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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 229
May 2, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives GOEBEN, DUCHOW, O'CONNOR,
ARMSTRONG, B. JACOBSON, DITTRICH, BRILL, BROOKS, CALLAHAN, KAUFERT,
PIWOWARCZYK, BEHNKE and PENTERMAN, cosponsored by Senators JAMES,
WANGGAARD, JACQUE, CABRAL-GUEVARA and MARKLEIN. Referred to
Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety.
AN ACT to repeal 164.05 of the statutes; relating to: the law enforcement
officers[ bill of rights.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law contains a law enforcement officers[ bill of rights that protects
certain law enforcement officers[ rights relating to their engagement or lack of
engagement in political activity, the manner in which they may be subject to
interrogation, and their candidacy for public office and provides that a law
enforcement officer may not be discharged; disciplined; demoted or denied
promotion, transfer, or reassignment; or otherwise discriminated against in regard
to employment for exercising such rights. Under current law, this bill of rights
applies only to law enforcement officers employed by a city, village, town, or county.
This bill applies the law enforcement officers[ bill of rights to any person employed
by the state or by a city, village, town, or county for the purpose of detecting and
preventing crime and enforcing laws or ordinances, who is authorized to make
arrests for violations of the laws or ordinances that he or she is employed to enforce.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
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SECTION 1
SECTION 1. 164.05 of the statutes is repealed.
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