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Bills from the 2023–24 session

Assembly Bill 591

Increasing funding for school-based mental health services grants 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.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Oct 31, 2023

  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 15, 2024: “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 increases by $102,914,300 in each of fiscal years 2023-24 and 2024-25 the amount appropriated to the Department of Public Instruction for grants to school boards and independent charter schools for the purpose of collaborating with mental health providers to provide mental health services to pupils.

Who's behind it

30 lawmakers are its ⁠. All 30 are Democrats.

12 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 42 names

Authors (30)

Signed on in support (12)

What it would cost

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

What happened

  1. Apr 15, 2024

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Nov 13, 2023

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  3. Nov 8, 2023

    1 more representative signed on in support.

  4. Oct 31, 2023

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Education.

  5. Oct 31, 2023

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Oct 31, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Vining, Hong, Considine, Moore Omokunde, Palmeri, J. Anderson, C. Anderson, Baldeh, Bare, Conley, Drake, Emerson, Goyke, Joers, Ohnstad, Ratcliff, Shankland, Shelton, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Stubbs, Subeck, Haywood, Jacobson, Clancy, Doyle, Ortiz-Velez, Billings, Andraca and Neubauer; cosponsored by Senators Agard, L. Johnson, Carpenter, Hesselbein, Larson, Pfaff, Roys, Smith, Spreitzer, Taylor and Wirch

  2. Oct 31, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Nov 8, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Madison added as a coauthor

  4. Nov 13, 2023 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Nov 13, 2023 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Apr 15, 2024 · 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

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