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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

AB 405

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: collection and reporting of data regarding sexual assault forensic evidence kits.

Evidence Justice, department of Police Sex crimes

  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, local law enforcement agencies report certain crime

statistics to the Department of Justice using forms issued by DOJ. This bill requires

DOJ to collect certain data regarding sexual assault forensic evidence kits collected

and tested in Wisconsin in addition to the data currently being collected, and

requires DOJ to submit an annual report to the legislature on those sexual assault

forensic evidence kits. Under the bill, DOJ must collect the following information:

the number of sexual assault kits collected, the dates of collection, the number of

sexual assault kits submitted to DOJ laboratories for analysis, the number of kits

submitted to DOJ laboratories for analysis that have not yet been analyzed and the

reason they have not been analyzed, the dates of submission and, if applicable,

analysis, the number of kits not submitted to DOJ for analysis that remain in law

enforcement custody, and the reason the kits were not submitted for analysis.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Berceau (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Considine (D) , Fields (D) , Kolste (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Sargent (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Subeck (D) , Vruwink (D)

3 cosponsors

Carpenter (D) , Johnson (D) , L. Taylor (D)

Votes

Suspending the rules (to take a vote immediately) needs a two-thirds majority — a higher bar than passing the bill, which needs a simple majority. That's why a suspension motion can show more Ayes than the passage vote that follows it. Glossary

Assembly: Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on State Affairs and take up, Ayes 34, Noes 59

Failed 34–59 Feb 22, 2018 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. Jun 26, 2017 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Sargent, Kolste, Berceau, Anderson, Spreitzer, Fields, C. Taylor, Considine, Ohnstad, Vruwink and Subeck; cosponsored by Senators Carpenter, Johnson and L. Taylor

  2. Jun 26, 2017 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs

  3. Feb 22, 2018 · Assembly

    Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on State Affairs and take up, Ayes 34, Noes 59

  4. Mar 28, 2018 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1