republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2025/ab-813.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: the opportunity attraction and promotion program administered by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation."
description: "Relating to: the opportunity attraction and promotion program administered by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 813"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 813 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Armstrong", "Brill", "Green", "Kaufert", "Kitchens", "Knodl", "Kurtz", "Mursau", "Novak", "Sinicki", "Stubbs"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 35
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-12-23T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dbdbc93c-51de-4c57-812d-84b8086eaf0d"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab813"
source_hash: "af7bf3da91675c2916b35b2103be343994a3ef1315982add83233f9dcc838826"
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 813 (2025) — Relating to: the opportunity attraction and promotion program administered by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.

## 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/AB813)

## 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 4, Noes 1 — **4–1** (pass) · upper
- Report passage recommended by Committee on Tourism, Ayes 9, Noes 0 — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Armstrong — primary (person)
- Brill — primary (person)
- Green — primary (person)
- Kaufert — primary (person)
- Kitchens — primary (person)
- Knodl — primary (person)
- Kurtz — primary (person)
- Mursau — primary (person)
- Novak — primary (person)
- Sinicki — primary (person)
- Stubbs — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-23T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Kurtz, Armstrong, Brill, Green, Kaufert, Kitchens, Mursau, Novak, Sinicki, Stubbs and Knodl; cosponsored by Senators Testin, Dassler-Alfheim, Feyen, Keyeski, Ratcliff, Spreitzer and Tomczyk `introduction`
- **2025-12-23T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Tourism `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-07T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2026-01-07T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Joers added as a coauthor
- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Tourism, Ayes 9, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Udell added as a coauthor
- **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** Representative Anderson added as a coauthor
- **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 4, Noes 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2026-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Brown added as a coauthor
- **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** Representative Billings added as a coauthor
- **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** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
- **2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Emerson added as a coauthor
- **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 175 `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/dbdbc93c-51de-4c57-812d-84b8086eaf0d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).