WI AB208 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 27-8)
Status: Failed on March 23 2026 - 100% progression
Action: 2026-03-23 - Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 27-8)
Status: Failed on March 23 2026 - 100% progression
Action: 2026-03-23 - Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
An Act to create 71.05 (1) (j), 71.26 (1) (j), 71.34 (1k) (q) and 71.45 (1) (dp) of the statutes; Relating to: an income and franchise tax exemption for broadband expansion grants and for federal high-cost program funding for broadband expansion. (FE)
Title
An income and franchise tax exemption for broadband expansion grants and for federal high-cost program funding for broadband expansion. (FE)
Sponsors
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-23 | House | Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1 |
| 2026-02-19 | House | Laid on the table |
| 2026-02-19 | House | Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Summerfield |
| 2026-02-19 | House | Representative Stubbs withdrawn as a coauthor |
| 2026-02-18 | House | Made a special order of business at 11:10 AM on 2-19-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 14 |
| 2026-02-04 | House | Referred to committee on Rules |
| 2026-02-04 | House | Report passage recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 11, Noes 4 |
| 2026-02-03 | House | Executive action taken by joint committee on Finance |
| 2026-01-30 | House | Withdrawn from committee on Rules and referred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Assembly Rule 24 (3)(a) |
| 2025-11-11 | House | Report of Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions received |
| 2025-11-11 | House | Executive action taken by joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions |
| 2025-11-07 | House | Referred to joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions pursuant to Assembly Rule 45 (4) |
| 2025-06-10 | House | Representative Bare added as a coauthor |
| 2025-05-13 | House | Representative McCarville added as a coauthor |
| 2025-05-08 | House | Referred to committee on Rules |
| 2025-05-08 | House | Report passage recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0 |
| 2025-05-07 | House | Executive action taken |
| 2025-04-30 | House | Public hearing held |
| 2025-04-30 | House | Representative Stubbs added as a coauthor |
| 2025-04-25 | House | Representative Miresse added as a coauthor |
| 2025-04-24 | House | Fiscal estimate received |
| 2025-04-23 | House | Read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means |
| 2025-04-23 | House | Introduced |
Same As/Similar To
SB176 (Crossfiled) 2026-05-13 - Failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the Governor pursuant to Joint Rule 82
