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IntroducedFeb 17, 2025
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Passed AssemblyJan 15, 2026
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Passed Senate
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Became Law
Wisconsin Assembly Bill
Relating to: an income tax exemption for cash tips paid to an employee. (FE)
Last Action See all actions
Senate • Jan 16, 2026: Available for scheduling
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on AB 38
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
Votes
YES: 61
- ALLEN
- ARMSTRONG
- AUGUST
- BEHNKE
- BILLINGS
- BORN
- BRILL
- BROOKS
- CALLAHAN
- DALLMAN
- DESMIDT
- DITTRICH
- DONOVAN
- DOYLE
- DUCHOW
- EMERSON
- FRANKLIN
- GOEBEN
- GREEN
- GUNDRUM
- GUSTAFSON
- HURD
- JACOBSON, B
- JACOBSON, J
- JOHNSON
- KAUFERT
- KITCHENS
- KNODL
- KREIBICH
- KRUG
- KURTZ
- MAXEY
- MELOTIK
- MIRESSE
- MOSES
- MURPHY
- MURSAU
- NEDWESKI
- NEYLON
- NOVAK
- O'CONNOR
- PENTERMAN
- PETERSEN
- PIWOWARCZYK
- PRONSCHINSKE
- RODRIGUEZ
- SHEEHAN
- SNYDER
- SORTWELL
- SPAUDE
- SPIROS
- SUMMERFIELD
- SWEARINGEN
- TRANEL
- TUCKER
- TUSLER
- VANDERMEER
- WICHGERS
- WITTKE
- ZIMMERMAN
- SPEAKER
NO: 33
Actions
- Jan 16, 2026 | Senate
- Received from Assembly
- Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization
- Available for scheduling
- Jan 15, 2026 | Assembly
- Read a second time
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 offered by Representative Clancy
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 laid on table, Ayes 52, Noes 42
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adopted
- Ordered to a third reading
- Rules suspended
- Read a third time and passed, Ayes 61, Noes 33, Paired 2
- Ordered immediately messaged
- Jan 14, 2026 | Assembly
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Tusler
- Representative Steffen added as a coauthor
- Jan 13, 2026 | Assembly
- Placed on calendar 1-15-2026 by Committee on Rules
- Nov 11, 2025 | Assembly
- Executive action taken by joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions
- Report of Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions received
- Nov 07, 2025 | Assembly
- Referred to joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions pursuant to Assembly Rule 45 (4)
- Sep 15, 2025 | Assembly
- Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 8, Noes 2
- Referred to committee on Rules
- Sep 04, 2025 | Assembly
- Executive action taken
- Aug 21, 2025 | Assembly
- Public hearing held
- Aug 18, 2025 | Assembly
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Tusler
- Jul 02, 2025 | Assembly
- Representative Melotik added as a coauthor
- Feb 28, 2025 | Assembly
- Fiscal estimate received
- Feb 18, 2025 | Assembly
- Representative Gustafson added as a coauthor
- Feb 17, 2025 | Assembly
- Introduced by Representatives Tusler, Behnke, Green, Gundrum, Kreibich, Maxey, Mursau, Penterman, Piwowarczyk, Tittl, Tranel and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senators Jacque, Bradley, Hutton, Cabral-Guevara, Feyen, Nass, Quinn and Tomczyk
- Read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means
Bill Texts
- Bill TextHTML
- Bill TextPDF
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 (offered 8/18/2025) -- TuslerHTML
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 (offered 8/18/2025) -- TuslerPDF
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 (adopted 1/15/2026) -- TuslerHTML
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 (adopted 1/15/2026) -- TuslerPDF
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 (offered 1/15/2026) -- ClancyHTML
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 (offered 1/15/2026) -- ClancyPDF
Documents
- Amendment Histories
- LC Amendment Memo
- AB38: Report of the Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions
- AB38: Fiscal Estimate From DOR
- AB38 ROCP for Committee on Ways and Means On 9/15/2025
- AB38 ROCP for Committee on Ways and Means On 9/15/2025
- LC Hearing Materials for AB38 on 8/21/2025
- Wisconsin Ethics Commission information
- 2025 Senate Bill 36



