Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Relating to: training to address student mental health and making an appropriation. (FE)
Mental health School — Charter school School — Employee School — Health program Teacher Teacher — Certificate
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- 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 Public Instruction must provide trainings to school districts and independent charter schools on three specific evidence-based strategies to address student mental health: screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment; trauma sensitive schools; and youth mental health first aid. This bill adds social and emotional learning to the list of evidence-based strategies on which DPI must provide trainings to school districts and independent charter schools. The bill also provides an additional $500,000 to DPI for these trainings in each of the 2025-26 and 2026-27 school years.
What it would cost
Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs
Sponsors
Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Brown (D) , Clancy (D) , DeSanto (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Goodwin (D) , Haywood (D) , Hong (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Madison (D) , Mayadev (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Neubauer (D) , Palmeri (D) , Phelps (D) , Prado (D) , Rivera-Wagner (D) , Roe (D) , Sheehan (D) , Sinicki (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D) , Vining (D)
12 cosponsors
Carpenter (D) , Drake (D) , Hesselbein (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Pfaff (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wirch (D)
Registered lobbying interests · 1
Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record
Full history
- Jul 8, 2025 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Vining, Hong, DeSanto, Roe, Moore Omokunde, Palmeri, Anderson, Arney, Bare, Brown, Clancy, DeSmidt, Emerson, Fitzgerald, Goodwin, Haywood, Joers, Johnson, Madison, Mayadev, Miresse, Neubauer, Phelps, Prado, Rivera-Wagner, Sheehan, Sinicki, Stroud, Stubbs, Subeck, Tenorio and Udell; cosponsored by Senators L. Johnson, Carpenter, Drake, Hesselbein, Larson, Ratcliff, Roys, Smith, Spreitzer and Wirch
- Jul 8, 2025 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Education
- Jul 24, 2025 · Assembly
Fiscal estimate received
- Oct 20, 2025 · Assembly
Senator Pfaff added as a cosponsor
- Jan 8, 2026 · Assembly
Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor
- Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1