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Bill	Relating to: injuring or killing a police or fire animal and providing a penalty.	Relating to: injuring or killing a police or fire animal and providing a penalty.	us/states/wi	Wisconsin Legislature	2025	AB 61	Wisconsin AB 61 (2025)	bill		enacted	Andraca Armstrong B. Jacobson Behnke Brill Callahan Dittrich Donovan Goeben Gundrum Kaufert Kitchens Kreibich Maxey Miresse Nedweski O'Connor Penterman Piwowarczyk Sinicki Steffen Tittl Wichgers	1	37	2	2025-02-24T06:00:00+00:00	2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/31dba621-a801-4a67-a6b2-e50030cd5308	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab61	eb054255cdf83dbce86888a0f318f3d3beb1d48682dd17db7abf1cc933299c5c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wi

Wisconsin AB 61 (2025) — Relating to: injuring or killing a police or fire animal 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

Votes

• Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 7, Noes 1 — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 15, Noes 0 — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Andraca — primary (person)
• Armstrong — primary (person)
• B. Jacobson — primary (person)
• Behnke — primary (person)
• Brill — primary (person)
• Callahan — primary (person)
• Dittrich — primary (person)
• Donovan — primary (person)
• Goeben — primary (person)
• Gundrum — primary (person)
• Kaufert — primary (person)
• Kitchens — primary (person)
• Kreibich — primary (person)
• Maxey — primary (person)
• Miresse — primary (person)
• Nedweski — primary (person)
• O'Connor — primary (person)
• Penterman — primary (person)
• Piwowarczyk — primary (person)
• Sinicki — primary (person)
• Steffen — primary (person)
• Tittl — primary (person)
• Wichgers — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-24T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced by Representatives Nedweski, Dittrich, Piwowarczyk, Andraca, Armstrong, Behnke, Brill, Callahan, Donovan, Goeben, Gundrum, B. Jacobson, Kaufert, Kitchens, Kreibich, Maxey, Miresse, O'Connor, Penterman, Sinicki, Steffen, Tittl and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senators Wanggaard, Carpenter, L. Johnson, Marklein and Nass introduction
• 2025-02-24T06:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00 Representative McCarville added as a coauthor
• 2025-03-05T06:00:00+00:00 Public hearing held
• 2025-03-07T06:00:00+00:00 Representative Fitzgerald added as a coauthor
• 2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00 Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 15, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to calendar of 3-13-2025 pursuant to Assembly Rule 45 (1) referral
• 2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00 Representatives Anderson and Stubbs added as coauthors
• 2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading reading-3
• 2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended
• 2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and passed passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00 Received from Assembly receipt
• 2025-03-14T05:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary and Public Safety referral-committee
• 2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00 Public hearing held
• 2025-05-07T05:00:00+00:00 Senator Habush Sinykin added as a cosponsor
• 2025-06-04T05:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2025-06-05T05:00:00+00:00 Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 7, Noes 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-05T05:00:00+00:00 Available for scheduling
• 2025-06-17T05:00:00+00:00 Placed on calendar 6-18-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
• 2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00 Senators Ratcliff and Keyeski added as cosponsors
• 2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading reading-3
• 2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
• 2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and concurred in passage, reading-3
• 2025-06-18T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2025-06-19T05:00:00+00:00 Received from Senate concurred in receipt
• 2025-06-19T05:00:00+00:00 Report correctly enrolled on 6-19-2025 enrolled
• 2025-08-07T05:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor on 8-7-2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-08-11T05:00:00+00:00 Report approved by the Governor on 8-8-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 28 executive-signature
• 2025-08-11T05:00:00+00:00 Published 8-9-2025 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; origin ocd-bill/31dba621-a801-4a67-a6b2-e50030cd5308. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).