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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 176

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: financial eligibility for the Alzheimer’s family and caregiver support program. (FE)

Disease Family Health services department of — Supportive living and treatment

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

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the Department of Health Services allocates funds to local agencies to assist eligible families with obtaining goods and services related to the care of a person with Alzheimer’s disease or another irreversible dementia. Currently, a person is financially eligible for the program if the joint income of the person with irreversible dementia and that person’s spouse, if any, is $48,000 per year or less. This bill repeals the financial eligibility requirement.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Bare (D) , Behnke (R) , Clancy (D) , Donovan (R) , Franklin (R) , Gundrum (R) , Joers (D) , Kaufert (R) , Knodl (R) , Kreibich (R) , Madison (D) , Melotik (R) , Mursau (R) , O'Connor (R) , Palmeri (D) , Snyder (R) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Tenorio (D)

21 cosponsors

Arney (D) , Cabral-Guevara (R) , Carpenter (D) , Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Drake (D) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Habush Sinykin (D) , James (R) , McCarville (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde, Vining, Andraca and Sinicki , Ortiz-Velez and Moses , Pfaff (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Testin (R) , Tomczyk (R) , Udell (D) , Wirch (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 5

Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 15, Noes 0

Passed 15–0 Jun 6, 2025 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 15, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Kaufert, Franklin, Bare, Behnke, Donovan, Gundrum, Joers, Knodl, Kreibich, Mursau, O'Connor, Palmeri, Snyder, Stubbs, Subeck, Tenorio, Madison, Clancy and Melotik; cosponsored by Senators Cabral-Guevara, Testin, Dassler-Alfheim, James, Tomczyk, Wirch, Drake, Ratcliff and Spreitzer

  2. Apr 15, 2025 · Assembly

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

  3. Apr 15, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Miresse added as a coauthor

  4. Apr 21, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Udell added as a coauthor

  5. Apr 22, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Arney added as a coauthor

  6. Apr 25, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  7. May 13, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative McCarville added as a coauthor

  8. May 14, 2025 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  9. May 30, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Snodgrass added as a coauthor

  10. Jun 2, 2025 · Assembly

    Representatives Ortiz-Velez and Moses added as coauthors

  11. Jun 4, 2025 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  12. Jun 6, 2025 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 15, Noes 0

  13. Jun 6, 2025 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  14. Jun 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Emerson added as a coauthor

  15. Jun 17, 2025 · Assembly

    Senator Habush Sinykin added as a cosponsor

  16. Jun 18, 2025 · Assembly

    Senator Pfaff added as a cosponsor

  17. Jun 18, 2025 · Assembly

    Senator Carpenter added as a cosponsor

  18. Jun 20, 2025 · Assembly

    Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 6-24-2025

  19. Jun 23, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Fitzgerald added as a coauthor

  20. Jun 24, 2025 · Assembly

    Representatives Moore Omokunde, Vining, Andraca and Sinicki added as coauthors

  21. Jun 24, 2025 · Assembly

    Laid on the table

  22. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1