Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 834

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: courtroom supports for and sealing the identifying information of child victims and child witnesses of human trafficking crimes. (FE)

Children — Protection and services Court Crime and criminals Crime victim Privacy Witness

Introduced, stopped here
Passes Assembly, not reached
Passes Senate, not reached
Governor signs, not reached
Law, not reached

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law provides certain additional rights and protections to victims and witnesses during their involvement with the criminal justice or juvenile justice system.

This bill provides that child victims or child witnesses of human trafficking crimes must be provided any courtroom supports that the court finds necessary to support the health, safety, or liberty of the child and determines are in the interest of justice.

The bill also provides that in any criminal proceeding for a human trafficking violation or civil action for injury due to human trafficking, a child victim’s or child witness’s identifying information must be sealed and may not be disclosed to the public unless the court orders the disclosure to be made after a hearing in which the court takes into consideration the health, safety, and liberty of the child and determines that the disclosure is in the interest of justice.

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 Judiciary, Ayes 7, Noes 1

Passed 7–1 Feb 18, 2026 official source full page

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

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