Subjects

Day care

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

• AB 21 Relating to: technical colleges’ lease of their facilities to others. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 33 Relating to: representations depicting nudity and providing a penalty. Died at session end 2025
• AB 50 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 26 Relating to: technical colleges’ lease of their facilities to others. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 33 Relating to: representations depicting nudity and providing a penalty. Became law 2025
• SB 45 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE) Became law 2025
• AB 171 Relating to: privacy protections for judicial officers. Died at session end 2025
• AB 280 Relating to: workforce housing and childcare awards under the business development tax credit. (FE) Became law 2025
• AB 283 Relating to: making certain child care expenditures eligible for the business development tax credit. (FE) Died at session end 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 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 369 Relating to: a tax credit for employer-provided child care. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 378 Relating to: prohibiting the state from sharing data with the federal government that contains personally identifiable information if the data is not first masked or otherwise anonymized and authorizing a civil cause of action for negligent violations of that prohibition. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 395 Relating to: equipment of school buses with audiovisual recording devices. Died at session end 2025
• AB 398 Relating to: including information about immunization waivers in enrollment or admission materials for schools, child care centers, and nursery schools. 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 667 Relating to: prohibiting a law enforcement agency from accessing personal data in exchange for payment without a warrant. 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 855 Relating to: synthetic digital representations and providing a penalty. Died at session end 2025
• AB 891 Relating to: eliminating personal conviction exemption from immunizations. Died at session end 2025
• SB 169 Relating to: privacy protections for judicial officers. Became law 2025
• SB 286 Relating to: workforce housing and childcare awards under the business development tax credit. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 291 Relating to: making certain child care expenditures eligible for the business development tax credit. (FE) Vetoed 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 369 Relating to: prohibiting the state from sharing data with the federal government that contains personally identifiable information if the data is not first masked or otherwise anonymized and authorizing a civil cause of action for negligent violations of that prohibition. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 376 Relating to: a tax credit for employer-provided child care. (FE) Became law 2025
• SB 391 Relating to: equipment of school buses with audiovisual recording devices. Became law 2025
• SB 437 Relating to: automated external defibrillators in child care centers and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 447 Relating to: including information about immunization waivers in enrollment or admission materials for schools, child care centers, and nursery schools. Died at session end 2025
• SB 679 Relating to: prohibiting a law enforcement agency from accessing personal data in exchange for payment without a warrant. 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 815 Relating to: synthetic digital representations and providing a penalty. Died at session end 2025
• SB 950 Relating to: eliminating personal conviction exemption from immunizations. 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
• SB 992 Relating to: references to like-kin under the Wisconsin Shares program. Died at session end 2025
• AB 1008 Relating to: references to like-kin under the Wisconsin Shares program. 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 1017 Relating to: child care subsidies for custodial parents who are child care employees 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 1094 Relating to: dissemination of personally identifying information of an officer and providing a penalty. Died at session end 2025
• AB 1107 Relating to: requiring carbon monoxide detectors in child care centers and schools, grants for placing carbon monoxide detectors in schools, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 1118 Relating to: refundability of the additional child and dependent care tax credit and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 1155 Relating to: protection of pregnant individuals’ information, authorization for disclosure, data breach, and providing a penalty. 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 1016 Relating to: child care subsidies for custodial parents who are child care employees 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 1065 Relating to: requiring carbon monoxide detectors in child care centers and schools, grants for placing carbon monoxide detectors in schools, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 1067 Relating to: dissemination of personally identifying information of an officer and providing a penalty. Died at session end 2025
• SB 1074 Relating to: refundability of the additional child and dependent care tax credit and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 1079 Relating to: Wisconsin Shares copayment amounts and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 1119 Relating to: protection of pregnant individuals’ information, authorization for disclosure, data breach, and providing a penalty. Died at session end 2025
• SJR 111 Relating to: proclaiming the months of October 2025 and October 2026 as Cybersecurity Awareness Month. 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
• SB 70 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2023 legislature. (FE) Became law 2023
• AB 387 Relating to: creating a child care reimbursement account program, providing an income tax subtraction for certain contributions to a child care reimbursement account, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• AB 388 Relating to: creating a child care center renovations loan program. (FE) Vetoed 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 429 Relating to: eliminating personal conviction exemption from immunizations. 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 557 Relating to: inclusion of like-kin as an option for with whom children may be placed out of their home under certain circumstances and who may receive kinship care payments. Died at session end 2023
• AB 660 Relating to: creating a tax credit for employer child care programs and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 421 Relating to: creating a child care center renovations loan program. (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 426 Relating to: creating a child care reimbursement account program, providing an income tax subtraction for certain contributions to a child care reimbursement account, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 442 Relating to: eliminating personal conviction exemption from immunizations. 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 520 Relating to: inclusion of like-kin as an option for with whom children may be placed out of their home under certain circumstances and who may receive kinship care payments. Became law 2023
• SB 623 Relating to: creating a tax credit for employer child care programs and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 973 Relating to: requiring the community approach to four-year-old kindergarten. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 976 Relating to: expanding the child and dependent care credit. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• AB 1023 Relating to: expanding the child and dependent care credit. (FE) Became law 2023
• AB 1035 Relating to: requiring the community approach to four-year-old kindergarten. (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
• AB 1200 Relating to: requiring carbon monoxide detectors in child care centers and schools. (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 1 Relating to: state government actions to address the COVID-19 pandemic, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Vetoed 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 68 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2021 legislature. (FE) Became law 2021
• AB 132 Relating to: immunization-related mail. 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 148 Relating to: supplementary funding from the federal child care and development fund block grant. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• SB 150 Relating to: immunization-related mail. 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 1145 Relating to: housing and homelessness; 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 2021
• AB 1164 Relating to: testing for PFAS in schools and daycares and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• SB 1045 Relating to: housing and homelessness; 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 2021
• SB 1067 Relating to: testing for PFAS in schools and daycares and making an appropriation. (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 248 Relating to: eliminating personal conviction exemption from immunizations. Died at session end 2019
• AB 268 Relating to: creating a grant program to support after-school and out-of-school-time programs, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• AB 475 Relating to: testing for lead in drinking water in facilities used for recreational and educational camps and child care. (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 619 Relating to: an airport sound mitigation grant program and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• AB 783 Relating to: immunization-related mail. Died at session end 2019
• AB 938 Relating to: allowing certain child care providers to participate in the teacher loan program 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 258 Relating to: creating a grant program to support after-school and out-of-school-time programs, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• SB 262 Relating to: eliminating personal conviction exemption from immunizations. Died at session end 2019
• SB 424 Relating to: testing for lead in drinking water in facilities used for recreational and educational camps and child care. (FE) 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 826 Relating to: allowing certain child care providers to participate in the teacher loan program 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 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 96 Relating to: supply and use of epinephrine auto-injectors by certain authorized individuals. (FE) Became law 2017
• SB 30 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2017 legislature. Died at session end 2017
• AB 241 Relating to: mitigating the benefit drop-off in Wisconsin Shares. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• AB 298 Relating to: testing for lead in drinking water in buildings used for child care and granting 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 858 Relating to: school conference and activities leave. (FE) Died at session end 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 941 Relating to: iron or steel slag managed as an item of value. Became law 2017
• AB 949 Relating to: testing for lead in facilities serving certain children and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• SB 201 Relating to: mitigating the benefit drop-off in Wisconsin Shares. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• SB 209 Relating to: supply and use of epinephrine auto-injectors by certain authorized individuals. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• SB 526 Relating to: testing for lead in drinking water in buildings used for child care and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 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 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 855 Relating to: testing for lead in facilities serving certain children and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (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
• SB 21 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2015 legislature. Became law 2015
• AB 170 Relating to: regulating the use of vapor products. Died at session end 2015
• AB 203 Relating to: supply and use of epinephrine auto-injectors by certain authorized entities. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 263 Relating to: requiring a person who provides care for children without compensation to obtain a child care center license. 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 385 Relating to: amending various rules promulgated by the Department of Children and Families governing the certification of child care operators, governing the licensing of child welfare agencies, and establishing standards for the operation of child care centers; and eliminating rules promulgated by the Department of Children and Families related to retaining public assistance case records. Died at session end 2015
• AB 457 Relating to: the method used by a county clerk to notify town clerks of certain county zoning actions. (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 667 Relating to: model procedures for investigating reports of abuse or neglect involving children with disabilities. (FE) Became law 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 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 900 Relating to: collective bargaining for public employees, prohibiting employees other than public safety employees from bargaining collectively on insurance contributions and employee required contributions to retirement, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 924 Relating to: eliminating personal conviction exemption from immunizations. Died at session end 2015
• SB 132 Relating to: regulating the use of vapor products. Died at session end 2015
• SB 139 Relating to: supply and use of epinephrine auto-injectors by certain authorized entities. (FE) Became law 2015
• SB 191 Relating to: requiring a person who provides care for children without compensation to obtain a child care center license. 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 304 Relating to: amending various rules promulgated by the Department of Children and Families governing the certification of child care operators, governing the licensing of child welfare agencies, and establishing standards for the operation of child care centers; and eliminating rules promulgated by the Department of Children and Families related to retaining public assistance case records. Became law 2015
• SB 313 Relating to: the method used by a county clerk to notify town clerks of certain county zoning actions. (FE) Became law 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 666 Relating to: collective bargaining for public employees, prohibiting employees other than public safety employees from bargaining collectively on insurance contributions and employee required contributions to retirement, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 1011 Relating to: extended out-of-home care to 21 years of age for persons who are completing secondary education, enrolled in postsecondary or vocational education, participating in an employment program or activity, employed at least part-time, or incapable of doing any of those activities due to a medical condition, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, 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
• AB 40 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2013 legislature. (FE) Became law 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
• AB 225 Relating to: various changes in the campaign finance laws; exemption of certain electors from the requirement to present proof of identification when voting in an election; identifying documentation to establish proof of residency for voter registration; recording the type of identifying document provided as proof of residence; limiting the times for voting by absentee ballot in person; the method of reporting election returns by municipalities; fees for election recounts; the method of recounting votes cast with automatic tabulating equipment; residency of election officials; recall petition requirements; the procedure for recounting ballots when electors voting in person are required to sign the poll list and fail to do so; challenging an elector's registration during recount proceedings; witness addresses on absentee ballot certificates; nominees submitted by the Government Accountability Board candidate committee; securing ballot containers; party representation for election officials serving at polling places; and scheduling of referendums. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• AB 309 Relating to: requiring the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation to disclose certain expenditure information and information relating to contracts and grants. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• AB 443 Relating to: the unexplained absence of a child receiving care from a child care provider. Died at session end 2013
• AB 551 Relating to: smoking in private residences that are used as child care centers. (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 676 Relating to: prohibiting the disclosure of a determination that a person has abused or neglected a child for purposes of a caregiver background check when that abuse or neglect has not been substantiated. Became law 2013
• AB 677 Relating to: rule-making procedures; amending various rules promulgated by the Department of Children and Families governing the certification of child care operators, governing the licensing of child welfare agencies, and establishing standards for the operation of child care centers; and eliminating rules promulgated by the Department of Children and Families related to retaining public assistance case records and the transitional jobs demonstration project. Died at session end 2013
• AB 689 Relating to: transferring responsibility over biennial updating of voter registration list to the Government Accountability Board. (FE) Died at session end 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 757 Relating to: creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit based on the federal tax credit for certain expenses for household and dependent care services. (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
• 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 528 Relating to: prohibiting the disclosure of a determination that a person has abused or neglected a child for purposes of a caregiver background check when that abuse or neglect has not been substantiated. Died at session end 2013
• SB 548 Relating to: transferring responsibility over biennial updating of voter registration list to the Government Accountability Board. (FE) Became law 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