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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 SENATE BILL 615
November 6, 2025 - Introduced by Senators
Hesselbein
,
Wirch
,
Carpenter
,
Smith
,
Dassler-Alfheim
,
Drake
,
Habush Sinykin
,
L. Johnson
,
Keyeski
,
Larson
,
Pfaff
,
Ratcliff
,
Roys
,
Spreitzer
and
Wall
, cosponsored by Representatives
Sinicki
,
Brown
,
Andraca
,
Arney
,
Bare
,
Billings
,
Anderson
,
Clancy
,
Cruz
,
DeSanto
,
DeSmidt
,
Doyle
,
Emerson
,
Fitzgerald
,
Goodwin
,
Haywood
,
Hong
,
Hysell
,
J. Jacobson
,
Joers
,
Johnson
,
Kirsch
,
Madison
,
Mayadev
,
McCarville
,
McGuire
,
Miresse
,
Moore Omokunde
,
Neubauer
,
Palmeri
,
Phelps
,
Prado
,
Rivera-Wagner
,
Roe
,
Sheehan
,
Snodgrass
,
Spaude
,
Stroud
,
Stubbs
,
Subeck
,
Taylor
,
Tenorio
,
Udell
,
Vining
,
Kaufert
and
Novak
. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources, Veteran and Military Affairs.
SB615,1,3
1
An Act
to create
20.855 (4) (bg) of the statutes;
relating to:
the University of
2
Wisconsin Missing-in-Action Recovery and Identification Project and making
3
an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under this bill, the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System must provide funding to the UW Missing-in-Action Recovery and Identification Project (MIA Recovery Project) for missions to recover and identify Wisconsin veterans who are missing in action. At the conclusion of the mission for which funding is provided, the MIA Recovery Project must submit to the Board of Regents, the joint committee on finance, each legislative standing committee dealing with veterans matters, the governor, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Military Affairs a report on the mission’s findings and an accounting of expenditures for the mission. The bill appropriates $500,000 in each year of the 2025-27 fiscal biennium for the MIA Recovery Project.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SB615,1
1
Section
1
.
20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place,
2
insert the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
-
See PDF for table
SB615,2
8
Section
2
.
20.855 (4) (bg) of the statutes is created to read:
SB615,2,12
9
20.855
(4)
(bg)
Missing-in-Action Recovery Project.
As a continuing
10
appropriation, the amounts in the schedule for the Board of Regents of the
11
University of Wisconsin System to provide the funding under 2025 Wisconsin Act
12
.... (this act), section
3
(
1
).
SB615,3
13
Section
3
. Nonstatutory provisions.
SB615,2,15
14
(
1
)
Funding for the University of Wisconsin Missing-in-Action
15
Recovery and Identification Project.
SB615,2,16
16
(
a
) In this subsection:
SB615,2,17
17
1
. “Board” means the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.
SB615,2,19
18
2
. “MIA Recovery Project” means the University of Wisconsin Missing-in-
19
Action Recovery and Identification Project.
SB615,2,23
20
(
b
) From the appropriation under s. 20.855 (4) (bg), the board shall provide
21
$500,000 in funding in each fiscal year of the 2025-27 fiscal biennium for the MIA
22
Recovery Project to perform a mission for the recovery and identification of
23
Wisconsin veterans who are missing in action.
SB615,3,6
1
(
c
) The MIA Recovery Project, acting through its representative, shall submit
2
at the conclusion of the mission for which the funds were expended, to the board,
3
the joint committee on finance, the standing committees of each house of the
4
legislature dealing with veterans matters, the governor, the department of veterans
5
affairs, and the department of military affairs, a report on the mission’s findings
6
and an accounting of expenditures for the mission.
SB615,3,7
7
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