Senate Bill 104
Requiring congenital heart defect screening in newborns and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Stopped in committee
It never got a , 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
Mar 22, 2013
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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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, Apr 8, 2014: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
It never got a hearing in the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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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
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
Under current law, the attending physician or nurse-midwife must ensure that every infant born undergoes a blood test for congenital disorders and metabolic disorders and a screening for hearing loss. This bill requires the physician, nurse-midwife, or certified professional midwife, who attended a birth that occurred in or on route to a hospital to ensure that the infant is screened for a congenital heart defect using pulse oximetry, or a method designated by the Department of Health Services (DHS), before the infant is discharged from the hospital, with certain exceptions. The bill also requires the physician, nurse-midwife, or certified professional midwife, who attended the birth to ensure that a parent or legal guardian of the infant is advised of the screening result and, if the infant has an abnormal screening result, to ensure that a parent or legal guardian of the infant is provided information on available resources for further diagnosis and treatment for a possible congenital heart defect.
The bill requires DHS to periodically review medical literature for new, evidence-based practices in congenital heart defect screening. If a congenital heart defect screening method becomes accepted in the medical community as an effective screening method, DHS is required to designate that method as an appropriate screening method to comply with the screening requirement. DHS may replace pulse oximetry with that method as the only appropriate screening method by rule.
Who's behind it
11 senators are its . 6 are Democrats and 5 are Republicans.
31 more lawmakers .
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Authors (11)
- Tim Carpenter · Democrat, Senate
- Alberta Darling · Republican, Senate
- Dave Hansen · Democrat, Senate
- Lena Taylor · Democrat, Senate
- Julie M. Lassa · Democrat, Senate
- John Lehman · Democrat, Senate
- Joe Leibham · Republican, Senate
- Luther S. Olsen · Republican, Senate
- Jerry Petrowski · Republican, Senate
- Fred A. Risser · Democrat, Senate
- Dale Schultz · Republican, Senate
Signed on in support (31)
- Alvin Ott · Republican, Assembly
- Joan Ballweg · Republican, Senate
- Terese Berceau · Democrat, Assembly
- Penny Bernard Schaber · Democrat, Assembly
- Garey Bies · Republican, Assembly
- Jill Billings · Democrat, Assembly
- Mark Born · Republican, Assembly
- Edward Brooks · Republican, Assembly
- Chris Taylor · Democrat, Assembly
- Eric Genrich · Democrat, Assembly
- Evan Goyke · Democrat, Assembly
- Gary Hebl · Democrat, Assembly
- Mark Honadel · Republican, Assembly
- André Jacque · Republican, Senate
- Robb Kahl · Democrat, Assembly
- Samantha Kerkman · Republican, Assembly
- Joel Kleefisch · Republican, Assembly
- Cory Mason · Democrat, Assembly
- Jeff Mursau · Republican, Assembly
- Lee Nerison · Republican, Assembly
- Tod Ohnstad · Democrat, Assembly
- Daniel Riemer · Democrat, Assembly
- Keith Ripp · Republican, Assembly
- John Spiros · Republican, Assembly
- Pat Strachota · Republican, Assembly
- Thomas Larson · Republican, Assembly
- Paul Tittl · Republican, Assembly
- Amy Sue Vruwink · Democrat, Assembly
- Mandy Wright · Democrat, Assembly
- Leon Young · Democrat, Assembly
- Josh Zepnick · Democrat, Assembly
What it would cost
State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.
What happened
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Apr 8, 2014
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Apr 29, 2013
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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Mar 22, 2013
Sent to the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services.
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Mar 22, 2013
Introduced in the Senate.
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- Mar 22, 2013 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Petrowski, Carpenter, Darling, Hansen, Lassa, Lehman, Leibham, Olsen, Risser, Schultz and L. Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Kleefisch, Strachota, Ballweg, Berceau, Bernard Schaber, Bies, Billings, Born, Brooks, Genrich, Goyke, Hebl, Honadel, Jacque, Kahl, Kerkman, T. Larson, Mason, Mursau, Nerison, Ohnstad, A. Ott, Riemer, Ripp, Spiros, C. Taylor, Tittl, Vruwink, Wright, Young and Zepnick
- Mar 22, 2013 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
- Apr 29, 2013 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
- Apr 8, 2014 · 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