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Read. Follow. Verify.Wisconsin SB 672 Prohibits Insurance and Medical Assistance Coverage for Transplants Involving Forced Organ Harvesting
Last action · March 23, 2026: Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1Sponsors: Cory Tomczyk and 16 others
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What This Bill Proposed
An Act to create 157.06 (15m) of the statutes; Relating to: prohibiting knowingly covering organ transplantation and related care under health insurance policies and the Medical Assistance program if the organ is transplanted in or originates from a country known to have participated in forced organ harvesting. (FE)
Enrollees in state-regulated health plans and the lose coverage for organ transplants and follow-up care if the procedure or organ source is linked to countries designated for forced organ harvesting, excluding emergency life-saving interventions.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Health insurance policyholders
Enrollees lose coverage for organ transplants and posttransplant care if the procedure or organ originates from a designated country.
Medical Assistance program participants
Participants are subject to coverage restrictions for organ transplants sourced from countries designated for forced organ harvesting.
Department of Health Services
The department is granted authority to designate countries known to have participated in forced organ harvesting.
Key Facts
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Frequently Asked Questions
Does this bill ban all organ transplants in Wisconsin?
Are life-saving medical services exempted from the ban?
Who determines which countries are included in the restriction?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Failed in the Senate.
Procedural history
8 actions- Mar 23, 2026SenateFailed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
- Feb 17, 2026SenateFiscal estimate received
- Feb 12, 2026SenateAvailable for scheduling
- Feb 12, 2026SenateFloorReport passage recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 3, Noes 2
- Feb 12, 2026SenateExecutive action taken
- Feb 4, 2026SenatePublic hearing held
Show 2 earlier actions
- Nov 20, 2025SenateIntroducedRead first time and referred to Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry
- Nov 20, 2025SenateIntroducedIntroduced by Senators Tomczyk, Testin, Jacque, Marklein and Nass; cosponsored by Representatives Moses, Dallman, O'Connor, Callahan, Kurtz, Goeben, Piwowarczyk, Mursau, Knodl, Melotik, Behnke and Brill
Version history
Only one version on file - nothing to compare yet. As later stages (committee substitute, engrossed, enrolled) are captured, the redline appears here.
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Full breakdown
Who this bill affects and the strongest case for and against it, written only from the bill’s own text.
Sponsors
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Sources
docs.legis.wisconsin.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 60)
- Controversy65Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz40Current news / social attention level
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