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Bills from the 2009–10 session

Assembly Bill 759

Conditions of release to extended supervision, parole, conditional release, and supervised release, and conditions of probation, for sex offenders who committed certain crimes against children; prohibited areas for sex offenders who committed certain crimes against children; prohibiting a political subdivision from regulating the placement or residency of sex offenders; and providing a penalty

Topics: Children: Protection and services, Corrections, Department of, County: Ordinance, Data processing: Criminal acts and law enforcement, Legislature: Criminal Penalties, Joint Review Committee on, Municipality: Ordinance, Parole or probation, Sentences and penalties, Sex crimes

Stopped before the full Assembly voted

The recommended passing it, but the full Assembly never voted on it. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Feb 19, 2010

  2. Committee, passed

    Approved

  3. Assembly vote, stopped here

    Stopped here. The full Assembly never voted on it.

  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 ⁠”

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What it would have done

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

Current law requires the Department of Corrections (DOC) to maintain active lifetime global positioning system (GPS) tracking of sex offenders who have been committed as sexually violent persons and certain sex offenders who have committed specified sex offenses against a child. DOC must also, if necessary to protect public safety, create for these sex offenders areas that they are prohibited from entering or areas that they are prohibited from leaving. A person who violates such a prohibition is subject to a $200 forfeiture.

Under this bill, if the crime that led to the GPS tracking requirement is a level 1 child sex offense or if the person is found to be a sexually violent person, DOC must generally prohibit the person, while he or she is on parole, probation, extended supervision, conditional release, or supervised release, from entering certain areas including any area where persons under 16 years of age congregate, including schools, day care centers, playgrounds, parks, and published school bus stops. If a person violates the prohibition, his or her release is revoked and he or she is guilty of a Class I felony. In addition, under this bill, if the crime that led to the GPS tracking requirement is a level 1 child sex offense and if the tracked person enters or leaves an area that DOC prohibited him or her from entering or from leaving to protect public safety, the person's release is also revoked.

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This bill also prohibits a political subdivision (a city, village, town, or county) from enacting or enforcing an ordinance or resolution that specifically affects the placement or residency of, or areas that may not be entered or exited by, a registered sex offender.

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

21 lawmakers are its ⁠. 11 are Republicans, 8 are Democrats and 1 is a Independent. 1 has no party on record.

1 more lawmaker ⁠.

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Authors (21)

Signed on in support (1)

What it would cost

State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

How lawmakers voted

There was one vote on this bill.

Assembly Committee on Corrections and the Courts vote to recommend it

Passed, 8 to 3 · Apr 16, 2010

No member-by-member record exists for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Official motion: “Report passage recommended by committee on Corrections and the Courts, Ayes 8, Noes 3”. Official record · This vote on its own page

What happened

  1. Apr 28, 2010

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Apr 16, 2010

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Rules.

  3. Apr 16, 2010

    The committee voted to recommend passing it, 8 to 3.

  4. Mar 11, 2010

    The committee held a public hearing.

  5. Mar 10, 2010

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  6. Feb 19, 2010

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Corrections and the Courts.

  7. Feb 19, 2010

    Introduced in the Assembly.

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  1. Feb 19, 2010 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Kessler, Friske, Roys, Sherman, Grigsby, A. Williams, Bies, Vruwink, Parisi, Danou, Mursau, Nygren, A. Ott, Townsend, M. Williams, Ballweg, Petrowski, Spanbauer, Wood, Toles and Newcomer;Cosponsored by Senator Taylor

  2. Feb 19, 2010 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Corrections and the Courts

  3. Mar 10, 2010 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Mar 11, 2010 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Apr 7, 2010 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  6. Apr 16, 2010 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by committee on Corrections and the Courts, Ayes 8, Noes 3

  7. Apr 16, 2010 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  8. Apr 28, 2010 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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Senate Joint Resolution 1

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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

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Cost estimate

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Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary

Roll call

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Committee

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

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

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

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Cost estimate

A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.

Official term: Fiscal estimate

More in the glossary

Roll call

A vote where each lawmaker's yes or no is recorded by name.

Official term: Roll call vote

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