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Bills from the 2021–22 session

Assembly Bill 698

Postpartum home visits

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

    Nov 12, 2021

  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, Mar 15, 2022: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Health. 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 hospitals to provide a postpartum home visit to a woman and infant within the first seven days following discharge of the patient. The cost-free postpartum home visit is to ensure proper recovery from childbirth and to provide other postpartum services. The bill requires that the postpartum home visit be provided if a patient requests it. The bill prohibits hospitals from seeking payment from the patient for services provided pursuant to the postpartum home visit. The bill also requires health insurance policies and self-insured governmental health plans to provide coverage for a postpartum home visit for each birth as described in the bill. Health insurance policies are known as disability insurance policies in the bill.

This proposal may contain a health insurance mandate requiring a social and financial impact report under s. 601.423, stats.

Who's behind it

26 lawmakers are its ⁠. All 26 are Democrats.

9 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 35 names

Authors (26)

Signed on in support (9)

What happened

  1. Mar 15, 2022

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Nov 12, 2021

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Health.

  3. Nov 12, 2021

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Nov 12, 2021 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Stubbs, Neubauer, Cabrera, Hong, Baldeh, Anderson, Andraca, Bowen, Brostoff, Conley, Considine, Emerson, Haywood, Hebl, Hesselbein, Hintz, B. Meyers, Ohnstad, Pope, Shankland, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Spreitzer, Subeck, Vining and Vruwink; cosponsored by Senators Johnson, Agard, Roys, Bewley, Erpenbach, Larson, Smith, Wirch and Carpenter

  2. Nov 12, 2021 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Health

  3. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    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.

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

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