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WI AB124 (2025)
Prohibiting persons who have been convicted of a violent crime from changing their name and providing a penalty.
Anti-LGBTQ+
- Jurisdiction
- Wisconsin
- Session
- 2025-2026 Regular Session
- Stage reported
- Failed
- First recorded action
- Latest action
- : Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
- Record retrieved
Bill types
As labelled in the project's tracker.
Birth Certificate or Identification Change BanGender Marker Change Ban
Links
- As introduced (PDF, hosted here)
- LegiScan record(opens another site)
- Official legislature page(opens another site)
- Introduced text (Mar 11, 2025) at docs.legis.wisconsin.gov(opens another site)PDF, external
- Bill page on this site
Recorded actions
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Introduced | |
| Assembly | Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary | |
| Assembly | Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Goeben | |
| Assembly | Public hearing held | |
| Assembly | Representative O'Connor added as a coauthor | |
| Assembly | Executive action taken | |
| Assembly | Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 4, Noes 2 | |
| Assembly | Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 4, Noes 2 | |
| Assembly | Referred to committee on Rules | |
| Assembly | Placed on calendar 1-13-2026 by Committee on Rules | |
| Assembly | Laid on the table | |
| Assembly | Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1 |
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