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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 516

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Relating to: school district employee participation in state group health insurance and making an appropriation. (FE)

Group insurance board Public employee — Group insurance School — 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 Group Insurance Board to conduct studies of the potential costs and savings to school districts and current participants in group health insurance plans offered by GIB of mandatory participation by all school districts in this state and of voluntary participation by school districts in this state in a group health insurance plan offered by GIB. The bill also requires GIB to submit a written report of the studies to the governor and the Joint Committee on Finance no later than six months after the effective date of the bill.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Hesselbein (D) , Keyeski (D) , Larson (D) , Pfaff (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wall (D) , Wirch (D)

27 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Andraca (D) , Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Cruz (D) , DeSanto (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Doyle (D) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Goodwin (D) , Hysell (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Madison (D) , Neubauer (D) , Palmeri (D) , Sheehan (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Spaude (D) , Stroud (D) , Subeck (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D) , Vining (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 4

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 9, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Wall, Ratcliff, Hesselbein, Keyeski, Larson, Pfaff, Roys, Spreitzer and Wirch; cosponsored by Representatives Hysell, DeSanto, Cruz, Doyle, Andraca, Arney, Bare, DeSmidt, Emerson, Fitzgerald, Goodwin, Joers, Johnson, Madison, Palmeri, Sheehan, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Spaude, Stroud, Tenorio and Udell

  2. Oct 9, 2025 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry

  3. Oct 10, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor

  4. Oct 16, 2025 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Oct 20, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Anderson added as a cosponsor

  6. Jan 29, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Neubauer added as a cosponsor

  7. Feb 9, 2026 · Senate

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor

  8. Mar 20, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Vining added as a cosponsor

  9. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1