SB 623

Current law allows a court to increase by two years the maximum term of

imprisonment for a crime if the crime constituted an act of domestic abuse and the

defendant was, within the preceding ten years, convicted on at least two separate

occasions of a felony or misdemeanor that was subject to a domestic abuse surcharge.

A domestic abuse surcharge is a surcharge that a Wisconsin court must impose if the

defendant committed one of a list of crimes against his or her current or former

spouse, against an adult with whom the defendant currently or formerly resides, or

against an adult with whom the defendant has created a child. Under this bill,

crimes that would subject a defendant to the increased maximum term of

imprisonment include felonies or misdemeanors committed in another state but

that, had they been committed in Wisconsin, would have been subject to the domestic

abuse surcharge.