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Bills from the 2025–26 session

Assembly Bill 753

Grants to match county investments in the health care, public health, and care provider workforce and making an appropriation. (FE)

Topics: County: Finance, Health Services, Department of: Supportive living and treatment, Medical service: Occupations, Public health

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

    Dec 17, 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 747. 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 the Department of Health Services to award grants to each county to match any investments made by the county in the previous fiscal year in the recruitment, retention, mental health, trauma care and prevention, or wellness of the county’s health care, public health, child care, long-term care, and other care provider workforce. Under the bill, grants may not exceed an amount equal to $1.11 multiplied by the county’s population.

Who's behind it

20 representatives are its ⁠. All 20 are Democrats.

4 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 24 names

Authors (20)

Signed on in support (4)

What it would cost

State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

What happened

  1. Mar 23, 2026

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Feb 10, 2026

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  3. Dec 17, 2025

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

  4. Dec 17, 2025

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Dec 17, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Bare, Emerson, Joers, Anderson, Arney, Clancy, DeSmidt, Fitzgerald, Johnson, Madison, Prado, Roe, Sheehan, Sinicki, Stroud, Stubbs, Subeck, Tenorio, Udell and Palmeri; cosponsored by Senators Hesselbein, Ratcliff, Roys and Spreitzer

  2. Dec 17, 2025 · Assembly

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

  3. Feb 10, 2026 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. 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

Cost estimate

A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.

Official term: Fiscal estimate. 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

Cost estimate

A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.

Official term: Fiscal estimate