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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 828

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Relating to: grants to school counselors, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Counselor Mental health Public instruction department of School — Employee

  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

This bill requires the Department of Public Instruction to create a program under which DPI provides grants to school counselors for the costs of continuing education and training in mental and behavioral health. Under the bill, a school counselor is defined as an individual who holds a school counselor license issued by DPI and is required to hold that license for purposes of the individual’s employment.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Goodwin (D) , Kirsch (D) , McCarville (D) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Prado (D) , Rivera-Wagner (D) , Sinicki (D) , Stubbs (D) , Taylor (D) , Tenorio (D)

8 cosponsors

Clancy (D) , James (R) , Keyeski (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Neubauer (D) , Palmeri (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Sheehan (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 2

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. Jan 6, 2026 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Stubbs, Goodwin, Rivera-Wagner, Taylor, Ortiz-Velez, Tenorio, Bare, Sinicki, Arney, McCarville, Prado and Kirsch; cosponsored by Senators James, Ratcliff and L. Johnson

  2. Jan 6, 2026 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Jan 7, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Palmeri added as a coauthor

  4. Jan 16, 2026 · Assembly

    Senator Keyeski added as a cosponsor

  5. Feb 2, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Clancy added as a coauthor

  6. Feb 3, 2026 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  7. Feb 9, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Neubauer added as a coauthor

  8. Feb 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Sheehan added as a coauthor

  9. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1