AJR 50 Wisconsin Assembly · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Relating to: recognizing the United States Army’s 250th birthday.

AJR 50 is a ceremonial resolution recognizing the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary on June 14, 2025. It formally celebrates the Army's history of service and sacrifice since its founding in 1775, highlighting its role in defending the nation. The resolution specifically acknowledges Wisconsin's connection to the Army, including over 10,000 soldiers and civilians stationed in the state and Fort McCoy's economic impact. As a symbolic gesture with no policy changes, it does not affect any laws or groups beyond expressing legislative appreciation.

Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

May 2025

Committee Review

May 2025

Assembly Passage

Jun 2025

Senate Passage

Jun 2025

Governor

Introduced May 7, 2025 Last action Sep 9, 2025

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Joint Resolution Text → Enrolled Joint Resolution · 3 edits

MINOR

The document transitioned from a draft text to an enrolled (final) version, adding signatures from legislative leaders and removing page headers and footers. The substantive policy content regarding the recognition of the U.S. Army's 250th birthday remains unchanged, though minor punctuation adjustments were made to the title and 'Whereas' clauses.

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Page headers, footers, and draft metadata were removed to finalize the document.

Signatures for the President of the Senate, Speaker of the Assembly, and Assembly Chief Clerk were added to validate the enrolled resolution.

Minor punctuation changes were made, such as replacing the smart apostrophe in 'Army's' with a standard apostrophe in the title and 'Whereas' clauses.

Floor votes · Assembly Jun 18, 2025

How they voted

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

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Committee

Jun 18, 2025

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upper

Jun 18, 2025

Lower · Passed

Adopted, Ayes 94, Noes 0

lower

May 7, 2025

Committee

Read and referred to Committee on Rules

lower

May 7, 2025

Introduced

Introduced by Representatives Kurtz, Allen, Hurd, Penterman, Sortwell, Bare, Brown, Callahan, DeSmidt, Dittrich, Doyle, Duchow, Franklin, Gundrum, B. Jacobson, Johnson, Kaufert, Kitchens, Knodl, Kreibich, McCarville, Melotik, Miresse, Moses, Murphy, Mursau, Novak, O'Connor, Palmeri, Prado, Petersen, Sheehan, Sinicki, Snyder, Spiros, Steffen, Stubbs, Subeck, Tranel, Tucker, Wichgers, Wittke and Zimmerman; cosponsored by Senators James, Cabral-Guevara, Carpenter, Dassler-Alfheim, Drake, Hesselbei

lower

43 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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