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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 378

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Relating to: the age at which a person who is alleged to have violated a criminal law, a civil law, or a municipal ordinance and who has not been charged with certain violent offenses, and has not, after previously being convicted of a crime or adjudicated delinquent, been charged with a crime or alleged in a complaint or citation to have violated a civil law or municipal ordinance, is subject to juvenile court jurisdiction. (FE)

Circuit court Court — Municipal Crime and criminals Juvenile court — Jurisdiction Juvenile delinquency Youth

  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

Under current law, a person 17 years of age or older who is alleged to have

violated a criminal law is subject to the procedures specified in the Criminal

Procedure Code and, on conviction, is subject to sentencing under the Criminal Code,

which may include a sentence of imprisonment in the Wisconsin state prisons.

Currently, subject to certain exceptions, a person under 17 years of age who is alleged

to have violated a criminal law is subject to the procedures specified in the Juvenile

Justice Code and, on being adjudicated delinquent, is subject to an array of

dispositions under that code including placement in a juvenile correctional facility.

This bill raises from 17 to 18 the age at which a person who is alleged to have violated

a criminal law is subject to the procedures specified in the Criminal Procedure Code

and, on conviction, to sentencing under the Criminal Code, if the person has not been

charged with committing certain violent offenses and has not, after previously being

convicted of a crime or adjudicated delinquent, been charged with a crime. The bill,

however, does not affect the age at which a person who has been charged with

committing certain violent offenses or who has, after previously being convicted of

a crime or adjudicated delinquent, been charged with a crime is subject to those

procedures and that sentencing.

Similarly, under current law, a person 17 years of age or older who is alleged to

have violated a civil law or municipal ordinance is subject to the jurisdiction and

procedures of the circuit court or, if applicable, the municipal court, while a person

under 17 years of age who is alleged to have violated a civil law or municipal

ordinance, subject to certain exceptions, is subject to the jurisdiction and procedures

of the court assigned to exercise jurisdiction under the Juvenile Justice Code. This

bill raises from 17 to 18 the age at which a person who is alleged to have violated a

civil law or municipal ordinance is subject to the jurisdiction and procedures of the

circuit court or, if applicable, the municipal court, if the person has not been alleged,

in a complaint or citation filed with the court, to have violated a civil law or municipal

ordinance after previously being convicted of a crime or adjudicated delinquent. The

bill, however, does not affect the age at which a person who has been alleged, in a

complaint or citation filed with the court, to have violated a civil law or municipal

ordinance, after previously being convicted of a crime or adjudicated delinquent, is

subject to that jurisdiction and those procedures.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: A. Ott (R) , Allen (R) , Ballweg (R) , Barnes (D) , Berceau (D) , Billings (D) , Brandtjen (R) , Brostoff (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Craig (R) , Czaja (R) , Doyle (D) , Edming (R) , Gannon (R) , Genrich (D) , Goyke (D) , Hebl (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Hintz (D) , Hutton (R) , Jarchow (R) , Johnson (D) , Kahl (D) , Kessler (D) , Kitchens (R) , Knudson (R) , Kolste (D) , Kooyenga (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Kulp (R) , Loudenbeck (R) , Macco (R) , Milroy (D) , Murphy (R) , Mursau (R) , Murtha (R) , Neylon (R) , Novak (R) , Ohnstad (D) , Petryk (R) , Pope (D) , Riemer (D) , Ripp (R) , Rodriguez (R) , Rohrkaste (R) , Sargent (D) , Schraa (R) , Spiros (R) , Spreitzer (D) , Stuck (D) , Subeck (D) , T. Larson (R) , Tauchen (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Weatherston (R) , Zamarripa (D)

16 cosponsors

Barca, Wachs and Zepnick , Bewley (D) , C. Larson (D) , Carpenter (D) , Erpenbach (D) , Harris Dodd (D) , Harsdorf (R) , Kapenga (R) , L. Taylor (D) , Moulton (R) , Olsen (R) , Petrowski (R) , Ringhand (D) , Shankland (D) , Shilling (D) , Wirch (D)

Full history

  1. Oct 8, 2015 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Hutton, Czaja, Allen, Ballweg, Barnes, Billings, Brandtjen, Brostoff, Berceau, Craig, Doyle, Edming, Gannon, Genrich, Goyke, Hebl, Hesselbein, Hintz, Jarchow, Johnson, Kahl, Kessler, Kitchens, Knudson, Kolste, Kooyenga, Kuglitsch, Kulp, T. Larson, Loudenbeck, Macco, Milroy, Murphy, Mursau, Murtha, Neylon, Novak, Ohnstad, A. Ott, Petryk, Pope, Riemer, Ripp, Rodriguez, Rohrkaste, Sargent, Schraa, Spiros, Spreitzer, Stuck, Subeck, Tauchen, C. Taylor, Thiesfeldt, Weatherston and Zamarripa; cosponsored by Senators Petrowski, Bewley, Carpenter, Erpenbach, Harris Dodd, Harsdorf, Kapenga, C. Larson, Moulton, Olsen, Ringhand, Shilling, L. Taylor and Wirch

  2. Oct 8, 2015 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary

  3. Oct 21, 2015 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Nov 6, 2015 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Dec 8, 2015 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Representatives Barca, Wachs and Zepnick added as coauthors

  7. Feb 19, 2016 · Assembly

    Representative Shankland added as a coauthor

  8. Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1