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Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

AB 191

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Relating to: theft of communication and video services, civil damages resulting from the theft of certain services, and providing penalties. (FE)

Attorney — Fee Crime and criminals Forfeiture Frac sand Legislature — Criminal penalties, joint review committee on Telecommunications Telephone Television

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Assembly, completed
  3. Passes Senate, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law prohibits a person from obtaining without payment

telecommunications service and from obtaining without payment video service. A

person who violates either prohibition for the first time is subject to a Class C

forfeiture. Under this bill, a person who violates either prohibition for the first time

is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor.

Under current law if a person who incurs injury as a result of theft of

telecommunications service, commercial mobile service, video service, or satellite

cable programming prevails in a civil suit against the person who committed the

theft, the court must grant the injured person actual damages, costs, and

disbursements. The court is not permitted to grant attorney fees unless the person

who committed the theft did it willfully and for commercial advantage or was

previously convicted for the same violation. This bill permits the court to grant

reasonable attorney fees for a first violation without regard to willfullness,

commercial advantage or previous conviction.

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.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Kleefisch (R) , Petryk (R) , Ripp (R)

3 cosponsors

Farrow (R) , Lasee (R) , Leibham (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice, Ayes 7, Noes 0

Passed 7–0 Sep 17, 2013 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice, Ayes 6, Noes 1

Passed 6–1 Sep 17, 2013 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Public Works, and Telecommunications, Ayes 7, Noes 0

Passed 7–0 Nov 6, 2013 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. May 3, 2013 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Kleefisch, Petryk and Ripp; cosponsored by Senators Farrow, Lasee and Leibham

  2. May 3, 2013 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice

  3. May 17, 2013 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Jun 3, 2013 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Jun 26, 2013 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Jun 27, 2013 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  7. Sep 11, 2013 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Kleefisch

  8. Sep 11, 2013 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Goyke

  9. Sep 12, 2013 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  10. Sep 17, 2013 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice, Ayes 6, Noes 1

  11. Sep 17, 2013 · Assembly

    Referred to Committee on Rules

  12. Sep 17, 2013 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice, Ayes 7, Noes 0

  13. Oct 10, 2013 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 10-15-2013 by Committee on Rules

  14. Oct 15, 2013 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  15. Oct 15, 2013 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 adopted

  16. Oct 15, 2013 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  17. Oct 15, 2013 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  18. Oct 15, 2013 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  19. Oct 15, 2013 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  20. Oct 15, 2013 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  21. Oct 22, 2013 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Government Operations, Public Works, and Telecommunications

  22. Oct 29, 2013 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  23. Nov 6, 2013 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  24. Nov 6, 2013 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Public Works, and Telecommunications, Ayes 7, Noes 0

  25. Nov 6, 2013 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  26. Nov 11, 2013 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 11-12-2013 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  27. Nov 12, 2013 · Senate

    Read a second time

  28. Nov 12, 2013 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  29. Nov 12, 2013 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  30. Nov 12, 2013 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in

  31. Nov 12, 2013 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  32. Nov 12, 2013 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  33. Nov 21, 2013 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 11-21-2013

  34. Dec 12, 2013 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 12-12-2013

  35. Dec 13, 2013 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 12-13-2013. 2013 Wisconsin Act 89

  36. Dec 13, 2013 · Assembly

    Published 12-14-2013