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type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: requiring school boards to adopt policies to prohibit the use of wireless communication devices during instructional time."
description: "Relating to: requiring school boards to adopt policies to prohibit the use of wireless communication devices during instructional time."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 2"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 2 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Jacobson", "Dittrich", "Donovan", "Green", "Kitchens", "Knodl", "Melotik", "Murphy", "Mursau", "Nedweski", "O'Connor", "Steffen", "Tusler"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-03T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-10-31T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09561fe3-1c82-4172-829b-d455f89aedf2"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab2"
source_hash: "1599614f94fbb6370a3eb459645bd3e3e15db01e58754f83c3fc57ab13ae8097"
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 2 (2025) — Relating to: requiring school boards to adopt policies to prohibit the use of wireless communication devices during instructional time.
## 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/AB2-AA1-AA1)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB2)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **5345** (pass) · lower
- CONCURRENCE — **294** (pass) · upper
- Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 4, Noes 1 — **41** (pass) · upper
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Science, Technology, and AI, Ayes 4, Noes 2 — **42** (pass) · lower
- Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Science, Technology, and AI, Ayes 4, Noes 2 — **42** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- B. Jacobson — primary (person)
- Dittrich — primary (person)
- Donovan — primary (person)
- Green — primary (person)
- Kitchens — primary (person)
- Knodl — primary (person)
- Melotik — primary (person)
- Murphy — primary (person)
- Mursau — primary (person)
- Nedweski — primary (person)
- O'Connor — primary (person)
- Steffen — primary (person)
- Tusler — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives Kitchens, Knodl, Dittrich, Donovan, Green, B. Jacobson, Melotik, Murphy, Mursau, Nedweski, O'Connor, Steffen and Tusler; cosponsored by Senators Cabral-Guevara and Feyen `introduction`
- **2025-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Science, Technology, and AI `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Kitchens
- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Science, Technology, and AI, Ayes 4, Noes 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Science, Technology, and AI, Ayes 4, Noes 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to calendar of 2-19-2025 pursuant to Assembly Rule 45 (1) `referral`
- **2025-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Kitchens
- **2025-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed, Ayes 53, Noes 45 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2025-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-04-11T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-04-11T05:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 4, Noes 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-11T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2025-10-13T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 10-14-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **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 to give bill its third reading
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 29, Noes 4 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
- **2025-10-20T05:00:00+00:00** LRB correction (Assembly Amendment 1)
- **2025-10-20T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 10-20-2025 `enrolled`
- **2025-10-29T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 10-29-2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-10-31T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 10-31-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 42 `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-31T05:00:00+00:00** Published 11-1-2025 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/09561fe3-1c82-4172-829b-d455f89aedf2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).