WisconsinWisconsin sets aside money for long-term care insurance tax credits
Wisconsin law sets aside enough money to pay long-term care insurance assessment credits if a related bill creating the credit becomes law.
What it does
The law sets aside enough money to pay long-term care insurance assessment credits, if a related bill creating the credit becomes law.
Argument forIf a qualifying related bill becomes law, the state could have enough money set aside to pay the authorized credits.
Argument againstPeople counting on the credit could face uncertainty because this law takes effect only if a qualifying related bill becomes law.
More detail
The state provides enough money to make payments for the long-term care insurance assessment credit. The money is for credit payments under the listed state tax provisions. This law takes effect only if the named related bill, or another 2025 bill with identical content, becomes law; otherwise this act is void. The law takes effect on the later of the effective date of the first qualifying related bill or the effective date of this law’s reconciliation provision.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Apr 9Published 4-9-2026Latest
- Apr 9Report approved by the Governor Tony Evers on 4-8-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 228Became Law
- Apr 2Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026To Governor
- Mar 23Report correctly enrolled on 3-23-2026Minor
- Mar 23LRB correction
- Mar 18Received from Senate concurred inMinor
- Mar 17Ordered immediately messaged
- Vote recorded CONCURRENCE. Result: pass.Upper
- Mar 17Senator Smith added as a cosponsor
- Mar 17Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 30, Noes 3Passed Senate
- Mar 17Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- Mar 17Ordered to a third readingMinor
- Mar 17Read a second timeMinor
- Mar 16Placed on calendar 3-17-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- Vote recorded Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2. Result: pass.Upper
- Mar 16Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
- Feb 3Available for scheduling
- Vote recorded Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0. Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 3Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0Minor
- Feb 3Executive action taken
- Jan 29Withdrawn from committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry and rereferred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)Minor
- Jan 23Read first time and referred to committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and ForestryMinor
- Jan 20Received from AssemblyMinor
- Vote recorded PASSAGE. Result: pass.Lower
- Jan 20Ordered immediately messaged
- Jan 20Read a third time and passed, Ayes 97, Noes 0Passed Assembly
- Jan 20Rules suspended
- Jan 20Ordered to a third readingMinor
- Jan 20Read a second timeMinor
- Jan 14Placed on calendar 1-20-2026 by Committee on Rules
- Vote recorded Report passage recommended by Committee on Insurance, Ayes 8, Noes 1. Result: pass.Lower
- Jan 14Referred to committee on RulesMinor
- Jan 14Report passage recommended by Committee on Insurance, Ayes 8, Noes 1Minor
- Jan 8Executive action taken
- 2025
- Dec 23Fiscal estimate receivedMinor
- Dec 5Representative Bare added as a coauthor
- Dec 4Representative Udell added as a coauthor
- Dec 4Public hearing held
- Dec 2Representatives Ortiz-Velez and Kaufert added as coauthors
- Nov 26Read first time and referred to Committee on InsuranceMinor
- Nov 26Introduced by Representatives Petersen, Doyle, Gundrum, Kreibich, O'Connor, Piwowarczyk and Subeck; cosponsored by Senators Stafsholt and WallIntroduced
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