Wisconsin AJR 136: Relating to: the right to privacy (first consideration).

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2025 ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION 136
February  6,  2026  -  Introduced  by  Representatives HYSELL, MAYADEV, STROUD, 
DESANTO, ARNEY, BROWN, CRUZ, DESMIDT, FITZGERALD, GOODWIN, JOHNSON, 
KIRSCH, MCCARVILLE, MIRESSE, PHELPS, PRADO, RIVERA-WAGNER, ROE, 
SHEEHAN, SPAUDE, TAYLOR, TENORIO, UDELL, ANDERSON, BARE, CLANCY, 
EMERSON, HONG, JOERS, MADISON, MOORE  OMOKUNDE, PALMERI, SINICKI, 
SNODGRASS and SUBECK, cosponsored by Senators RATCLIFF, DRAKE, HABUSH 
SINYKIN, KEYESKI, WALL, DASSLER-ALFHEIM, HESSELBEIN, LARSON, ROYS, 
SPREITZER and WIRCH. Referred to Committee on State Affairs.
To create section 1m of article I of the constitution; relating to: the right to 
privacy (first consideration).
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This  constitutional  amendment,  proposed  to  the  2025  legislature  on  first 
consideration, provides that the people have an individual and fundamental right 
to privacy.
A constitutional amendment requires adoption by two successive legislatures 
and ratification by the people before it can become effective.
Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That:
SECTION 1.  Section 1m of article I of the constitution is created to read:
[Article I] Section 1m.  As a necessary part of a free society, the people have an 
individual and fundamental right to privacy.
SECTION 2.  Numbering of new provisions.  If  another  constitutional 
amendment ratified by the people creates the number of any provision created in 
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this joint resolution, the chief of the legislative reference bureau shall determine 
the sequencing and the numbering of the provisions whose numbers conflict.
Be it further resolved, That this proposed amendment be referred to the 
legislature to be chosen at the next general election and that it be published for 
three months previous to the time of holding such election.
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