---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: sunset of the community-oriented policing-house grant program."
description: "Relating to: sunset of the community-oriented policing-house grant program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 278"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 278 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carpenter", "Wanggaard"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-05-22T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-08-11T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90ebeb4b-4c33-4c4b-8bcd-056e69a0ce0a"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb278"
source_hash: "e83a25f62fb125c97eb2cf9163f271440fcb6adce3f42d4210ef6573210dc2eb"
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 SB 278 (2025) — Relating to: sunset of the community-oriented policing-house grant program.

## 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/SB278)
2. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB278-SA1)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Carpenter — primary (person)
- Wanggaard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-22T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Wanggaard and Carpenter; cosponsored by Representatives Spiros and Stubbs `introduction`
- **2025-05-22T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-27T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-06-02T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Melotik added as a cosponsor
- **2025-06-04T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2025-06-13T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Wanggaard
- **2025-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 6-18-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed, Ayes 32, Noes 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-06-20T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to calendar of 6-24-2025 `reading-1`
- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Representative O'Connor added as a cosponsor
- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
- **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 concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2025-06-25T05:00:00+00:00** LRB correction
- **2025-06-25T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-08-07T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 8-7-2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-08-11T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 8-8-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 27 `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-11T05:00:00+00:00** Published 8-9-2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/90ebeb4b-4c33-4c4b-8bcd-056e69a0ce0a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).