---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: immunity for 911 call centers and dispatchers that transfer callers to the national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline."
description: "Relating to: immunity for 911 call centers and dispatchers that transfer callers to the national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 309"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 309 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James", "Keyeski", "Marklein", "Quinn", "Wanggaard"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-06-04T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/129945e0-7d89-4b2f-96f2-ea86803b5d36"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb309"
source_hash: "853e228d697fcb998ad971bf90b4ebb27bc76719c8f204bf2d89c7333cccd237"
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 309 (2025) — Relating to: immunity for 911 call centers and dispatchers that transfer callers to the national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

## 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/SB309)

## Votes

- Report passage recommended by Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND — **54–42** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- James — primary (person)
- Keyeski — primary (person)
- Marklein — primary (person)
- Quinn — primary (person)
- Wanggaard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators James, Keyeski, Marklein, Quinn and Wanggaard; cosponsored by Representatives VanderMeer, Dittrich, Behnke, Brill, Kaufert, Knodl, Maxey, Melotik, Murphy, Mursau, O'Connor, Ortiz-Velez, Penterman and Tittl `introduction`
- **2025-06-04T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor
- **2025-09-04T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-10-02T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-10-10T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-10-10T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **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** Senators Ratcliff, Smith and Drake added as coauthors
- **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 passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Read
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from Senate message and take up
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Fitzgerald
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Point of order that Assembly Amendment 1 not germane under Assembly Rule 54 (3)(f) well taken
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Decision of the Chair appealed
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Decision of the Chair upheld, Ayes 54, Noes 42
- **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 concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-10-15T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2025-10-16T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-10-30T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 10-30-2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-11-03T06:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 10-31-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 41 `executive-signature`
- **2025-11-03T06:00:00+00:00** Published 11-1-2025 `became-law`
- **2025-11-04T06:00:00+00:00** Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor
- **2026-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Brown added as a cosponsor
- **2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Emerson added as a cosponsor

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/129945e0-7d89-4b2f-96f2-ea86803b5d36`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).