republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2025/ab-768.md

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Bill	Relating to: operation of drones over certain utility facilities and providing a penalty.	Relating to: operation of drones over certain utility facilities and providing a penalty.	us/states/wi	Wisconsin Legislature	2025	AB 768	Wisconsin AB 768 (2025)	bill		enacted	Dittrich Donovan Goodwin Knodl Maxey Melotik Murphy Novak O'Connor Penterman Sinicki Tittl Wichgers	3	38	5	2025-12-17T06:00:00+00:00	2026-04-03T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/6e2271e2-766b-43e3-b1c1-50bf1e60ae69	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab768	f1396acf9509efcd3dec83525f048c38a67879a0bc7af7ebb100465e5f823c55	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wi

Wisconsin AB 768 (2025) — Relating to: operation of drones over certain utility facilities and providing a penalty.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 13, Noes 2 — 13–2 (pass) · lower
• Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 85–14 (pass) · lower
• Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 15, Noes 0 — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2 — 3–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dittrich — primary (person)
• Donovan — primary (person)
• Goodwin — primary (person)
• Knodl — primary (person)
• Maxey — primary (person)
• Melotik — primary (person)
• Murphy — primary (person)
• Novak — primary (person)
• O'Connor — primary (person)
• Penterman — primary (person)
• Sinicki — primary (person)
• Tittl — primary (person)
• Wichgers — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-12-17T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced by Representatives Donovan, Dittrich, Goodwin, Knodl, Maxey, Melotik, Murphy, Novak, O'Connor, Penterman, Sinicki, Tittl and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senators Tomczyk and James introduction
• 2025-12-17T06:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety reading-1, referral-committee
• 2026-01-06T06:00:00+00:00 LRB correction
• 2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00 Public hearing held
• 2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00 Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Donovan
• 2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00 Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 15, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00 Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 13, Noes 2 committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00 Referred to committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2026-01-30T06:00:00+00:00 Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Donovan
• 2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00 Representative McCarville added as a coauthor
• 2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 2-17-2026
• 2026-02-16T06:00:00+00:00 Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a coauthor
• 2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00 Assembly Amendment 1 adopted amendment-passage
• 2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00 Assembly Amendment 2 adopted amendment-passage
• 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 passed, Ayes 85, Noes 14 passage, reading-3
• 2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00 Received from Assembly receipt
• 2026-02-20T06:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary and Public Safety referral-committee
• 2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00 Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00 Available for scheduling
• 2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00 Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
• 2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00 Placed on calendar 3-17-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
• 2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading reading-3
• 2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
• 2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and concurred in passage, reading-3
• 2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00 Senator Smith added as a cosponsor
• 2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00 Received from Senate concurred in receipt
• 2026-03-23T05:00:00+00:00 Report correctly enrolled on 3-23-2026 enrolled
• 2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026 executive-receipt
• 2026-04-03T05:00:00+00:00 Report approved by the Governor on 4-3-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 194 executive-signature
• 2026-04-03T05:00:00+00:00 Published 4-4-2026 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6e2271e2-766b-43e3-b1c1-50bf1e60ae69. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).