Senate Bill 766
Body cameras on law enforcement officers and providing criminal penalties. (FE)
Stopped in committee
It never got a , so it never came up for a vote. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.
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Introduced, passed
Feb 23, 2016
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Senate vote, not reached
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Apr 13, 2016: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
It never got a hearing in the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
This bill creates requirements for law enforcement agencies that use body cameras on law enforcement officers, including requirements for agency policies, which encounters must be recorded, restrictions on the use of recordings, and retention practices as well as limitations on encounters that may not be recorded.
The bill creates limitations on access to data from body cameras. The bill makes it a Class I felony to tamper with, delete, copy, or upload data obtained from a body camera or to tamper with or destroy a body camera. This bill also creates the Law Enforcement Body Camera Council in the Department of Justice to make recommendations to the legislature and to establish best practices regarding body cameras worn by law enforcement officers.
Who's behind it
Chris Larson, a Democrat, is its .
8 more lawmakers .
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Author (1)
- Chris Larson · Democrat, Senate
Signed on in support (8)
- Mandela Barnes · Democrat, Assembly
- Terese Berceau · Democrat, Assembly
- Jonathan Brostoff · Democrat, Assembly
- Chris Taylor · Democrat, Assembly
- Frederick Kessler · Democrat, Assembly
- Melissa Sargent · Democrat, Assembly
- Christine Sinicki · Democrat, Assembly
- Leon Young · Democrat, Assembly
What happened
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Apr 13, 2016
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Feb 23, 2016
Sent to the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety.
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Feb 23, 2016
Introduced in the Senate.
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- Feb 23, 2016 · Senate
Introduced by Senator C. Larson; cosponsored by Representatives C. Taylor, Barnes, Berceau, Brostoff, Kessler, Sargent, Sinicki and Young
- Feb 23, 2016 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety
- Apr 13, 2016 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor