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Bill	Relating to: creation of a Human Trafficking Council and requiring the establishment of county sex trafficking task forces. (FE)	Relating to: creation of a Human Trafficking Council and requiring the establishment of county sex trafficking task forces. (FE)	us/states/wi	Wisconsin Legislature	2023	AB 978	Wisconsin AB 978 (2023)	bill		enacted	Behnke Callahan Dittrich Edming Gundrum Hurd Kitchens Maxey Mursau O'Connor Plumer S. Johnson Schraa	2	36	2	2024-01-19T06:00:00+00:00	2024-03-28T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/859cb5d1-dc72-4a28-8e70-508581a142b6	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab978	fccb751e8e56f6185e037deca5350761e03cfafce216f80b3fffa3c34e965beb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wi

Wisconsin AB 978 (2023) — Relating to: creation of a Human Trafficking Council and requiring the establishment of county sex trafficking task forces. (FE)

Version chain

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

1. Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2 — 3–2 (pass) · upper
• Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 10, Noes 5 — 10–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Behnke — primary (person)
• Callahan — primary (person)
• Dittrich — primary (person)
• Edming — primary (person)
• Gundrum — primary (person)
• Hurd — primary (person)
• Kitchens — primary (person)
• Maxey — primary (person)
• Mursau — primary (person)
• O'Connor — primary (person)
• Plumer — primary (person)
• S. Johnson — primary (person)
• Schraa — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-19T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced by Representatives O'Connor, Plumer, S. Johnson, Maxey, Gundrum, Mursau, Kitchens, Callahan, Dittrich, Behnke, Edming, Schraa and Hurd; cosponsored by Senators Wimberger, Knodl and Tomczyk introduction
• 2024-01-19T06:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-01-22T06:00:00+00:00 Senator Jacque added as a cosponsor
• 2024-01-23T06:00:00+00:00 Fiscal estimate received receipt
• 2024-01-24T06:00:00+00:00 Public hearing held
• 2024-01-25T06:00:00+00:00 Representative Wichgers added as a coauthor
• 2024-01-29T06:00:00+00:00 Fiscal estimate received receipt
• 2024-02-01T06:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2024-02-01T06:00:00+00:00 Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative O'Connor
• 2024-02-07T06:00:00+00:00 Fiscal estimate received receipt
• 2024-02-07T06:00:00+00:00 Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 10, Noes 5 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-07T06:00:00+00:00 Referred to committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00 Placed on calendar 2-15-2024 by Committee on Rules
• 2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00 Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative O'Connor
• 2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00 Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adopted amendment-passage
• 2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading reading-3
• 2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended
• 2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and passed passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2024-02-21T06:00:00+00:00 Received from Assembly receipt
• 2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00 Fiscal estimate received 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 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 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
• 2024-03-15T05:00:00+00:00 Report correctly enrolled on 3-15-2024 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 239 executive-signature
• 2024-03-28T05:00:00+00:00 Published 3-28-2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/859cb5d1-dc72-4a28-8e70-508581a142b6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).