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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 348

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: training to address student mental health and making an appropriation. (FE)

Mental health School — Charter school School — Employee School — Health program Teacher Teacher — Certificate

  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 current law, the Department of Public Instruction must provide trainings to school districts and independent charter schools on three specific evidence-based strategies to address student mental health: screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment; trauma sensitive schools; and youth mental health first aid. This bill adds social and emotional learning to the list of evidence-based strategies on which DPI must provide trainings to school districts and independent charter schools. The bill also provides an additional $500,000 to DPI for these trainings in each of the 2025-26 and 2026-27 school years.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Carpenter (D) , Drake (D) , Hesselbein (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wirch (D)

34 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Brown (D) , Clancy (D) , DeSanto (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Goodwin (D) , Haywood (D) , Hong (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Madison (D) , Mayadev (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Neubauer (D) , Palmeri (D) , Pfaff (D) , Phelps (D) , Prado (D) , Rivera-Wagner (D) , Roe (D) , Sheehan (D) , Sinicki (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D) , Vining (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 1

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 27, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators L. Johnson, Carpenter, Drake, Hesselbein, Larson, Ratcliff, Roys, Smith, Spreitzer and Wirch; cosponsored by Representatives Vining, Hong, DeSanto, Roe, Moore Omokunde, Palmeri, Anderson, Arney, Bare, Clancy, DeSmidt, Emerson, Fitzgerald, Goodwin, Haywood, Joers, Johnson, Madison, Mayadev, Miresse, Neubauer, Phelps, Prado, Rivera-Wagner, Sheehan, Brown, Sinicki, Stroud, Stubbs, Subeck, Tenorio and Udell

  2. Jun 27, 2025 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Jul 15, 2025 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Oct 20, 2025 · Senate

    Senator Pfaff added as a coauthor

  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