| 1 | 1 | | 2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE |
|---|
| 2 | 2 | | LRB-2762/1 |
|---|
| 3 | 3 | | MJW:wlj |
|---|
| 4 | 4 | | 2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 229 |
|---|
| 5 | 5 | | May 2, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives GOEBEN, DUCHOW, O'CONNOR, |
|---|
| 6 | 6 | | ARMSTRONG, B. JACOBSON, DITTRICH, BRILL, BROOKS, CALLAHAN, KAUFERT, |
|---|
| 7 | 7 | | PIWOWARCZYK, BEHNKE and PENTERMAN, cosponsored by Senators JAMES, |
|---|
| 8 | 8 | | WANGGAARD, JACQUE, CABRAL-GUEVARA and MARKLEIN. Referred to |
|---|
| 9 | 9 | | Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety. |
|---|
| 10 | 10 | | AN ACT to repeal 164.05 of the statutes; relating to: the law enforcement |
|---|
| 11 | 11 | | officers[ bill of rights. |
|---|
| 12 | 12 | | Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau |
|---|
| 13 | 13 | | Current law contains a law enforcement officers[ bill of rights that protects |
|---|
| 14 | 14 | | certain law enforcement officers[ rights relating to their engagement or lack of |
|---|
| 15 | 15 | | engagement in political activity, the manner in which they may be subject to |
|---|
| 16 | 16 | | interrogation, and their candidacy for public office and provides that a law |
|---|
| 17 | 17 | | enforcement officer may not be discharged; disciplined; demoted or denied |
|---|
| 18 | 18 | | promotion, transfer, or reassignment; or otherwise discriminated against in regard |
|---|
| 19 | 19 | | to employment for exercising such rights. Under current law, this bill of rights |
|---|
| 20 | 20 | | applies only to law enforcement officers employed by a city, village, town, or county. |
|---|
| 21 | 21 | | This bill applies the law enforcement officers[ bill of rights to any person employed |
|---|
| 22 | 22 | | by the state or by a city, village, town, or county for the purpose of detecting and |
|---|
| 23 | 23 | | preventing crime and enforcing laws or ordinances, who is authorized to make |
|---|
| 24 | 24 | | arrests for violations of the laws or ordinances that he or she is employed to enforce. |
|---|
| 25 | 25 | | The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do |
|---|
| 26 | 26 | | enact as follows: |
|---|
| 27 | 27 | | 1 |
|---|
| 28 | 28 | | 2 2025 - 2026 Legislature |
|---|
| 29 | 29 | | ASSEMBLY BILL 229 |
|---|
| 30 | 30 | | - 2 - LRB-2762/1 |
|---|
| 31 | 31 | | MJW:wlj |
|---|
| 32 | 32 | | SECTION 1 |
|---|
| 33 | 33 | | SECTION 1. 164.05 of the statutes is repealed. |
|---|
| 34 | 34 | | (END) |
|---|
| 35 | 35 | | 1 |
|---|
| 36 | 36 | | 2 |
|---|