Children and families department of

335 bills across 7 sessions, from the Legislature's subject index.

AB 50 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE) Died at session end 2025
SB 45 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE) Became law 2025
AB 162 Relating to: workforce metrics. (FE) Vetoed 2025
AB 237 Relating to: the age at which an infant is covered under the safe haven law. Became law 2025
AB 317 Relating to: a Department of Children and Families program to make payments to child care programs, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
AB 328 Relating to: providing permanency plan and comments to out-of-home care providers in advance of a permanency plan review or hearing. (FE) Died at session end 2025
AB 348 Relating to: the minimum age of assistant child care teachers. Died at session end 2025
AB 349 Relating to: allowing certified child care operators to provide care to up to six children. (FE) Died at session end 2025
AB 350 Relating to: the regulation of family and group child care centers. (FE) Died at session end 2025
AB 491 Relating to: video monitoring or recording in residential care centers for children and youth, group homes, and shelter care facilities. Died at session end 2025
AB 498 Relating to: automated external defibrillators in child care centers and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
AB 607 Relating to: housing and homelessness; emergency rental assistance program; indigent civil legal services; workforce development; community action agencies; poverty reports; mental health; economic security; reimbursement for nonemergency medical transportation services; urban mass transit aid; lead exposure and abatement services; lead service line replacement; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
AB 710 Relating to: Wisconsin Shares payments to tribal-regulated child care providers. (FE) Died at session end 2025
AB 711 Relating to: funding for the Family Foundations home visitation program and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
AB 778 Relating to: eligibility for the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional Jobs program. (FE) Became law 2025
AB 832 Relating to: required human trafficking and sextortion prevention instruction in certain grades and teacher training related to identifying victims of child trafficking and sextortion. (FE) Died at session end 2025
AB 967 Relating to: funding for the Family Foundations home visitation program for social media education and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
SB 201 Relating to: workforce metrics. (FE) Died at session end 2025
SB 313 Relating to: providing permanency plan and comments to out-of-home care providers in advance of a permanency plan review or hearing. (FE) Died at session end 2025
SB 322 Relating to: a Department of Children and Families program to make payments to child care programs, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
SB 359 Relating to: the minimum age of assistant child care teachers. Died at session end 2025
SB 363 Relating to: allowing certified child care operators to provide care to up to six children. (FE) Died at session end 2025
SB 364 Relating to: the regulation of family and group child care centers. (FE) Died at session end 2025
SB 437 Relating to: automated external defibrillators in child care centers and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
SB 485 Relating to: video monitoring or recording in residential care centers for children and youth, group homes, and shelter care facilities. Became law 2025
SB 605 Relating to: housing and homelessness; emergency rental assistance program; indigent civil legal services; workforce development; community action agencies; poverty reports; mental health; economic security; reimbursement for nonemergency medical transportation services; urban mass transit aid; lead exposure and abatement services; lead service line replacement; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
SB 701 Relating to: funding for the Family Foundations home visitation program and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
SB 710 Relating to: Wisconsin Shares payments to tribal-regulated child care providers. (FE) Died at session end 2025
SB 767 Relating to: eligibility for the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional Jobs program. (FE) Died at session end 2025
SB 839 Relating to: required human trafficking and sextortion prevention instruction in certain grades and teacher training related to identifying victims of child trafficking and sextortion. (FE) Died at session end 2025
SB 968 Relating to: funding for the Family Foundations home visitation program for social media education and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
SB 990 Relating to: the state or federal benefits of a child in out-of-home care. (FE) Died at session end 2025
SB 991 Relating to: funding for tribal child care training and technical assistance and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
AB 1015 Relating to: Wisconsin Shares copayment amounts and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
AB 1016 Relating to: funding for child care provider workforce training and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
AB 1018 Relating to: income eligibility for Wisconsin Shares child care subsidy and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
AB 1023 Relating to: funding for tribal child care training and technical assistance and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
AB 1053 Relating to: the state or federal benefits of a child in out-of-home care. (FE) Died at session end 2025
AB 1075 Relating to: the age of juvenile court jurisdiction and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
AB 1115 Relating to: the assignment of child support orders and arrears to the state when a child enters foster care and the role of the Department of Children and Families, county departments of human and social services, and juvenile courts in referring, collecting, and ordering child support. (FE) Died at session end 2025
AB 1196 Relating to: authorizing a respite care provider home to be a runaway home. Died at session end 2025
SB 1011 Relating to: income eligibility for Wisconsin Shares child care subsidy and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
SB 1017 Relating to: funding for child care provider workforce training and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
SB 1072 Relating to: the assignment of child support orders and arrears to the state when a child enters foster care and the role of the Department of Children and Families, county departments of human and social services, and juvenile courts in referring, collecting, and ordering child support. (FE) Died at session end 2025
SB 1079 Relating to: Wisconsin Shares copayment amounts and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
AB 43 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2023 legislature. (FE) Died at session end 2023
AB 83 Relating to: providing permanency plan and comments to out-of-home care providers in advance of a permanency plan review or hearing. (FE) Died at session end 2023
SB 70 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2023 legislature. (FE) Became law 2023
SB 81 Relating to: providing permanency plan and comments to out-of-home care providers in advance of a permanency plan review or hearing. (FE) Died at session end 2023
AB 151 Relating to: workforce metrics. (FE) Vetoed 2023
AB 336 Relating to: a grant program for financial assistance for adoption and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2023
AB 389 Relating to: the regulation of large family child care centers. (FE) Died at session end 2023
AB 390 Relating to: modifying administrative rules relating to assistant child care teachers. Died at session end 2023
AB 391 Relating to: modifying administrative rules regarding the number of child care workers and children in group child care centers. Died at session end 2023
AB 392 Relating to: allowing certified child care operators to provide care to up to six children. (FE) Died at session end 2023
AB 513 Relating to: a Department of Children and Families program to make payments to child care programs, a child care partnership grant program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2023
AB 585 Relating to: facilitating voter registration for applicants for public assistance. (FE) Died at session end 2023
AB 741 Relating to: national reading program grants. (FE) Died at session end 2023
AB 864 Relating to: funding for the Family Foundations home visitation program and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2023
AB 940 Relating to: funding for victim services and domestic abuse services, training for grant recipients, grants to child advocacy centers, and making an appropriation. (FE) Became law 2023
AB 977 Relating to: required human trafficking prevention instruction in certain grades and teacher training related to identifying victims of child trafficking. (FE) Died at session end 2023
SB 234 Relating to: workforce metrics. (FE) Died at session end 2023
SB 346 Relating to: a grant program for financial assistance for adoption and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2023
SB 422 Relating to: the regulation of large family child care centers. (FE) Died at session end 2023
SB 423 Relating to: modifying administrative rules regarding the number of child care workers and children in group child care centers. Died at session end 2023
SB 424 Relating to: modifying administrative rules relating to assistant child care teachers. Died at session end 2023
SB 425 Relating to: allowing certified child care operators to provide care to up to six children. (FE) Died at session end 2023
SB 487 Relating to: a Department of Children and Families program to make payments to child care programs, a child care partnership grant program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2023
SB 707 Relating to: national reading program grants. (FE) Became law 2023
SB 803 Relating to: funding for the Family Foundations home visitation program and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2023
SB 877 Relating to: funding for victim services and domestic abuse services, training for grant recipients, grants to child advocacy centers, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2023
SB 914 Relating to: video monitoring or recording in psychiatric residential treatment facilities, residential care centers for children and youth, group homes, and shelter care facilities and granting rule-making authority. Died at session end 2023
SB 958 Relating to: required human trafficking prevention instruction in certain grades and teacher training related to identifying victims of child trafficking. (FE) Died at session end 2023
AB 1002 Relating to: video monitoring or recording in psychiatric residential treatment facilities, residential care centers for children and youth, group homes, and shelter care facilities and granting rule-making authority. Died at session end 2023
AB 1142 Relating to: University of Wisconsin System and technical college tuition remissions for and grants to support foster care and other out-of-home care placement students and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2023
AB 1163 Relating to: the age of juvenile court jurisdiction and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2023
AB 1196 Relating to: creation of the council on child care availability and reporting on the cost of child care. (FE) Died at session end 2023
SB 1046 Relating to: University of Wisconsin System and technical college tuition remissions for and grants to support foster care and other out-of-home care placement students and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2023
SB 1067 Relating to: the age of juvenile court jurisdiction and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2023
SB 1096 Relating to: creation of the council on child care availability and reporting on the cost of child care. (FE) Died at session end 2023
AB 10 Relating to: certification of child support debt for the child support lien docket and partially suspending an administrative rule promulgated by the Department of Children and Families. Died at session end 2021
AB 31 Relating to: state government response to COVID-19 pandemic, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2021
AB 58 Relating to: terminating a tenancy for fear of imminent violence. Died at session end 2021
AB 68 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2021 legislature. (FE) Became law 2021
SB 29 Relating to: a disclaimer of parental rights and payments allowed in connection with an adoption. Died at session end 2021
SB 36 Relating to: certification of child support debt for the child support lien docket and partially suspending an administrative rule promulgated by the Department of Children and Families. Died at session end 2021
SB 67 Relating to: terminating a tenancy for fear of imminent violence. Died at session end 2021
AB 104 Relating to: calculating the child support obligation and elimination of family support. Died at session end 2021
AB 105 Relating to: exclusion of certain military allowances in determining gross income for purposes of child support. Died at session end 2021
AB 138 Relating to: a disclaimer of parental rights and payments allowed in connection with an adoption. Died at session end 2021
AB 143 Relating to: qualified residential treatment programs and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Became law 2021
AB 146 Relating to: grants to homeless individuals and families, grants to defray housing costs and for diversion programming, housing navigator grants, homeless case management services, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2021
AB 412 Relating to: creating a foster parents' bill of rights. (FE) Died at session end 2021
AB 423 Relating to: reports of sexual abuse of children placed in out-of-home care. Died at session end 2021
AB 424 Relating to: requiring the transmission of citizen review panel annual reports and the written responses of the Department of Children and Families to the appropriate legislative standing committees. Died at session end 2021
AB 425 Relating to: annual reports to and hearings by the legislative standing committees on child abuse and neglect. Died at session end 2021
AB 503 Relating to: subsidized guardianship payments. (FE) Died at session end 2021
AB 577 Relating to: access to a deceased adoptee's original birth certificate and information about birth parents by an adult child of the adoptee. (FE) Died at session end 2021
AB 930 Relating to: disregarding earned income for purposes of determining eligibility for certain public assistance programs. (FE) Died at session end 2021
AB 978 Relating to: scholarships for sibling connections and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2021
SB 104 Relating to: exclusion of certain military allowances in determining gross income for purposes of child support. Became law 2021
SB 105 Relating to: calculating the child support obligation and elimination of family support. Became law 2021
SB 111 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2021 legislature. (FE) Died at session end 2021
SB 161 Relating to: qualified residential treatment programs and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2021
SB 185 Relating to: grants to homeless individuals and families, grants to defray housing costs and for diversion programming, housing navigator grants, homeless case management services, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2021
SB 256 Relating to: providing permanency plan and comments to out-of-home care providers in advance of a permanency plan review or hearing. (FE) Died at session end 2021
SB 402 Relating to: creating a foster parents' bill of rights. (FE) Died at session end 2021
SB 416 Relating to: reports of sexual abuse of children placed in out-of-home care. Became law 2021
SB 417 Relating to: requiring the transmission of citizen review panel annual reports and the written responses of the Department of Children and Families to the appropriate legislative standing committees. Became law 2021
SB 418 Relating to: annual reports to and hearings by the legislative standing committees on child abuse and neglect. Became law 2021
SB 491 Relating to: subsidized guardianship payments. (FE) Became law 2021
SB 524 Relating to: access to a deceased adoptee's original birth certificate and information about birth parents by an adult child of the adoptee. (FE) Became law 2021
SB 879 Relating to: scholarships for sibling connections and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2021
SB 882 Relating to: disregarding earned income for purposes of determining eligibility for certain public assistance programs. (FE) Died at session end 2021
SB 973 Relating to: a grant program to fund child care staff to care for children with disabilities, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2021
AB 1038 Relating to: a grant program to fund child care staff to care for children with disabilities, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2021
AB 1088 Relating to: University of Wisconsin System and technical college tuition remissions for and grants to support foster care and other out-of-home care placement students and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2021
AB 1094 Relating to: Department of Children and Families license continuation process for certain accredited entities. Died at session end 2021
AB 1115 Relating to: certain reimbursements to counties and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2021
AB 1168 Relating to: facilitating voter registration for applicants for public assistance. (FE) Died at session end 2021
SB 1094 Relating to: certain reimbursements to counties and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2021
SB 1104 Relating to: broadband expansion grants; assistance for paying for Internet service; regulations of broadband service; electric providers using easements to provide broadband; municipal broadband service; counting pupils for state school aid purposes; calculating the amount to be appropriated for state general school aid; school aid factors; special adjustment aids; hold harmless aid; per pupil aid; school district revenue limits; the first dollar and school levy property tax credits; creating a one-year fee remission program to cover tuition and fees for resident students enrolled in technical colleges and University of Wisconsin System two-year campuses; granting rule-making authority; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2021
AB 56 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2019 legislature. Became law 2019
SB 59 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2019 legislature. Died at session end 2019
AB 120 Relating to: homelessness case management services and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
AB 144 Relating to: skills enhancement grants and making an appropriation. Died at session end 2019
AB 194 Relating to: requirements for initial licensure as a special education teacher. Became law 2019
AB 299 Relating to: including with the property tax bill information state aid reduction to school districts. (FE) Died at session end 2019
AB 508 Relating to: housing and homelessness; workforce development; community action agencies; poverty reports; mental health; public assistance advisory committee; economic security; adverse childhood experiences reports; creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for household and dependent care services; reimbursement for nonemergency medical transportation services; urban mass transit aid; and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
AB 562 Relating to: the rights of a foster parent or other physical custodian of a child on removal of the child from the person's home. (FE) Died at session end 2019
AB 565 Relating to: placement of a child with a relative under the Children's Code or the Juvenile Justice Code. Died at session end 2019
AB 585 Relating to: the seclusion and physical restraint of pupils. Died at session end 2019
AB 624 Relating to: driver's licenses for youth in out-of-home care and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
AB 625 Relating to: searching for a biological sibling who has been adopted, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
AB 643 Relating to: qualified residential treatment programs, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2019
AB 656 Relating to: the Wisconsin Adoption and Permanency Support program and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
AB 657 Relating to: scholarships for sibling connections and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
AB 658 Relating to: adoption of children in foster care and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
AB 659 Relating to: University of Wisconsin and technical college tuition remissions for and grants to support foster care and other out-of-home placement students and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
AB 728 Relating to: teacher licensure in parental choice programs and in the Special Needs Scholarship Program and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2019
AB 730 Relating to: phasing out the Special Needs Scholarship Program and limiting enrollment in parental choice programs. (FE) Died at session end 2019
AB 835 Relating to: creating a legislative office of inspector general and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
AB 883 Relating to: the exclusion of certain amounts from the calculation of income for purposes of Wisconsin Works eligibility and sources of funding for the Brighter Futures Initiative (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Children and Families). Died at session end 2019
AB 956 Relating to: grants to purchase milk dispensers for schools, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
AB 957 Relating to: terminating a tenancy for fear of imminent violence. Died at session end 2019
AB 968 Relating to: a limitation on the manufacturing component of the manufacturing and agriculture credit, a onetime increase in aids for special education, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
AB 991 Relating to: an exception to child care center licensing requirements for care and supervision provided while a parent participates in a coworking space on the premises. Died at session end 2019
AB 996 Relating to: child care provider rates under Wisconsin Shares, funding for Wisconsin Shares child care subsidies, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
SB 123 Relating to: skills enhancement grants and making an appropriation. Died at session end 2019
SB 145 Relating to: homelessness case management services and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
SB 183 Relating to: requirements for initial licensure as a special education teacher. Died at session end 2019
SB 467 Relating to: housing and homelessness; workforce development; community action agencies; poverty reports; mental health; public assistance advisory committee; economic security; adverse childhood experiences reports; creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for household and dependent care services; reimbursement for nonemergency medical transportation services; urban mass transit aid; and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
SB 527 Relating to: the seclusion and physical restraint of pupils. Became law 2019
SB 532 Relating to: the rights of a foster parent or other physical custodian of a child on removal of the child from the person's home. (FE) Died at session end 2019
SB 548 Relating to: placement of a child with a relative under the Children's Code or the Juvenile Justice Code. Died at session end 2019
SB 609 Relating to: qualified residential treatment programs, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2019
SB 658 Relating to: phasing out the Special Needs Scholarship Program and limiting enrollment in parental choice programs. (FE) Died at session end 2019
SB 660 Relating to: teacher licensure in parental choice programs and in the Special Needs Scholarship Program and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2019
SB 695 Relating to: searching for a biological sibling who has been adopted, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
SB 742 Relating to: creating a legislative office of inspector general and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
SB 805 Relating to: the exclusion of certain amounts from the calculation of income for purposes of Wisconsin Works eligibility and sources of funding for the Brighter Futures Initiative (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Children and Families). Died at session end 2019
SB 841 Relating to: terminating a tenancy for fear of imminent violence. Died at session end 2019
SB 876 Relating to: a limitation on the manufacturing component of the manufacturing and agriculture credit, a onetime increase in aids for special education, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
SB 889 Relating to: child care provider rates under Wisconsin Shares, funding for Wisconsin Shares child care subsidies, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
SB 932 Relating to: state government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (FE) Died at session end 2019
AB 1036 Relating to: juvenile court jurisdiction; the serious juvenile offender program; extending out-of-home care to 21 years of age for certain persons; juvenile interrogations; deferred prosecution agreements and diversion services for juveniles; the authority of school districts and school resource officers to respond to school-based behavior; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; providing an exemption from rule-making procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
AB 1038 Relating to: state government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (FE) Became law 2019
AB 4 Relating to: child care record keeping and eligibility for child care subsidies (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Children and Families). (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 5 Relating to: maximum child care subsidy rates for part-time child care and the authorized amount of child care under Wisconsin Shares (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Children and Families). (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 64 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2017 legislature. Became law 2017
AB 66 Relating to: leases of real property for executive agencies and a plan to relocate the Department of Children and Families headquarters. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 30 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2017 legislature. Died at session end 2017
SB 65 Relating to: leases of real property for executive agencies and a plan to relocate the Department of Children and Families headquarters. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 115 Relating to: the authority of the departments of administration, children and families, workforce development, justice, and health services to allocate federal grant money for civil legal aid. Died at session end 2017
AB 234 Relating to: creating an Interagency Council on Homelessness and making an appropriation. (FE) Became law 2017
AB 239 Relating to: creating a refundable individual income tax credit to provide assistance to young adults and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 242 Relating to: substance abuse screening, testing, and treatment requirements for certain work experience programs, providing an exemption from emergency rule-making procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 263 Relating to: incentive programs for counties and tribes that identify fraudulent activity in certain public assistance programs, removing inactive FoodShare accounts, expunging unused FoodShare benefits, limiting the number of FoodShare replacement cards, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 290 Relating to: the authority for counties to enter into contracts to perform child protective services functions. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 319 Relating to: increase funding for special education. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 327 Relating to: surplus retention limitations for providers of rate-based services purchased by certain state and county departments and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 336 Relating to: elimination of rules related to the Department of Children and Families from the Department of Health Services' rules regarding caregiver background checks. Died at session end 2017
AB 422 Relating to: creating the Hire Heroes program to provide transitional jobs to veterans, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Became law 2017
AB 465 Relating to: the transfer of juvenile correctional services from the Department of Corrections to the Department of Children and Families and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 471 Relating to: the payment of state aid to school districts and payments to operators of independent charter schools and private schools participating in a choice program or the Special Needs Scholarship Program. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 481 Relating to: creating family treatment court and juvenile treatment court grant programs in the Department of Children and Families. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 482 Relating to: marijuana possession, regulation of marijuana distribution and cultivation, medical marijuana, operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of marijuana, making appropriations, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing criminal penalties. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 660 Relating to: the age at which a person is subject to juvenile court jurisdiction and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 776 Relating to: foster home licensing. (FE) Became law 2017
AB 777 Relating to: University of Wisconsin and technical college tuition remissions for and grants to support foster care and other out-of-home placement students and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 780 Relating to: notice to a school of a permanency review or hearing, notice to a school district of a foster home or group home license or out-of-home care placement, and transfer of pupil records. Became law 2017
AB 783 Relating to: a committee to study and make recommendations on the caseloads of child welfare workers. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 784 Relating to: a parent's right to counsel in a child in need of protection or services proceeding, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Became law 2017
AB 785 Relating to: funding for child abuse and neglect prevention grants. (FE) Became law 2017
AB 787 Relating to: funding for grants to support foster parents and foster children and making an appropriation. (FE) Became law 2017
AB 794 Relating to: secured residential care centers for children and youth and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 797 Relating to: a Department of Children and Families pilot project to expand four-year-old kindergarten programs and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 802 Relating to: closing the Lincoln Hills School for Boys and Copper Lake School for Girls and creating a plan to establish regional Type 1 juvenile correctional facilities. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 906 Relating to: creating a law enforcement agency drug trafficking response grant program; positions to assist in prosecuting drug-related offenses; evidence-based programs for substance abuse prevention services for at-risk youth; victim impact panels; funding for family treatment courts; grants for county jails to provide nonnarcotic treatment before offender reentry; and making appropriations. (FE) Became law 2017
AB 907 Relating to: continuing education in prescribing controlled substances for certain health care practitioners; maintenance and detoxification treatment provided by physician assistants and advanced practice nurse prescribers; requiring school boards to provide instruction about drug abuse awareness and prevention; graduate training of psychiatric nurses; training materials for social services workers handling substance abuse-related cases; substance abuse counseling and modifying and creating administrative rules related to substance abuse counseling; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. (FE) Became law 2017
AB 916 Relating to: child care provider rates under Wisconsin Shares, funding for Wisconsin Shares child care subsidies, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 924 Relating to: child care reimbursement rates in Wisconsin Shares and making an appropriation. (FE) Became law 2017
AB 968 Relating to: attendance at a private school under a parental choice program and phasing out parental choice programs. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 973 Relating to: universal basic income program and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 979 Relating to: requiring department review of public benefit databases. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 999 Relating to: requirements for initial licensure as a special education teacher. Died at session end 2017
SB 174 Relating to: incentive programs for counties and tribes that identify fraudulent activity in certain public assistance programs, removing inactive FoodShare accounts, expunging unused FoodShare benefits, limiting the number of FoodShare replacement cards, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 207 Relating to: creating an Interagency Council on Homelessness and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 208 Relating to: creating a refundable individual income tax credit to provide assistance to young adults and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 211 Relating to: increase funding for special education. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 226 Relating to: the authority for counties to enter into contracts to perform child protective services functions. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 255 Relating to: surplus retention limitations for providers of rate-based services purchased by certain state and county departments and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 293 Relating to: parental choice programs, the Special Needs Scholarship Program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Became law 2017
SB 338 Relating to: creating the Hire Heroes program to provide transitional jobs to veterans and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 378 Relating to: the transfer of juvenile correctional services from the Department of Corrections to the Department of Children and Families and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 383 Relating to: the payment of state aid to school districts and payments to operators of independent charter schools and private schools participating in a choice program or the Special Needs Scholarship Program. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 390 Relating to: creating family treatment court and juvenile treatment court grant programs in the Department of Children and Families. (FE) Became law 2017
SB 550 Relating to: the age at which a person is subject to juvenile court jurisdiction and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 653 Relating to: foster home licensing. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 655 Relating to: notice to a school of a permanency review or hearing, notice to a school district of a foster home or group home license or out-of-home care placement, and transfer of pupil records. Died at session end 2017
SB 656 Relating to: a committee to study and make recommendations on the caseloads of child welfare workers. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 657 Relating to: a parent's right to counsel in a child in need of protection or services proceeding, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 658 Relating to: funding for child abuse and neglect prevention grants. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 660 Relating to: secured residential care centers for children and youth and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 663 Relating to: a Department of Children and Families pilot project to expand four-year-old kindergarten programs and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 676 Relating to: funding for grants to support foster parents and foster children and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 729 Relating to: University of Wisconsin and technical college tuition remissions for and grants to support foster care and other out-of-home placement students and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 767 Relating to: continuing education in prescribing controlled substances for certain health care practitioners; maintenance and detoxification treatment provided by physician assistants and advanced practice nurse prescribers; requiring school boards to provide instruction about drug abuse awareness and prevention; graduate training of psychiatric nurses; training materials for social services workers handling substance abuse-related cases; substance abuse counseling and modifying and creating administrative rules related to substance abuse counseling; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 768 Relating to: creating a law enforcement agency drug trafficking response grant program; positions to assist in prosecuting drug-related offenses; evidence-based programs for substance abuse prevention services for at-risk youth; victim impact panels; funding for family treatment courts; grants for county jails to provide nonnarcotic treatment before offender reentry; and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 786 Relating to: allowing certain youth membership organizations to speak to pupils during the school day. Died at session end 2017
SB 793 Relating to: child care reimbursement rates in Wisconsin Shares and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 797 Relating to: requiring department review of public benefit databases. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 819 Relating to: child care provider rates under Wisconsin Shares, funding for Wisconsin Shares child care subsidies, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 848 Relating to: requirements for initial licensure as a special education teacher. Died at session end 2017
SB 870 Relating to: public assistance advisory committee. (FE) Died at session end 2017
SB 876 Relating to: the seclusion and physical restraint of pupils. Died at session end 2017
SB 886 Relating to: federal government waivers and other requests for federal approval; public assistance programs; waivers from work search and registration requirements for certain unemployment insurance benefit claimants; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation. (FE) Became law 2017
SB 887 Relating to: legislative power and duties, state agency and authority composition and operations, administrative rule-making process, federal government waivers and approvals, unemployment insurance work search and registration requirements, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 1044 Relating to: public assistance advisory committee. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 1048 Relating to: the seclusion and physical restraint of pupils. Died at session end 2017
AB 1072 Relating to: federal government waivers and other requests for federal approval; public assistance programs; waivers from work search and registration requirements for certain unemployment insurance benefit claimants; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 1073 Relating to: legislative power and duties, state agency and authority composition and operations, administrative rule-making process, federal government waivers and approvals, unemployment insurance work search and registration requirements, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2017
AB 21 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2015 legislature. Died at session end 2015
AB 39 Relating to: jurisdiction and venue in adoption proceedings and investigation of suitability of a home for adoption of a child. (FE) Became law 2015
AB 40 Relating to: preadoption preparation requirements and referrals to postadoption resource centers. Became law 2015
AB 41 Relating to: readoption of a child adopted by a resident of this state under an order of a court of a foreign jurisdiction. (FE) Became law 2015
AB 42 Relating to: including a statement as to whether a child has been adopted in a petition for a proceeding under the Children's Code or Juvenile Justice Code, in a petition for guardianship of a minor, in an informal disposition under the Children's Code or the Juvenile Justice Code, or in a voluntary out-of-home care agreement under the Children's Code, and requiring an annual report to the governor and the legislature on children who enter out-of-home care after they have been adopted or placed under a guardianship. (FE) Became law 2015
AB 51 Relating to: creating family treatment court and juvenile treatment court grant programs in the department of children and families and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2015
SB 21 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2015 legislature. Became law 2015
AB 140 Relating to: annual statements showing total public assistance and unemployment insurance benefits received. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AB 191 Relating to: requiring drug testing and treatment for eligibility for certain work experience programs; requiring the Department of Health Services to request a waiver to screen and, if indicated, test and provide treatment to FoodShare employment and training participants for illegal use of a controlled substance; and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AB 193 Relating to: the notification of relatives when a child is removed from the custody of the child's parent and placement of a child with a parent of a sibling of the child who has custody of the sibling. Became law 2015
AB 267 Relating to: the investigation of a child abuse report in which a person who is not a caregiver of the child is suspected of permitting, allowing, or encouraging the child to engage in prostitution; and prohibiting prosecuting a person under the age of 18 with committing an act of prostitution. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AB 282 Relating to: appeals of denials of kinship care payments based on arrest or conviction record. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AB 339 Relating to: eligibility for monthly subsidized guardianship payments of a person who develops a familial relationship with a child or the child's family during the child's placement in out-of-home care, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AB 382 Relating to: creating a legislative office of inspector general and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AB 386 Relating to: requiring verification from court orders for eligibility for public assistance programs. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AB 406 Relating to: use of the reasonable and prudent parent standard for making decisions concerning the participation of a child placed in out-of-home care in age or developmentally appropriate activities, permanency planning for a child 14 years of age or over, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AB 407 Relating to: appointment of a successor guardian for a child in need of protection or services and eligibility of a successor guardian for subsidized guardianship payments, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AB 429 Relating to: referral of cases of suspected or threatened child abuse or neglect to the sheriff or police department, coordination of the investigation of those cases, and referral of those cases to the district attorney for criminal prosecution. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AB 440 Relating to: child support income withholding orders, deferred prosecution agreements, determining the amount of a home visitation program grant, modifications to the references to Milwaukee County by population, modifications to certain appropriations, and making an appropriation. (FE) Became law 2015
AB 478 Relating to: disclosure of pupil records that are pertinent to addressing a pupil's educational needs to the Department of Children and Families, a county department of human services or social services, or a tribal organization that is legally responsible for the care and protection of the pupil. Became law 2015
AB 484 Relating to: providing additional funding for the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional Jobs program and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AB 506 Relating to: grant funding for services for Syrian refugees. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AB 513 Relating to: access by a birth parent whose parental rights have been terminated in this state to identifying information about his or her child and access to medical and genetic information about such a birth parent. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AB 514 Relating to: procedures for changing the placement of a child who is subject to a temporary physical custody order or termination of parental rights order of the juvenile court, procedures for amending a consent decree of the juvenile court, emergency change-in-placement procedures for a child who is placed in his or her own home under a dispositional order of the juvenile court, venue in post-dispositional proceedings under the Children's Code and Juvenile Justice Code, procedures for requesting and objecting to a proposed change in placement of a child and for changing the placement of a child when no objection is filed, the appointment of a successor guardian for a child who is subject to a termination of parental rights order of the juvenile court, case closure orders with respect to a child whose dispositional order is terminated, and the effective period of a temporary physical custody order of the juvenile court. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AB 607 Relating to: payments to child care providers, preventing fraud in the child care subsidy program, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AB 650 Relating to: contact preference forms for birth parents whose parental rights have been terminated in this state; access by such a birth parent to identifying information about his or her child or an offspring of that child; access to medical and genetic information about such a birth parent; and access by an adult adoptee or an adult born to a surrogate mother to his or her original birth certificate. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AB 667 Relating to: model procedures for investigating reports of abuse or neglect involving children with disabilities. (FE) Became law 2015
AB 677 Relating to: appointing a guardian ad litem in certain cases where a paternity action is barred by a statute of limitations (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Children and Families). Died at session end 2015
AB 737 Relating to: the crime of child sex trafficking, the inclusion of child sex trafficking in the definition of child abuse, the investigation of a child abuse report in which a person who is not a caregiver of the child is suspected of permitting, allowing, or encouraging the child to engage in prostitution or of child sex trafficking for purposes of a commercial sex act, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AB 745 Relating to: notification of a local law enforcement agency and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children when a child over whom the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Corrections, a county department of human services or social services, or a licensed child welfare agency has placement, care, or supervision responsibility is missing and granting rule-making authority. Became law 2015
AB 749 Relating to: surplus retention limitations for providers of rate-based services purchased by the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Health Services, or a county department of human services, social services, community programs, or developmental disabilities services. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AB 763 Relating to: child care provider rates and ratings under Wisconsin Shares, funding for Wisconsin Shares child care subsidies, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AB 851 Relating to: making unemployed veterans eligible for the Transform Milwaukee Jobs and Transitional Jobs programs. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AB 852 Relating to: expanding eligibility for the earned income tax credit; hospital best practices for postpartum patients and newborns; hospital staff privileges and written agreements required for nurse-midwives; coverage of nurse-midwives under the injured patients and families compensation fund; a report on information related to hospital neonatal intensive care units; an electronic application and information system to determine eligibility and register for public assistance programs; directing the Department of Health Services to request a Medical Assistance waiver; evidence-based home visitation program services for persons who are at risk of poor birth outcomes or of abusing or neglecting their children; designating race and ethnicity on birth certificates; a report on fetal and infant mortality and birth outcomes; requiring informed consent for performance on pregnant women of certain elective procedures prior to the full gestational term of a fetus; cultural competency training for certain students enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System and the technical college system; granting rule-making authority; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2015
SB 141 Relating to: the notification of relatives when a child is removed from the custody of the child's parent and placement of a child with a parent of a sibling of the child who has custody of the sibling. Died at session end 2015
SB 200 Relating to: the investigation of a child abuse report in which a person who is not a caregiver of the child is suspected of permitting, allowing, or encouraging the child to engage in prostitution; and prohibiting prosecuting a person under the age of 18 with committing an act of prostitution. (FE) Died at session end 2015
SB 202 Relating to: appeals of denials of kinship care payments based on arrest or conviction record. (FE) Became law 2015
SB 253 Relating to: eligibility for monthly subsidized guardianship payments of a person who develops a familial relationship with a child or the child's family during the child's placement in out-of-home care, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Became law 2015
SB 290 Relating to: requiring verification from court orders for eligibility for public assistance programs. (FE) Died at session end 2015
SB 308 Relating to: appointment of a successor guardian for a child in need of protection or services and eligibility of a successor guardian for subsidized guardianship payments, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Became law 2015
SB 309 Relating to: use of the reasonable and prudent parent standard for making decisions concerning the participation of a child placed in out-of-home care in age or developmentally appropriate activities, permanency planning for a child 14 years of age or over, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Became law 2015
SB 317 Relating to: child support income withholding orders, deferred prosecution agreements, determining the amount of a home visitation program grant, modifications to the references to Milwaukee County by population, modifications to certain appropriations, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2015
SB 326 Relating to: referral of cases of suspected or threatened child abuse or neglect to the sheriff or police department, coordination of the investigation of those cases, and referral of those cases to the district attorney for criminal prosecution. (FE) Died at session end 2015
SB 353 Relating to: disclosure of pupil records that are pertinent to addressing a pupil's educational needs to the Department of Children and Families, a county department of human services or social services, or a tribal organization that is legally responsible for the care and protection of the pupil. Died at session end 2015
SB 356 Relating to: providing additional funding for the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional Jobs program and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2015
SB 368 Relating to: creating a legislative office of inspector general and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2015
SB 386 Relating to: access by a birth parent whose parental rights have been terminated in this state to identifying information about his or her child and access to medical and genetic information about such a birth parent. (FE) Became law 2015
SB 387 Relating to: procedures for changing the placement of a child who is subject to a temporary physical custody order or termination of parental rights order of the juvenile court, procedures for amending a consent decree of the juvenile court, emergency change-in-placement procedures for a child who is placed in his or her own home under a dispositional order of the juvenile court, venue in post-dispositional proceedings under the Children's Code and Juvenile Justice Code, procedures for requesting and objecting to a proposed change in placement of a child and for changing the placement of a child when no objection is filed, the appointment of a successor guardian for a child who is subject to a termination of parental rights order of the juvenile court, case closure orders with respect to a child whose dispositional order is terminated, and the effective period of a temporary physical custody order of the juvenile court. (FE) Became law 2015
SB 552 Relating to: appointing a guardian ad litem in certain cases where a paternity action is barred by a statute of limitations (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Children and Families). Died at session end 2015
SB 574 Relating to: model procedures for investigating reports of abuse or neglect involving children with disabilities. (FE) Died at session end 2015
SB 617 Relating to: surplus retention limitations for providers of rate-based services purchased by the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Health Services, or a county department of human services, social services, community programs, or developmental disabilities services. (FE) Died at session end 2015
SB 618 Relating to: the crime of child sex trafficking, the inclusion of child sex trafficking in the definition of child abuse, the investigation of a child abuse report in which a person who is not a caregiver of the child is suspected of permitting, allowing, or encouraging the child to engage in prostitution or of child sex trafficking for purposes of a commercial sex act, and providing a penalty. (FE) Became law 2015
SB 636 Relating to: making unemployed veterans eligible for the Transform Milwaukee Jobs and Transitional Jobs programs. (FE) Died at session end 2015
SB 737 Relating to: increasing funding for grants to provide skills enhancement services, modifying eligibility requirements for receiving services funded by those grants, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2015
SB 804 Relating to: the transfer of juvenile correctional services from the Department of Corrections to the Department of Children and Families and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AB 1016 Relating to: payment of Wisconsin Shares child care subsidies. (FE) Died at session end 2015
AJR 109 Relating to: requesting the department of health services and the department of children and families to seek waiver approval to create a sliding scale for eligibility for public benefit programs. Died at session end 2015
SJR 102 Relating to: requesting the department of health services and the department of children and families to seek waiver approval to create a sliding scale for eligibility for public benefit programs. Died at session end 2015
AB 40 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2013 legislature. (FE) Became law 2013
AB 49 Relating to: increasing the funding for grants to provide skills enhancement services and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2013
SB 18 Relating to: recodification of the child abuse and neglect reporting law; making probation agents, parole agents, and certain employees, contractors, and volunteers of schools and institutions of higher education mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect; requiring training for certain mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect; definitions of physical injury and neglect for purposes of mandated reporting of child abuse and neglect; requiring child protective service agencies to notify tribal agents of reports of suspected child abuse or neglect; and granting rule-making authority. Died at session end 2013
SB 25 Relating to: increasing the funding for grants to provide skills enhancement services and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2013
AB 150 Relating to: posttermination of parental rights contact between a child and a birth relative of the child; disclosure of the name and address of an out-of-home placement of a child; sharing of home study reports with another agency; elimination of home studies for certain proposed adoptive parents; disclosure of the name and last-known address of a proposed adoptive parent of a child to an agency that is determining the availability of an adoptive placement for a sibling of the child; providing full faith and credit to a tribal court proceeding for a suspension of parental rights or an adoption under tribal law or custom; and jurisdiction over and venue for an adoption petition. (FE) Died at session end 2013
AB 151 Relating to: the right of a parent to have counsel in a proceeding for a child alleged to be in need of protection or services; the power of the juvenile court to appoint counsel in such a proceeding; and elimination of the right to a jury trial in such a proceeding or in a proceeding for termination of parental rights; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2013
AB 176 Relating to: temporary restraining orders and injunctions for domestic abuse, child abuse, individuals at risk, and harassment, confidential name change petitions, and ex parte orders with a judge substitution. (FE) Became law 2013
AB 192 Relating to: the investigation of a child abuse report in which a person who is not a caregiver of the child is suspected of permitting, allowing, or encouraging the child to engage in prostitution. (FE) Died at session end 2013
AB 204 Relating to: granting victims of certain offenses a right to be accompanied by a victim advocate. Died at session end 2013
AB 232 Relating to: an optional incentive program for counties and tribes that identify fraudulent activity in certain public assistance programs, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2013
AB 300 Relating to: increasing funding for domestic abuse grants and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2013
AB 401 Relating to: a Transitional Jobs program. (FE) Died at session end 2013
AB 461 Relating to: the refund setoff for state debt collections. (FE) Died at session end 2013
AB 540 Relating to: a presumption that equalizing physical placement to the highest degree is in the child's best interest and child support changes, including prohibiting basing support on income over $150,000 per year, deducting the amount of health insurance premiums from the support amount, prohibiting increasing support above the standard amount, prohibiting orders that set minimum future support amounts, and requiring a support revision if there has been a substantial change in circumstances. (FE) Died at session end 2013
AB 566 Relating to: minors acknowledging paternity; service of the summons and petition in a paternity action when the respondent is deceased; the form for a paternity action summons; releasing a frozen bank account of a support obligor; determining eligibility for Wisconsin Shares; notices to, and the exercise of rights by, a guardian ad litem in an unborn child in need of protection or services proceeding; requiring a diligent investigation by an agency that receives a report of child abuse or neglect if the agency cannot identify an individual who is suspected of the abuse or neglect; eliminating a voluntary foster care education program; the prohibition against a person who has committed armed robbery from showing that he or she has been rehabilitated for purposes of being licensed, certified, or contracted with to provide child care (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Children and Families). Became law 2013
AB 630 Relating to: elimination of a provision that excepts spiritual treatment of a child in the law criminalizing physical abuse of a child and in the laws governing the practice of medicine or surgery, the investigation of child abuse or neglect, the administration of psychotropic medication to juveniles in correctional custody, and the election of Christian Science treatment in lieu of medical or surgical treatment. (FE) Died at session end 2013
AB 674 Relating to: placement of a child in a shelter care facility under a voluntary agreement. (FE) Became law 2013
AB 698 Relating to: a child care provider waking a sleeping child under two years of age and granting rule-making authority. Died at session end 2013
AB 754 Relating to: expanding eligibility for the earned income tax credit; hospital best practices for postpartum patients and newborns; hospital staff privileges and written agreements required for nurse-midwives; coverage of nurse-midwives under the injured patients and families compensation fund; a report on information related to hospital neonatal intensive care units; an electronic application and information system to determine eligibility and register for public assistance programs; directing the Department of Health Services to request a Medical Assistance waiver; evidence-based home visitation program services for persons who are at risk of poor birth outcomes or of abusing or neglecting their children; designating race and ethnicity on birth certificates; a report on fetal and infant mortality and birth outcomes; requiring informed consent for performance on pregnant women of certain elective procedures prior to the full gestational term of a fetus; cultural competency training for certain students enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System and the technical college system; granting rule-making authority; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2013
AB 776 Relating to: child abuse investigations when a court suspects a person of permitting, allowing, or encouraging a child to engage in prostitution and consent decrees or deferred prosecution agreements for such a child. (FE) Died at session end 2013
AB 840 Relating to: grants for homeless youths, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2013
AB 862 Relating to: payments to child care providers, preventing fraud in the child care subsidy program, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2013
AB 905 Relating to: the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional Jobs program, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2013
SB 161 Relating to: temporary restraining orders and injunctions for domestic abuse, child abuse, individuals at risk, and harassment, confidential name change petitions, and ex parte orders with a judge substitution. (FE) Died at session end 2013
SB 209 Relating to: the investigation of a child abuse report in which a person who is not a caregiver of the child is suspected of permitting, allowing, or encouraging the child to engage in prostitution. (FE) Died at session end 2013
SB 238 Relating to: an optional incentive program for counties and tribes that identify fraudulent activity in certain public assistance programs, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2013
SB 245 Relating to: applications for public assistance programs, offenses in public assistance programs, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) Became law 2013
SB 333 Relating to: a Transitional Jobs program. (FE) Became law 2013
SB 354 Relating to: granting victims of certain offenses a right to be accompanied by a victim advocate. Died at session end 2013
SB 361 Relating to: the refund setoff for state debt collections. (FE) Died at session end 2013
SB 418 Relating to: minors acknowledging paternity; service of the summons and petition in a paternity action when the respondent is deceased; the form for a paternity action summons; releasing a frozen bank account of a support obligor; determining eligibility for Wisconsin Shares; notices to, and the exercise of rights by, a guardian ad litem in an unborn child in need of protection or services proceeding; requiring a diligent investigation by an agency that receives a report of child abuse or neglect if the agency cannot identify an individual who is suspected of the abuse or neglect; eliminating a voluntary foster care education program; the prohibition against a person who has committed armed robbery from showing that he or she has been rehabilitated for purposes of being licensed, certified, or contracted with to provide child care (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Children and Families). Died at session end 2013
SB 451 Relating to: extended out-of-home care to 21 years of age for children with individualized education programs, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Became law 2013
SB 532 Relating to: placement of a child in a shelter care facility under a voluntary agreement. (FE) Died at session end 2013
SB 546 Relating to: expanding eligibility for the earned income tax credit; hospital best practices for postpartum patients and newborns; hospital staff privileges and written agreements required for nurse-midwives; coverage of nurse-midwives under the injured patients and families compensation fund; a report on information related to hospital neonatal intensive care units; an electronic application and information system to determine eligibility and register for public assistance programs; directing the Department of Health Services to request a Medical Assistance waiver; evidence-based home visitation program services for persons who are at risk of poor birth outcomes or of abusing or neglecting their children; designating race and ethnicity on birth certificates; a report on fetal and infant mortality and birth outcomes; requiring informed consent for performance on pregnant women of certain elective procedures prior to the full gestational term of a fetus; cultural competency training for certain students enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System and the technical college system; granting rule-making authority; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2013
SB 676 Relating to: education and training under Wisconsin Works; reducing Wisconsin Works benefits; a minimum copayment, maximum child care hours, and reducing income based on marriage for eligibility under Wisconsin Shares; changes to the food stamp program relating to financial eligibility for benefits, allowing an election to reduce benefits, recouping unused benefits, and prohibiting supplier discounts; prohibiting advertising concerning means-tested public assistance on radio or television; requiring consideration of the income and assets of all individuals in a household for purposes of eligibility for any means-tested public assistance; eligibility requirements for persons or families of low and moderate income to receive certain housing, housing assistance, grants, loans, or benefits from the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority, the Department of Administration, and local housing authorities; reducing the authority of local housing authorities; eligibility requirement for purposes of receiving low-income energy assistance; prohibiting new claims under the earned income tax credit; limiting eligibility for the homestead tax credit; elimination of certain grant programs administered by the Higher Educational Aids Board and transfer of the unencumbered balances in the appropriations for those programs to the University of Wisconsin System for the purpose of tuition reduction; consideration of the income and assets of both parents of a student under 22 years of age for purposes of awarding a grant or scholarship to such a student and the permissible uses of grant or scholarship moneys awarded; income eligibility requirements for enrollment in a private school participating in a parental choice program; the school lunch program; and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2013