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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 173

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Relating to: grants to prevent suicide by firearm and making an appropriation. (FE)

County — Human services Death Debt public Firearms and dangerous weapons Health services department of — Administration Indians and tribal issues Municipality Organization miscellaneous Outagamie county

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires the Department of Health Services to award grants to

organizations or coalitions of organizations, including cities, villages, towns,

counties, and federally recognized American Indian tribes or bands, for 1) training

staff at a firearm retailer or firearm range on how to recognize a person that may be

considering suicide; 2) providing suicide prevention materials for distribution at a

firearm retailer or firearm range; or 3) providing voluntary, temporary firearm

storage for the lawful owner of a firearm. A grant recipient must contribute

matching funds or in-kind services having a value equal to at least 20 percent of the

grant amount.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Andraca (D) , Armstrong (R) , Dittrich (R) , Doyle (D) , Edming (R) , S. Johnson (R) , Shankland (D) , Sortwell (R)

25 cosponsors

Agard (D) , Ballweg (R) , Bare (D) , C. Anderson, Donovan and Goyke , Cabral-Guevara (R) , Carpenter (D) , Conley (D) , Considine (D) , Emerson (D) , Haywood (D) , Hong (D) , J. Anderson (D) , Jacobson (D) , James (R) , Joers (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , O'Connor (R) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Taylor (D) , Wanggaard (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Prevention, Ayes 8, Noes 4

Passed 8–4 Dec 1, 2023 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 Mental Health and Substance Abuse Prevention, Ayes 11, Noes 1

Passed 11–1 Dec 1, 2023 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Apr 10, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Sortwell, S. Johnson, Doyle, Andraca, Armstrong, Dittrich, Edming and Shankland; cosponsored by Senators James, Ballweg, Cabral-Guevara, Carpenter, Spreitzer and Taylor

  2. Apr 10, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Prevention

  3. Apr 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Apr 18, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Conley added as a coauthor

  5. Apr 26, 2023 · Assembly

    Senator Agard added as a cosponsor

  6. Apr 26, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Snodgrass added as a coauthor

  7. May 3, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Jacobson added as a coauthor

  8. May 8, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Subeck added as a coauthor

  9. May 9, 2023 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  10. May 11, 2023 · Assembly

    Senator Wanggaard added as a cosponsor

  11. May 11, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative O'Connor added as a coauthor

  12. May 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Ratcliff added as a coauthor

  13. Jun 19, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Joers added as a coauthor

  14. Jun 29, 2023 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Sortwell

  15. Sep 22, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Bare added as a coauthor

  16. Sep 27, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Haywood added as a coauthor

  17. Oct 4, 2023 · Assembly

    Representatives C. Anderson, Donovan and Goyke added as coauthors

  18. Oct 11, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Hong added as a coauthor

  19. Oct 12, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Moore Omokunde added as a coauthor

  20. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Stubbs added as a coauthor

  21. Oct 18, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Considine added as a coauthor

  22. Oct 19, 2023 · Assembly

    Senator Roys added as a cosponsor

  23. Oct 23, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative J. Anderson added as a coauthor

  24. Nov 9, 2023 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  25. Dec 1, 2023 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Prevention, Ayes 8, Noes 4

  26. Dec 1, 2023 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Prevention, Ayes 11, Noes 1

  27. Dec 1, 2023 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  28. Mar 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Representative Emerson added as a coauthor

  29. Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1