July 2025 Extraordinary Session
THURSDAY, July 3, 2025
The Chief Clerk made the following entries under the above date.
_____________
Chief Clerk's Entries
Senate Enrolled Proposals
The Chief Clerk records:
Report correctly enrolled on 7-3-2025.
_____________
Petitions and Communications
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
July 3, 2025
The Honorable, the Senate:
The following bill(s), originating in the Senate, have been approved, signed and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State:
Bill Number Act Number Date Approved
Sincerely,
TONY EVERS
Governor
Pursuant to s. 35.095 (1)(b), Wisconsin Statutes, the following 2025 Act(s) have been published: Act Number Bill Number Publication Date
_____________
Legislative Reference Bureau Corrections
Corrections In:
SENATE AMENDMENT 26 TO SENATE SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 2,
TO 2025 SENATE BILL 45
Prepared by the Legislative Reference Bureau
(July 2, 2025)
In enrolling, the following corrections were made:
hist2072961. Page 2, line 15: delete that line and substitute “study under section 9144 (1) of this act.”. 2. Page 6, line 3: delete that line.
3. Page 6, line 18: delete “2027”.”” and substitute “2027”.”.
4. Page 13, line 12: delete “rates” and substitute “, the rates”.
5. Page 15, line 7: delete “commitee” and substitute “committee”.
6. Page 19, line 15: delete “to 6” and substitute “to 5”.
7. Page 20, line 7: delete “, in” and substitute “in”.
8. Page 25, line 12: delete that line and substitute:
“134. Page 370, line 8: after “license fee” insert “of $10”.”.
9. Page 25, line 17: delete “1m.” and substitute “1m”.
10. Page 25, line 19: delete “3m.” and substitute “3m”.
11. Page 25, line 20: delete “3m.” and substitute “3m Effective dates date.”.
12. Page 26, line 1: delete “(1).” and substitute “(1)”.
13. Page 171, line 25: delete “of Milwaukee”.
14. Page 420, line 13: delete “of Milwaukee”.
SENATE SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 2,
TO 2025 SENATE BILL 45
Prepared by the Legislative Reference Bureau
(July 2, 2025)
In enrolling, the following corrections were made:
hist2072971. Page 235, line 22: before “9144” insert “section”. 2. Page 236, line 18: delete “Warrens” and substitute “Warrens;”.
3. Page 262, line 13: delete “are” and substitute “is”.
4. Page 287, line 18: after “In” insert “fiscal year”.
_____________
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
July 3, 2025
The Honorable, the Senate:
I have approved Senate Bill 45 as 2025 Wisconsin Act 15 and deposited it in the Office of the Secretary of State. Over the past three biennial budgets, I have made it a priority to listen to the will of the people, to do the right thing for Wisconsin, and to create prosperity that will define our state for generations. We've worked hard to be prudent with taxpayer dollars and save where we can, while still investing in the needs that had long been neglected, cutting taxes for working families, and staying within our state's means. As a result, over the last several biennia, I've been proud to use my signing pen and my broad, constitutional veto authority-to secure historic investments in our kids and schools, families, and communities across our state.
During my time in office, together, we've secured generational increases to shared revenue for local communities, made historic progress in our work to fully fund our public schools, provided some of the largest state increases in state history in critical infrastructure investments, including investing over half a billion dollars to build housing for our workforce, expanding access to affordable highspeed internet to help 410,000 homes and businesses get connected to new or improved service, and improving more than 8,600 miles of our darn roads and 2,000 bridges statewide. In fact, Wisconsinites could drive from Wausau, Wisconsin, to Disney World in Orlando, Florida-and back-three times over--on the number of miles of roads we have fixed. We have made critical investments in our farmers, producers, and their families, including supporting our meat and dairy producers, investing in farmer mental health resources, and bolstering Wisconsin's exports worldwide to ensure our $116 billion agricultural industry remains on top and that we continue to retain the title of "America's Dairyland" for generations to come.
We have made investments in key priorities, delivering for kids, families, schools, veterans, seniors, communities, and so many more, and we have been able to do so all while cutting taxes for hard-working Wisconsinites. Through our bipartisan work to cut taxes over the past six years, Wisconsinites are keeping more of their hard-earned income today than at any point in the last 50 years. When I first took office in 2019, the state had the 24th-highest tax burden in the nation. Now, a recent Wisconsin Policy Forum report shows Wisconsin's state and local tax burden has dropped to a record low in 2024, and today, the state and local taxes Wisconsinites pay as a share of their income is the lowest it has been in over half a century.
We have invested in state needs and priorities that have long been neglected while still delivering real, meaningful tax relief to Wisconsinites who needed it-and we did so all while staying well within the state's means. Since 2019, we have:
• Had a positive General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) ending balance for all five full fiscal years that I have been Governor after the state previously ran a GAAP deficit for 30 consecutive years;
