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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

AB 539

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Relating to: plans for supervised release of sexually violent persons, representation of sexually violent persons by the state public defender, and making an appropriation. (FE)

County Court — Procedure Damage _personal injury_ Health services, department of — Corrections Health services, department of — Health Milwaukee county Mines, pits, and quarries Public defender Sex crimes

  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, a person who has been found to be a sexually violent person

may be involuntarily committed to the Department of Health Services for control,

care, and treatment. If a person is committed and placed in institutional care, the

person may periodically petition the court for supervised release. If a court

determines that supervised release is appropriate, the court must select a county to

prepare a report that includes prospective residential options for the person. Unless

good cause exists, the court must select the person's county of residence, and the

county must prepare the report within 60 days. DHS must then prepare for the court

a supervised release plan for the person that identifies the residential option for the

court to approve. Under current law, the plan must be submitted to the court within

90 days of the finding that supervised release is appropriate.

Under this bill, if a court determines that supervised release is appropriate, the

court must order the person's county of residence to prepare a report that identifies

one appropriate residence for the person. The county must create a temporary

committee to prepare the report for the county and, under this bill, the county must

prepare the report within 120 days of the order. A county that does not comply

violates the person's rights as a patient and the county is subject to enforcement and

damages for each violation, and each day beyond the 120 days constitutes a separate

violation. Once DHS receives the report, DHS must submit to the court a supervised

release plan within 30 days.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Edming (R) , Kleefisch (R) , Krug (R) , Kulp (R) , Mursau (R) , Nygren (R) , Petersen (R) , Skowronski (R) , Swearingen (R) , VanderMeer (R)

12 cosponsors

Bowen (D) , Feyen (R) , L. Taylor (D) , Loudenbeck (R) , Marklein (R) , Ringhand (D) , Schraa (R) , Shankland (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Testin (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Tiffany (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Corrections, Ayes 10, Noes 0

Passed 10–0 Jan 10, 2018 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 Corrections, Ayes 10, Noes 0

Passed 10–0 Jan 10, 2018 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: PASSAGE

Passed 89–5 Jan 16, 2018 official source full page

Aye · 89

Not voting · 2

Senate: Referred to joint committee on Finance by Committee on Senate Organization pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Feb 16, 2018 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and made Available for Scheduling by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Feb 16, 2018 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Feb 16, 2018 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: CONCURRENCE

Passed 32–0 Feb 20, 2018 official source full page

Full history

  1. Oct 16, 2017 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Krug, Kulp, Petersen, Kleefisch, Mursau, Swearingen, Edming, VanderMeer, Skowronski and Nygren; cosponsored by Senators Testin, L. Taylor, Feyen, Marklein and Tiffany

  2. Oct 16, 2017 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Corrections

  3. Oct 17, 2017 · Assembly

    Representative Schraa added as a coauthor

  4. Oct 24, 2017 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Nov 7, 2017 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Nov 13, 2017 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  7. Nov 28, 2017 · Assembly

    Representative Bowen added as a coauthor

  8. Nov 28, 2017 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  9. Dec 5, 2017 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  10. Jan 4, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Schraa and Kleefisch

  11. Jan 9, 2018 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  12. Jan 10, 2018 · Assembly

    Representative Spreitzer added as a coauthor

  13. Jan 10, 2018 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Corrections, Ayes 10, Noes 0

  14. Jan 10, 2018 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Corrections, Ayes 10, Noes 0

  15. Jan 10, 2018 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  16. Jan 11, 2018 · Assembly

    Representative Shankland added as a coauthor

  17. Jan 11, 2018 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 1-16-2018 by Committee on Rules

  18. Jan 16, 2018 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  19. Jan 16, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 adopted

  20. Jan 16, 2018 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  21. Jan 16, 2018 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  22. Jan 16, 2018 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 89, Noes 5

  23. Jan 16, 2018 · Assembly

    Representative Thiesfeldt added as a coauthor

  24. Jan 16, 2018 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  25. Jan 16, 2018 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  26. Jan 17, 2018 · Senate

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

  27. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Withdrawn from committee on Judiciary and Public Safety and rereferred to committee on Senate Organization pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)

  28. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  29. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Referred to joint committee on Finance by Committee on Senate Organization pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0

  30. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and made Available for Scheduling by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0

  31. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0

  32. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-20-2018 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  33. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Senator Ringhand added as a cosponsor

  34. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Testin

  35. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Read a second time

  36. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 adopted

  37. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  38. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  39. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in as amended, Ayes 32, Noes 0

  40. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Representative Loudenbeck added as a coauthor

  41. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  42. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Received from Senate amended and concurred in as amended (Senate amendment 1 adopted)

  43. Feb 21, 2018 · Assembly

    Senate Amendment 1 nonconcurred in

  44. Feb 21, 2018 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  45. Feb 22, 2018 · Senate

    Received from Assembly (Senate Amendment 1 nonconcurred in)

  46. Mar 15, 2018 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 3-20-2018 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  47. Mar 20, 2018 · Senate

    Senate recedes from its position on Senate Amendment 1

  48. Mar 20, 2018 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  49. Mar 21, 2018 · Assembly

    Received from Senate: Senate recedes from its postion on (Senate Amendment 1)

  50. Mar 27, 2018 · Assembly

    LRB correction

  51. Mar 27, 2018 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 3-27-2018

  52. Mar 27, 2018 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 3-27-2018

  53. Mar 28, 2018 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor with partial veto on 3-28-2018. 2017 Wisconsin Act 184

  54. Mar 28, 2018 · Assembly

    Published 3-29-2018

  55. May 8, 2018 · Assembly

    Partial veto placed on calendar 5-8-2018 pursuant to Joint Rule 82 (2)(a)

  56. May 8, 2018 · Assembly

    Partial veto failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the Governor pursuant to Joint Rule 82