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WI AB 158

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Relating to: changing the conditions of liability for worker’s compensation benefits for emergency medical responders, emergency medical services practitioners, volunteer firefighters, correctional officers, emergency dispatchers, coroners and coroner staff, and medical examiners and medical examiner staff. (FE)

Wisconsin · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did WI AB 158 pass?

No. WI AB 158 did not pass — it was defeated or died in the legislative process (2026-03-23). Latest recorded action (2026-03-23): Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

What is WI AB 158 about?

WI AB 158 is a bill in the 2025-2026 Regular Session titled “Relating to: changing the conditions of liability for worker’s compensation benefits for emergency medical responders, emergency medical services practitioners, volunteer firefighters, correctional officers, emergency dispatchers, coroners and coroner staff, and medical examiners and medical examiner staff. (FE)”.

Who sponsors WI AB 158?

Wittke, Subeck, Steffen and 13 others are the primary sponsors of WI AB 158.

Introduced
2025-04-02
Latest action
2026-03-23 — Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Bill type
bill
Last updated

Sponsors

  • Wittkeprimary
  • Subeckprimary
  • Steffenprimary
  • Pronschinskeprimary
  • Piwowarczykprimary
  • Novakprimary
  • Mursauprimary
  • Miresseprimary
  • Melotikprimary
  • Kreibichprimary
  • Kitchensprimary
  • Gustafsonprimary
  • Greenprimary
  • Callahanprimary
  • Behnkeprimary
  • Armstrongprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-04-02

    Introduced by Representatives Armstrong, Behnke, Callahan, Green, Gustafson, Kitchens, Kreibich, Melotik, Miresse, Mursau, Novak, Piwowarczyk, Pronschinske, Steffen, Subeck and Wittke; cosponsored by Senators Jacque, Marklein, Keyeski and Spreitzer

    introduction

  2. 2025-04-02

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment

    reading-1,referral-committee

  3. 2025-04-08

    Representatives Palmeri and Fitzgerald added as coauthors

  4. 2025-04-10

    Representative Udell added as a coauthor

  5. 2025-04-22

    Representative Neubauer added as a coauthor

  6. 2025-04-22

    Fiscal estimate received

    receipt

  7. 2025-05-13

    Representative McCarville added as a coauthor

  8. 2025-07-30

    Representative Snodgrass added as a coauthor

  9. 2025-08-25

    Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a coauthor

  10. 2025-11-24

    Representative Rivera-Wagner added as a coauthor

  11. 2026-03-06

    Representative Brown added as a coauthor

  12. 2026-03-10

    Representative Billings added as a coauthor

  13. 2026-03-19

    Representative Anderson added as a coauthor

  14. 2026-03-19

    Representative Emerson added as a coauthor

  15. 2026-03-20

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor

  16. 2026-03-23

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

    failure

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