Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 918

Relating to: required subjects in a human growth and development instructional program. (FE)

Children — Adoption School — Health program

Introduced, completed
Passes Assembly, completed
Passes Senate, completed
Governor signs, completed
Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires a school board that provides a human growth and development instructional program to include instruction on adoption in the instructional program.

Current law allows, but does not require, a school board to provide a human growth and development instructional program in grades kindergarten to 12. If a school board elects to offer the instructional program, current law recommends, but does not require, that the school board include certain topics, one of which is “adoption resources, prenatal care, and postnatal supports” in the instructional program. Under current law, if any part of the recommended instructional program is provided to pupils, the school board must provide specific information on required subjects in the same course in the same year. The bill adds to the list of required subjects providing instruction on adoption.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Fiscal Estimate From DPI

Registered lobbying interests · 3

Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Children and Families, Ayes 7, Noes 2

Passed 7–2 Feb 11, 2026 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 4, Noes 1

Passed 4–1 Mar 6, 2026 official source full page