---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: funding for victim services and domestic abuse services, training for grant recipients, grants to child advocacy centers, and making an appropriation. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: funding for victim services and domestic abuse services, training for grant recipients, grants to child advocacy centers, and making an appropriation. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "AB 940"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 940 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen", "Andraca", "Baldeh", "Bare", "C. Anderson", "Conley", "Dittrich", "Donovan", "Doyle", "Emerson", "Gustafson", "Hong", "Jacobson", "Joers", "Madison", "Melotik", "Mursau", "Neubauer", "Novak", "Ohnstad", "Ortiz-Velez", "Palmeri", "Ratcliff", "Rettinger", "Rozar", "Shankland", "Shelton", "Sinicki", "Snyder", "Steffen", "Stubbs", "Subeck", "Summerfield", "Vining"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 43
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-12T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-03-28T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa89419b-b8a8-4529-8e67-774fcb594b19"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab940"
source_hash: "7135a57a4ea9e520809139459da4fe9cc774b50942c3dd2e2e12b14fd6d0cc10"
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 940 (2023) — Relating to: funding for victim services and domestic abuse services, training for grant recipients, grants to child advocacy centers, and making an appropriation. (FE)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Assembly Substitute Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2023/REG/AB940-ASA1)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2023/REG/AB940)

## Votes

- Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 14, Noes 0 — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 15, Noes 0 — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 15, Noes 0 — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCURRENCE — **32–0** (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

- Allen — primary (person)
- Andraca — primary (person)
- Baldeh — primary (person)
- Bare — primary (person)
- C. Anderson — primary (person)
- Conley — primary (person)
- Dittrich — primary (person)
- Donovan — primary (person)
- Doyle — primary (person)
- Emerson — primary (person)
- Gustafson — primary (person)
- Hong — primary (person)
- Jacobson — primary (person)
- Joers — primary (person)
- Madison — primary (person)
- Melotik — primary (person)
- Mursau — primary (person)
- Neubauer — primary (person)
- Novak — primary (person)
- Ohnstad — primary (person)
- Ortiz-Velez — primary (person)
- Palmeri — primary (person)
- Ratcliff — primary (person)
- Rettinger — primary (person)
- Rozar — primary (person)
- Shankland — primary (person)
- Shelton — primary (person)
- Sinicki — primary (person)
- Snyder — primary (person)
- Steffen — primary (person)
- Stubbs — primary (person)
- Subeck — primary (person)
- Summerfield — primary (person)
- Vining — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Snyder, Conley, Allen, Andraca, Baldeh, Bare, C. Anderson, Dittrich, Donovan, Doyle, Emerson, Gustafson, Hong, Jacobson, Joers, Madison, Mursau, Neubauer, Novak, Ohnstad, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Rettinger, Rozar, Shankland, Shelton, Sinicki, Steffen, Stubbs, Subeck, Summerfield, Vining, Melotik and Ratcliff; cosponsored by Senators James, Agard, Carpenter, Hesselbein, Jacque, L. Johnson, Larson, Pfaff, Roys, Spreitzer, Taylor and Wirch `introduction`
- **2024-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Considine added as a coauthor
- **2024-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2024-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Brandtjen added as a coauthor
- **2024-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senator Ballweg added as a cosponsor
- **2024-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Snyder
- **2024-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Billings added as a coauthor
- **2024-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Representatives Haywood and Wichgers added as coauthors
- **2024-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Moore Omokunde added as a coauthor
- **2024-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2024-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 15, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 15, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Michalski added as a coauthor
- **2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Made a special order of business at 11:29 AM on 2-22-2024 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 29
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Snyder
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed, Ayes 97, Noes 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2024-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2024-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2024-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from committee on Senate Organization and rereferred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)
- **2024-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2024-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 14, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2024-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
- **2024-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 3-12-2024 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2024-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2024-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 32, Noes 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2024-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
- **2024-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 3-19-2024 `enrolled`
- **2024-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 3-21-2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 3-27-2024. 2023 Wisconsin Act 241 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Published 3-28-2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aa89419b-b8a8-4529-8e67-774fcb594b19`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).