---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: threats to health care providers and providing a penalty."
description: "Relating to: threats to health care providers and providing a penalty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 905"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 905 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Behnke", "Dittrich", "Duchow", "Knodl", "Kreibich", "Kurtz", "Maxey", "Mursau", "Novak", "O'Connor", "Penterman", "Piwowarczyk", "Sinicki", "Tucker", "Wichgers"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 32
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-01-23T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-03T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f13c387-644e-4487-a49f-082cc778c9ca"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab905"
source_hash: "c821811c08a4d018604eb512fb8490df63c08e836b3d29944f692c70a42c9868"
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 905 (2025) — Relating to: threats to health care providers 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/AB905)

## Votes

- Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 8, Noes 0 — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 — **8–0** (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

## Sponsors

- Behnke — primary (person)
- Dittrich — primary (person)
- Duchow — primary (person)
- Knodl — primary (person)
- Kreibich — primary (person)
- Kurtz — primary (person)
- Maxey — primary (person)
- Mursau — primary (person)
- Novak — primary (person)
- O'Connor — primary (person)
- Penterman — primary (person)
- Piwowarczyk — primary (person)
- Sinicki — primary (person)
- Tucker — primary (person)
- Wichgers — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-23T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Kurtz, Novak, Behnke, Dittrich, Duchow, Knodl, Kreibich, Maxey, Mursau, O'Connor, Penterman, Piwowarczyk, Sinicki, Tucker and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senators Marklein, Wanggaard, Cabral-Guevara, James and Nass `introduction`
- **2026-01-23T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2026-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Kaufert added as a coauthor
- **2026-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 8, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Made a special order of business at 9:33 PM on 2-19-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 15
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2026-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary and Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
- **2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 3-17-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Smith added as a cosponsor
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
- **2026-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** LRB correction
- **2026-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 3-24-2026 `enrolled`
- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 4-3-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 197 `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Published 4-4-2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f13c387-644e-4487-a49f-082cc778c9ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).