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Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

AB 556

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Relating to: strip searches. (FE)

Crime and criminals Jail Juvenile detention facility Police Prison

  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

Under current law, a person may be strip searched when he or she is arrested

for any felony, for certain misdemeanors, or for any misdemeanor or civil violation

if there is probable cause to believe that the person is concealing a weapon or

concealing something that would constitute evidence of the offense for which he or

she has been detained.

Current law requires that the person conducting the strip search is the same

sex as the person searched (detainee), unless the search is a body cavity search

conducted by a physician, physician assistant or registered nurse, that the detainee

be shielded from the view of any person not conducting the search, that the search

not be video or audio recorded, that the person conducting the search generally

obtains the prior written permission from the chief, sheriff, or law enforcement

administrator for his or her jurisdiction, and that the person conducting the search

prepares and provides to the detainee a written report that sets forth the details of

the search and its authorization.

Under current law, those requirements do not apply if the detainee is confined

as a condition of probation or to serve a sentence after a criminal conviction, if the

detainee is confined in a juvenile correctional facility or secured residential care

center, or if the detainee is committed, transferred, or admitted to certain mental

health facilities.

Under this bill, a person may be strip searched, subject to the requirements

imposed under current law, if he or she is arrested or otherwise lawfully detained by

law enforcement, and he or she will be incarcerated, imprisoned or otherwise

detained in a jail or prison with one or more other persons.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: A. Ott (R) , Bies (R) , Born (R) , Brooks (R) , Krug (R) , Marklein (R) , Murphy (R) , Pridemore (R) , Smith (D) , Stroebel (R)

1 cosponsors

Leibham (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 4 adoption recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 9, Noes 0

Passed 9–0 Feb 13, 2014 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 Judiciary, Ayes 6, Noes 3

Passed 6–3 Feb 13, 2014 official source full page

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

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Mar 31, 2014 official source full page

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

Senate: Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 18, Noes 15

Passed 18–15 Apr 1, 2014 official source full page

Full history

  1. Dec 12, 2013 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Stroebel, Krug, Bies, Murphy, Born, Marklein, A. Ott, Pridemore, Brooks and Smith; cosponsored by Senator Leibham

  2. Dec 12, 2013 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary

  3. Dec 19, 2013 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Dec 19, 2013 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Dec 19, 2013 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. Jan 6, 2014 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  7. Feb 12, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Goyke

  8. Feb 12, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Goyke

  9. Feb 12, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 3 offered by Representative Goyke

  10. Feb 13, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 4 offered by Committee on Judiciary

  11. Feb 13, 2014 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 4 adoption recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 9, Noes 0

  12. Feb 13, 2014 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 6, Noes 3

  13. Feb 13, 2014 · Assembly

    Referred to Committee on Rules

  14. Feb 13, 2014 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 2-18-2014 by Committee on Rules

  15. Feb 13, 2014 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  16. Feb 17, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 5 offered by Representative Goyke

  17. Feb 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Placed on the calendar of 2-18-2014 following Assembly Bill 746

  18. Feb 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  19. Feb 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 4 adopted

  20. Feb 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 5 withdrawn and returned to author

  21. Feb 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 6 offered by Representative Goyke

  22. Feb 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 6 withdrawn and returned to author

  23. Feb 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 7 offered by Representative Goyke

  24. Feb 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 7 withdrawn and returned to author

  25. Feb 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 8 offered by Representatives Craig, Neylon, Kooyenga, Sanfelippo, Knudson, Kessler and Goyke

  26. Feb 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 8 adopted

  27. Feb 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  28. Feb 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  29. Feb 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  30. Feb 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  31. Feb 19, 2014 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  32. Feb 19, 2014 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

  33. Feb 19, 2014 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  34. Mar 31, 2014 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0

  35. Mar 31, 2014 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 4-1-2014 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  36. Apr 1, 2014 · Senate

    Read a second time

  37. Apr 1, 2014 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  38. Apr 1, 2014 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  39. Apr 1, 2014 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  40. Apr 1, 2014 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  41. Apr 2, 2014 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  42. Apr 7, 2014 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 4-7-2014

  43. Apr 15, 2014 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 4-15-2014

  44. Apr 16, 2014 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 4-16-2014. 2013 Wisconsin Act 317

  45. Apr 16, 2014 · Assembly

    Published 4-17-2014