---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: theft crimes and providing a penalty. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: theft crimes and providing a penalty. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 89"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 89 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen", "B. Jacobson", "Behnke", "Donovan", "Franklin", "Goeben", "Gundrum", "Gustafson", "Kaufert", "Knodl", "Krug", "Maxey", "Melotik", "Murphy", "Mursau", "Penterman", "Piwowarczyk", "Tusler", "Wichgers", "Wittke"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 44
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-02-28T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9fba19c5-055b-4609-97f1-0c07f4dcd453"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab89"
source_hash: "523b2214907c9cbec54f5958df72dd1bc83e443fce80c4fb04e50416cd8c3cad"
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 89 (2025) — Relating to: theft crimes and providing a penalty. (FE)

## 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/AB89-AA1)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB89)
3. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB89-SA1)
4. **Senate Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB89-SA2)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **71–26** (pass) · lower
- CONCURRENCE — **27–6** (pass) · upper
- Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 13, Noes 2 — **13–2** (pass) · lower
- Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 5, Noes 3 — **5–3** (pass) · upper
- Report concurrence as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 5, Noes 3 — **5–3** (pass) · upper
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 14, Noes 1 — **14–1** (pass) · lower
- Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2 — **3–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- B. Jacobson — primary (person)
- Behnke — primary (person)
- Donovan — primary (person)
- Franklin — primary (person)
- Goeben — primary (person)
- Gundrum — primary (person)
- Gustafson — primary (person)
- Kaufert — primary (person)
- Knodl — primary (person)
- Krug — primary (person)
- Maxey — primary (person)
- Melotik — primary (person)
- Murphy — primary (person)
- Mursau — primary (person)
- Penterman — primary (person)
- Piwowarczyk — primary (person)
- Tusler — primary (person)
- Wichgers — primary (person)
- Wittke — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Penterman, Allen, Behnke, Donovan, Franklin, Goeben, Gundrum, Gustafson, B. Jacobson, Knodl, Maxey, Melotik, Murphy, Piwowarczyk, Tusler, Wichgers, Wittke, Krug, Mursau and Kaufert; cosponsored by Senators Jacque, Hutton, Nass and Tomczyk `introduction`
- **2025-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Penterman
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 13, Noes 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 14, Noes 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to calendar of 3-13-2025 pursuant to Assembly Rule 45 (1) `referral`
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Cabral-Guevara added as a cosponsor
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed, Ayes 71, Noes 26 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2025-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary and Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-15T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2025-10-03T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Jacque
- **2025-10-22T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-10-22T05:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 5, Noes 3 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-10-22T05:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 5, Noes 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-10-22T05:00:00+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)
- **2025-11-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 2 offered by Senator Jacque
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 2 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in as amended, Ayes 27, Noes 6 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate amended and concurred in as amended (Senate amendments 1 and 2 adopted) `amendment-passage, receipt`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 concurred in
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 2 concurred in
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Action ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** LRB correction (Assembly Amendment 1)
- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 1-14-2026 `enrolled`
- **2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 3-18-2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 3-20-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 106 `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Published 3-21-2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9fba19c5-055b-4609-97f1-0c07f4dcd453`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).