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Wisconsin 2025 Regular Session Status: To Executive 2 R cosponsors

SB 279 — Relating to: grants to law enforcement agencies for data-sharing platforms.

Last action December 10, 2025 — Published 12-10-2025

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This bill has been sent to the executive. Introduced May 22, 2025. It awaits signature.

Next likely step: the executive signs it into law or issues a veto.

Prognosis

Likely to advance 74% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

Moderate

How often bills like it became law.

To Executive

Current position in the legislative process.
19 sponsors

1 primary, 18 co-sponsors signed on.
Single-party support

Sponsorship is currently within one party (2 R).
Cleared a recorded vote

Passed 3 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

An Act to create 165.981 of the statutes;

Bill Text

What changed in the latest version

77 added · 8 removed

Plain-language change summary

The latest amendment to SB 279 removes specific lines from the original bill that likely outlined details or requirements for the grant program aimed at law enforcement agencies. By simplifying the language, the amendment streamlines the legislation, focusing more on the broad goals rather than the nitty-gritty specifics. This change matters because it can potentially make the bill easier for agencies to understand and implement, encouraging better collaboration and data sharing among law enforcement. Ultimately, it aims to enhance public safety through improved technology.

- 2026 LEGISLATURE ~~LRBa0256/1~~LRB-3186/1 ~~CMH:emw~~CMH:klm SENATE ~~AMENDMENT~~ 1, TO ~~SENATE~~ BILL 279 ~~June~~May ~~13,~~22, 2025 - ~~Offered~~Introduced by ~~SenatANGGAARD~~Senators .ANGGAARD and BRADLEY , cosponsored by Representatives D ONOVAN , C ALLAHAN , SPIROS, N OVAK , P IWOWARCZYK , W ICHGERS, DITTRICH, MURSAU , BRILL, KNODL , MURPHY , SUBECK , TUSLER, KREIBICH, SORTWELL , O'CONNOR and M AXEY.

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1.A N A CT to create 165.981 of the statutes;

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~~END~~Analysis )by the Legislative Reference Bureau Under current law, the Department of Justice awards grants to cities and law enforcement agencies for various purposes, including to pay for uniformed beat patrol officers and to enable agencies to purchase body cameras.

This bill requires DOJ to award grants to law enforcement agencies to acquire data-sharing platforms.

The bill sets forth criteria that data-sharing platforms must meet to be covered by the grant.

The criteria include that the platform must be able to integrate data from common law enforcement systems on a real-time basis;

eliminate redundant records;

restrict access to information by data type, roles, and other parameters;

allow for controlled data integration and sharing among law enforcement agencies;

be accessed on devices commonly used by law enforcement agencies;

and ensure that law enforcement agencies retain rights to agency data.

The bill also provides that the Joint Committee on Finance, upon request by DOJ, may provide up to $2,000,000 in each fiscal year of the 2025-27 biennium to implement the grant program.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

- 2026 Legislature - 2 - LRB-3186/1 CMH:klm SENATE BILL 279 SECTION 1 S ECTION 1.

165.981 of the statutes is created to read:

165.981 Grants for data-sharing platforms for law enforcement.

(1) In this section, “law enforcement agency” has the meaning given in s.

165.98 (1).

(2) The department of justice shall award grants to law enforcement agencies for the acquisition of a data-sharing platform.

(3) A law enforcement agency that receives a grant under sub.

(2) shall use the grant funds to acquire a data-sharing platform to which all of the following apply:

(a) The platform is able to integrate data from common law enforcement systems on a real-time basis.

(b) The platform is able to identify and eliminate redundant records in law enforcement systems.

(c) The platform is able to provide advance, configurable search, analytics, and visualization capabilities that support common mission needs for law enforcement.

(d) The platform allows law enforcement agencies to appropriately restrict access to information by data type, organization, roles, responsibilities, individual investigations, and other parameters.

(e) The platform allows for secure, permission-controlled data integration and sharing among participating law enforcement agencies.

(f) The platform is able to be accessed on various devices commonly used by law enforcement agencies.

(g) The platform has a demonstrated record of meeting or exceeding similar - 2026 Legislature - 3 - LRB-3186/1 CMH:klm SENATE BILL 279 SECTION 1 mission needs and the ability to reach full operational capability within 90 days of initiation.

(h) The platform allows for integration with existing law enforcement agency identity and access management solutions, such as single-sign-on and multifactor authentication.

(i) The platform is hosted in a secure environment that is compliant with Criminal Justice Information Services standards and that can scale to accommodate volume and velocity of law enforcement data needs.

(j) The platform is able to provide granular audit logging for all user interactions with data.

(k) The platform is able to provide an open, interoperable architecture and business terms that ensure the law enforcement agency retains all rights to agency data.

S ECTION 9127.

Nonstatutory provisions;

Justice.

(1) G RANT FUNDING.

In the 2025-27 fiscal biennium, upon request by the department of justice, the joint committee on finance may supplement the appropriation under s.

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20.455 (2) (a) with sufficient funds from s.

20.865 (4) (a), not to exceed $2,000,000 in each fiscal year, to implement the grant program under s.

165.981.

(END)

Latest

- 2026 LEGISLATURE ~~LRBa0256/1~~ ~~CMH:emw~~ SENATE ~~AMENDMENT~~ 1, TO ~~SENATE~~ BILL 279 ~~June~~ ~~13,~~ 2025 - ~~Offered~~ by ~~SenatANGGAARD~~ .

- 2026 LEGISLATURE LRB-3186/1 CMH:klm SENATE BILL 279 May 22, 2025 - Introduced by Senators ANGGAARD and BRADLEY , cosponsored by Representatives D ONOVAN , C ALLAHAN , SPIROS, N OVAK , P IWOWARCZYK , W ICHGERS, DITTRICH, MURSAU , BRILL, KNODL , MURPHY , SUBECK , TUSLER, KREIBICH, SORTWELL , O'CONNOR and M AXEY.

At ~~the~~ ~~locations~~ ~~indicated,~~ ~~amend~~ ~~the~~ ~~bill~~ as ~~follows:~~

Referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety.

A N A CT to create 165.981 of the statutes;

~~Page~~ 3, ~~line~~ ~~14:~~

relating to:

~~delete~~ ~~lines~~ 14 to ~~19.~~

grants to law enforcement agencies for data-sharing platforms.

~~END~~ )

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau Under current law, the Department of Justice awards grants to cities and law enforcement agencies for various purposes, including to pay for uniformed beat patrol officers and to enable agencies to purchase body cameras.