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Bills from the 2009–10 session

Assembly Bill 422

Battery, intimidation, or threats to a district attorney, deputy district attorney, or assistant district attorney and providing a penalty

Topics: Crime and criminals: Battery, District attorney, Legislature: Criminal Penalties, Joint Review Committee on

Stopped in committee

It never got a ⁠, so it never came up for a vote. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Sep 22, 2009

  2. Committee, stopped here

    Stopped here. No public hearing was held.

  3. Assembly vote, not reached

  4. Senate vote, not reached

  5. Governor, not reached

  6. Law, not reached

Latest entry in the official record, Apr 28, 2010: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Judiciary and Ethics. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.

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What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Under current law, no one may intentionally cause or threaten bodily harm to a judge or a member of a judge's family if the person knows that the person harmed or threatened is a judge or a family member of the judge, and the person who causes or threatens harm does so while the judge is acting in his or her official capacity or as a response to an official action by the judge. A person who does so is guilty of a Class H felony and may be fined not more than $10,000, imprisoned for not more than six years, or both.

This bill attaches the same penalty to a person who knowingly causes or threatens bodily harm to a district attorney or a member of a district attorney's family while the district attorney is acting in an official capacity or as a response to an official action by the district attorney. The bill defines district attorney to include any person authorized to prosecute a criminal case or a delinquency petition, or his or her designee.

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Under current law, no one may intimidate a witness or a victim in an effort to prevent the witness or victim from reporting or cooperating in the prosecution of a crime. Anyone who intimidates a witness or a victim is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor and may be fined not more than $10,000, imprisoned for not more than nine months, or both. If the person who intimidates a witness or victim acts in furtherance of a conspiracy, for monetary gain, or injures or harms the property of the victim or witness, the person is guilty of a Class G felony, and may be fined not more than $25,000, imprisoned for not more than ten years, or both.

This bill attaches the same penalties to a person who intimidates a district attorney in an effort to prevent the district attorney from prosecuting a crime.

Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime, the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a report concerning the proposed penalty and the costs or savings that are likely to result if the bill is enacted.

Who's behind it

15 lawmakers are its ⁠. 12 are Republicans and 3 are Democrats.

2 more lawmakers ⁠.

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Authors (15)

Signed on in support (2)

What happened

  1. Apr 28, 2010

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Sep 22, 2009

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Judiciary and Ethics.

  3. Sep 22, 2009

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Sep 22, 2009 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Gundrum, Mason, Suder, Berceau, Petrowski, Cullen, Knodl, Gunderson, LeMahieu, A. Ott, Brooks, Townsend, Lothian, Bies and Nass;Cosponsored by Senators Hopper and Harsdorf

  2. Sep 22, 2009 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary and Ethics

  3. Apr 28, 2010 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary

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Author

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Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary

From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source

Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

More in the glossary

Public hearing

A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.

More in the glossary

Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1

More in the glossary

Legislative Reference Bureau

The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.

Official term: LRB analysis

More in the glossary

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor

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Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor

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