---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: intentionally sending false text messages to 911 and providing a penalty."
description: "Relating to: intentionally sending false text messages to 911 and providing a penalty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 782"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 782 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wanggaard"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-12-12T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68e29ab4-9b1f-4ee8-be17-6c989bb70b95"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb782"
source_hash: "6f6ed54dca577f0ce64d2ba0dbccdc16abe2bda1c5e20d0d08d3ede5de4621ad"
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 782 (2025) — Relating to: intentionally sending false text messages to 911 and providing a penalty.

## 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/SB782)

## Votes

- Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCURRENCE — **84–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wanggaard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-12T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senator Wanggaard; cosponsored by Representatives Donovan, Goodwin, Sortwell, Sinicki, Behnke, DeSmidt, Dittrich, Goeben, Gundrum, Kaufert, Kurtz, Maxey, Murphy, O'Connor, Penterman, Piwowarczyk, Stubbs and Subeck `introduction`
- **2025-12-12T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-12-22T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Knodl added as a cosponsor
- **2026-01-07T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2026-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **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** Senator Dassler-Alfheim added as a coauthor
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 2-17-2026
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 84, Noes 15 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2026-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **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
- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 4-9-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 245 `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Published 4-10-2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/68e29ab4-9b1f-4ee8-be17-6c989bb70b95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).