2025 to 2026 Legislature · State Assembly bill

AB 597

Relating to: a state matching grant program for recipients of federal per diem payments. (FE)

Enacted Last action April 2, 2026: Published 4-3-2026

Official bill page and text: docs.legis.wisconsin.gov

Sponsors 21

Prime sponsors

Armstrong, B. Jacobson, Behnke, Brill, Dittrich, Donovan, Franklin, Goeben, Green, Hurd, Kaufert, Knodl, Moses, Mursau, O'Connor, Penterman, Snyder, Spiros, Summerfield, Tucker, Wichgers

Status

Enacted as of April 2, 2026. The 2025 to 2026 Legislature serves until the 2027 Legislature convenes on January 4, 2027.

Referred to: Assembly Rules, Assembly Veterans and Military Affairs, Senate Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families (from the official referral record)

Roll-call votes 0

No roll-call votes recorded for this measure.

Timeline 37

Date	Chamber	Action
April 2, 2026	Assembly	Published 4-3-2026
April 2, 2026	Assembly	Report approved by the Governor on 4-2-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 154
April 1, 2026	Assembly	Presented to the Governor on 4-1-2026
February 13, 2026	Assembly	Report correctly enrolled on 2-12-2026
February 12, 2026	Assembly	Received from Senate concurred in
February 11, 2026	Senate	Ordered immediately messaged
February 11, 2026	Senate	Senator Spreitzer added as a cosponsor
February 11, 2026	Senate	Read a third time and concurred in
February 11, 2026	Senate	Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
February 11, 2026	Senate	Ordered to a third reading
February 11, 2026	Senate	Read a second time
February 9, 2026	Senate	Placed on calendar 2-11-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
January 22, 2026	Senate	Available for scheduling
January 22, 2026	Senate	Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families, Ayes 5, Noes 0
January 22, 2026	Senate	Executive action taken
January 13, 2026	Senate	Public hearing held
November 20, 2025	Senate	Read first time and referred to committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families
November 20, 2025	Senate	Received from Assembly
November 19, 2025	Assembly	Ordered immediately messaged
November 19, 2025	Assembly	Read a third time and passed, Ayes 98, Noes 0
November 19, 2025	Assembly	Rules suspended
November 19, 2025	Assembly	Ordered to a third reading
November 19, 2025	Assembly	Assembly Amendment 1 adopted
November 19, 2025	Assembly	Read a second time
November 19, 2025	Assembly	Representatives Ortiz-Velez and Stubbs added as coauthors
November 13, 2025	Assembly	Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs, Ayes 12, Noes 0
November 13, 2025	Assembly	Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs, Ayes 12, Noes 0
November 13, 2025	Assembly	Executive action taken
November 13, 2025	Assembly	Placed on calendar 11-19-2025 by Committee on Rules
November 13, 2025	Assembly	Referred to committee on Rules
November 12, 2025	Assembly	Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representatives Sinicki, Tenorio, McCarville and Brown
November 11, 2025	Assembly	Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Franklin
November 7, 2025	Assembly	Fiscal estimate received
October 29, 2025	Assembly	Representative Steffen added as a coauthor
October 29, 2025	Assembly	Public hearing held
October 27, 2025	Assembly	Read first time and referred to Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs
October 27, 2025	Assembly	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

Data: Open States (bulk data, October 1, 2026 monthly extract, which has no roll-call tallies; public data, attribution appreciated). Official record: docs.legis.wisconsin.gov. Bill pages link to the official text, not copied.