WI AB 242
enactedRelating to: tampering with telecommunication or electric wires and providing a penalty.
Wisconsin · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Did WI AB 242 pass?
Yes. WI AB 242 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2025-08-11): Published 8-9-2025
What is WI AB 242 about?
WI AB 242 is a bill in the 2025-2026 Regular Session titled “Relating to: tampering with telecommunication or electric wires and providing a penalty.”.
Who sponsors WI AB 242?
Melotik, Subeck, Steffen and 10 others are the primary sponsors of WI AB 242.
- Introduced
- 2025-05-02
- Latest action
- 2025-08-11 — Published 8-9-2025
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Sponsors
- Melotikprimary
- Subeckprimary
- Steffenprimary
- Pentermanprimary
- Mursauprimary
- Mosesprimary
- Gundrumprimary
- Greenprimary
- Doyleprimary
- Dittrichprimary
- Callahanprimary
- Behnkeprimary
- Summerfieldprimary
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
Newest first
2025-08-11
Published 8-9-2025
became-law
2025-08-11
Report approved by the Governor on 8-8-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 30
executive-signature
2025-08-07
Presented to the Governor on 8-7-2025
executive-receipt
2025-06-23
Report correctly enrolled on 6-23-2025
enrolled
2025-06-19
Received from Senate concurred in
receipt
2025-06-18
Ordered immediately messaged
2025-06-18
Read a third time and concurred in
passage,reading-3
2025-06-18
Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
2025-06-18
Ordered to a third reading
reading-3
2025-06-18
Read a second time
reading-2
2025-06-18
Rules suspended and taken up
2025-06-18
Received from Assembly
receipt
2025-06-18
Ordered immediately messaged
2025-06-18
Read a third time and passed
passage,reading-3
2025-06-18
Rules suspended
2025-06-18
Ordered to a third reading
reading-3
2025-06-18
Assembly Amendment 1 adopted
amendment-passage,passage
2025-06-18
Read a second time
reading-2
2025-06-17
Representative O'Connor added as a coauthor
2025-06-16
Withdrawn from committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 6-18-2025
referral
2025-05-29
Referred to committee on Rules
referral-committee
2025-05-29
Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 12, Noes 1
committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-29
Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 12, Noes 1
committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-21
Executive action taken
2025-05-15
Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Summerfield
amendment-introduction
2025-05-12
Senator Ratcliff added as a cosponsor
2025-05-07
Public hearing held
2025-05-02
Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety
reading-1,referral-committee
2025-05-02
Introduced by Representatives Summerfield, Behnke, Callahan, Dittrich, Doyle, Green, Gundrum, Moses, Mursau, Penterman, Steffen, Subeck and Melotik; cosponsored by Senators James, Marklein, Nass and Pfaff
introduction
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Votes
Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 12, Noes 1
2025-05-29 · pass · 12-1
Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 12, Noes 1
2025-05-29 · pass · 12-1
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