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type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: classification of the crime of impersonating law enforcement officers, fire fighters, and certain other emergency personnel and providing a penalty."
description: "Relating to: classification of the crime of impersonating law enforcement officers, fire fighters, and certain other emergency personnel and providing a penalty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 136"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 136 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Behnke", "Donovan", "Gundrum", "Kreibich", "Maxey", "Murphy", "Wichgers"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ff9e58b-c622-4229-b6fa-e26af21bbe75"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab136"
source_hash: "2c34ddc3dd116d472b539d7568766ac6a798b24e441264e5fbc84609cd27e40e"
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 136 (2025) — Relating to: classification of the crime of impersonating law enforcement officers, fire fighters, and certain other emergency personnel 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/AB136)
## Votes
- Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 — **80** (pass) · upper
- Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2 — **32** (pass) · upper
- Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 7, Noes 0 — **70** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Behnke — primary (person)
- Donovan — primary (person)
- Gundrum — primary (person)
- Kreibich — primary (person)
- Maxey — primary (person)
- Murphy — primary (person)
- Wichgers — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Wichgers, Behnke, Donovan, Gundrum, Kreibich, Maxey and Murphy; cosponsored by Senators James, Bradley and Nass `introduction`
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-09-25T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-09-25T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Jacque added as a cosponsor
- **2025-10-01T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 7, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-09T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 10-14-2025 by Committee on Rules
- **2025-10-09T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a coauthor
- **2025-10-13T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Spaude added as a coauthor
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Representatives Stubbs and Subeck added as coauthors
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **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 passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-10-15T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2025-10-15T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary and Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-20T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Carpenter added as a cosponsor
- **2025-11-11T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-11-11T06:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-11-11T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2025-11-14T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
- **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** Senators Ratcliff and Smith added as cosponsors
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **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 concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 11-19-2025 `enrolled`
- **2025-12-04T06:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 12-4-2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-12-10T06:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 12-9-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 55 `executive-signature`
- **2025-12-10T06:00:00+00:00** Published 12-10-2025 `became-law`
- **2026-01-23T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Doyle added as a coauthor
- **2026-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Brown added as a coauthor
- **2026-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Billings added as a coauthor
- **2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Emerson added as a coauthor
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5ff9e58b-c622-4229-b6fa-e26af21bbe75`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).