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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

AB 906

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Relating to: creating a law enforcement agency drug trafficking response grant program; positions to assist in prosecuting drug-related offenses; evidence-based programs for substance abuse prevention services for at-risk youth; victim impact panels; funding for family treatment courts; grants for county jails to provide nonnarcotic treatment before offender reentry; and making appropriations. (FE)

Alcohol and other drug abuse Children and families, department of Court — Procedure Drugs — Criminal acts and law enforcement Federal aid Health services, department of — Corrections Health services, department of — Health Indians and tribal issues Jail Justice, department of Juvenile court Police Reports Search warrant

  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 creates grant programs related to drug trafficking, evidence-based

substance abuse prevention, juvenile and family treatment courts, and drug

treatment for inmates of county jails. The bill creates two attorney positions in the

Department of Justice to assist the division of criminal investigation in the field

offices of Wausau and Appleton and to assist district attorneys in the prosecution of

drug-related offenses. The bill also allows a court to order a person who is found

guilty of a violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act to attend a victim

impact panel or similar program as a part of his or her sentence.

This bill appropriates a total of $2,750,000 of general purpose revenue (GPR)

and allocates $500,000 of federal block grant money in the 2017-19 biennium to the

grant programs that are established under the bill. The bill appropriates $1,000,000

of GPR to DOJ for grants to Wisconsin law enforcement agencies to establish new

programs related to drug trafficking response, $1,500,000 of GPR for the

Department of Health Services to award grants to counties to provide nonnarcotic

drug treatment to inmates of county jails, and $250,000 of GPR for the Department

of Children and Families to award grants to counties or Indian tribes to establish and

operate juvenile and family treatment courts. The bill allocates $500,000 of federal

money received under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant

program to the Brighter Futures initiative through DCF to provide grants for new

evidence-based substance abuse prevention programs.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Ballweg (R) , Billings (D) , Born (R) , Duchow (R) , E. Brooks (R) , Edming (R) , Genrich (D) , Horlacher (R) , Jagler (R) , Kitchens (R) , Knodl (R) , Kolste (D) , Krug (R) , Kulp (R) , Mursau (R) , Novak (R) , Nygren (R) , Petersen (R) , Petryk (R) , Pronschinske (R) , Rodriguez (R) , Rohrkaste (R) , Sanfelippo (R) , Skowronski (R) , Snyder (R) , Spiros (R) , Tittl (R) , Tranel (R) , Tusler (R) , VanderMeer (R) , Zimmerman (R)

10 cosponsors

Barca and Shankland , Bewley (D) , Carpenter (D) , Feyen (R) , L. Taylor (D) , Marklein (R) , Moulton (R) , Testin (R) , Vukmir (R) , Wanggaard (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0

Passed 16–0 Feb 12, 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 Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0

Passed 16–0 Feb 12, 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 95–0 Feb 20, 2018 official source full page

Aye · 95

Not voting · 3

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Mar 15, 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 Mar 20, 2018 official source full page

Full history

  1. Jan 31, 2018 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Nygren, Snyder, Duchow, Rodriguez, Novak, Petryk, Rohrkaste, Pronschinske, Zimmerman, Tusler, VanderMeer, Horlacher, Krug, Petersen, E. Brooks, Edming, Ballweg, Spiros, Tittl, Tranel, Knodl, Born, Skowronski, Jagler, Kitchens, Sanfelippo, Kolste, Billings, Genrich, Kulp and Mursau; cosponsored by Senators Vukmir, Moulton, Marklein, Wanggaard, Feyen, Testin and Bewley

  2. Jan 31, 2018 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Joint Committee on Finance

  3. Feb 1, 2018 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Feb 1, 2018 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Feb 1, 2018 · Assembly

    LRB correction

  6. Feb 7, 2018 · Assembly

    Senator Carpenter added as a cosponsor

  7. Feb 7, 2018 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  8. Feb 8, 2018 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  9. Feb 8, 2018 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  10. Feb 8, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Joint Committee on Finance

  11. Feb 12, 2018 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0

  12. Feb 12, 2018 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0

  13. Feb 12, 2018 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  14. Feb 12, 2018 · Assembly

    Senator L. Taylor added as a cosponsor

  15. Feb 15, 2018 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 2:11 PM on 2-20-2018 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 26

  16. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  17. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 adopted

  18. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Nygren

  19. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 adopted

  20. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  21. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  22. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 95, Noes 0

  23. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Representatives Barca and Shankland added as coauthors

  24. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  25. Feb 21, 2018 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  26. Mar 12, 2018 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

  27. Mar 12, 2018 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  28. Mar 15, 2018 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

  29. Mar 15, 2018 · Senate

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

  30. Mar 20, 2018 · Senate

    Read a second time

  31. Mar 20, 2018 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  32. Mar 20, 2018 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  33. Mar 20, 2018 · Senate

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

  34. Mar 20, 2018 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  35. Mar 21, 2018 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  36. Apr 5, 2018 · Assembly

    LRB correction (Assembly Amendment 2)

  37. Apr 5, 2018 · Assembly

    LRB correction

  38. Apr 5, 2018 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 4-5-2018

  39. Apr 6, 2018 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 4-6-2018

  40. Apr 10, 2018 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 4-9-2018. 2017 Wisconsin Act 261

  41. Apr 10, 2018 · Assembly

    Published 4-10-2018