WI SB 25
deadRelating to: court-issued criminal complaints in officer-involved deaths.
Wisconsin · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
Quick answers
Did WI SB 25 pass?
No. WI SB 25 did not pass — it was defeated or died in the legislative process (2026-05-13). Latest recorded action (2026-05-13): Failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the Governor pursuant to Joint Rule 82
What is WI SB 25 about?
WI SB 25 is a bill in the 2025-2026 Regular Session titled “Relating to: court-issued criminal complaints in officer-involved deaths.”.
Who sponsors WI SB 25?
Testin, Tomczyk, Nass and 4 others are the primary sponsors of WI SB 25.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-05
- Latest action
- 2026-05-13 — Failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the Governor pursuant to Joint Rule 82
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Sponsors
- Testinprimary
- Tomczykprimary
- Nassprimary
- Feyenprimary
- Wanggaardprimary
- Bradleyprimary
- Huttonprimary
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
2025-02-05
Introduced by Senators Hutton, Bradley, Wanggaard, Feyen, Nass, Tomczyk and Testin; cosponsored by Representatives Moses, Duchow, Dittrich, Piwowarczyk, Armstrong, Brooks, Donovan, B. Jacobson, Penterman, Murphy, Tucker, Wichgers and Behnke
introduction
2025-02-05
Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety
reading-1,referral-committee
2025-02-05
Representative Swearingen added as a cosponsor
2025-02-06
Public hearing held
2025-02-10
Senator James added as a coauthor
2025-02-18
Executive action taken
2025-02-18
Report passage without recommendation, pursuant to Senate Rule 27 (4)(a), by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 4, Noes 4
2025-02-18
Available for scheduling
2025-03-14
Placed on calendar 3-18-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
2025-03-18
Read a second time
reading-2
2025-03-18
Ordered to a third reading
reading-3
2025-03-18
Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
2025-03-18
Read a third time and passed, Ayes 19, Noes 13
passage,reading-3
2025-03-18
Ordered immediately messaged
2025-03-19
Received from Senate
receipt
2025-04-24
Representative Maxey added as a cosponsor
2025-05-20
Representative O'Connor added as a cosponsor
2025-05-27
Read first time and referred to committee on Rules
reading-1,referral-committee
2025-10-09
Placed on calendar 10-14-2025 by Committee on Rules
2025-10-14
Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up
withdrawal
2025-10-14
Read a second time
reading-2
2025-10-14
Ordered to a third reading
reading-3
2025-10-14
Rules suspended
2025-10-14
Read a third time and concurred in
passage,reading-3
2025-10-14
Ordered immediately messaged
2025-10-15
Received from Assembly concurred in
receipt
2025-10-15
Report correctly enrolled
enrolled
2025-10-30
Presented to the Governor on 10-30-2025
executive-receipt
2025-11-03
Report vetoed by the Governor on 10-31-2025
executive-veto
2026-05-12
Placed on calendar 5-12-2026 pursuant to Joint Rule 82 (2)(a)
2026-05-13
Failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the Governor pursuant to Joint Rule 82
failure
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Votes
Report passage without recommendation, pursuant to Senate Rule 27 (4)(a), by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 4, Noes 4
2025-02-18 · fail · 4-4
PASSAGE
2025-03-18 · pass · 19-13
Member-level votes (33)
- BRADLEY: yes
- JAGLER: yes
- QUINN: yes
- CABRAL-GUEVARA: yes
- JAMES: yes
- STAFSHOLT: yes
- DASSLER-ALFHEI: yes
- KAPENGA: yes
- TESTIN: yes
- FELZKOWSKI: yes
- KEYESKI: yes
- TOMCZYK: yes
- FEYEN: yes
- LEMAHIEU: yes
- WANGGAARD: yes
- HUTTON: yes
- MARKLEIN: yes
- JACQUE: yes
- NASS: yes
- CARPENTER: no
- LARSON: no
- WALL: no
- DRAKE: no
- PFAFF: no
- WIMBERGER: no
- HABUSH SINYKIN: no
- RATCLIFF: no
- WIRCH: no
- HESSELBEIN: no
- SMITH: no
- JOHNSON: no
- SPREITZER: no
- ROYS: not voting
Related bills
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