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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 578

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Relating to: funding for the supplemental food program for women, infants and children during the federal government shutdown and making an appropriation. (FE)

Federal_state relations Health services department of — Supportive living and treatment Maternal and infant care

  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 provides benefits to eligible low-income individuals under the supplemental food program for women, infants and children, also known as the WIC program, to the extent that state and federal funds are available. This bill provides additional state funding to DHS during the federal lapse in appropriations, commonly known as a federal government shutdown, that began on October 1, 2025, to continue to provide WIC benefits at the level the benefits were provided before the federal government shutdown.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Andraca (D) , Arney (D) , Brown (D) , Clancy (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Goodwin (D) , Hong (D) , Hysell (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Madison (D) , Mayadev (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Neubauer (D) , Palmeri (D) , Prado (D) , Rivera-Wagner (D) , Roe (D) , Sheehan (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Spaude (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Taylor (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D) , Vining (D)

13 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Carpenter (D) , Dassler-Alfheim (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Pfaff (D) , Phelps (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wirch (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 4

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

  1. Oct 24, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Mayadev, Vining, Andraca, Arney, Brown, Clancy, DeSmidt, Fitzgerald, Goodwin, Hong, Hysell, Joers, Johnson, Madison, Miresse, Moore Omokunde, Neubauer, Palmeri, Prado, Rivera-Wagner, Roe, Sheehan, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Spaude, Stroud, Stubbs, Subeck, Taylor, Tenorio and Udell; cosponsored by Senators L. Johnson, Carpenter, Dassler-Alfheim, Larson, Pfaff, Ratcliff, Roys, Smith, Spreitzer and Wirch

  2. Oct 24, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Public Benefit Reform

  3. Nov 10, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Anderson added as a coauthor

  4. Nov 17, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Phelps added as a coauthor

  5. Nov 26, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Feb 9, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor

  7. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1