---
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).