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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to: harassment of search and rescue dogs and providing a penalty."
+description: "Relating to: harassment of search and rescue dogs and providing a penalty."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
+legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "AB 239"
+citation: "Wisconsin AB 239 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Andraca", "Behnke", "Dittrich", "Green", "Gundrum", "Mursau", "Nedweski", "Novak", "O'Connor", "Piwowarczyk", "Subeck"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 34
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-05-02T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8567bc93-d986-47f4-ac5d-f45fef79e283"
+source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab239"
+source_hash: "a03e85d8f02cc0f457913eb065a0f0fad4bdcc22850592b7bef755d06cc9d34b"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wi"]
+---
+
+# Wisconsin AB 239 (2025) — Relating to: harassment of search and rescue dogs and providing a penalty.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB239)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 — **8–0** (pass) · upper
+- Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 15, Noes 0 — **15–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Andraca — primary (person)
+- Behnke — primary (person)
+- Dittrich — primary (person)
+- Green — primary (person)
+- Gundrum — primary (person)
+- Mursau — primary (person)
+- Nedweski — primary (person)
+- Novak — primary (person)
+- O'Connor — primary (person)
+- Piwowarczyk — primary (person)
+- Subeck — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-05-02T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Green, Andraca, Behnke, Dittrich, Gundrum, Mursau, Nedweski, Novak, O'Connor, Piwowarczyk and Subeck; cosponsored by Senators James and Wanggaard `introduction`
+- **2025-05-02T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-03T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
+- **2025-06-10T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Stroud added as a coauthor
+- **2025-06-11T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
+- **2025-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Sinicki added as a coauthor
+- **2025-06-20T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 15, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-20T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2025-10-09T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 10-14-2025 by Committee on Rules
+- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Stubbs added as a coauthor
+- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
+- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
+- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
+- **2025-10-15T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
+- **2025-10-15T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary and Public Safety `referral-committee`
+- **2025-11-12T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
+- **2026-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
+- **2026-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
+- **2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 1-21-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
+- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Senators Dassler-Alfheim and Smith added as cosponsors
+- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
+- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
+- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
+- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
+- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
+- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
+- **2026-01-23T06:00:00+00:00** LRB correction
+- **2026-01-23T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 1-23-2026 `enrolled`
+- **2026-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 4-1-2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 4-2-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 152 `executive-signature`
+- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Published 4-3-2026 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8567bc93-d986-47f4-ac5d-f45fef79e283`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).
+