---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: requiring a subpoena to a law enforcement officer or tribal law enforcement officer served in official capacity to be served at the officer’s work address."
description: "Relating to: requiring a subpoena to a law enforcement officer or tribal law enforcement officer served in official capacity to be served at the officer’s work address."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 191"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 191 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James", "Nass", "Tomczyk", "Wanggaard"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 41
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-14T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d7afde9-22ab-4690-a1b8-fd0fc3555c47"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb191"
source_hash: "a441fad2f1b7d35f1a6ac5f2850f8bfd94301ca165fb086b2bae3065d63a971e"
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 191 (2025) — Relating to: requiring a subpoena to a law enforcement officer or tribal law enforcement officer served in official capacity to be served at the officer’s work address.

## 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/SB191-AA1)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/SB191)
3. **Senate Substitute Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB191-SSA1)

## Votes

- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 7, Noes 1 — **7–1** (pass) · upper
- Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 7, Noes 1 — **7–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- James — primary (person)
- Nass — primary (person)
- Tomczyk — primary (person)
- Wanggaard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-14T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators James, Nass, Tomczyk and Wanggaard; cosponsored by Representatives Goeben, Armstrong, Behnke, Dittrich, Kreibich, Murphy, Mursau, O'Connor, Piwowarczyk and Subeck `introduction`
- **2025-04-14T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Stroud added as a cosponsor
- **2025-04-21T05:00:00+00:00** Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor
- **2025-04-30T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-05-05T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Senator James
- **2025-05-08T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-05-08T05:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 7, Noes 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-08T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 7, Noes 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2025-05-13T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 5-15-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Substitute Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-05-15T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-05-27T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-08-21T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Goeben
- **2025-10-09T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 10-14-2025 by Committee on Rules
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Stubbs added as a cosponsor
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **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 as amended `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-10-15T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly amended and concurred in as amended, Assembly Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage, receipt`
- **2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 1-21-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 concurred in
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Action ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Brown added as a cosponsor
- **2026-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Billings added as a cosponsor
- **2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Anderson added as a cosponsor
- **2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Emerson added as a cosponsor
- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 4-2-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 150 `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00** Published 4-3-2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d7afde9-22ab-4690-a1b8-fd0fc3555c47`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).