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April 2026 - Current Legislative Update: The 2025-26 regular legislative session has concluded. Outside of a two-day period in May for veto overrides, there will likely be no other regular business for the Wisconsin legislature. However, still hanging out there is a possible deal on taxes, between the Governor and legislative Republicans. The state is currently sitting on a $2.1 billion surplus and there is an ongoing interest by GOP leaders to provide property tax relief. The Governor is focused on some of the funding to be directed to Special Education. This week, the Governor called a special session on gerrymandering – calling for the legislature to pass a constitutional amendment to ban partisan gerrymandering. While no action was taken on the issue, legislative leaders left the special session open – meaning that discussions are ongoing regarding gerrymandering and taxes. Outside of monitoring legislative activity, the focus for WPRA and other stakeholders continues to be the reauthorization of the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship program. The KNSP is currently funded through June 30, 2026. The result of the legislature’s inaction to reauthorize the program means the program will not be operational beyond that date. However, the state statutes governing the program remain in place, and the best-case scenario would be reauthorization and funding in the next budget cycle—meaning the program could be up and running again by July 1, 2027. WPRA will continue to build a strategy to ensure this occurs.
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