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Bills from the 2025–26 session

Assembly Bill 809

Investigation of any pregnancy outcome and civil and criminal liability exemptions relating to pregnancy outcome

Topics: Criminal identification and investigation, Damage (personal injury), Maternal and infant care, Police

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 23, 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 Criminal Justice and Public Safety. The committee's chair at the time was John Spiros. 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 804. 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.

Under current law, no fine or imprisonment may be imposed or enforced against and no prosecution may be brought against a woman who obtains an abortion or otherwise violates any provision of any abortion statute with respect to her unborn child or fetus and certain criminal statutes do not apply to such a woman. Other current abortion-related statutory restrictions do not apply, or no penalty may be assessed against, a woman obtaining an abortion.

This bill adds specific protections for women with regard to their own pregnancy outcomes. The bill provides that, in addition to existing protections, no fine or imprisonment may be imposed or enforced against and no prosecution may be brought against a woman for the outcome of her own pregnancy, including stillbirth, miscarriage, abortion, or any other pregnancy outcome that does not result in a live birth. Also, under the bill, no person may be held civilly liable for, discriminated against, or otherwise punished or penalized for the outcome of her own pregnancy, including stillbirth, miscarriage, abortion, or any other pregnancy outcome that does not result in a live birth.

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The bill provides that no law enforcement officer or law enforcement agency may investigate a person as a crime suspect because of any pregnancy outcome that the person has experienced and further provides that a law enforcement officer or law enforcement agency may investigate a case in which the conduct that constitutes a crime is related to any pregnancy outcome of a person other than the crime suspect only if the law enforcement officer or law enforcement agency first obtains the consent of the person whose pregnancy was affected.

The bill specifies that for the purposes of criminal penalties associated with mutilating or hiding a corpse and concealing or not reporting the death or disappearance of a child, the term “corpse” does not include fetal tissue that is the result of a pregnancy outcome other than a live birth or stillbirth.

The bill also prohibits any funds of this state, of any county, city, village, town, or long-term care district, of any subdivision of this state, or of any subdivision or agency of any county, city, village, or town or any federal funds passing through the state treasury from being authorized for or paid to any person to subsidize, reimburse, or otherwise provide compensation for the investigation of a person as a crime suspect because of any pregnancy outcome that the person has experienced.

Who's behind it

25 representatives are its ⁠. All 25 are Democrats.

11 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 36 names

Authors (25)

Signed on in support (11)

What happened

  1. Mar 23, 2026

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Jan 7, 2026

    1 more representative signed on in support.

  3. Dec 23, 2025

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety.

  4. Dec 23, 2025

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Dec 23, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Roe, Anderson, Andraca, Arney, Bare, Brown, Clancy, DeSmidt, Emerson, Goodwin, Hysell, Joers, Johnson, Kirsch, Madison, Miresse, Rivera-Wagner, Sheehan, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Stroud, Stubbs, Subeck, Tenorio and Udell; cosponsored by Senators Roys, Dassler-Alfheim, L. Johnson, Keyeski, Larson, Ratcliff, Smith, Spreitzer, Wall and Wirch

  2. Dec 23, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety

  3. Jan 7, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Palmeri added as a coauthor

  4. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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Public hearing

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Senate Joint Resolution 1

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Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary

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Author

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Signed on in support

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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.

More in the glossary

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

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Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor

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