republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2025/ab-966.md

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Bill	Relating to: requiring the Department of Justice to conduct a public awareness campaign. (FE)	Relating to: requiring the Department of Justice to conduct a public awareness campaign. (FE)	us/states/wi	Wisconsin Legislature	2025	AB 966	Wisconsin AB 966 (2025)	bill		enacted	Armstrong B. Jacobson Behnke Brill Dittrich Fitzgerald Green Mayadev Miresse Murphy O'Connor Ortiz-Velez Piwowarczyk Sinicki Stubbs	1	35	2	2026-01-29T06:00:00+00:00	2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/fc288c46-6452-4a7d-ae8e-56ab49c351b8	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab966	798f78efc847efcd3f74409e39b64a3d880321ac808fb11312fb4dc41992eb3a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wi

Wisconsin AB 966 (2025) — Relating to: requiring the Department of Justice to conduct a public awareness campaign. (FE)

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 8, Noes 0 — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 13, Noes 0 — 13–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Armstrong — primary (person)
• B. Jacobson — primary (person)
• Behnke — primary (person)
• Brill — primary (person)
• Dittrich — primary (person)
• Fitzgerald — primary (person)
• Green — primary (person)
• Mayadev — primary (person)
• Miresse — primary (person)
• Murphy — primary (person)
• O'Connor — primary (person)
• Ortiz-Velez — primary (person)
• Piwowarczyk — primary (person)
• Sinicki — primary (person)
• Stubbs — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-29T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced by Representatives Green, Brill, Dittrich, Mayadev, Armstrong, Behnke, Fitzgerald, B. Jacobson, Miresse, Murphy, O'Connor, Ortiz-Velez, Piwowarczyk, Sinicki and Stubbs; cosponsored by Senator James introduction
• 2026-01-29T06:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety reading-1, referral-committee
• 2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00 Public hearing held
• 2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00 Representatives Duchow and Steffen added as coauthors
• 2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senator Roys added as a cosponsor
• 2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00 Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 13, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00 Referred to committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00 Made a special order of business at 11:57 AM on 2-19-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 14
• 2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading reading-3
• 2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended
• 2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and passed passage, reading-3
• 2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2026-02-23T06:00:00+00:00 Received from Assembly receipt
• 2026-02-25T06:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary and Public Safety referral-committee
• 2026-02-26T06:00:00+00:00 Representative Subeck added as a coauthor
• 2026-03-04T06:00:00+00:00 Public hearing held
• 2026-03-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senator Wanggaard added as a cosponsor
• 2026-03-12T05:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2026-03-12T05:00:00+00:00 Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-12T05:00:00+00:00 Available for scheduling
• 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 Senators Ratcliff and Smith added as cosponsors
• 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 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00 Received from Senate concurred in receipt
• 2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00 Fiscal estimate received receipt
• 2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00 Report correctly enrolled on 3-20-2026 enrolled
• 2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026 executive-receipt
• 2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00 Report approved by the Governor on 4-8-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 219 executive-signature
• 2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00 Published 4-9-2026 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fc288c46-6452-4a7d-ae8e-56ab49c351b8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).