Senate Bill 507
Requiring the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board to emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect
Topics: Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board, Nonmarital child
Stopped in committee
It had a but no committee vote, so it never came up for a vote. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.
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Introduced, passed
Feb 23, 2012
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. It had a hearing but no committee vote.
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Senate vote, not reached
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Mar 23, 2012: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
It sat with the Senate Committee on Public Health, Human Services, and Revenue.
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Committee
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Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
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Author
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Signed on in support
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Cost estimate
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What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
Under current law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board (CANPB) conducts various activities relating to the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
Those activities include all of the following:
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1. Awarding grants for child abuse and neglect prevention programs that promote public awareness of the need for child abuse and neglect prevention and that provide community-based education and services for parents, children, and families.
2. Awarding grants to family resource centers that provide parenting education and referrals to other social services programs.
3. Administering statewide projects for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
4. In cooperation with the Department of Children and Families and the Department of Public Instruction, promoting statewide educational and public awareness campaigns and materials for the purpose of developing public awareness of the problems of child abuse and neglect and disseminating information about the problems of, and methods of preventing, child abuse and neglect to the public and to organizations concerned with those problems.
5. Providing, for use in its statewide projects and for use by organizations that receive grants from the CANPB, educational and public awareness materials and programming that emphasize the role of fathers in the primary prevention of child abuse and neglect.
This bill requires the CANPB, in conducting those activities, to emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect.
Who's behind it
Glenn Grothman, a Republican, is its .
1 more lawmaker .
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Author (1)
- Glenn Grothman · Republican, Senate
Signed on in support (1)
- Don Pridemore · Republican, Assembly
What it would cost
State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.
What happened
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Mar 23, 2012
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Mar 20, 2012
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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Mar 19, 2012
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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Feb 29, 2012
The committee held a public hearing.
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Feb 23, 2012
Sent to the Senate Committee on Public Health, Human Services, and Revenue.
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Feb 23, 2012
Introduced in the Senate.
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- Feb 23, 2012 · Senate
Introduced by Senator Grothman;Cosponsored by Representative Pridemore
- Feb 23, 2012 · Senate
Read first time and referred to committee on Public Health, Human Services, and Revenue
- Feb 29, 2012 · Senate
Public hearing held
- Mar 19, 2012 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
- Mar 20, 2012 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
- Mar 23, 2012 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary
From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate