Bills by subject

Public assistance

52 bills and resolutions. 12 became law, 1 was vetoed, and 16 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.

SB 45 State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Became law. Last action May 13, 2026
SB 610 Increasing the maximum penalty for certain controlled substances offenses if the violation occurs near a homeless shelter and providing a penalty.
Vetoed by the governor. Last action May 13, 2026
AB 778 Eligibility for the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional Jobs program. (FE)
Became law. Last action Apr 2, 2026
AB 49 A minor’s authority to consent to health care.
Stopped in committee. Last action 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. Last action Mar 23, 2026

Every bill on this subject

2025–26 session: 20

Mar 23, 2026
AB 49: A minor’s authority to consent to health care.
Stopped in committee.
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 607: 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)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 624: Increasing the maximum penalty for certain controlled substances offenses if the violation occurs near a homeless shelter and providing a penalty.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 625: Pay for performance grant requirements. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 631: Use of public lands to provide temporary residence for the homeless and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 2, 2026
AB 778: Eligibility for the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional Jobs program. (FE)
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.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1090: The statewide policy regarding homelessness, an income tax credit for property taxes paid by senior citizens, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.

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Mar 23, 2026
AB 1174: Certain vacancies in public office.
Stopped in committee.
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 70: A minor’s authority to consent to health care.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 605: 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)
Stopped in committee.
May 13, 2026
SB 610: Increasing the maximum penalty for certain controlled substances offenses if the violation occurs near a homeless shelter and providing a penalty.
Vetoed by the governor.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 614: Pay for performance grant requirements. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 621: Use of public lands to provide temporary residence for the homeless and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 767: Eligibility for the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional Jobs program. (FE)
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 997: Funding for grants for economic support specialists and making an appropriation. (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.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 58: State finances, compensation and fringe benefits of public employees, the Medical Assistance program, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 173: Local ordinances, determining the lawful presence of a person arrested for or charged with a crime or certain civil violations, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 222: Requiring documentary evidence of citizenship or satisfactory immigration status for public assistance programs, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 244: Restricting eligibility for the homestead tax credit.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 534: Intentional program violations of public assistance programs.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
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 175: Restricting eligibility for the homestead tax credit.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 400: Reorganization of chapter 49 of the statutes, changes affecting public assistance programs, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 5, 2012
SB 426: Intentional program violations of public assistance programs.
Became law.

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Mar 23, 2012
SB 450: Collecting workforce survey information from health care providers.
Stopped in committee.

2009–10 session: 21

Apr 28, 2010
AB 72: Grants for providing shelter for homeless individuals and families in the vicinity of the state capitol building and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
May 26, 2010
AB 75: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2009 legislature.
Became law.
May 18, 2009
AB 255: Eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits and payment of extended benefits; excluding recovery and reinvestment act moneys from the calculation of expenditure restraint payments; eligibility for participation in the programs of a community action agency; financial assistance under the Clean Water Fund Program and the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program; the confidentiality of pupil records provided to the Department of Public Instruction; financial assistance for criminal justice programs; authorizing political subdivisions to make residential energy efficiency improvement loans and impose special charges for the loans; definition of low-income household under energy and weatherization assistance programs; eligibility and notice changes for state continuation of coverage for health insurance; changes to enterprise zone jobs credits; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 374: Emergency assistance grants.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 586: Reimbursement of a governmental unit that provides public assistance to pay medical costs occasioned by an injury for which worker's compensation is claimed and payment of a percentage of that reimbursement to an injured employee's attorney who obtains an award of worker's compensation for that injury.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 832: Maximum amount of funeral and burial expenses under the funeral, burial, and cemetery expenses program.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 845: A biometric fingerprint identification system for enrollment and monitoring child care attendance under Wisconsin Shares.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 878: A grant for providing assistance to individuals to obtain and maintain health care benefits and making an appropriation.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
May 17, 2010
AB 898: Trial job program and transitional jobs demonstration project and making an appropriation.
Became law.
Mar 9, 2010
AJR 113: Proclaiming March 2010 as Professional Social Work Month.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.

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