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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 712

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: inmate access to the outdoors. (FE)

Corrections department of House of correction Jail Milwaukee — City Prison Sheriff Shoreland zoning

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

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires the Department of Corrections to provide every inmate being held in a state correctional institution with three hours per week of outdoor time, unless the inmate is being held in the Milwaukee secure detention facility, in which case the three-hour per week requirement does not apply until the inmate’s 91st day of holding at that institution.

The bill also requires county sheriffs to provide every inmate being held in a county jail or county house of correction with three hours per week of outdoor time beginning on the inmate’s 31st day of holding at that county jail or county house of correction.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Larson (D) , Roys (D)

16 cosponsors

Arney (D) , Clancy (D) , Hong (D) , Joers (D) , Madison (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Palmeri (D) , Phelps (D) , Prado (D) , Sinicki (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Taylor (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 1

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

Full history

  1. Dec 2, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Larson and Roys; cosponsored by Representatives Madison, Clancy, Hong, Arney, Phelps, Tenorio, Joers, Miresse, Moore Omokunde, Palmeri, Prado, Sinicki, Stroud, Stubbs, Taylor and Udell

  2. Dec 2, 2025 · Senate

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

  3. Jan 13, 2026 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1