Assembly Bill 281
Mental health consultation program and making an appropriation. (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.
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Introduced, passed
May 17, 2023
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Senate vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Apr 15, 2024: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Prevention. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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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
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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
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
This bill combines the child psychiatry consultation program with additional services into a new mental health consultation program. Currently, the child psychiatry consultation program assists participating clinicians in providing care to children with mental health care needs and provides referral support and additional services. The 2019 biennial budget act requires the Department of Health Services to convene interested persons, including the Medical College of Wisconsin, to develop a plan and standards for a comprehensive mental health consultation program incorporating various psychiatry specialties, including addiction medicine; a perinatal psychiatry consultation program; and the child psychiatry consultation program. This requirement from the 2019 biennial budget act is eliminated in the bill along with the separate child psychiatry consultation program. The addiction medicine consultation program currently assists participating clinicians in providing care to patients with substance use addiction and provides referral support and additional services, and the bill retains the addiction medicine consultation program as a separate program.
The bill requires an organization to administer a mental health consultation program (MHCP) that incorporates a comprehensive set of mental health consultation services and may include perinatal, child, adult, geriatric, pain, veteran, and general mental health consultation services. Under the bill, the organization that currently administers the child psychiatry consultation program must administer the MHCP during the 2023-25 fiscal biennium. After the 2023-25 fiscal biennium, DHS may continue with that organization or select another organization to administer the MHCP through its request-for-proposal procedures.
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The organization administering the MHCP may contract with any other entity to perform any operations and satisfy any requirements of the MHCP. The organization must do all of the following: 1) ensure that mental health providers providing services through the MHCP have the appropriate credentials as described in the bill, 2) maintain infrastructure to provide services statewide on every weekday, 3) provide consultation services as promptly as practicable, 4) report to DHS any information DHS requires, 5) conduct surveys of participating clinicians as described in the bill, and 6) provide certain specified services. Those specified services are the following: support for clinicians participating in the MHCP to assist in the management of mental health problems; triage-level assessments to determine the most appropriate response; diagnostics and therapeutic feedback when medically appropriate; and recruitment of other practices to a provider's services. The MHCP must be able to provide consultation services by telephone and email but may also provide services by other means. In addition to the services required in the bill, which are eligible for funding by DHS, the organization may provide any of the services specified in the bill that are eligible for funding by DHS.
Who's behind it
13 representatives are its . 12 are Republicans and 1 is a Democrat.
3 more lawmakers .
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Authors (13)
- Dave Armstrong · Republican, Assembly
- Barbara Dittrich · Republican, Assembly
- Bob Donovan · Republican, Assembly
- James Edming · Republican, Assembly
- Chanz Green · Republican, Assembly
- Rick Gundrum · Republican, Assembly
- Joel Kitchens · Republican, Assembly
- Dave Murphy · Republican, Assembly
- Jeff Mursau · Republican, Assembly
- Pat Snyder · Republican, Assembly
- John Spiros · Republican, Assembly
- Lisa Subeck · Democrat, Assembly
- Paul Tittl · Republican, Assembly
Signed on in support (3)
- Joan Ballweg · Republican, Senate
- Jenna Jacobson · Democrat, Assembly
- Jesse James · Republican, Senate
What happened
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Apr 15, 2024
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Nov 7, 2023
1 more representative signed on in support.
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May 17, 2023
Sent to the Assembly Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Prevention.
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May 17, 2023
Introduced in the Assembly.
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- May 17, 2023 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Snyder, Armstrong, Dittrich, Donovan, Edming, Green, Gundrum, Kitchens, Murphy, Mursau, Spiros, Subeck and Tittl; cosponsored by Senators Ballweg and James
- May 17, 2023 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Prevention
- Nov 7, 2023 · Assembly
Representative Jacobson added as a coauthor
- Apr 15, 2024 · 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.
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. 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
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor