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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

AB 601

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Relating to: length of contracts for GPS devices for tracking sex offenders and persons who violated injunctions.

Contracts Corrections, department of Court — Procedure Data processing — Criminal acts and law enforcement Purchasing, government Racine, city of 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

Current law requires the Department of Corrections to monitor using a global

positioning system tracking device certain sex offenders and persons who have

violated certain injunctions. DOC must contract with a vendor for installation and

maintenance of the GPS equipment, and current law limits the term of each contract

to three years. Under this bill, the term is limited to seven years.

Sponsors

Introduced by: E. Brooks (R) , Kleefisch (R) , Kulp (R) , R. Brooks (R) , Tittl (R) , Tusler (R)

5 cosponsors

Brandtjen (R) , Harsdorf (R) , Marklein (R) , Olsen (R) , Wanggaard (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Corrections, Ayes 9, Noes 0

Passed 9–0 Nov 7, 2017 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 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Jan 12, 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. Oct 27, 2017 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives E. Brooks, R. Brooks, Kleefisch, Kulp, Tittl and Tusler; cosponsored by Senators Wanggaard, Harsdorf, Marklein and Olsen

  2. Oct 27, 2017 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Corrections

  3. Oct 31, 2017 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Nov 1, 2017 · Assembly

    Representative Brandtjen added as a coauthor

  5. Nov 7, 2017 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  6. Nov 7, 2017 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Corrections, Ayes 9, Noes 0

  7. Nov 7, 2017 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  8. Nov 7, 2017 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 11-9-2017 by Committee on Rules

  9. Nov 9, 2017 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  10. Nov 9, 2017 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  11. Nov 9, 2017 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  12. Nov 9, 2017 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  13. Nov 9, 2017 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  14. Nov 9, 2017 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  15. Nov 14, 2017 · Senate

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

  16. Jan 4, 2018 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  17. Jan 11, 2018 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  18. Jan 12, 2018 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 3, Noes 2

  19. Jan 12, 2018 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  20. Mar 15, 2018 · Senate

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

  21. Mar 20, 2018 · Senate

    Read a second time

  22. Mar 20, 2018 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  23. Mar 20, 2018 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  24. Mar 20, 2018 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in

  25. Mar 20, 2018 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  26. Mar 21, 2018 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  27. Mar 30, 2018 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 3-30-2018

  28. Apr 12, 2018 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 4-12-2018

  29. Apr 17, 2018 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 4-16-2018. 2017 Wisconsin Act 346

  30. Apr 17, 2018 · Assembly

    Published 4-17-2018