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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

AB 732

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Relating to: pilot program to provide outreach, support, and mental health and substance abuse services for veterans and making an appropriation. (FE)

Alcohol and other drug abuse Legislature — Finance, joint committee on Mental health Military personnel Milwaukee — City National guard Reports Retail establishment Sunset Supreme court Veteran Veterans affairs, department of Veterinary medicine

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Assembly, completed
  3. Passes Senate, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to administer a pilot

program to provide outreach, mental health services, and support to certain

individuals who are serving or who have served in the armed forces and who have

a mental health condition or substance abuse disorder. Under the bill, DVA must

provide quarterly reports to the governor and the Joint Committee on Finance that

include the number of individuals served by the program, the services provided to

individuals, and the types of insurance held by individuals who receive services

under the program.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Crowley (D) , E. Brooks (R) , Felzkowski (R) , Hesselbein (D) , Horlacher (R) , Jacque (R) , Jagler (R) , Kitchens (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Kulp (R) , Loudenbeck (R) , Milroy (D) , Novak (R) , Ott (R) , Quinn (R) , Rohrkaste (R) , Schraa (R) , Spiros (R) , Tauchen (R) , Tranel (R) , VanderMeer (R)

12 cosponsors

Bewley (D) , Carpenter (D) , Cowles (R) , Darling (R) , Goyke (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Marklein (R) , Olsen (R) , Petrowski (R) , Thiesfeldt, Barca and Shankland , Wanggaard (R) , Zepnick (D)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

Passed 15–0 Feb 12, 2018 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

Passed 15–0 Feb 12, 2018 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: PASSAGE

Passed 95–0 Feb 20, 2018 official source full page

Aye · 95

Not voting · 3

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Mar 15, 2018 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Senate Substitute Amendment 1 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 14

Passed 18–14 Mar 20, 2018 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: CONCURRENCE

Passed 32–0 Mar 20, 2018 official source full page

Full history

  1. Dec 7, 2017 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Felzkowski, Loudenbeck, Anderson, Hesselbein, Horlacher, Jacque, Jagler, Kitchens, Kuglitsch, Kulp, Milroy, Novak, Ott, Quinn, Rohrkaste, Schraa, Tauchen, Tranel, E. Brooks, Crowley, Spiros and VanderMeer; cosponsored by Senators Petrowski, Cowles, Bewley, Carpenter, Darling, Olsen, Wanggaard and Marklein

  2. Dec 7, 2017 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Joint Committee on Finance

  3. Dec 11, 2017 · Assembly

    Representative Goyke added as a coauthor

  4. Dec 21, 2017 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Feb 7, 2018 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. Feb 7, 2018 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  7. Feb 7, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Joint Committee on Finance

  8. Feb 7, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Joint Committee on Finance

  9. Feb 12, 2018 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  10. Feb 12, 2018 · Assembly

    Senator L. Taylor added as a cosponsor

  11. Feb 12, 2018 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

  12. Feb 12, 2018 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

  13. Feb 15, 2018 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 1:38 PM on 2-20-2018 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 26

  14. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  15. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 adopted

  16. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  17. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  18. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 95, Noes 0

  19. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Representatives Thiesfeldt, Barca and Shankland added as coauthors

  20. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  21. Feb 21, 2018 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  22. Mar 9, 2018 · Senate

    Representative Zepnick added as a coauthor

  23. Mar 12, 2018 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

  24. Mar 12, 2018 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  25. Mar 15, 2018 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

  26. Mar 15, 2018 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 3-20-2018 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  27. Mar 20, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Senators Erpenbach, Risser, Ringhand, Miller, Shilling, Bewley, Wirch, Hansen, Larson, Schachtner, Johnson, Vinehout, Carpenter and L. Taylor

  28. Mar 20, 2018 · Senate

    Read a second time

  29. Mar 20, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 1 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 14

  30. Mar 20, 2018 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  31. Mar 20, 2018 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  32. Mar 20, 2018 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 32, Noes 0

  33. Mar 20, 2018 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  34. Mar 21, 2018 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  35. Mar 23, 2018 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 3-23-2018

  36. Apr 12, 2018 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 4-12-2018

  37. Apr 17, 2018 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 4-16-2018. 2017 Wisconsin Act 295

  38. Apr 17, 2018 · Assembly

    Published 4-17-2018