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Bills · January 2018 Special Session

AB 8

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Relating to: requiring child support compliance in the Medical Assistance program. (FE)

  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

The bill prohibits certain able-bodied adults and able-bodied parents who

refuse to cooperate in determining the paternity of a child, establishing or enforcing

any support order, or obtaining any other payments or property to which the adult

or the child has rights from being eligible for the Medical Assistance program. The

bill also prohibits certain parents who are delinquent in child support payments and

do not satisfy an exception specified in the bill or who refuse to cooperate in providing

or obtaining support for their child from being eligible for the Medical Assistance

program. Under the bill, a dependent child remains eligible for the Medical

Assistance program even if a person charged with the care and custody of the

dependent child is ineligible for the Medical Assistance program because he or she

did not comply with those requirements. Under current law, a person is required,

as a condition of eligibility for Medical Assistance, to fully cooperate in good faith

with efforts directed at establishing the paternity of a nonmarital child and

obtaining support payments or any other payments or property to which the person

and the dependent child may have rights.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

10 cosponsors

Cowles (R) , Craig (R) , Darling (R) , Edming (R) , Kapenga (R) , Kulp (R) , LeMahieu (R) , Nass (R) , Stroebel (R) , Wanggaard (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Public Benefit Reform, Ayes 5, Noes 3

Passed 5–3 Feb 13, 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 Committee on Public Benefit Reform, Ayes 5, Noes 3

Passed 5–3 Feb 13, 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 62–35 Feb 15, 2018 official source full page

Aye · 62

Not voting · 1

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Feb 16, 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 18–14 Feb 20, 2018 official source full page

Full history

  1. Jan 26, 2018 · Assembly

    Introduced by Committee on Assembly Organization, Representatives Vos, Krug, Felzkowski, Thiesfeldt, Jagler, Sanfelippo, Tusler, Petersen, Duchow, Petryk, Kuglitsch, Tittl, Horlacher, Knodl, Brandtjen, Murphy, Spiros, Neylon, Wichgers, Bernier, Kleefisch, Rohrkaste, Katsma, Born, Kremer and Swearingen; cosponsored by Senators Kapenga, Craig, Cowles, Darling, LeMahieu, Nass, Stroebel and Wanggaard, by request of Governor Scott Walker

  2. Jan 26, 2018 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Public Benefit Reform

  3. Jan 31, 2018 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Jan 31, 2018 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Jan 31, 2018 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. Feb 2, 2018 · Assembly

    Representative Kulp added as a coauthor

  7. Feb 2, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Vos

  8. Feb 6, 2018 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  9. Feb 13, 2018 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Public Benefit Reform, Ayes 5, Noes 3

  10. Feb 13, 2018 · Assembly

    Referred to calendar of 2-15-2018 pursuant to Assembly Rule 93

  11. Feb 13, 2018 · Assembly

    Representative Edming added as a coauthor

  12. Feb 13, 2018 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Public Benefit Reform, Ayes 5, Noes 3

  13. Feb 15, 2018 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  14. Feb 15, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 adopted

  15. Feb 15, 2018 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  16. Feb 15, 2018 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  17. Feb 15, 2018 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 62, Noes 35

  18. Feb 15, 2018 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  19. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  20. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

  21. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  22. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0

  23. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-20-2018 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  24. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Printed engrossed by the direction of the Senate Chief Clerk-5545

  25. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Read a second time

  26. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  27. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  28. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 18, Noes 14

  29. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  30. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  31. Mar 5, 2018 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 3-5-2018

  32. Apr 9, 2018 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 4-9-2018

  33. Apr 11, 2018 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 4-10-2018. 2017 Wisconsin Act 268

  34. Apr 11, 2018 · Assembly

    Published 4-11-2018