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Bills from the 2025–26 session

Assembly Bill 1043

Fall prevention and recovery training, CPR and first aid certification, a duty to provide aid in certain residential facilities, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Topics: Community-based residential facility, Health Services, Department of: Supportive living and treatment, Medical service, Nursing homes and adult care, Public employee

Stopped in committee

It never got a ⁠, so it never came up for a vote. The last day for votes this session was Mar 19, 2026. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Feb 26, 2026

  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 23, 2026: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care. The committee's chair at the time was Clint Moses. Chairs decide which bills get a hearing. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.

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The same bill was also filed in the Senate as SB 1021. That version died when the session ended.

What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Under this bill, the Department of Health Services must develop or identify fall prevention and recovery training programs for certain employees, as specified by DHS, and for patients and residents of adult family homes, residential care apartment complexes, community-based residential facilities, and nursing homes. Adult family homes, residential care apartment complexes, community-based residential facilities, and nursing homes must administer the fall prevention and recovery trainings to any employees who are required by DHS to receive the training and to patients and residents of the facilities, except for a patient or resident whose health care provider certifies they are not capable of completing the training program.

In addition, under the bill, adult family homes, residential care apartment complexes, community-based residential facilities, and nursing homes must have at least one employee with current certification in CPR, at least one employee with current certification in first aid, and at least one employee who has received fall prevention and recovery training available on the premises at all times a resident or patient is present in the adult family home, residential care apartment complex, community-based residential facility, or nursing home. The bill also imposes a duty upon adult family homes, residential care apartment complexes, community-based residential facilities, and nursing homes to administer CPR and first aid to patients and residents before the arrival of emergency medical services and, before contacting emergency medical services, make an attempt to lift patients and residents who have fallen, appear to be uninjured, and cannot recover on their own.

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The bill also increases the authorized positions for DHS by one full-time quality assurance program specialist position.

Who's behind it

18 representatives are its ⁠. All 18 are Democrats.

4 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 22 names

Authors (18)

Signed on in support (4)

What it would cost

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

What happened

  1. Mar 23, 2026

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Mar 20, 2026

    1 more representative signed on in support.

  3. Feb 26, 2026

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care.

  4. Feb 26, 2026

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Feb 26, 2026 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Palmeri, Andraca, Billings, Clancy, DeSmidt, Emerson, Fitzgerald, Goodwin, Kirsch, McCarville, Miresse, Moore Omokunde, Neubauer, Ortiz-Velez, Snodgrass, Stubbs, Subeck and Udell; cosponsored by Senators Dassler-Alfheim, Pfaff and Ratcliff

  2. Feb 26, 2026 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care

  3. Mar 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor

  4. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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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

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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