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Bills from the 2025–26 session

Assembly Bill 407

Reporting of sex and fetal anomaly following induced abortion

Topics: Abortion, Health Services, Department of: Health, Hospitals and health care facilities

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

    Aug 29, 2025

  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 406. 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 requires a hospital, clinic, or other facility in which an induced abortion is performed to report additional information in its required annual report to the Department of Health Services. Under current law, the report must include, among other pieces of information, for each patient, the state, and county if Wisconsin, of residence; certain demographic information; the month and year in which the abortion was performed; the number of weeks since the patient’s last menstrual period; whether the abortion was chemically or surgically induced or surgically induced following a failed chemical abortion; any resulting complications; and certain information for abortions of an unborn child capable of experiencing pain. To the information required in the report this bill adds the sex of the aborted unborn child if the sex can be determined by visual inspection, whether the aborted unborn child had a fetal anomaly, and the nature of the fetal anomaly if the aborted unborn child had one. Under the bill, DHS must incorporate information reported regarding an aborted unborn child’s fetal anomaly in the birth defect registry that currently exists.

Who's behind it

9 representatives are its ⁠. All 9 are Republicans.

2 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 11 names

Authors (9)

Signed on in support (2)

What happened

  1. Mar 23, 2026

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Aug 29, 2025

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

  3. Aug 29, 2025

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Aug 29, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Wichgers, Brill, Behnke, Allen, Knodl, Kreibich, Murphy, Penterman and Goeben; cosponsored by Senators Jacque and Bradley

  2. Aug 29, 2025 · Assembly

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

  3. Mar 23, 2026 · 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

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