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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 839

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Relating to: participation in a sobriety program. (FE)

Alcohol and other drug abuse Court — Procedure Drunken driving Early childhood education Justice, department of Motor vehicle — Driver_s license Motor vehicle — Equipment

  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

This bill allows a court to order a person who improperly refused to take a

sobriety test or who committed certain offenses related to drunken driving to

participate in a program that closely monitors participants for drug and alcohol use

(sobriety program). Under the bill, a court may order a person who would otherwise

be required to install an ignition interlock device (IID) in his or her vehicle, and

whose operating privileges would be restricted to operating vehicles so equipped, to

participate in the sobriety program.

Under the bill, a person who is ordered to participate in the program may obtain

an occupational driver's license and may operate a vehicle that is not equipped with

an IID so long as he or she participates in the sobriety program. If he or she completes

the program or otherwise stops participating, he or she must install an IID on his or

her vehicle and may not operate a vehicle that is not so equipped. Under the bill, the

time period during which a person who participates in a sobriety program, combined

with the time period during which the person's operating privilege is restricted to

operating vehicles equipped with an IID, must be at least one year.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Hintz (D) , Schraa (R)

4 cosponsors

Darling (R) , Gudex (R) , L. Taylor (D) , Wanggaard (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 12, Noes 0

Passed 12–0 Feb 15, 2016 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 and Public Safety, Ayes 11, Noes 1

Passed 11–1 Feb 15, 2016 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 Mar 10, 2016 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 1, 2016 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Schraa and Hintz; cosponsored by Senators Gudex, Darling and Wanggaard

  2. Feb 1, 2016 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety

  3. Feb 9, 2016 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Schraa

  4. Feb 11, 2016 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Feb 11, 2016 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  6. Feb 15, 2016 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 12, Noes 0

  7. Feb 15, 2016 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 11, Noes 1

  8. Feb 15, 2016 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  9. Feb 16, 2016 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Schraa

  10. Feb 16, 2016 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 2:02 PM on 2-18-2016 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 29

  11. Feb 17, 2016 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  12. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  13. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 laid on table

  14. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 adopted

  15. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  16. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  17. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  18. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  19. Feb 18, 2016 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  20. Feb 23, 2016 · Senate

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

  21. Mar 1, 2016 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  22. Mar 9, 2016 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  23. Mar 10, 2016 · Senate

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

  24. Mar 10, 2016 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  25. Mar 10, 2016 · Senate

    Senator L. Taylor added as a cosponsor

  26. Mar 14, 2016 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 3-15-2016 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  27. Mar 15, 2016 · Senate

    Read a second time

  28. Mar 15, 2016 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  29. Mar 15, 2016 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  30. Mar 15, 2016 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in

  31. Mar 15, 2016 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  32. Mar 16, 2016 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  33. Mar 24, 2016 · Assembly

    LRB correction (Assembly Amendment 2)

  34. Mar 24, 2016 · Assembly

    LRB correction

  35. Mar 24, 2016 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 3-24-2016

  36. Apr 21, 2016 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 4-21-2016

  37. Apr 26, 2016 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 4-26-2016. 2015 Wisconsin Act 389

  38. Apr 26, 2016 · Assembly

    Published 4-27-2016