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Bills from the 2025–26 session

Assembly Bill 1109

Use of artificial intelligence to deny prior authorization for medical necessity or experimental status

Topics: Data processing, Insurance: Health, Medical practice, Group

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

    Mar 13, 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 30, 2026: “Senator Keyeski added as a cosponsor”

It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Insurance. The committee's chair at the time was Barbara Dittrich. 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 1066. 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.

This bill provides that a health insurance policy or self-insured governmental health plan may not use artificial intelligence to deny a prior authorization for medical necessity or experimental status. Rather, under the bill, a licensed health care provider who is an individual must review a prior authorization that involves medical necessity or experimental status before the policy or plan may deny the prior authorization.

Who's behind it

10 representatives are its ⁠. All 10 are Democrats.

7 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 17 names

Authors (10)

Signed on in support (7)

What happened

  1. Mar 30, 2026

    1 more senator signed on in support.

  2. Mar 23, 2026

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  3. Mar 19, 2026

    2 more representatives and 1 senator signed on in support.

  4. Mar 13, 2026

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Insurance.

  5. Mar 13, 2026

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Mar 13, 2026 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Tenorio, Cruz, Clancy, Madison, McCarville, Miresse, Rivera-Wagner, Sinicki, Udell and Kirsch; cosponsored by Senators Roys, Larson and Spreitzer

  2. Mar 13, 2026 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance

  3. Mar 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Senator Carpenter added as a cosponsor

  4. Mar 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Anderson added as a coauthor

  5. Mar 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Palmeri added as a coauthor

  6. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  7. Mar 30, 2026 · Assembly

    Senator Keyeski added as a cosponsor

Terms on this page

Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

More in the glossary

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