Skip to content

Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 477

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: implementing a suicide prevention program and making an appropriation. (FE)

Death Defibrillator Health services department of — Health Public employee

  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

This bill requires the Department of Health Services to implement a statewide suicide prevention program, coordinate suicide prevention activities with other state agencies, administer grant programs involving suicide prevention, and perform various other functions specified in the bill to promote efforts to prevent suicide. The bill authorizes two positions in DHS for implementing the suicide prevention program, one of which is the director of the suicide prevention program. The bill also provides DHS with $250,000 in fiscal year 2025-26 and $250,000 in fiscal year 2026-27 to implement the program.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Carpenter (D) , Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Habush Sinykin (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Keyeski (D) , Larson (D) , Pfaff (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wirch (D)

33 cosponsors

Andraca (D) , Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Clancy (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Doyle (D) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Goodwin (D) , Hong (D) , Hysell (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Kaufert (R) , 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) , Sheehan (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stroud (D) , Subeck (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. Oct 2, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Pfaff, Habush Sinykin, Carpenter, Ratcliff, Roys, Wirch, Hesselbein, Larson, Dassler-Alfheim, Smith, Spreitzer and Keyeski; cosponsored by Representatives Doyle, Andraca, Emerson, McCarville, DeSmidt, Miresse, Bare, Fitzgerald, Sinicki, Subeck, Snodgrass, Neubauer, Ortiz-Velez, Clancy, Madison, Moore Omokunde, Sheehan, Joers, Phelps, Kaufert, Palmeri, Hysell, Rivera-Wagner, Arney, Mayadev, Hong, Goodwin, Udell, Stroud, Prado and Johnson

  2. Oct 2, 2025 · Senate

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

  3. Feb 9, 2026 · Senate

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor

  4. Mar 20, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Vining added as a cosponsor

  5. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1