Assembly Bill 500
Risk reduction programming
Topics: Corrections, Department of, Court, Crime and criminals, Legislature: Criminal Penalties, Joint Review Committee on, Prison, Sentences and penalties
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.
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Introduced, passed
Oct 15, 2009
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Senate vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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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 Corrections and the Courts. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
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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
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. More in the glossary
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
Under current law, a person who is sentenced for a felony receives a bifurcated sentence, which requires the person to serve a portion of his or her sentence in prison (incarceration portion) and a portion in the community under extended supervision.
2009 Wisconsin Act 28 created an option for persons who are convicted of certain felonies. Under the act, with certain exceptions listed below, the sentencing court may order a person to serve a risk reduction sentence if the court determines that a risk reduction sentence is appropriate, the person agrees to cooperate in an assessment provided by the Department of Corrections (DOC), and the person agrees to participate in programming or treatment that DOC determines is appropriate for the person. Under the act, DOC may modify the person's treatment or program plan for any reason.
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A court may not order a risk reduction sentence for a person convicted of felony murder, second-degree reckless homicide, a strangulation or suffocation offense, human trafficking, kidnapping, certain stalking offenses, disarming a peace officer, tampering with a global positioning system, certain offenses involving the physical abuse or neglect of a child, certain offenses against an elderly or vulnerable person, certain offenses related to ethical government, or certain offenses involving weapons in a school.
If a person successfully completes the program and treatment plan DOC determines is appropriate for the person and the person maintains a good conduct record while in prison, he or she may be released from incarceration to extended supervision in the community after he or she has served at least 75 percent of the incarceration portion of his or her sentence.
Under this bill, DOC may not modify an inmate's program and must release an inmate when the inmate has served 75 percent of the incarceration portion of his or her sentence if the inmate successfully completes his or her program and treatment plan. The bill also eliminates the list of offenses that render a person ineligible for a risk reduction sentence.
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
Joint Legislative Council is its .
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Author (1)
- Joint Legislative Council
What happened
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Apr 28, 2010
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Oct 15, 2009
Sent to the Assembly Committee on Corrections and the Courts.
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Oct 15, 2009
Introduced in the Assembly.
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- Oct 15, 2009 · Assembly
Introduced by Joint Legislative Council
- Oct 15, 2009 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to committee on Corrections and the Courts
- Apr 28, 2010 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
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. 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.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
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
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