Senate Bill 548
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 in committee
It had a but no committee vote, 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 18, 2010
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. It had a hearing but no committee vote.
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Senate vote, not reached
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Assembly 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 sat with the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Corrections, Insurance, Campaign Finance Reform, and Housing.
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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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Cost estimate
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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
Lena Taylor, a Democrat, is its .
21 more lawmakers .
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Author (1)
- Lena Taylor · Democrat, Senate
Signed on in support (21)
- Alvin Ott · Republican, Assembly
- Annette Williams · Democrat, Assembly
- Joan Ballweg · Republican, Senate
- Garey Bies · Republican, Assembly
- Chris Danou · Democrat, Assembly
- Donald Friske · Republican, Assembly
- Tamara Grigsby · Democrat, Assembly
- Frederick Kessler · Democrat, Assembly
- Mary Williams · Republican, Assembly
- Jeff Mursau · Republican, Assembly
- Scott Newcomer · Republican, Assembly
- John Nygren · Republican, Assembly
- Joe Parisi · Democrat, Assembly
- Jerry Petrowski · Republican, Senate
- Kelda Roys · Democrat, Senate
- Sherman
- Richard Spanbauer · Republican, Assembly
- Barbara Toles · Democrat, Assembly
- John Townsend · Republican, Assembly
- Amy Sue Vruwink · Democrat, Assembly
- Jeffrey Wood · Independent, Assembly
What it would cost
State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.
What happened
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Apr 28, 2010
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Apr 1, 2010
The committee held a public hearing.
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Mar 22, 2010
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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Feb 18, 2010
Sent to the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Corrections, Insurance, Campaign Finance Reform, and Housing.
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Feb 18, 2010
Introduced in the Senate.
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- Feb 18, 2010 · Senate
Introduced by Senator Taylor;Cosponsored 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
- Feb 18, 2010 · Senate
Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary, Corrections, Insurance, Campaign Finance Reform, and Housing
- Mar 22, 2010 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
- Apr 1, 2010 · Senate
Public hearing held
- Apr 28, 2010 · Senate
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
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate. 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
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate