Assembly Bill 585
The penalty for failing to stop at the scene of a motor vehicle accident and providing a penalty
Topics: Legislature: Criminal Penalties, Joint Review Committee on, Motor vehicle: Accident, Motor vehicle: Regulation
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
Nov 18, 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 Criminal Justice. 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
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
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
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
Under current law, if an operator of a vehicle has an accident resulting in personal injury or vehicle damage, the operator must immediately stop the vehicle at or near the scene of the accident, provide certain information, and render reasonable assistance to any injured person. A person who commits a failure-to-stop violation (hit-and-run): 1) may be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than nine months or both if the accident involved injury to a person but the person did not suffer great bodily harm; 2) is guilty of a Class E felony if the accident involved injury to a person and the person suffered great bodily harm; and 3) is guilty of a Class D felony if the accident involved death to a person.
This bill creates an additional category of penalty for hit-and-run. A person guilty of hit-and-run is guilty of a Class H felony if the accident involved injury to a person and the person suffered substantial bodily harm. A Class H felony is punishable by a fine not exceeding $10,000 or imprisonment not exceeding six years or both. "Substantial bodily harm" means bodily injury that causes a laceration that requires stitches, staples, or a tissue adhesive; any fracture of a bone; a broken nose;
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a burn; a petechia; a temporary loss of consciousness, sight, or hearing; a concussion;
or a loss or fracture of a tooth. The bill also defines "great bodily harm," for purposes of the bill, as bodily injury that creates a substantial risk of death, or that causes serious permanent disfigurement, or that causes a permanent or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ or other serious bodily injury.
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
8 representatives are its . All 8 are Republicans.
2 more lawmakers .
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Authors (8)
- Garey Bies · Republican, Assembly
- Edward Brooks · Republican, Assembly
- Dean Kaufert · Republican, Assembly
- Dan Knodl · Republican, Assembly
- Daniel LeMahieu · Republican, Assembly
- Thomas Lothian · Republican, Assembly
- Pat Strachota · Republican, Assembly
- John Townsend · Republican, Assembly
Signed on in support (2)
- Alberta Darling · Republican, Senate
- Glenn Grothman · Republican, Senate
What happened
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Apr 28, 2010
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Nov 18, 2009
Sent to the Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice.
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Nov 18, 2009
Introduced in the Assembly.
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- Nov 18, 2009 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Strachota, Townsend, Brooks, Knodl, LeMahieu, Bies, Kaufert and Lothian;Cosponsored by Senators Grothman and Darling
- Nov 18, 2009 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to committee on Criminal Justice
- 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
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.
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
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor