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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 320

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: grants for LGBTQIA+ rights training for school counselors and school social workers and making an appropriation. (FE)

Lesbian gay bisexual and transgender Public instruction department of School — Administration

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, 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

Under this bill, the Department of Public Instruction must award grants to school boards to provide training in LGBTQIA+ rights, in a program developed or approved by DPI, to school counselors and school social workers employed by school boards. The bill defines “LGBTQIA+” as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, or any other nonheterosexual or noncisgender orientation, identity, or expression.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Carpenter (D) , Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Drake (D) , Habush Sinykin (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Keyeski (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D)

36 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Andraca (D) , Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Clancy (D) , Cruz (D) , DeSanto (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Haywood (D) , Hong (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Madison (D) , Mayadev (D) , McCarville (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Neubauer (D) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Palmeri (D) , Phelps (D) , Prado (D) , Rivera-Wagner (D) , Roe (D) , Sheehan (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Spaude (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D) , Vining (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 6

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. Jun 12, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Spreitzer, Carpenter, Dassler-Alfheim, Roys, Ratcliff, Habush Sinykin, L. Johnson, Keyeski, Larson, Smith, Hesselbein and Drake; cosponsored by Representatives Vining, Phelps, Cruz, Neubauer, Rivera-Wagner, Snodgrass, Spaude, Stroud, Udell, Arney, Clancy, Andraca, Emerson, Hong, Joers, Madison, McCarville, Miresse, Moore Omokunde, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Roe, Sheehan, Tenorio, Fitzgerald, Bare, Prado, Subeck, Mayadev, DeSmidt, DeSanto, Stubbs, Anderson and Johnson

  2. Jun 12, 2025 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Jun 12, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Haywood added as a cosponsor

  4. Jun 23, 2025 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Jan 9, 2026 · Senate

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor

  6. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1