)
• Gundrum — primary (person)
• Kaufert — primary (person)
• Melotik — primary (person)
• Mursau — primary (person)
• O'Connor — primary (person)
• Ortiz-Velez — primary (person)
• Penterman — primary (person)
• Piwowarczyk — primary (person)
• Prado — primary (person)
• Rodriguez — primary (person)
• Steffen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-12-17T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced by Representatives Rodriguez, Donovan, Ortiz-Velez, Allen, Behnke, Dittrich, Goodwin, Gundrum, Kaufert, Melotik, Mursau, O'Connor, Penterman, Piwowarczyk, Prado and Steffen; cosponsored by Senator Wanggaard introduction
• 2025-12-17T06:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-12-22T06:00:00+00:00 Representative Knodl added as a coauthor
• 2026-01-06T06:00:00+00:00 Public hearing held
• 2026-01-08T06:00:00+00:00 Fiscal estimate received receipt
• 2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2026-01-15T06:00:00+00:00 Report passage recommended by Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment, Ayes 9, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-01-15T06:00:00+00:00 Referred to committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2026-01-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senator Carpenter added as a cosponsor
• 2026-02-05T06:00:00+00:00 Placed on calendar 2-10-2026 by Committee on Rules
• 2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading reading-3
• 2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended
• 2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and passed passage, reading-3
• 2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00 Received from Assembly receipt
• 2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development referral-committee
• 2026-02-27T06:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00 Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development, Ayes 5, 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 Read a second time reading-2
• 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 Senator Drake added as a cosponsor
• 2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00 Received from Senate concurred in receipt
• 2026-03-23T05:00:00+00:00 Report correctly enrolled on 3-23-2026 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 176 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/27db9282-7c71-4409-b942-135ef7dc494d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).