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Bills from the 2019–20 session

Assembly Bill 378

Teen dating violence prevention education. (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

    Aug 28, 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 Education. 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 requires schools to provide teen dating violence prevention education and establishes certain criteria governing the instruction provided. The bill requires the Department of Public Instruction to prepare, by July 1, 2020, a policy governing the prevention of and appropriate responses to teen dating violence and sexual violence when pupils are at school or while pupils are under the supervision of a school authority. By January 1, 2021, each school board must adopt either DPI's policy and curriculum or its own policy and curriculum. The bill also requires DPI to incorporate teen dating violence and sexual violence prevention curriculum into its model health curriculum.

Who's behind it

22 lawmakers are its ⁠. 16 are Democrats and 6 are Republicans.

8 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 30 names

Authors (22)

Signed on in support (8)

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. Sep 30, 2019

    1 more representative signed on in support.

  3. Sep 11, 2019

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  4. Aug 28, 2019

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Education.

  5. Aug 28, 2019

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Aug 28, 2019 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Sargent, Spiros, Anderson, Billings, Bowen, Crowley, Fields, Gruszynski, Kerkman, Mursau, Novak, Ohnstad, Sinicki, Skowronski, Spreitzer, Stubbs, Subeck, C. Taylor, Vining, Zimmerman, Milroy and Neubauer; cosponsored by Senators Petrowski, Shilling, Johnson, Larson, Risser, Schachtner and Wirch

  2. Aug 28, 2019 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Sep 11, 2019 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Sep 30, 2019 · Assembly

    Representative Haywood added as a coauthor

  5. Apr 1, 2020 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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Committee

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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

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