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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 824

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Relating to: displaying a human trafficking resource center hotline poster. (FE)

Crime and criminals Justice department of Telephone

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the Department of Justice must provide on its website a poster that provides information regarding a human trafficking resource center hotline and must allow entities to download the poster free of charge. Current law also requires DOJ to encourage that the poster be displayed at all of the following places: certain gas stations; hotels; adult entertainment establishments; salons; places at which employers engage employees to perform agricultural labor; hospitals or other medical centers; places at which athletic or sporting events occur; establishments that operate as a massage parlor or spa, alternative health clinic, or similar entity; various expositions; courthouses; Department of Transportation rest areas; and public and private transit stations.

This bill adds the following to the list of places that must be encouraged to display the poster: lodging establishments, premises that serve alcoholic beverages, tattoo establishments, job recruitment centers, community-based residential facilities, and public and private elementary and secondary schools.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Behnke (R) , Goodwin (D) , Gundrum (R) , McCarville (D) , O'Connor (R) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Sheehan (D) , Sinicki (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D)

10 cosponsors

Clancy (D) , Franklin (R) , Habush Sinykin (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Larson (D) , Palmeri and Murphy , Spreitzer (D) , Udell (D) , Wirch (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 4

Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Jobs and Economy, Ayes 10, Noes 0

Passed 10–0 Feb 4, 2026 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Jan 6, 2026 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Stubbs, Gundrum, Ortiz-Velez, O'Connor, Subeck, Sinicki, Behnke, Sheehan, Goodwin and McCarville; cosponsored by Senators Wirch, Larson, Habush Sinykin and Spreitzer

  2. Jan 6, 2026 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Jobs and Economy

  3. Jan 7, 2026 · Assembly

    Representatives Palmeri and Murphy added as coauthors

  4. Jan 8, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Udell added as a coauthor

  5. Jan 16, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Clancy added as a coauthor

  6. Jan 21, 2026 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  7. Jan 21, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Franklin added as a coauthor

  8. Jan 29, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Joers added as a coauthor

  9. Feb 4, 2026 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  10. Feb 4, 2026 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  11. Feb 4, 2026 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Jobs and Economy, Ayes 10, Noes 0

  12. Mar 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor

  13. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1