Senate Bill 1077
Health insurance coverage of prosthetic limbs and custom orthotic braces. (FE)
Topics: Insurance: Health, Medical practice, Group, Medical service, Public employee: Group insurance
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
Feb 26, 2026
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Senate vote, not reached
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Assembly 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 Senate Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry. The committee's chair at the time was Romaine Quinn. 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 Assembly as AB 1121. 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 requires health insurance policies and self-insured governmental health plans to provide coverage of prosthetic limbs and custom orthotic braces (devices) when medically necessary for an individual to participate in activities of daily living or essential job-related activities or to perform physical activities for maximizing limb function, or to meet the individual’s medical needs for purposes of showering or bathing.
The bill specifies that coverage must include the materials, components, and related services necessary to use a device for its intended purpose; any instruction provided to the individual on using the device; and the reasonable repair of the device. The bill also requires coverage of more significant repairs or replacement of the device, without regard to continuous use or useful lifetime restrictions, when medically necessary due to a change in the individual’s physiological condition or an irreparable change in the device’s condition or if the cost to repair the device exceeds 60 percent of the device’s replacement cost.
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The bill requires that the coverage must be, at a minimum, equal to the coverage and payment for prosthetic and orthotic devices provided under the federal Medicare program.
The bill provides that the coverage may only be subject to the cost-sharing provisions that apply generally to the coverage provided under the policy or plan for inpatient physician and surgical services. The bill also requires that a managed care plan must ensure access to medically necessary clinical care and the devices from at least two in-network providers in this state. If the care and services are not available from an in-network provider, the managed care plan must provide a process to refer an individual to an out-of-network provider and must fully reimburse that provider at a mutually agreed upon rate.
This proposal may contain a health insurance mandate requiring a social and financial impact report under s. 601.423, stats.
Who's behind it
5 senators are its . 4 are Democrats and 1 is a Republican.
21 more lawmakers .
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Authors (5)
- LaTonya Johnson · Democrat, Senate
- Melissa Ratcliff · Democrat, Senate
- Jeff Smith · Democrat, Senate
- Mark Spreitzer · Democrat, Senate
- Patrick Testin · Republican, Senate
Signed on in support (21)
- Clint Anderson · Democrat, Assembly
- Brienne Brown · Democrat, Assembly
- Ryan Clancy · Democrat, Assembly
- Karen DeSanto · Democrat, Assembly
- Jodi Emerson · Democrat, Assembly
- Ben Franklin · Republican, Assembly
- Andrew Hysell · Democrat, Assembly
- Jenna Jacobson · Democrat, Assembly
- Alex Joers · Democrat, Assembly
- Chris Larson · Democrat, Senate
- Maureen McCarville · Democrat, Assembly
- Vinnie Miresse · Democrat, Assembly
- Todd Novak · Republican, Assembly
- Sylvia Ortiz-Velez · Democrat, Assembly
- Joe Sheehan · Democrat, Assembly
- Christine Sinicki · Democrat, Assembly
- Pat Snyder · Republican, Assembly
- Shelia Stubbs · Democrat, Assembly
- Lisa Subeck · Democrat, Assembly
- Sequanna Taylor · Democrat, Assembly
- Angelito Tenorio · Democrat, Assembly
What happened
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Mar 23, 2026
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Feb 27, 2026 to Mar 19, 2026
5 more representatives and 1 senator signed on in support.
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Feb 26, 2026
Sent to the Senate Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry.
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Feb 26, 2026
Introduced in the Senate.
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- Feb 26, 2026 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Ratcliff, Smith, Testin, Spreitzer and L. Johnson; cosponsored by Representatives Hysell, Stubbs, Snyder, Brown, DeSanto, Emerson, Franklin, Joers, McCarville, Miresse, Novak, Ortiz-Velez, Sinicki, Taylor and Tenorio
- Feb 26, 2026 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry
- Feb 27, 2026 · Senate
Senator Larson added as a coauthor
- Mar 2, 2026 · Senate
Representative Clancy added as a cosponsor
- Mar 5, 2026 · Senate
Representative Sheehan added as a cosponsor
- Mar 19, 2026 · Senate
Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor
- Mar 19, 2026 · Senate
Representative Anderson added as a cosponsor
- Mar 19, 2026 · Senate
Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor
- Mar 23, 2026 · Senate
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