republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2025/ab-968.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: virtual currency kiosks."
description: "Relating to: virtual currency kiosks."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 968"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 968 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Armstrong", "B. Jacobson", "Billings", "Callahan", "DeSmidt", "Dittrich", "Donovan", "Doyle", "Fitzgerald", "Gundrum", "Joers", "Kaufert", "Knodl", "Kreibich", "McCarville", "Melotik", "Murphy", "Mursau", "Novak", "O'Connor", "Ortiz-Velez", "Penterman", "Piwowarczyk", "Sinicki", "Snyder", "Spiros", "Subeck", "Taylor", "Udell"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 45
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-01-30T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11a6dcee-c6cd-434e-856d-37ee85b41e51"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab968"
source_hash: "0f3548ba8ddcfd26871b20fb0121afb854497a16d555643e66d3b2e2e8653d72"
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 968 (2025) — Relating to: virtual currency kiosks.

## Version chain

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

1. **Assembly Substitute Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB968-ASA2)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB968)

## Votes

- Report passage recommended by Committee on Financial Institutions, Ayes 8, Noes 1 — **8–1** (pass) · lower
- Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Utilities, Technology and Tourism, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCURRENCE — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Armstrong — primary (person)
- B. Jacobson — primary (person)
- Billings — primary (person)
- Callahan — primary (person)
- DeSmidt — primary (person)
- Dittrich — primary (person)
- Donovan — primary (person)
- Doyle — primary (person)
- Fitzgerald — primary (person)
- Gundrum — primary (person)
- Joers — primary (person)
- Kaufert — primary (person)
- Knodl — primary (person)
- Kreibich — primary (person)
- McCarville — primary (person)
- Melotik — primary (person)
- Murphy — primary (person)
- Mursau — primary (person)
- Novak — primary (person)
- O'Connor — primary (person)
- Ortiz-Velez — primary (person)
- Penterman — primary (person)
- Piwowarczyk — primary (person)
- Sinicki — primary (person)
- Snyder — primary (person)
- Spiros — primary (person)
- Subeck — primary (person)
- Taylor — primary (person)
- Udell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Snyder, Doyle, Gundrum, Novak, Melotik, McCarville, Taylor, Armstrong, Callahan, DeSmidt, Dittrich, Donovan, Fitzgerald, B. Jacobson, Joers, Kaufert, Knodl, Kreibich, Murphy, Mursau, O'Connor, Ortiz-Velez, Penterman, Piwowarczyk, Sinicki, Spiros, Subeck, Udell and Billings; cosponsored by Senator James `introduction`
- **2026-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Financial Institutions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Andraca added as a coauthor
- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Emerson added as a coauthor
- **2026-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Representatives Kitchens and Franklin added as coauthors
- **2026-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Moore Omokunde added as a coauthor
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Stubbs added as a coauthor
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Financial Institutions, Ayes 8, Noes 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 2-17-2026
- **2026-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Representatives Stroud, Miresse and Anderson added as coauthors
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Snyder
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Arney added as a coauthor
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Made a special order of business at 1:34 PM on 2-18-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 13
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Neubauer
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Snyder
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2026-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Utilities, Technology and Tourism `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2026-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Brown added as a coauthor
- **2026-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Utilities, Technology and Tourism, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from committee on Senate Organization and take up
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Senators Dassler-Alfheim, Smith and Drake added as cosponsors
- **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, Ayes 33, Noes 0 `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** Senator Spreitzer added as a cosponsor
- **2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 3-20-2026 `enrolled`
- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 4-8-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 226 `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Published 4-9-2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/11a6dcee-c6cd-434e-856d-37ee85b41e51`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).