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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 152

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Relating to: financial eligibility for the Alzheimer’s family and caregiver support program. (FE)

Disease Family Health services department of — Supportive living and treatment

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Senate, completed
  3. Passes Assembly, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the Department of Health Services allocates funds to local agencies to assist eligible families with obtaining goods and services related to the care of a person with Alzheimer’s disease or another irreversible dementia. Currently, a person is financially eligible for the program if the joint income of the person with irreversible dementia and that person’s spouse, if any, is $48,000 per year or less. This bill repeals the financial eligibility requirement.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Cabral-Guevara (R) , Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Drake (D) , James (R) , Ratcliff (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Testin (R) , Tomczyk (R) , Wirch (D)

28 cosponsors

Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Behnke (R) , Donovan (R) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Franklin (R) , Gundrum (R) , Habush Sinykin (D) , Joers (D) , Kaufert (R) , Knodl (R) , Kreibich (R) , Madison (D) , McCarville (D) , Melotik (R) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde, Vining, Andraca and Sinicki , Mursau (R) , O'Connor (R) , Palmeri (D) , Pfaff, Keyeski and Carpenter , Snodgrass, Ortiz-Velez and Moses , Snyder (R) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 7

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

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 May 5, 2025 official source full page

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

Full history

  1. Mar 21, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Cabral-Guevara, Testin, Dassler-Alfheim, James, Tomczyk, Wirch, Drake, Ratcliff and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Kaufert, Franklin, Bare, Behnke, Donovan, Gundrum, Joers, Knodl, Kreibich, Mursau, O'Connor, Palmeri, Snyder, Stubbs, Subeck, Tenorio and Madison

  2. Mar 21, 2025 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Health

  3. Apr 7, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Melotik added as a cosponsor

  4. Apr 15, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Miresse added as a cosponsor

  5. Apr 21, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Udell added as a cosponsor

  6. Apr 22, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Arney added as a cosponsor

  7. Apr 23, 2025 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  8. Apr 24, 2025 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  9. May 5, 2025 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  10. May 5, 2025 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  11. May 5, 2025 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  12. May 13, 2025 · Senate

    Representative McCarville added as a cosponsor

  13. Jun 2, 2025 · Senate

    Representatives Snodgrass, Ortiz-Velez and Moses added as cosponsors

  14. Jun 11, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Emerson added as a cosponsor

  15. Jun 17, 2025 · Senate

    Senator Habush Sinykin added as a coauthor

  16. Jun 17, 2025 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 6-18-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  17. Jun 18, 2025 · Senate

    Senators Pfaff, Keyeski and Carpenter added as coauthors

  18. Jun 18, 2025 · Senate

    Read a second time

  19. Jun 18, 2025 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  20. Jun 18, 2025 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  21. Jun 18, 2025 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  22. Jun 18, 2025 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  23. Jun 19, 2025 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  24. Jun 20, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to calendar of 6-24-2025

  25. Jun 23, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Fitzgerald added as a cosponsor

  26. Jun 24, 2025 · Assembly

    Representatives Moore Omokunde, Vining, Andraca and Sinicki added as cosponsors

  27. Jun 24, 2025 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up

  28. Jun 24, 2025 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  29. Jun 24, 2025 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  30. Jun 24, 2025 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  31. Jun 24, 2025 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  32. Jun 24, 2025 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  33. Jun 24, 2025 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  34. Jun 25, 2025 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  35. Aug 7, 2025 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 8-7-2025

  36. Aug 11, 2025 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 8-8-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 21

  37. Aug 11, 2025 · Senate

    Published 8-9-2025