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Bills from the 2025–26 session

Assembly Bill 819

Allowing discounts for prompt payment of health care fees

Topics: Hospitals and health care facilities, Insurance: Health, Medical service: Occupations, Nurses, Physician

Stopped before the full Assembly voted

The recommended passing it, but the full Assembly never voted on it. 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

    Jan 6, 2026

  2. Committee, passed

    Approved

  3. Assembly vote, stopped here

    Stopped here. The full Assembly never voted on it.

  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 ⁠”

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The same bill was also filed in the Senate as SB 822. That version became law.

What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

This bill specifies that discounts for prompt payment do not violate prohibitions on reducing certain fees for health care services. Under current state law, a health care provider is prohibited from reducing or offering to reduce coinsurance or a deductible of an individual covered under a health insurance policy that is required under the terms of the policy, unless paying the amount would be an undue financial hardship to the individual. Under this bill, a discount offered by a health care provider to an individual covered under a health insurance policy is exempt from that prohibition if the discount satisfies all of the following: the health care provider offers the discount for prompt payment without regard to the issuer of the individual’s health insurance policy or the reason for the individual seeking the product or service; the amount of the discount bears a reasonable relationship to the amount that the health care provider avoids in collection costs by prompt payment but is no more than 15 percent of the fee owed; the health care provider notifies the issuer of the health insurance policy of the prompt payment discount policy but, unless required by law, does not publicly advertise the discount; the health care provider does not provide the discount prior to the service being scheduled or outside the provider’s ordinary course of dealing with patients; and the health care provider does not shift the cost of the discount to any other payer or, except as allowed by law, include the discount in an agreement with a third-party payer. Health insurance policies are referred to as disability insurance policies in the bill.

Who's behind it

13 representatives are its ⁠. All 13 are Republicans.

9 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 22 names

Authors (13)

Signed on in support (9)

How lawmakers voted

There was one vote on this bill.

Assembly Committee on Insurance vote to recommend it

Passed, 7 to 0 · Feb 4, 2026

No member-by-member record exists for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Official motion: “Report passage recommended by Committee on Insurance, Ayes 7, Noes 0”. Official record · This vote on its own page

What happened

  1. Mar 23, 2026

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Feb 18, 2026 to Feb 26, 2026

    1 more representative and 1 senator signed on in support.

  3. Feb 4, 2026

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Rules.

  4. Feb 4, 2026

    The committee voted to recommend passing it, 7 to 0.

  5. Jan 8, 2026

    The committee held a public hearing.

  6. Jan 7, 2026 to Jan 8, 2026

    1 more representative and 1 senator signed on in support.

  7. Jan 6, 2026

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Insurance.

  8. Jan 6, 2026

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Jan 6, 2026 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Moses, Swearingen, VanderMeer, Behnke, Callahan, Kreibich, Kurtz, Murphy, Mursau, Nedweski, Novak, O'Connor and Zimmerman; cosponsored by Senators Cabral-Guevara, Feyen, Marklein, Spreitzer and Testin

  2. Jan 6, 2026 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance

  3. Jan 7, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Knodl added as a coauthor

  4. Jan 8, 2026 · Assembly

    Senator Stafsholt added as a cosponsor

  5. Jan 8, 2026 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. Feb 4, 2026 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  7. Feb 4, 2026 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Insurance, Ayes 7, Noes 0

  8. Feb 4, 2026 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  9. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Senator Ratcliff added as a cosponsor

  10. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 11:33 AM on 2-19-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 14

  11. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Laid on the table

  12. Feb 26, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Subeck added as a coauthor

  13. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

Terms on this page

Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

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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

Roll call

A vote where each lawmaker's yes or no is recorded by name.

Official term: Roll call vote. 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

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

Roll call

A vote where each lawmaker's yes or no is recorded by name.

Official term: Roll call vote

More in the glossary