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Bills from the 2019–20 session

Assembly Bill 312

Establishing a task force to study the legal and societal barriers to equality for transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming individuals. (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.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Jun 27, 2019

  2. Committee, stopped here

    Stopped here. No public hearing was held.

  3. Assembly vote, not reached

  4. Senate vote, not reached

  5. Governor, not reached

  6. Law, not reached

Latest entry in the official record, Apr 1, 2020: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on State Affairs. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.

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What it would have done

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

This bill creates a transgender equality task force. The task force is required to study the legal and societal barriers to equality for transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming individuals in Wisconsin and provide recommendations to the governor and the legislature on how to ensure the equality and improve the lives of those individuals. The recommendations must address the following areas:

1. Health care.

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2. Long-term care.

3. Education in primary and secondary schools.

4. Higher education.

5. Housing, including the prevention and reduction of homelessness among transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming youth and adults.

6. Employment.

7. Criminal justice, policing, and prisons.

8. Any other issue the taskforce considers relevant.

The task force consists of the following members:

1. A representative of the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance whose duties or expertise includes insurance services and policies as applied to transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming individuals.

2. A representative of the Department of Financial Institutions whose duties or expertise includes financial services and policies as applied to transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming individuals.

3. Three members appointed by the secretary of health services, one of whom is a representative of the Department of Health Services whose duties or expertise includes protecting the rights of transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming individuals or eliminating discrimination in departmental programs, policies, or initiatives; one of whom is a physician who specializes in transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming health issues; and one of whom is a member of the Wisconsin Transgender Health Coalition.

4. A representative of the Department of Public Instruction whose duties or expertise includes protecting the rights of transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming students or eliminating discrimination in educational programs, policies, or initiatives.

5. Two members appointed by the president of the University of Wisconsin System, one of whom is a representative of the University of Wisconsin System whose duties or expertise includes protecting the rights of transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming students in the University of Wisconsin System or eliminating discrimination in higher educational programs, policies, or initiatives and one of whom is a representative of the Trans Research Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

6. A representative of the Technical College System whose duties or expertise includes protecting the rights of transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming students in the Technical College System or eliminating discrimination in higher educational programs, policies, or initiatives.

7. A representative of the Department of Children and Families whose duties or expertise includes expanding access by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming youth to the department's services or eliminating discrimination in departmental programs, policies, or initiatives with respect to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming youth.

8. A representative of the Department of Corrections whose duties or expertise includes protecting the safety of transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming populations or eliminating discrimination in departmental programs, policies, or initiatives.

9. A representative of the Department of Workforce Development whose duties or expertise includes expanding access by transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming populations to the department's services or eliminating discrimination in departmental programs, policies, or initiatives.

10. A representative of the Division of Equal Rights whose duties or expertise includes expanding access by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming individuals to the division's services or eliminating discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming individuals in the division's programs, policies, or initiatives.

11. One member appointed by the attorney general who is a representative of the LGBT Bar Association of Wisconsin.

12. Two members appointed by the speaker of the assembly who are transgender, intersex, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming individuals.

13. Two members appointed by the minority leader of the assembly who are transgender, intersex, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming individuals.

14. Two members appointed by the majority leader of the senate who are transgender, intersex, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming individuals.

15. Two members appointed by the minority leader of the senate who are transgender, intersex, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming individuals.

16. Two members appointed by the governor, one of whom is a representative of a social service agency that provides services and support to transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming individuals and one of whom is a representative of Fair Wisconsin.

17. A representative of the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin, appointed by the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin.

Who's behind it

25 lawmakers are its ⁠. All 25 are Democrats.

10 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 35 names

Authors (25)

Signed on in support (10)

What it would cost

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

What happened

  1. Apr 1, 2020

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Oct 22, 2019

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  3. Aug 28, 2019

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  4. Aug 13, 2019

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  5. Jul 22, 2019

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  6. Jul 16, 2019

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  7. Jul 12, 2019

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  8. Jun 28, 2019

    1 more representative signed on in support.

  9. Jun 27, 2019

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on State Affairs.

  10. Jun 27, 2019

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Jun 27, 2019 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Sargent, Spreitzer, Anderson, Bowen, Brostoff, Cabrera, Considine, Crowley, Fields, Goyke, Gruszynski, Hebl, Hesselbein, Milroy, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Pope, Shankland, Sinicki, Stubbs, Subeck, C. Taylor, Vining, Vruwink and Zamarripa; cosponsored by Senators Carpenter, Erpenbach, Hansen, Larson, Miller, Risser, Smith, L. Taylor and Wirch

  2. Jun 27, 2019 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs

  3. Jun 28, 2019 · Assembly

    Representative Emerson added as a coauthor

  4. Jul 12, 2019 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Jul 12, 2019 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Jul 16, 2019 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  7. Jul 22, 2019 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  8. Aug 13, 2019 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  9. Aug 28, 2019 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  10. Oct 22, 2019 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  11. Apr 1, 2020 · Assembly

    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.

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

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

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor

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