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AB140 • 2025
limitations on the total value of taxable property that may be included in a tax incremental financing district created in the city of Port Washington
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Report approved by the Governor on 7-8-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 16
Published 7-9-2025
Presented to the Governor on 7-2-2025 by directive of the Speaker
Report correctly enrolled on 6-23-2025
LRB correction ( Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 )
Received from Senate concurred in
Read a second time
Ordered to a third reading
Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 29, Noes 3
Ordered immediately messaged
Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization , pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m) , Ayes 3, Noes 2
Placed on calendar 6-18-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development , Ayes 4, Noes 1
Available for scheduling
Executive action taken
Read first time and referred to committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development
Read a second time
Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted
Ordered to a third reading
Rules suspended
Read a third time and passed, Ayes 91, Noes 6
Ordered immediately messaged
Received from Assembly
Withdrawn from committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 5-13-2025
Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Brooks
Executive action taken
Report Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Ways and Means , Ayes 10, Noes 0
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
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Brooks and Born
Public hearing held
Fiscal estimate received
Introduced by Representatives Brooks , Melotik , Armstrong and O'Connor ; cosponsored by Senators Feyen and Habush Sinykin
Read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means
limitations on the total value of taxable property that may be included in a tax incremental financing district created in the city of Port Washington Status: A - Enacted into Law