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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to: human trafficking and trafficking of a child and providing a penalty."
+description: "Relating to: human trafficking and trafficking of a child and providing a penalty."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
+legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "AB 265"
+citation: "Wisconsin AB 265 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["B. Jacobson", "Behnke", "Dittrich", "Knodl", "Kreibich", "Moses", "Murphy", "Mursau", "O'Connor", "Penterman", "Piwowarczyk", "Snyder", "Steffen", "VanderMeer", "Wittke"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-05-19T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-12-10T06:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05e8d761-a4ec-41e6-920e-32c68cdc369e"
+source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab265"
+source_hash: "88a75de1b7eb21b7838688d050b5a2bde8a3f099f031d4eddeedc63a95c1e2a4"
+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 265 (2025) — Relating to: human trafficking and trafficking of a child and providing a penalty.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Assembly Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB265-AA1)
+2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB265)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND — **18–15** (pass) · upper
+- Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2 — **3–2** (pass) · upper
+- Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 13, Noes 0 — **13–0** (pass) · lower
+- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 13, Noes 0 — **13–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- B. Jacobson — primary (person)
+- Behnke — primary (person)
+- Dittrich — primary (person)
+- Knodl — primary (person)
+- Kreibich — primary (person)
+- Moses — primary (person)
+- Murphy — primary (person)
+- Mursau — primary (person)
+- O'Connor — primary (person)
+- Penterman — primary (person)
+- Piwowarczyk — primary (person)
+- Snyder — primary (person)
+- Steffen — primary (person)
+- VanderMeer — primary (person)
+- Wittke — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-05-19T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Wittke, O'Connor, B. Jacobson, Snyder, VanderMeer, Steffen, Moses, Penterman, Dittrich, Murphy, Knodl, Behnke, Piwowarczyk, Mursau and Kreibich; cosponsored by Senator Wanggaard `introduction`
+- **2025-05-19T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-09-10T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Wittke
+- **2025-09-10T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Duchow added as a coauthor
+- **2025-09-10T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
+- **2025-10-01T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
+- **2025-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 13, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 13, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-10-08T05:00:00+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
+- **2025-10-13T05:00:00+00:00** LRB correction
+- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Representatives Stubbs and Subeck added as coauthors
+- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
+- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **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 Senate Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-10-15T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
+- **2025-11-14T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
+- **2025-11-14T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 11-18-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
+- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senators L. Johnson, Hesselbein, Smith, Spreitzer, Drake, Roys, Wirch, Carpenter, Pfaff, Ratcliff, Habush Sinykin, Keyeski, Dassler-Alfheim, Wall and Larson
+- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
+- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Point of order that Senate Amendment 1 was not germane well taken
+- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Decision of the Chair stands as the judgment of the Senate, Ayes 18, Noes 15
+- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
+- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
+- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
+- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 11-19-2025 `enrolled`
+- **2025-12-04T06:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 12-4-2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-12-10T06:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 12-9-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 56 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-12-10T06:00:00+00:00** Published 12-10-2025 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/05e8d761-a4ec-41e6-920e-32c68cdc369e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).
+