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Introduced
11/14/2025
11/14/2025
In Committee
11/14/2025
11/14/2025
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
Introduced Session
2025-2026 Regular Session
Bill Summary
Under current law, a governmental body is generally required to meet in open session. Open session is a meeting that is held in a place reasonably accessible to members of the public and open to all citizens at all times. This bill allows the following entities to go into closed session for the purpose of considering information technology security issues affecting information technology systems over which the entities have jurisdiction or exercise responsibility: 1. The State of Wisconsin Investment Board. 2. The Ethics Commission. 3. The Elections Commission. 4. The Joint Committee on Information Policy and Technology. 5. The Joint Legislative Audit Committee. The bill also prohibits public access to records regarding information technology security issues considered in closed session, as provided under the bill, except that the bill allows the custodians of such records to submit the records to the Joint Committee on Information Policy and Technology and the Joint Legislative Audit Committee for consideration in closed session. The bill also LRB-4704/1 JK:skw 2025 - 2026 Legislature SENATE BILL 633 requires the committees to periodically prepare and publish a summaries of information technology security issues considered by the committees in closed session. The committees must make sufficient alterations in the summaries to prevent disclosing confidential, proprietary, and other sensitive information.
AI Summary
This bill allows specific governmental bodies in Wisconsin, including the State Investment Board, Ethics Commission, Elections Commission, Joint Committee on Information Policy and Technology, and Joint Legislative Audit Committee, to meet in closed session to discuss information technology (IT) security issues. Currently, governmental bodies are typically required to meet in open sessions accessible to the public, but this bill creates an exception for sensitive IT security discussions. The bill prohibits public access to records about these closed-session IT security discussions, with a key caveat that these records can be shared with the Joint Committee on Information Policy and Technology and the Joint Legislative Audit Committee for further review. Additionally, the bill mandates that these committees periodically prepare and publish summaries of the IT security issues discussed, with the requirement that they modify the summaries sufficiently to protect confidential, proprietary, and other sensitive information. The changes are designed to allow government entities to discuss potentially vulnerable cybersecurity matters without risking exposure of critical security details that could potentially compromise their information systems.
Committee Categories
Business and Industry
Sponsors (8)
Julian Bradley (R)*,
Barbara Dittrich (R),
Nate Gustafson (R),
Paul Melotik (R),
Dave Murphy (R),
Jerry O'Connor (R),
Jim Piwowarczyk (R),
David Steffen (R),
Last Action
Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development (on 11/14/2025)
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| Document Type | Source Location |
|---|---|
| State Bill Page | https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb633 |
| BillText | https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/SB633.pdf |
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