Assembly Bill 960
Requiring social media platforms to provide mental health warnings and providing a penalty
Topics: Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, Department of, Data processing, Justice, Department of, Mental 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.
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Introduced, passed
Jan 29, 2026
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Senate vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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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 Mental Health and Substance Abuse Prevention. The committee's chair at the time was Paul Tittl. 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 933. That version died when the session ended.
Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
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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
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
This bill generally requires a social media platform to ensure that a mental health warning label appears each time a user accesses the social media platform and disappears only when the user exits the social media platform or acknowledges the potential for harm and chooses to proceed. The mental health warning label must be conspicuous, warn the user of potential negative mental health effects of accessing the social media platform, and provide the user access to certain resources to address these effects. The Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, in consultation with the Department of Health Services, must develop guidelines containing requirements for these warning labels. The guidelines may allow users to disable the warning label under circumstances specified in the guidelines.
Under the bill, DATCP or the Department of Justice may investigate violations of the bill’s provisions and bring a civil action in which it may obtain against a violating social media platform any combination of the following relief: a forfeiture of up to $5,000 for each violation; temporary or permanent injunctive relief; restitution to any person who suffered loss as a direct or indirect result of the violation; and disgorgement of any money the social media platform received as a direct or indirect result of the violation. In addition, a person who directly or indirectly suffers injury as a result of a violation of the bill’s provisions may bring a civil action against the violating social media platform for any combination of the following relief: damages directly or indirectly resulting from the violation, including physical and emotional harm; punitive damages; temporary or permanent injunctive relief; and reasonable attorney fees and costs.
Who's behind it
25 representatives are its . 19 are Democrats and 6 are Republicans.
12 more lawmakers .
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Authors (25)
- Scott Allen · Republican, Assembly
- Dave Armstrong · Republican, Assembly
- Elijah Behnke · Republican, Assembly
- Jill Billings · Democrat, Assembly
- Lindee Brill · Republican, Assembly
- Brienne Brown · Democrat, Assembly
- Ryan Clancy · Democrat, Assembly
- Ben DeSmidt · Democrat, Assembly
- Jodi Emerson · Democrat, Assembly
- Joan Fitzgerald · Democrat, Assembly
- Alex Joers · Democrat, Assembly
- Dan Knodl · Republican, Assembly
- Renuka Mayadev · Democrat, Assembly
- Vinnie Miresse · Democrat, Assembly
- Greta Neubauer · Democrat, Assembly
- Jerry O'Connor · Republican, Assembly
- Sylvia Ortiz-Velez · Democrat, Assembly
- Priscilla Prado · Democrat, Assembly
- Amaad Rivera-Wagner · Democrat, Assembly
- Ann Roe · Democrat, Assembly
- Christine Sinicki · Democrat, Assembly
- Lee Snodgrass · Democrat, Assembly
- Shelia Stubbs · Democrat, Assembly
- Sequanna Taylor · Democrat, Assembly
- Randy Udell · Democrat, Assembly
Signed on in support (12)
- Karen DeSanto · Democrat, Assembly
- Jodi Habush Sinykin · Democrat, Senate
- Dianne Hesselbein · Democrat, Senate
- André Jacque · Republican, Senate
- Tara Johnson · Democrat, Assembly
- Chris Larson · Democrat, Senate
- Lori Palmeri · Democrat, Assembly
- Kelda Roys · Democrat, Senate
- Mark Spreitzer · Democrat, Senate
- Lisa Subeck · Democrat, Assembly
- Robyn Vining · Democrat, Assembly
- Jamie Wall · Democrat, Senate
What happened
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Mar 23, 2026
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Jan 30, 2026 to Feb 26, 2026
5 more representatives and 1 senator signed on in support.
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Jan 29, 2026
Sent to the Assembly Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Prevention.
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Jan 29, 2026
Introduced in the Assembly.
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- Jan 29, 2026 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Mayadev, Brill, Joers, Billings, Allen, Armstrong, Behnke, Brown, Clancy, DeSmidt, Emerson, Fitzgerald, Knodl, Miresse, O'Connor, Ortiz-Velez, Prado, Rivera-Wagner, Roe, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Taylor, Udell, Stubbs and Neubauer; cosponsored by Senators Jacque, Habush Sinykin, Roys, Wall, Hesselbein and Larson
- Jan 29, 2026 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Prevention
- Jan 30, 2026 · Assembly
Senator Spreitzer added as a cosponsor
- Feb 2, 2026 · Assembly
Representative Palmeri added as a coauthor
- Feb 6, 2026 · Assembly
Representative DeSanto added as a coauthor
- Feb 10, 2026 · Assembly
Representative Johnson added as a coauthor
- Feb 13, 2026 · Assembly
Representative Vining added as a coauthor
- Feb 26, 2026 · Assembly
Representative Subeck added as a coauthor
- 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.
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. 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
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
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor