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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

SB 379

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Relating to: a Type 1 juvenile correctional facility to be located in Milwaukee County. (FE)

Corrections, department of Juvenile detention facility Milwaukee county

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, 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

This bill allows the Department of Corrections to contract for a new Type 1

juvenile correctional facility in Milwaukee County.

Under current law, juveniles that are adjudged delinquent of certain acts can

be placed in a secured Type 1 juvenile correctional facility. Currently, the Lincoln

Hills School for Boys, Copper Lake School for Girls, and Mendota Juvenile

Treatment Center are the only Type 1 juvenile correctional facilities in Wisconsin.

Current law also permits DOC to designate a residential care center for children and

youth as a Type 2 juvenile correctional facility. A juvenile that is placed in a Type

2 juvenile correctional facility and given Type 2 status under current law may, if he

or she violates a condition of the Type 2 placement, be placed in a Type 1 juvenile

correctional facility without a hearing or court order.

This bill requires DOC to contract for the supervision, maintenance, and

operation of a new Type 1 juvenile correctional facility in Milwaukee County to be

located at the same site as a Type 2 residential care center for children and youth.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Carpenter (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Miller (D) , Vinehout (D)

11 cosponsors

Berceau (D) , Bowen (D) , Crowley (D) , Fields (D) , Goyke (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wachs (D) , Young (D) , Zepnick (D)

Full history

  1. Aug 3, 2017 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators L. Taylor, Carpenter, Miller and Vinehout; cosponsored by Representatives Young, Crowley, Bowen, Berceau, Fields, Goyke, Ohnstad, Pope, Spreitzer, Wachs and Zepnick

  2. Aug 3, 2017 · Senate

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

  3. Aug 22, 2017 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Mar 28, 2018 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1