---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: entering certain places with intent to commit battery and providing a penalty."
description: "Relating to: entering certain places with intent to commit battery and providing a penalty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 65"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 65 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen", "B. Jacobson", "Dittrich", "Donovan", "Gundrum", "Kreibich", "Murphy", "Mursau", "Wichgers"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 32
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-24T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-10-31T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98d06102-50f6-4125-92fd-c3b51b5a86f2"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab65"
source_hash: "c85eb8ca09a632cc8b087fe835c79f918feca4535fe71d0e52655bf60aea50cc"
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 65 (2025) — Relating to: entering certain places with intent to commit battery 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/AB65)

## Votes

- Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 5, Noes 3 — **5–3** (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 passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 13, Noes 1 — **13–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- B. Jacobson — primary (person)
- Dittrich — primary (person)
- Donovan — primary (person)
- Gundrum — primary (person)
- Kreibich — primary (person)
- Murphy — primary (person)
- Mursau — primary (person)
- Wichgers — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives B. Jacobson, Allen, Dittrich, Donovan, Kreibich, Murphy, Mursau, Gundrum and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senators Jacque, Nass, Tomczyk and Wanggaard `introduction`
- **2025-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Franklin added as a coauthor
- **2025-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-04-23T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-05-06T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 13, Noes 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-06T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-20T05:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 6-24-2025
- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Representative O'Connor added as a coauthor
- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2025-06-27T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary and Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2025-09-17T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-09-17T05:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 5, Noes 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-17T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2025-10-13T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
- **2025-10-13T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 10-14-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **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 to give bill its third reading
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
- **2025-10-15T05:00:00+00:00** LRB correction
- **2025-10-15T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 10-15-2025 `enrolled`
- **2025-10-29T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 10-29-2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-10-31T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 10-31-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 44 `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-31T05:00:00+00:00** Published 11-1-2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98d06102-50f6-4125-92fd-c3b51b5a86f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).