Senate Bill 503
Requiring the Family Care benefit and self-directed services option to be provided in certain northeastern Wisconsin counties. (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
Jan 21, 2014
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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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Public hearing
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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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Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
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Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
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Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
Cost estimate
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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, in certain counties, Family Care and the self-directed services option known as IRIS, among other programs, provide community-based, long-term care services to individuals who meet certain functional and financial criteria and who are either frail elders or adults with physical or developmental disabilities. In each geographic area in which the Family Care benefit is available the Department of Health Services (DHS) contracts with an aging and disability resource center to provide information and determine eligibility for Family Care and a care management organization (CMO) to administer the Family Care benefit. DHS may contract with a county, a long-term care district, a governing body of a tribe or band or the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, a joint association of those entities, or a private organization to be a CMO. Under current law, if DHS proposes to contract with an entity to administer the Family Care benefit in geographic areas in which, in the aggregate, resides more than 29 percent of the state population that is eligible for the Family Care benefit, DHS must first submit the proposed contract to the Joint Committee on Finance (JCF). DHS may enter into the proposed contract only if JCF approves.
This bill requires DHS to do all of the following for residents of Brown, Door, Kewaunee, Marinette, Menominee, Oconto, and Shawano counties: contract with a resource center such that its services are available to residents of at least one of those counties before July 1, 2015; contract with a CMO to administer the Family Care benefit such that the benefit is available to residents of at least one of those counties on July 1, 2015; and provide services under IRIS such that services are available to residents of at least one of those counties on July 1, 2015. DHS must enter contracts and provide services for residents of all of those counties by July 1, 2016. Under the bill, DHS is not required to obtain approval from JCF to enter these contracts or provide these services to residents of those seven counties.
Who's behind it
5 senators are its . 3 are Republicans and 2 are Democrats.
12 more lawmakers .
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Authors (5)
- Rob Cowles · Republican, Senate
- Dave Hansen · Democrat, Senate
- Frank G. Lasee · Republican, Senate
- Dale Schultz · Republican, Senate
- Jennifer Shilling · Democrat, Senate
Signed on in support (12)
- Alvin Ott · Republican, Assembly
- Garey Bies · Republican, Assembly
- Mary Czaja · Republican, Assembly
- Eric Genrich · Democrat, Assembly
- André Jacque · Republican, Senate
- Dean Kaufert · Republican, Assembly
- John Klenke · Republican, Assembly
- Warren Petryk · Republican, Assembly
- Jon Richards · Democrat, Assembly
- Thomas Larson · Republican, Assembly
- Gary Tauchen · Republican, Assembly
- Chad Weininger · Republican, 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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Feb 5, 2014
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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Jan 21, 2014
Sent to the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services.
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Jan 21, 2014
Introduced in the Senate.
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- Jan 21, 2014 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Cowles, Lasee, Schultz, Hansen and Shilling; cosponsored by Representatives Bies, Czaja, Kaufert, T. Larson, A. Ott, Petryk, Tauchen, Weininger, Jacque, Genrich, Klenke and Richards
- Jan 21, 2014 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
- Feb 5, 2014 · 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