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IntroducedNov 19, 2025
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Passed AssemblyFeb 12, 2026
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Passed Senate
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Became Law
Wisconsin Assembly Bill
Relating to: a sales and use tax exemption for nuclear fusion technology projects. (FE)
Last Action See all actions
Senate • Feb 16, 2026: Available for scheduling
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on AB 657
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
Votes
YES: 92
- ALLEN
- ANDERSON
- ANDRACA
- ARMSTRONG
- ARNEY
- AUGUST
- BARE
- BEHNKE
- BILLINGS
- BORN
- BRILL
- BROOKS
- BROWN
- CALLAHAN
- DALLMAN
- DESANTO
- DESMIDT
- DITTRICH
- DONOVAN
- DOYLE
- DUCHOW
- EMERSON
- FITZGERALD
- FRANKLIN
- GOEBEN
- GOODWIN
- GREEN
- GUNDRUM
- GUSTAFSON
- HAYWOOD
- HURD
- HYSELL
- JACOBSON, B
- JACOBSON, J
- JOERS
- JOHNSON
- KAUFERT
- KIRSCH
- KITCHENS
- KNODL
- KREIBICH
- KRUG
- KURTZ
- MADISON
- MAXEY
- MAYADEV
- MCCARVILLE
- MCGUIRE
- MELOTIK
- MIRESSE
- MOSES
- MURPHY
- MURSAU
- NEDWESKI
- NEUBAUER
- NEYLON
- NOVAK
- O'CONNOR
- ORTIZ-VELEZ
- PALMERI
- PENTERMAN
- PETERSEN
- PIWOWARCZYK
- PRADO
- PRONSCHINSKE
- RIVERA-WAGNER
- RODRIGUEZ
- ROE
- SHEEHAN
- SINICKI
- SNYDER
- SORTWELL
- SPAUDE
- SPIROS
- STEFFEN
- STROUD
- STUBBS
- SUBECK
- SUMMERFIELD
- SWEARINGEN
- TAYLOR
- TENORIO
- TITTL
- TRANEL
- TUCKER
- TUSLER
- UDELL
- VANDERMEER
- VINING
- WICHGERS
- WITTKE
- SPEAKER
NOT VOTING: 1
Actions
- Feb 16, 2026 | Senate
- Executive action taken
- Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 14, Noes 0
- Available for scheduling
- Feb 13, 2026 | Senate
- Received from Assembly
- Read first time and referred to joint committee on Finance
- Feb 12, 2026 | Assembly
- Read a second time
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted
- Ordered to a third reading
- Rules suspended
- Read a third time and passed, Ayes 92, Noes 6
- Ordered immediately messaged
- Feb 10, 2026 | Assembly
- Report of Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions received, Ayes 9, Noes 0
- Placed on calendar 2-12-2026 by Committee on Rules
- Feb 09, 2026 | Assembly
- Executive action taken by joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions
- Feb 06, 2026 | Assembly
- Referred to joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions pursuant to Assembly Rule 45 (4)
- Senator Spreitzer added as a cosponsor
- Feb 04, 2026 | Assembly
- Executive action taken
- 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 10, Noes 0
- Referred to committee on Rules
- Jan 29, 2026 | Assembly
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Franklin
- Jan 12, 2026 | Assembly
- Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Franklin
- Jan 08, 2026 | Assembly
- Public hearing held
- Dec 17, 2025 | Assembly
- Representative Armstrong added as a coauthor
- Dec 08, 2025 | Assembly
- Fiscal estimate received
- Dec 04, 2025 | Assembly
- Fiscal estimate received
- Nov 21, 2025 | Assembly
- Representative Subeck added as a coauthor
- Nov 19, 2025 | Assembly
- Introduced by Representatives Franklin, Behnke, Callahan, Gustafson, Kreibich, Melotik, Murphy, Mursau, Neylon and Udell; cosponsored by Senator Feyen
- Read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means
Documents
- Amendment Histories
- LC Amendment Memo
- AB657: Report of the Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions
- AB657: Fiscal Estimate From DOR
- AB657: Fiscal Estimate From WEDC
- AB657 ROCP for Committee on Ways and Means On 2/4/2026
- AB657 ROCP for Committee on Ways and Means On 2/4/2026
- AB657 ROCP for Joint Committee on Finance On 2/16/2026
- AB657 ROCP for Joint Committee on Finance On 2/16/2026
- LC Hearing Materials for AB657 on 1/8/2026
- Wisconsin Ethics Commission information
- 2025 Senate Bill 636



