---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: tampering with telecommunication or electric wires and providing a penalty."
description: "Relating to: tampering with telecommunication or electric wires and providing a penalty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 242"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 242 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Behnke", "Callahan", "Dittrich", "Doyle", "Green", "Gundrum", "Melotik", "Moses", "Mursau", "Penterman", "Steffen", "Subeck", "Summerfield"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-05-02T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-08-11T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c886c326-96bd-4348-a5f9-b0e526df27f6"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab242"
source_hash: "929ff562fac55606e8e20f47c9725fcb4ed23e741f6ea15e8db9c5bca1de54f7"
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 242 (2025) — Relating to: tampering with telecommunication or electric wires and providing a penalty.

## 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/AB242-AA1)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB242)

## Votes

- Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 12, Noes 1 — **12–1** (pass) · lower
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 12, Noes 1 — **12–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Behnke — primary (person)
- Callahan — primary (person)
- Dittrich — primary (person)
- Doyle — primary (person)
- Green — primary (person)
- Gundrum — primary (person)
- Melotik — primary (person)
- Moses — primary (person)
- Mursau — primary (person)
- Penterman — primary (person)
- Steffen — primary (person)
- Subeck — primary (person)
- Summerfield — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-02T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Summerfield, Behnke, Callahan, Dittrich, Doyle, Green, Gundrum, Moses, Mursau, Penterman, Steffen, Subeck and Melotik; cosponsored by Senators James, Marklein, Nass and Pfaff `introduction`
- **2025-05-02T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-05-12T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Ratcliff added as a cosponsor
- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Summerfield
- **2025-05-21T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-05-29T05:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 12, Noes 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-29T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 12, Noes 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-29T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-16T05:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 6-18-2025
- **2025-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Representative O'Connor added as a coauthor
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly 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
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended and taken up
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **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 concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
- **2025-06-23T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 6-23-2025 `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 30 `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/c886c326-96bd-4348-a5f9-b0e526df27f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).