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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 68

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Relating to: the prescription drug monitoring program. (FE)

Controlled substances board Drugs Sunset Supreme court

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Senate, completed
  3. Passes Assembly, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law requires the Controlled Substances Board to establish a prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) that requires pharmacies and health care practitioners to generate records documenting the dispensing of monitored prescription drugs. Records from the PDMP may be disclosed to persons specified under current law or by the board by rule. This bill makes changes to certain requirements under the PDMP:

1. Subject to exceptions, current law requires that a patient’s records under the program be reviewed before a practitioner issues a prescription order for the patient. However, current law provides that this requirement does not apply after April 1, 2025. The bill extends the application of this requirement by five years, to April 1, 2030.

2. Current law requires the board to conduct a quarterly review of the PDMP to evaluate the actual outcomes of the PDMP compared with projected outcomes. However, current law provides that this requirement does not apply after October 30, 2025. The bill extends the application of this requirement by five years, to October 30, 2030.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Testin (R)

3 cosponsors

Dittrich (R) , Stubbs and Moore Omokunde , Subeck (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

Votes

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

Passed 5–0 Mar 7, 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. Feb 24, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senator Testin; cosponsored by Representative Dittrich

  2. Feb 24, 2025 · Senate

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

  3. Mar 5, 2025 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Mar 6, 2025 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  5. Mar 7, 2025 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  6. Mar 7, 2025 · Senate

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

  7. Mar 7, 2025 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  8. Mar 12, 2025 · Senate

    Representatives Stubbs and Moore Omokunde added as cosponsors

  9. Mar 13, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor

  10. Mar 14, 2025 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 3-18-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  11. Mar 18, 2025 · Senate

    Read a second time

  12. Mar 18, 2025 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  13. Mar 18, 2025 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  14. Mar 18, 2025 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  15. Mar 18, 2025 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  16. Mar 18, 2025 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  17. Mar 18, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  18. Mar 18, 2025 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 3-20-2025 by Committee on Rules

  19. Mar 20, 2025 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up

  20. Mar 20, 2025 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  21. Mar 20, 2025 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  22. Mar 20, 2025 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  23. Mar 20, 2025 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  24. Mar 20, 2025 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  25. Mar 20, 2025 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  26. Mar 21, 2025 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  27. Mar 24, 2025 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 3-24-2025

  28. Mar 28, 2025 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 3-28-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 5

  29. Mar 28, 2025 · Senate

    Published 3-29-2025