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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

SB 516

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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, 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

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

6 cosponsors

E. Brooks (R) , Kleefisch (R) , Kulp (R) , R. Brooks (R) , Tittl (R) , Tusler (R)

Full history

  1. Nov 8, 2017 · Senate

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

  2. Nov 8, 2017 · Senate

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

  3. Mar 28, 2018 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1