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Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

AB 767

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Relating to: unlawful use of a global positioning device and providing a penalty. (FE)

Business Data processing — Criminal acts and law enforcement Divorce Legislature — Criminal penalties, joint review committee on Police

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill prohibits certain uses of a global positioning device (GPS). Under the

bill, a person who places a GPS on a vehicle owned by another person without that

person's knowledge or who intentionally obtains information regarding another

person's movement or location generated by a GPS without that person's knowledge

is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. Additionally, under the bill a person who places

a GPS on a vehicle used primarily by his or her spouse without the spouse's

knowledge after a petition for an annulment, divorce, or legal separation has been

filed is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

The bill creates exceptions for a person who installs a subscription-based

communication or navigation system, for an employer who places a GPS to track,

during business hours, commercial motor vehicles used for his or her business, and

for a law enforcement officer acting in his or her official capacity.

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: A. Ott (R) , August (R) , Bies (R) , C. Taylor (D) , Craig (R) , Czaja (R) , Hebl (D) , Hintz (D) , Kessler (D) , Kleefisch (R) , Knudson (R) , Marklein (R) , Murphy (R) , Nass (R) , Neylon (R) , Sanfelippo (R) , Sinicki (D) , Strachota (R) , Tranel (R) , Vruwink (D)

3 cosponsors

Carpenter (D) , Goyke (D) , Grothman (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice, Ayes 8, Noes 1

Passed 8–1 Mar 18, 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 Assembly Amendment 2 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice, Ayes 9, Noes 0

Passed 9–0 Mar 18, 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 Criminal Justice, Ayes 9, Noes 0

Passed 9–0 Mar 18, 2014 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 Judiciary and Labor, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Mar 27, 2014 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. Feb 14, 2014 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Neylon, August, Strachota, Craig, Sanfelippo, Murphy, Bies, A. Ott, Marklein, Knudson, Czaja, Tranel, Kleefisch, Kessler, Sinicki, Hintz, Hebl, C. Taylor, Vruwink and Nass; cosponsored by Senators Grothman and Carpenter

  2. Feb 14, 2014 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice

  3. Feb 17, 2014 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Feb 17, 2014 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Mar 12, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Neylon

  6. Mar 13, 2014 · Assembly

    Representative Goyke added as a coauthor

  7. Mar 13, 2014 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  8. Mar 13, 2014 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  9. Mar 13, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Committee on Criminal Justice

  10. Mar 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 2 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice, Ayes 9, Noes 0

  11. Mar 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice, Ayes 9, Noes 0

  12. Mar 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Referred to Committee on Rules

  13. Mar 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 10:10 AM on 3-20-2014 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 28

  14. Mar 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice, Ayes 8, Noes 1

  15. Mar 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  16. Mar 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 adopted

  17. Mar 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 adopted

  18. Mar 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  19. Mar 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  20. Mar 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  21. Mar 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  22. Mar 21, 2014 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  23. Mar 24, 2014 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary and Labor

  24. Mar 27, 2014 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  25. Mar 27, 2014 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Labor, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  26. Mar 27, 2014 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  27. Apr 8, 2014 · Senate

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1