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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 437

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Relating to: automated external defibrillators in child care centers and making an appropriation. (FE)

Children and families department of Day care Medical service

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill directs the Department of Children and Families to award grants to licensed child care centers to provide automated external defibrillators and automated external defibrillator maintenance in the child care center. To be eligible for a grant under the bill, a licensed child care center must provide matching funds equal to at least 33 percent of the total grant amount. DCF must award grants in each child care licensing region designated by the Bureau of Early Care Regulation within DCF.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Drake (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Keyeski (D) , Larson (D) , Pfaff (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wirch (D)

25 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Billings (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Habush Sinykin (D) , Haywood (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Kaufert (R) , Kirsch (D) , Madison (D) , Miresse (D) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Palmeri (D) , Roe (D) , Sheehan (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Udell (D) , Vining (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 5

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 Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Nov 12, 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. Sep 29, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Pfaff, Wirch, Hesselbein, Spreitzer, Drake, Ratcliff, Keyeski, Dassler-Alfheim and Larson; cosponsored by Representatives Billings, Sinicki, Miresse, Ortiz-Velez, Kirsch, Madison, Joers, Palmeri, Bare, Fitzgerald, Snodgrass, Roe, DeSmidt, Sheehan, Stubbs, Kaufert, Udell, Vining, Subeck, Anderson, Johnson and Haywood

  2. Sep 29, 2025 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families

  3. Nov 6, 2025 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  4. Nov 12, 2025 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  5. Nov 12, 2025 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  6. Nov 12, 2025 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  7. Nov 17, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Arney added as a cosponsor

  8. Jan 9, 2026 · Senate

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor

  9. Mar 19, 2026 · Senate

    Senator Habush Sinykin added as a coauthor

  10. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1