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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 8

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Relating to: invading an individual's privacy by viewing under or through clothing and providing a penalty. (FE)

Crime and criminals Crime and criminals — Felony Privacy

  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, the crime of invasion of privacy is a Class A misdemeanor.

The crime includes actions such as knowingly installing a surveillance device in a

private place with the intent to observe an individual who has less than fully and

opaquely covered genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or breasts without the individual's

consent. This bill creates an additional crime of invasion of privacy for an individual

who knowingly installs or uses a device to intentionally view under outer clothing

another individual's genitals, pubic area, breast, or buttocks, including genitals,

pubic area, breasts, or buttocks that are covered by undergarments, or to view

another body part of an individual that is not otherwise visible, without that

individual's consent. Under the bill, whoever commits this offense is guilty of a Class

I felony.

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: Berceau (D) , Billings (D) , C. Taylor (D) , E. Brooks (R) , Hebl (D) , J. Ott (R) , Jacque (R) , Kahl (D) , Kerkman (R) , Kleefisch (R) , Murphy (R) , Nygren (R) , Sargent (D) , Spiros (R) , T. Larson (R) , Wachs (D)

5 cosponsors

Darling (R) , Heaton (R) , Nass (R) , Risser (D) , Young, Johnson and Horlacher

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 8, Noes 0

Passed 8–0 Jan 16, 2015 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 Public Safety, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Apr 23, 2015 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. Jan 7, 2015 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives J. Ott, Sargent, Kerkman, Wachs, T. Larson, Kleefisch, Hebl, Nygren, Spiros, Murphy, Kahl, Jacque, C. Taylor, Berceau, E. Brooks and Billings; cosponsored by Senators Darling, Harris Dodd, Nass and Risser

  2. Jan 7, 2015 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary

  3. Jan 8, 2015 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Jan 12, 2015 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Jan 15, 2015 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Jan 15, 2015 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  7. Jan 16, 2015 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 8, Noes 0

  8. Jan 16, 2015 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  9. Jan 20, 2015 · Assembly

    Representative Heaton added as a coauthor

  10. Jan 20, 2015 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 1-22-2015 by committee on Rules

  11. Jan 22, 2015 · Assembly

    Senator Harris Dodd withdrawn as a cosponsor

  12. Jan 22, 2015 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  13. Jan 22, 2015 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Kessler, Subeck, Barnes and Zamarripa

  14. Jan 22, 2015 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 laid on table

  15. Jan 22, 2015 · Assembly

    Representatives Young, Johnson and Horlacher added as coauthors

  16. Jan 22, 2015 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  17. Jan 22, 2015 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  18. Jan 22, 2015 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  19. Jan 22, 2015 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  20. Jan 22, 2015 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  21. Jan 23, 2015 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary and Public Safety

  22. Jan 26, 2015 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  23. Jan 28, 2015 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  24. Feb 4, 2015 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  25. Apr 23, 2015 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  26. Apr 23, 2015 · Senate

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

  27. Apr 23, 2015 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  28. Oct 19, 2015 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 10-20-2015 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  29. Oct 20, 2015 · Senate

    Read a second time

  30. Oct 20, 2015 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  31. Oct 20, 2015 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  32. Oct 20, 2015 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in

  33. Oct 20, 2015 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  34. Oct 20, 2015 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  35. Nov 3, 2015 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 11-3-2015

  36. Nov 10, 2015 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 11-10-2015

  37. Nov 11, 2015 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 11-11-2015. 2015 Wisconsin Act 80

  38. Nov 11, 2015 · Assembly

    Published 11-12-2015