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Bills from the January 2017 Special Session

Senate Bill 7

Grants to establish and expand graduate training in an addiction specialty and making an appropriation. (FE)

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.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Feb 21, 2017

  2. Committee, stopped here

    Stopped here. It had a hearing but no committee vote.

  3. Senate vote, not reached

  4. Assembly vote, not reached

  5. Governor, not reached

  6. Law, not reached

Latest entry in the official record, Jul 7, 2017: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

It sat with the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services.

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What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Generally, this bill expands graduate medical training in an addiction specialty.

The bill allows the Department of Health Services to award grants to hospitals under an existing graduate medical training grant program to increase the number of physicians trained in an addiction specialty. To receive a grant, a hospital must expand fellowship positions in addiction medicine or addiction psychiatry for physicians practicing in specialties for which a hospital may currently receive a grant. Those specialties are family medicine, general internal medicine, general surgery, pediatrics, or psychiatry. Currently, DHS awards grants to hospitals to add positions to their existing accredited graduate medical training program.

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The bill also allows DHS to award a grant to a hospital for the development of an addiction specialist training program under an existing grant program designed to promote establishment of graduate medical training programs in rural hospitals.

To receive a grant under the bill, the hospital must create a fellowship program in addiction medicine or addiction psychiatry for physicians in family medicine, general internal medicine, general surgery, pediatrics, or psychiatry, which are the specialties for which a rural hospital may currently receive a grant for establishing a graduate medical training program.

Who's behind it

The Committee on Senate Organization introduced it at the governor's request.

40 more lawmakers ⁠.

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Signed on in support (40)

What it would cost

State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

What happened

  1. Jul 7, 2017

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Apr 6, 2017

    The committee held a public hearing.

  3. Mar 15, 2017

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  4. Feb 21, 2017

    Sent to the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services.

  5. Feb 21, 2017

    Introduced in the Senate.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Feb 21, 2017 · Senate

    Introduced by Committee on Senate Organization, Marklein, Darling, Harsdorf, Vukmir, Olsen, Wanggaard, Testin, Cowles, Carpenter, L. Taylor and Lasee; cosponsored by Representatives Nygren, VanderMeer, Tranel, Quinn, Novak, Ripp, Petryk, E. Brooks, Bernier, Spiros, Murphy, Ballweg, Felzkowski, Steffen, Skowronski, Swearingen, Kleefisch, Mursau, Kulp, Subeck, Vruwink, Fields, Sargent, Genrich, Tittl, Rohrkaste, Ohnstad, Billings, Zepnick, Sinicki, Doyle, Krug, Petersen, Tusler, Kolste, Jagler, Rodriguez, Born, Hutton and Wachs, by request of Governor Scott Walker

  2. Feb 21, 2017 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services

  3. Mar 15, 2017 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Apr 6, 2017 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  5. Jul 7, 2017 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

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Public hearing

A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.

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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

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

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.

More in the glossary

Public hearing

A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.

More in the glossary

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

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