Wisconsin 2019-2020 Regular Session Status: Enacted Bipartisan · 15 R · 4 D cosponsors

AB 531 — Relating to: requiring that student identification cards include contact information for suicide prevention hotlines. (FE)

Last action — Published 3-3-2020

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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced October 14, 2019. Enacted.

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  • 37 sponsors

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    Sponsored across 2 parties (15 R · 4 D) — cross-party backing.

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Plain-language change summary

The recent changes to Assembly Bill 531 focus on updating the contact information provided for suicide prevention resources on student identification cards. Specifically, the bill now replaces mentions of just the "Lifeline" with "Lifeline or one of its affiliate crisis centers," and it also includes the "Crisis Text Line" as a resource. These updates are important because they ensure that students have access to a broader range of mental health support options directly on their ID cards, potentially saving lives by making help more accessible.

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- 2020 LEGISLATURE LRBa0700/1 ARG&KRP:amn ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 1, TO ASSEMBLY BILL 531 October 28, 2019 - Offered by RepresentatTAFSHOLT.
- 2020 LEGISLATURE LRB-4178/1 KRP&ARG:amn ASSEMBLY BILL 531 October 14, 2019 - Introduced by RepresentativeTAFSHOLT, B.MEYERS , ALLWEG , C ABRERA, DOYLE , DUCHOW , EDMING , FELZKOWSKI , JAMES, KNODL , KURTZ , LOUDENBECK , MAGNAFICI, M ILRO, M URSAU , NEUBAUER , OLDENBURG , O TT, PETERSEN , PETRYK, PLUMER , RONSCHINSKE , RAMTHUN , RIEMER, RODRIGUEZ , R OHRKASTE, SANFELIPPO, CHRAA , SPIRO, C.T AYLOR, ITTL, TRANEL, VINING, V RUWINK, WICHGERS, WITTKEand ZIMMERMAN , cosponsored by SenatorsLSEN , B ERNIER, ARPENTER , .T AYLORand S CHACHTNER .
At the locations indicated, amend the bill as follows:
Referred to Committee on Education.
A N A CT to renumber and amend 118.169;
and to create 39.54, 118.169 (title) and 118.169 (2) of the statutes;
relating to:
requiring that student identification cards include contact information for suicide prevention hotlines.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau This bill provides that, if a school board, operator of an independent charter school, or governing body of a private school, or an institution of higher education (college), issues identification cards to, respectively, pupils or college students, the school board, operator, or governing body, or the college, shall include on the identification card certain contact information for suicide prevention and crisis support hotlines.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
S ECTION 1.
39.54 of the statutes is created to read:
39.54 Information on student identification cards.
(1) D EFINITION.In this section, “institution of higher education" has the meaning given in s.
39.53 (1).
- 2020 Legislature - 2 - LRB-4178/1 KRP&ARG:amn ASSEMBLY BILL 531 S ECTION 1 (2) SUICIDE PREVENTION INFORMATION ON IDENTIFICATION CARDS.
(a) If an institution of higher education issues identification cards to students, the institution of higher education shall include on each identification card issued to a student the telephone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline or, if the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline ceases operations, another national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to individuals in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
The institution of higher education may also include on the identification card any of the following information:
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A statement that the text-based emotional support service of the Center for Suicide Awareness, Inc., may be accessed by texting HOPELINE to 741741 or, if applicable, by specifying any successor method.
delete “Lifeline or" and substitute “Lifeline or one of its affiliate crisis centers or".
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Instructions for contacting a text-based state or national organization, other than the organization described under subd.
delete the material beginning with “Center" and ending with “Inc.," on line 11 and substitute “Crisis Text Line”.
1., that provides free support to individuals in crisis 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
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The telephone number for a local suicide prevention hotline.
delete “Lifeline or" and substitute “Lifeline or one of its affiliate crisis centers or".
(b) An institution of higher education may include the information described under par.
4.
(a) on student identification cards by printing the information on, or by affixing a sticker that contains the information to, the identification cards.
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S ECTION 2.
delete the material beginning with “Center" and ending with “Inc.," on line 20 and substitute “Crisis Text Line”.
118.169 (title) of the statutes is created to read:
118.169 (title) Pupil identification.
S ECTION 3.
118.169 of the statutes is renumbered 118.169 (1) and amended to read:
118.169 (1) PUPIL IDENTIFICATIODENTIFICATION NUMBERS.
A school board, and the governing body of a private school, may assign to each pupil enrolled in the school LRB-4178/1 - 2020 Legislature - 3 - KRP&ARG:amn SECTION 3 ASSEMBLY BILL 531 district or private school a unique identification number.
The school board or governing body shall may not assign to any pupil an identification number that is identical to or incorporates the pupil's social security numberThis section subsection does not prohibit a school board or governing body from requiring a pupil to disclose his or her pupil's social security number, nor from using a student's pupil's social security number if such the use is required by a federal or state agency or private organization in order for the school district or private school to participate in a particular program.
S ECTION 4.
118.169 (2) of the statutes is created to read:
118.169 (2) IDENTIFICATION CARDS.(a) If a school board, operator of a charter school under s.
118.40 (2r) or (2x), or governing body of a private school issues identification cards to pupils, the school board, operator, or governing body shall include on each identification card issued to a pupil the telephone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline or, if the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline ceases operations, another national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to individuals in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
The school board, operator, or governing body may also include on the identification card any of the following information:
1.
A statement that the text-based emotional support service of the Center for Suicide Awareness, Inc., may be accessed by texting HOPELINE to 741741 or, if applicable, by specifying any successor method.
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Instructions for contacting a text-based state or national organization, other than the organization described under subd.
1., that provides free support to individuals in crisis 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
3.
The telephone number for a local suicide prevention hotline.
- 2020 Legislature - 4 - LRB-4178/1 KRP&ARG:amn ASSEMBLY BILL 531 SECTION 4 (b) A school board, operator of a charter school under s.
118.40 (2r) or (2x), or governing body of a private school may include the information described under par.
(a) on pupil identification cards by printing the information on, or by affixing a sticker that contains the information to, the identification cards.
SECTION 5.0Nonstatutory provisions.
(1) Notwithstanding s.
39.54 (2), if, on the effective date of this subsection, an institution of higher education, as defined in s.
39.54 (1), that issues identification cards to students has a supply of unissued identification cards that do not comply with the requirements under s.
39.54 (2), the institution of higher education may continue issuing identification cards from the supply until the supply is depleted.
(2) Notwithstanding s.
118.169 (2), if, on the effective date of this subsection, a school board, operator of a charter school under s.
118.40 (2r) or (2x), or governing body of a private school that issues identification cards to pupils has a supply of unissued identification cards that do not comply with the requirements under s.
118.169 (2), the school board, operator, or governing body may continue issuing identification cards from the supply until the supply is depleted.
SECTION 6.0Initial applicability.
(1) The treatment of ss.
39.54 and 118.169 (2) first applies to an identification card issued on the effective date of this subsection.
SECTION 7.0Effective date.
(1) This act takes effect on July 1, 2020.
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Action History

  1. Published 3-3-2020

  2. Report approved by the Governor on 3-2-2020. 2019 Wisconsin Act 116

  3. Presented to the Governor on 2-25-2020

  4. Report correctly enrolled on 2-17-2020

  5. Action ordered immediately messaged

  6. Senate Amendment 1 concurred in

  7. Placed on calendar 2-11-2020 by Committee on Rules

  8. Referred to committee on Rules

  9. Received from Senate amended and concurred in as amended (Senate amendment 1 adopted)

  10. Ordered immediately messaged

  11. Read a third time and concurred in as amended

  12. Rules suspended

  13. Ordered to a third reading

  14. Senate Amendment 1 adopted

  15. Read a second time

  16. Senator Larson added as a cosponsor

  17. Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senators Craig, Kooyenga, Stroebel, Kapenga and Nass

  18. Placed on calendar 1-21-2020 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  19. Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0

  20. Available for scheduling

  21. Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

  22. Received from Assembly

  23. Ordered immediately messaged

  24. Read a third time and passed

  25. Rules suspended

  26. Ordered to a third reading

  27. Assembly Amendment 1 adopted

  28. Read a second time

  29. Placed on calendar 11-7-2019 by Committee on Rules

  30. Referred to committee on Rules

  31. Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 14, Noes 0

  32. Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 12, Noes 0

  33. Executive action taken

  34. Representative Bowen added as a coauthor

  35. Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Stafsholt

  36. Representative Kitchens added as a coauthor

  37. Public hearing held

  38. Fiscal estimate received

  39. Fiscal estimate received

  40. Fiscal estimate received

  41. Representative Subeck added as a coauthor

  42. Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  43. Introduced by Representatives Stafsholt, B. Meyers, Ballweg, Cabrera, Doyle, Duchow, Edming, Felzkowski, James, Knodl, Kurtz, Loudenbeck, Magnafici, Milroy, Mursau, Neubauer, Oldenburg, Ott, Petersen, Petryk, Plumer, Pronschinske, Ramthun, Riemer, Rodriguez, Rohrkaste, Sanfelippo, Schraa, Spiros, C. Taylor, Tittl, Tranel, Vining, Vruwink, Wichgers, Wittke and Zimmerman; cosponsored by Senators Olsen, Bernier, Carpenter, L. Taylor and Schachtner

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Who sponsors AB 531?
AB 531 is sponsored by Stafsholt, Rob (Republican), B. Meyers, Ballweg, Cabrera, Doyle, Steve (Democrat), Duchow, Cindi (Republican), Edming, Felzkowski, Mary (Republican), James, Knodl, Daniel (Republican), Loudenbeck, Magnafici, Milroy, Mursau, Jeffrey (Republican), Neubauer, Greta (Democrat), Oldenburg, Ott, Petersen, Kevin (Republican), Petryk, Plumer, Pronschinske, Treig (Republican), Ramthun, Riemer, Rodriguez, Jessie (Republican), Rohrkaste, Sanfelippo, Schraa, Spiros, John (Republican), Tittl, Paul (Republican), Tranel, Travis (Republican), Vruwink, Wichgers, Chuck (Republican), Zimmerman, Shannon (Republican), Wittke, Robert (Republican), Vining, Robyn (Democrat), Taylor, Sequanna (Democrat), and Kurtz, Tony (Republican).
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