AJR 66 Wisconsin Assembly · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Relating to: congratulating Southwest Wisconsin Technical College for winning the 2025 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence.

AJR 66 is a symbolic resolution congratulating Southwest Wisconsin Technical College (SWTC) for winning the 2025 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. The resolution recognizes SWTC’s national recognition as the top two-year college in the U.S., highlighting its success in student outcomes - especially for underserved groups - and its strong employer partnerships and teaching practices. It does not create new laws, provide funding, or alter policies; it solely expresses the Wisconsin legislature’s commendation to SWTC, its staff, students, and community partners. The resolution directly affects SWTC by formally honoring its achievement, with no broader impact on state law or other institutions.

Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jun 2025

Committee Review

Jun 2025

Assembly Passage

Jun 2025

Senate Passage

Jun 2025

Governor

Introduced Jun 6, 2025 Last action Jun 19, 2025

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What changed between versions

Joint Resolution Text → Enrolled Joint Resolution · 2 edits

MINOR

The bill was converted from a draft introduction to an enrolled (final) version, adding signatures from legislative leaders and correcting minor formatting and punctuation errors in the text. The substantive content, which congratulates Southwest Wisconsin Technical College for winning the 2025 Aspen Prize, remains unchanged.

TECHNICAL

Added signatures and dates for the President of the Senate and Speaker of the Assembly to finalize the resolution.

Corrected punctuation and spacing errors in the 'Whereas' clauses, such as fixing a missing space in 'Wisconsin[s workforce' and adjusting line breaks.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

Full legislative history

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Key actions

Committee

Jun 18, 2025

Upper · Passed

Concurred in

upper

Jun 18, 2025

Lower · Passed

Adopted

lower

Jun 6, 2025

Committee

Read and referred to Committee on Rules

lower

Jun 6, 2025

Introduced

Introduced by Representatives Tranel, Novak, Kurtz, Johnson, J. Jacobson, Brown, Goodwin, Miresse, Murphy, O'Connor, Prado, Sinicki, Stroud and Stubbs; cosponsored by Senators Marklein, Pfaff, Keyeski, Ratcliff, Roys and Spreitzer

lower

14 primary · 0 co-sponsors