Bills by subject

Health Services, Department of: Administration

61 bills and resolutions. 8 became law, 1 was vetoed, and 27 never got a public hearing. They span 3 sessions, from the 2009–10 session to the 2025–26 session.

This is the Legislature's own subject heading, not our category, so a bill is here only if the Legislature filed it under this term. Each count comes from the bill's official history.

Latest activity

The 5 bills on this subject with the newest recorded action.

AB 1027 Requiring information relating to the food stamp program to be compiled and provided to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor. Last action May 13, 2026
SB 45 State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Became law. Last action May 13, 2026
AB 854 Violence prevention grants and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee. Last action Apr 9, 2026
AB 969 The drug repository program.
Became law. Last action Apr 9, 2026
AB 1168 Medical debt abolition and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee. Last action Apr 8, 2026

Every bill on this subject

2025–26 session: 47

Mar 23, 2026
AB 12: State agency status for certain physician assistants and advanced practice nurses who provide services without compensation for local health departments or school districts. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 23: Establishment of a Palliative Care Council. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 50: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 62: Health care costs omnibus, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 163: Redeterminations of eligibility for the Medical Assistance program and database confirmation for public assistance program eligibility. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 2, 2026
AB 192: Fatality review teams and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 340: Payment for school medical services. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 353: Price transparency in hospitals, restricting certain debt collection actions against patients, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 499: Coverage of nonopioid drug alternatives for the treatment and management of pain.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 547: Regulating medical cannabis, the prescription drug monitoring program, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.

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Mar 23, 2026
AB 801: Mandatory participation in the Wisconsin Health Information Organization. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 802: A onetime grant to establish an online dashboard of health care claims information, funding to support increased operational costs for the Wisconsin Health Information Organization, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 9, 2026
AB 854: Violence prevention grants and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 27, 2026
AB 931: Grants to HealthNet of Rock County, Inc.; a reference to generalized public health nursing programs; and updating terminology from “advanced practice nurse prescriber” to “advanced practice registered nurse” (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Health Services).
Became law.
Apr 9, 2026
AB 969: The drug repository program.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 973: Grants for economic support specialists and making an appropriation. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1002: Funding for grants for economic support specialists and making an appropriation. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
May 13, 2026
AB 1027: Requiring information relating to the food stamp program to be compiled and provided to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1089: A Medical Assistance coordination working group. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1146: Minimum nurse staffing ratios in hospitals, registered nurses’ right to refuse a work assignment, prohibiting mandatory overtime for registered nurses, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 8, 2026
AB 1168: Medical debt abolition and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1170: Prescription drug cost reporting by manufacturers, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1224: Establishing a publicly financed health care plan for residents of this state, creating the office of the ombudsman for patient advocacy, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1237: Restoring private individual authority to bring a qui tam claim against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, actions by the attorney general against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Aug 11, 2025
SB 31: State agency status for certain physician assistants and advanced practice nurses who provide services without compensation for local health departments or school districts. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 39: Establishment of a Palliative Care Council. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
May 13, 2026
SB 45: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 50: Health care costs omnibus, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 192: Fatality review teams and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 349: Payment for school medical services. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 383: Price transparency in hospitals, restricting certain debt collection actions against patients, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 492: Coverage of nonopioid drug alternatives for the treatment and management of pain.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 534: Regulating medical cannabis, the prescription drug monitoring program, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 796: Mandatory participation in the Wisconsin Health Information Organization. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 797: A onetime grant to establish an online dashboard of health care claims information, funding to support increased operational costs for the Wisconsin Health Information Organization, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Apr 7, 2026
SB 842: Violence prevention grants and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 910: Grants to HealthNet of Rock County, Inc.; a reference to generalized public health nursing programs; and updating terminology from “advanced practice nurse prescriber” to “advanced practice registered nurse” (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Health Services).
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 977: Grants for economic support specialists and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 987: The drug repository program.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 997: Funding for grants for economic support specialists and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1010: Requiring information relating to the food stamp program to be compiled and provided to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1054: A Medical Assistance coordination working group. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1086: Restoring private individual authority to bring a qui tam claim against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, actions by the attorney general against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1115: Minimum nurse staffing ratios in hospitals, registered nurses’ right to refuse a work assignment, prohibiting mandatory overtime for registered nurses, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 8, 2026
SB 1132: Medical debt abolition and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1149: Prescription drug cost reporting by manufacturers, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1161: Ambulance staffing, late renewal and reinstatement of an emergency medical services practitioner license or emergency medical responder certificate, license and certification reciprocity standards for emergency medical responders and emergency medical services practitioners, and a tax subtraction for stipends received by volunteer emergency responders. (FE)
Stopped in committee.

2011–12 session: 11

Aug 2, 2012
AB 40: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2011 legislature.
Became law.
Jun 16, 2011
AB 148: Changes affecting state finances in the 2010-11 fiscal year and making an appropriation.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 530: Reports on implementation of federal health reform.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 617: Lodging establishments and restricting a local government's ability to prohibit or restrict a person from renting out of the person's residential dwelling.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 693: 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; requiring informed consent for performance of certain elective procedures prior to the full gestational term of a fetus; and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 27: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2011 legislature.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 450: Collecting workforce survey information from health care providers.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 482: Lodging establishments and restricting a local government's ability to prohibit or restrict an individual from renting his or her home.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 2, 2012
SB 519: Renewable energy goals for state energy consumption and for energy use by certain state agencies.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 532: 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; requiring informed consent for performance of certain elective procedures prior to the full gestational term of a fetus; and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.

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Mar 29, 2012
SB 563: Requiring legislation for agencies to take an action to, request federal moneys to, and use state moneys to assist the federal government to implement federal health reform and reports on implementation of federal health reform.
Stopped in committee.

2009–10 session: 3

Dates are each bill's latest recorded action. Every subject