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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

SB 574

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Relating to: obedience to authorized emergency vehicles operated by law enforcement officers.

Motor vehicle — Regulation Police

  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

Under current law, no operator of a vehicle, after having received a visible or

audible signal to stop his or her vehicle from a traffic officer or marked police vehicle,

shall knowingly resist by failing to stop his or her vehicle or knowingly flee or attempt

to elude any officer so as to interfere with or endanger the operation of the police

vehicle, the traffic officer, other vehicles, or pedestrians.

This bill replaces the reference to “marked police vehicle” with “an authorized

emergency vehicle that the operator knows or reasonably should know is being

operated by a law enforcement officer.”

Sponsors

Introduced by: Cowles (R) , Johnson (D) , Marklein (R) , Olsen (R) , Wanggaard (R)

11 cosponsors

Barca (D) , Born (R) , Brandtjen (R) , Jacque (R) , Kleefisch (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Mursau (R) , Ripp (R) , Shankland (D) , Tusler (R) , Vruwink (D)

Votes

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Jan 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: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Jan 16, 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. Nov 20, 2017 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Wanggaard, Olsen, Cowles, Johnson and Marklein; cosponsored by Representatives Kleefisch, Tusler, Born, Brandtjen, Jacque, Kuglitsch, Mursau and Ripp

  2. Nov 20, 2017 · Senate

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

  3. Jan 5, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Wanggaard

  4. Jan 11, 2018 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  5. Jan 16, 2018 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  6. Jan 16, 2018 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  7. Jan 16, 2018 · Senate

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  8. Jan 16, 2018 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  9. Feb 13, 2018 · Senate

    Representative Vruwink added as a cosponsor

  10. Feb 13, 2018 · Senate

    Representative Barca added as a cosponsor

  11. Feb 14, 2018 · Senate

    Representative Shankland added as a cosponsor

  12. Mar 28, 2018 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1