---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: equipment of school buses with audiovisual recording devices."
description: "Relating to: equipment of school buses with audiovisual recording devices."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 391"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 391 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James", "Nass"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-08-25T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f43b80f7-5eb1-442b-9388-5014edf81aa1"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb391"
source_hash: "1f8791174cc1b88ecd6a7e770daa8cd729915477eaf795c0b66d334289394982"
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 391 (2025) — Relating to: equipment of school buses with audiovisual recording devices.

## 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/SB391-AA1)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/SB391)
3. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB391-SA1)

## Votes

- Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCURRENCE AS AMENDED — **83–16** (pass) · lower
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 3, Noes 2 — **3–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-08-25T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators James and Nass; cosponsored by Representatives Penterman, Dittrich, Steffen, Gundrum, Subeck, Mursau, Kreibich, Ortiz-Velez, Goodwin and Knodl `introduction`
- **2025-08-25T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-10-28T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-10-29T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Stubbs added as a cosponsor
- **2025-11-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator James
- **2025-11-10T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-11-10T06:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-11-10T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 3, Noes 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-11-10T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2025-11-14T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 11-18-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senators Ratcliff and Smith added as coauthors
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2026-01-07T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-08T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 1-13-2026 by Committee on Rules
- **2026-01-09T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Penterman
- **2026-01-09T06:00:00+00:00** Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in as amended, Ayes 83, Noes 16 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+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`
- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+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 160 `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/f43b80f7-5eb1-442b-9388-5014edf81aa1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).