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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 957

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Relating to: Internet crimes against children law enforcement and making an appropriation. (FE)

Children Data processing — Criminal acts and law enforcement Justice department of Police

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Assembly, completed
  3. Passes Senate, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill provides $400,000 to the Department of Justice in each year of the 2025-27 fiscal biennium for Internet crimes against children law enforcement.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Armstrong (R) , B. Jacobson (R) , Behnke (R) , Billings (D) , Brill (R) , Brown (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Dittrich (R) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Goeben (R) , Joers (D) , Maxey (R) , Mayadev (D) , Miresse (D) , Neubauer (D) , Neylon (R) , O'Connor (R) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Piwowarczyk (R) , Sinicki (D) , Tucker (R) , Udell (D)

10 cosponsors

Duchow and Steffen , Jacque (R) , James (R) , Ratcliff, Smith and Carpenter , Roys (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stubbs and Palmeri , Vining (D) , Wanggaard (R) , Wichgers (R)

Registered lobbying interests · 5

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 Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 12, Noes 1

Passed 12–1 Feb 12, 2026 official source full page

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

Assembly: PASSAGE

Passed 97–0 Feb 19, 2026 official source full page

Aye · 97

Not voting · 2

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0

Passed 8–0 Mar 11, 2026 official source full page

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

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 13, Noes 0

Passed 13–0 Mar 11, 2026 official source full page

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

Senate: CONCURRENCE

Passed 33–0 Mar 17, 2026 official source full page

Full history

  1. Jan 29, 2026 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Brill, Billings, Goeben, Joers, Dittrich, Mayadev, Armstrong, Behnke, Brown, DeSmidt, Emerson, Fitzgerald, B. Jacobson, Maxey, Miresse, Neylon, O'Connor, Ortiz-Velez, Piwowarczyk, Sinicki, Tucker, Udell and Neubauer; cosponsored by Senators James, Wanggaard, Jacque and Roys

  2. Jan 29, 2026 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety

  3. Feb 2, 2026 · Assembly

    Representatives Stubbs and Palmeri added as coauthors

  4. Feb 3, 2026 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Feb 3, 2026 · Assembly

    Representatives Duchow and Steffen added as coauthors

  6. Feb 11, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Snodgrass added as a coauthor

  7. Feb 11, 2026 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  8. Feb 12, 2026 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 12, Noes 1

  9. Feb 12, 2026 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  10. Feb 13, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Vining added as a coauthor

  11. Feb 16, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Wichgers added as a coauthor

  12. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 11:51 AM on 2-19-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 14

  13. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  14. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  15. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  16. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 97, Noes 0

  17. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  18. Feb 23, 2026 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  19. Feb 25, 2026 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary and Public Safety

  20. Mar 4, 2026 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  21. Mar 11, 2026 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  22. Mar 11, 2026 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0

  23. Mar 11, 2026 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  24. Mar 11, 2026 · Senate

    Withdrawn from committee on Senate Organization and rereferred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)

  25. Mar 11, 2026 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  26. Mar 11, 2026 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 13, Noes 0

  27. Mar 11, 2026 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  28. Mar 16, 2026 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  29. Mar 16, 2026 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 3-17-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  30. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Senators Ratcliff, Smith and Carpenter added as cosponsors

  31. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Read a second time

  32. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  33. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  34. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 33, Noes 0

  35. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  36. Mar 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  37. Mar 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 3-20-2026

  38. Apr 2, 2026 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026

  39. Apr 9, 2026 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 4-8-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 216

  40. Apr 9, 2026 · Assembly

    Published 4-9-2026