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IntroducedOct 09, 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: permissible financial aid reductions in higher education. (FE)
Last Action See all actions
Senate • Feb 16, 2026: Read first time and referred to committee on Universities and Technical Colleges
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on AB 486
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
Votes
YES: 53
- ALLEN
- ARMSTRONG
- AUGUST
- BEHNKE
- BORN
- BRILL
- BROOKS
- CALLAHAN
- DALLMAN
- DITTRICH
- DONOVAN
- DUCHOW
- FRANKLIN
- GOEBEN
- GREEN
- GUNDRUM
- GUSTAFSON
- HURD
- JACOBSON, B
- KAUFERT
- KITCHENS
- KNODL
- KREIBICH
- KRUG
- KURTZ
- MAXEY
- MELOTIK
- MOSES
- MURPHY
- MURSAU
- NEDWESKI
- NEYLON
- NOVAK
- O'CONNOR
- PENTERMAN
- PETERSEN
- PIWOWARCZYK
- PRONSCHINSKE
- RODRIGUEZ
- SNYDER
- SORTWELL
- SPIROS
- STEFFEN
- SUMMERFIELD
- SWEARINGEN
- TITTL
- TRANEL
- TUCKER
- TUSLER
- VANDERMEER
- WICHGERS
- WITTKE
- SPEAKER
NO: 45
- ANDERSON
- ANDRACA
- ARNEY
- BARE
- BILLINGS
- BROWN
- CLANCY
- CRUZ
- DESANTO
- DESMIDT
- DOYLE
- EMERSON
- FITZGERALD
- GOODWIN
- HAYWOOD
- HONG
- HYSELL
- JACOBSON, J
- JOERS
- JOHNSON
- KIRSCH
- MADISON
- MAYADEV
- MCCARVILLE
- MCGUIRE
- MIRESSE
- MOORE OMOKUNDE
- NEUBAUER
- ORTIZ-VELEZ
- PALMERI
- PHELPS
- PRADO
- RIVERA-WAGNER
- ROE
- SHEEHAN
- SINICKI
- SNODGRASS
- SPAUDE
- STROUD
- STUBBS
- SUBECK
- TAYLOR
- TENORIO
- UDELL
- VINING
NOT VOTING: 1
Actions
- Feb 16, 2026 | Senate
- Read first time and referred to committee on Universities and Technical Colleges
- Feb 13, 2026 | Senate
- Received from Assembly
- Feb 12, 2026 | Assembly
- Read a second time
- Assembly Amendment 1 adopted
- Ordered to a third reading
- Rules suspended
- Read a third time and passed, Ayes 53, Noes 45
- Ordered immediately messaged
- Feb 10, 2026 | Assembly
- Placed on calendar 2-12-2026 by Committee on Rules
- Jan 14, 2026 | Assembly
- Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Colleges and Universities, Ayes 6, Noes 4
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Colleges and Universities, Ayes 6, Noes 4
- Referred to committee on Rules
- Jan 08, 2026 | Assembly
- Executive action taken
- Jan 07, 2026 | Assembly
- Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Sortwell
- Dec 17, 2025 | Assembly
- Senator Jacque added as a cosponsor
- Dec 10, 2025 | Assembly
- Public hearing held
- Oct 16, 2025 | Assembly
- Fiscal estimate received
- Oct 14, 2025 | Assembly
- Fiscal estimate received
- Oct 09, 2025 | Assembly
- Introduced by Representatives Sortwell, Behnke, Maxey, Mursau and O'Connor
- Read first time and referred to Committee on Colleges and Universities
Documents
- Amendment Histories
- LC Amendment Memo
- AB486: Fiscal Estimate From UWS
- AB486: Fiscal Estimate From WTCS
- AB486 ROCP for Committee on Colleges and Universities On 1/14/2026
- AB486 ROCP for Committee on Colleges and Universities On 1/14/2026
- LC Hearing Materials for AB486 on 12/10/2025
- Wisconsin Ethics Commission information
- 2025 Senate Bill 868



