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WI SB589

Bill

Status

Introduced

10/24/2025

Primary Sponsor

Dianne Hesselbein

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Establishes a statutory right for individuals to obtain contraceptives and engage in contraception, and a corresponding right for health care providers to provide contraceptives, contraception, and contraception-related information

  • Prohibits the state and political subdivisions from enforcing any law that restricts the sale, provision, or use of FDA-approved contraceptives, or that restricts anyone from helping another person obtain contraceptives

  • Requires any party defending restrictions on contraception access to prove by clear and convincing evidence that the restriction significantly advances safety and that no less restrictive alternative exists

  • Allows the attorney general, individuals, health care providers, or patients to bring civil actions against violators, with courts authorized to grant injunctive relief and award costs and attorney fees to prevailing plaintiffs

  • Covers FDA-approved contraceptives including oral contraceptives, long-acting reversible contraceptives, emergency contraceptives, condoms, injectables, vaginal barrier methods, patches, and rings, as well as fertility-awareness-based methods and sterilization procedures

Legislative Description

Statutory right to contraception.

Last Action

Representative Roe added as a cosponsor

3/12/2026

Committee Referrals

Licensing, Regulatory Reform, State and Federal Affairs10/24/2025

Full Bill Text

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