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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: injuring or killing a police or fire animal and providing a penalty."
description: "Relating to: injuring or killing a police or fire animal and providing a penalty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 61"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 61 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["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"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-24T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31dba621-a801-4a67-a6b2-e50030cd5308"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab61"
source_hash: "eb054255cdf83dbce86888a0f318f3d3beb1d48682dd17db7abf1cc933299c5c"
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 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](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB61)
## Votes
- Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 7, Noes 1 — **71** (pass) · upper
- Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 15, Noes 0 — **150** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/31dba621-a801-4a67-a6b2-e50030cd5308`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).