Assembly Bill 71
Contacting, harming, or threatening to harm a juror and providing a penalty
Topics: Crime and criminals: Battery, Crime and criminals: Felony, Jury, 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.
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Introduced, passed
Feb 17, 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
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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, no one may intentionally cause bodily harm to a person that he or she knows is or was a juror, if the act is motivated by the juror's participation in a verdict or indictment. Whoever 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. Under this bill, a person who intentionally causes or threatens to cause bodily harm to an individual he or she knows is or was a juror in any criminal or civil proceeding involving the person, or who intentionally causes or threatens to cause bodily harm to a member of a juror's family, is guilty of a Class H felony.
Current law also allows a judge, upon sentencing a person for a crime, to prohibit the person from contacting a victim of the person's crime during any part of the person's sentence or probation. The bill allows a judge to prohibit a person who is convicted of a crime from contacting, for any part of the person's sentence or probation, a juror who served at any proceeding related to the person's crime.
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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
17 lawmakers are its . All 17 are Republicans.
3 more lawmakers .
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Authors (17)
- Alvin Ott · Republican, Assembly
- Joan Ballweg · Republican, Senate
- Garey Bies · Republican, Assembly
- Edward Brooks · Republican, Assembly
- Scott Gunderson · Republican, Assembly
- Mark Honadel · Republican, Assembly
- Steve Kestell · Republican, Assembly
- Daniel LeMahieu · Republican, Assembly
- Thomas Lothian · Republican, Assembly
- John Murtha · Republican, Assembly
- Steve Nass · Republican, Senate
- Roger Roth · Republican, Senate
- Richard Spanbauer · Republican, Assembly
- Pat Strachota · Republican, Assembly
- John Townsend · Republican, Assembly
- Robin Vos · Republican, Assembly
- Leah Vukmir · Republican, Senate
Signed on in support (3)
- Alan Lasee · Republican, Senate
- Alberta Darling · Republican, Senate
- Luther S. Olsen · Republican, Senate
Versions and amendments
Every text the Legislature printed for this bill, including proposed changes. Each opens on the Legislature's site.
What happened
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Apr 28, 2010
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Apr 13, 2010
“Report of joint review committee on Criminal Penalties requested pursuant to s. 13.525 (5) Wisconsin Statutes” (the official wording)
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Feb 17, 2009
Sent to the Assembly Committee on Corrections and the Courts.
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Feb 17, 2009
Introduced in the Assembly.
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- Feb 17, 2009 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Murtha, Bies, Brooks, Gunderson, Honadel, Kestell, LeMahieu, Lothian, Nass, A. Ott, Roth, Spanbauer, Strachota, Townsend, Vos, Vukmir and Ballweg;Cosponsored by Senators Darling, A. Lasee and Olsen
- Feb 17, 2009 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to committee on Corrections and the Courts
- Apr 17, 2009 · Assembly
Assembly amendment 1 offered by Representative Schneider
- Apr 13, 2010 · Assembly
Report of joint review committee on Criminal Penalties requested pursuant to s. 13.525 (5) Wisconsin Statutes
- 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