Relating to: recognizing September 25, 2025, as First Amendment Day for all people of Wisconsin.
SJR 97 designates September 25, 2025, as First Amendment Day for all Wisconsin residents to commemorate the anniversary of the U.S. Congress proposing the Bill of Rights in 1789. This symbolic resolution has no legal effect and does not create new laws or obligations. It aims to honor the First Amendment's protections of free speech, assembly, and press, as highlighted in the resolution's preamble. The bill serves as a commemorative gesture, not a policy change.
Bill status
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Introduction
Oct 2025
Committee Review
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Governor
Introduced Oct 9, 2025
Last action Mar 23, 2026
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1
Mar 23, 2026
Amended
Failed to adopt pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
upper
Oct 9, 2025
Committee
Read and referred to Committee on Senate Organization
upper
Oct 9, 2025
Introduced
Introduced by Senators Ratcliff, Carpenter, Larson, Roys, Spreitzer and Wall;
cosponsored by Representatives Anderson, Andraca, Arney, Bare, Brown, Clancy, Fitzgerald, Goodwin, Joers, Johnson, Kirsch, McCarville, Miresse, Murphy, Palmeri, Rivera-Wagner, Sheehan, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Stubbs, Subeck, Tenorio and Udell
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6 primary · 0 co-sponsors
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