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SB45 • 2025

state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature

state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature

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Last action
2026-05-13
Official status
S - Partial veto sustained
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state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature

state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature Status: S - Partial veto sustained

What This Bill Does

  • state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature Status: S - Partial veto sustained

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-13 Sen.

    Failed to pass partial veto notwithstanding the objections of the Governor pursuant to Joint Rule 82

  2. 2026-05-12 Sen.

    Placed on calendar 5-12-2026 pursuant to Joint Rule 82 (2)(a)

  3. 2025-07-17 Sen.

    LRB correction ( Senate Amendment 2 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2)

  4. 2025-07-03 Sen.

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  5. 2025-07-03 Sen.

    LRB correction ( Senate Amendment 26 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2)

  6. 2025-07-03 Sen.

    LRB correction ( Senate Substitute Amendment 2 )

  7. 2025-07-03 Sen.

    Report correctly enrolled

  8. 2025-07-03 Sen.

    Presented to the Governor on 7-3-2025

  9. 2025-07-03 Sen.

    Report approved by the Governor with partial veto on 7-3-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 15

  10. 2025-07-03 Sen.

    Published 7-3-2025

  11. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 1 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , L. Johnson , Roys , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  12. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 2 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , L. Johnson , Roys , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  13. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 3 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , L. Johnson , Roys , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  14. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 4 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , L. Johnson , Roys , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  15. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 5 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , L. Johnson , Roys , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  16. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 6 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , L. Johnson , Roys , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  17. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 7 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , L. Johnson , Roys , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  18. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 8 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , L. Johnson , Roys , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  19. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 9 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , L. Johnson , Roys , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  20. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 10 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , Roys , L. Johnson , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  21. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 11 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , L. Johnson , Roys , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  22. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 12 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , L. Johnson , Roys , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  23. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 13 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , L. Johnson , Roys , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  24. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 14 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , L. Johnson , Roys , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff and Ratcliff

  25. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 15 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , L. Johnson , Roys , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  26. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 16 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , L. Johnson , Roys , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  27. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 17 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Roys , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Dassler-Alfheim , Wall , Ratcliff , Smith , Spreitzer , Pfaff , Drake , L. Johnson and Larson

  28. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 18 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Roys , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Dassler-Alfheim , Wall , Ratcliff , Smith , Hesselbein , Spreitzer , Pfaff , Drake , L. Johnson and Larson

  29. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 19 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , L. Johnson , Roys , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  30. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 20 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , L. Johnson , Roys , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  31. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 21 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , Roys , L. Johnson , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  32. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 22 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , L. Johnson , Roys , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  33. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 23 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , L. Johnson , Roys , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  34. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 24 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , L. Johnson , Roys , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  35. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 25 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Hesselbein , Smith , Spreitzer , Drake , L. Johnson , Roys , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Habush Sinykin , Keyeski , Larson , Pfaff , Ratcliff and Wall

  36. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Read a second time

  37. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 1 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  38. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 2 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  39. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 3 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  40. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 4 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  41. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 5 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  42. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 6 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  43. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 7 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  44. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 8 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  45. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 9 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  46. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 10 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 rejected, Ayes 17, Noes 16

  47. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 11 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  48. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 12 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  49. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 26 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senator LeMahieu

  50. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 13 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 laid on table, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  51. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 14 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 laid on table, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  52. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 15 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 laid on table, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  53. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 16 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 laid on table, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  54. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 17 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 laid on table, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  55. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 18 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 laid on table, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  56. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 19 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 laid on table, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  57. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 20 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 laid on table, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  58. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 21 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 laid on table, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  59. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 22 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 laid on table, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  60. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 23 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 laid on table, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  61. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 24 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 laid on table, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  62. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 25 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 laid on table, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  63. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Amendment 26 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 adopted, Ayes 20, Noes 13

  64. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Senate Substitute Amendment 2 adopted, Ayes 19, Noes 14

  65. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Ordered to a third reading

  66. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  67. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Read a third time

  68. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Move to call the question, Ayes 22, Noes 11

  69. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Passed, Ayes 19, Noes 14

  70. 2025-07-02 Sen.

    Ordered immediately messaged

  71. 2025-07-02 Asm.

    Received from Senate

  72. 2025-07-02 Asm.

    Read

  73. 2025-07-02 Asm.

    Rules suspended to withdraw from Senate message and take up

  74. 2025-07-02 Asm.

    Read a second time

  75. 2025-07-02 Asm.

    Ordered to a third reading

  76. 2025-07-02 Asm.

    Rules suspended

  77. 2025-07-02 Asm.

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 59, Noes 39

  78. 2025-07-02 Asm.

    Ordered immediately messaged

  79. 2025-07-01 Sen.

    Report of Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions received

  80. 2025-07-01 Sen.

    Report of Joint Survey Committee on Retirement Systems received

  81. 2025-07-01 Sen.

    Executive action taken

  82. 2025-07-01 Sen.

    Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Joint Committee on Finance

  83. 2025-07-01 Sen.

    Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 2 recommended by Joint Committee on Finance , Ayes 12, Noes 4

  84. 2025-07-01 Sen.

    Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance , Ayes 12, Noes 4

  85. 2025-07-01 Sen.

    Available for scheduling

  86. 2025-06-27 Sen.

    Report of Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions requested

  87. 2025-06-27 Sen.

    Report of Joint Survey Committee on Retirement Systems requested

  88. 2025-06-27 Sen.

    Executive action taken

  89. 2025-06-17 Sen.

    Executive action taken

  90. 2025-06-12 Sen.

    Executive action taken

  91. 2025-06-10 Sen.

    Executive action taken

  92. 2025-06-05 Sen.

    Executive action taken

  93. 2025-05-29 Sen.

    Executive action taken

  94. 2025-05-08 Sen.

    Executive action taken

  95. 2025-05-08 Sen.

    Senate Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Joint Committee on Finance

  96. 2025-04-29 Sen.

    Public hearing held

  97. 2025-04-28 Sen.

    Public hearing held

  98. 2025-04-04 Sen.

    Public hearing held

  99. 2025-04-02 Sen.

    Public hearing held

  100. 2025-04-01 Sen.

    Agency briefing held

  101. 2025-02-18 Sen.

    Introduced by Joint Committee on Finance , by request of Governor Tony Evers

  102. 2025-02-18 Sen.

    Read first time and referred to Joint Committee on Finance

Official Summary Text

state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature
Status: S - Partial veto sustained

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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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ALL:all
2025 SENATE BILL 45
February 18, 2025 - Introduced by
Joint Committee on Finance
. Referred to Joint Committee on Finance.
SB45,1,2
1
An Act
;
relating to:
state finances and appropriations, constituting the
2
executive budget act of the 2025 legislature.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
INTRODUCTION
This bill is the executive budget bill under section 16.47 (1) of the statutes. It contains the governor’s recommendations for appropriations for the 2025–27 fiscal biennium.
The bill sets the appropriation levels in chapter 20 of the statutes for the 2025–27 fiscal biennium. The descriptions that follow in this analysis relate to the most significant changes in the law that are proposed in the bill.
For additional information concerning the bill, see the Department of Administration’s publication
Budget in Brief
and the executive budget books, the Legislative Fiscal Bureau’s summary document, and the Legislative Reference Bureau’s drafting files, which contain separate drafts on each policy item.
__________________________________________________________________
GUIDE TO THE BILL
The budget bill is organized like other bills. First, treatments of statutes appear in ascending numerical order of the statute affected. Next, any treatments of prior session laws appear ordered by the year of original enactment and then by act number (for instance, a treatment of
2021 Wisconsin Act 15
would precede a treatment of
2023 Wisconsin Act 6
). Next, any treatments of the Administrative Rules appear.
The remaining sections of the budget bill are organized by type of provision and, within each type, alphabetically by state agency. The first two digits of the four-digit section number indicate the type of provision:
91XX

Nonstatutory provisions.
92XX

Fiscal changes.
93XX

Initial applicability.
94XX

Effective dates.
The remaining two digits indicate the state agency or subject area to which the provision relates:
XX01

Administration.
XX02

Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
XX03

Arts Board.
XX04

Building Commission.
XX05

Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board.
XX06

Children and Families.
XX07

Circuit Courts.
XX08

Corrections.
XX09

Court of Appeals.
XX10

District Attorneys.
XX11

Educational Communications Board.
XX12

Elections Commission.
XX13

Employee Trust Funds.
XX14

Employment Relations Commission.
XX15

Ethics Commission.
XX16

Financial Institutions.
XX17

Governor.
XX18

Health and Educational Facilities Authority.
XX19

Health Services.
XX20

Higher Educational Aids Board.
XX21

Historical Society.
XX22

Housing and Economic Development Authority.
XX23

Insurance.
XX24

Investment Board.
XX25

Joint Committee on Finance.
XX26

Judicial Commission.
XX27

Justice.
XX28

Legislature.
XX29

Lieutenant Governor.
XX30

Local Government.
XX31

Military Affairs.
XX32

Natural Resources.
XX33

Public Defender Board.
XX34

Public Instruction.
XX35

Public Lands, Board of Commissioners of.
XX36

Public Service Commission.

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