Assembly Bill 214
Storage and processing of sexual assault kits and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
Stopped in committee
It never got a , so it never came up for a vote. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.
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Introduced, passed
May 15, 2019
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Senate vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Apr 1, 2020: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
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Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
Under current law, there is no statutory procedure for the collection and processing of sexual assault kits. This bill creates procedures for transmission, processing, and storage of sexual assault kits. Under the bill, a health care professional who collects a sexual assault kit must do one of the following: 1) if the victim wants to report the sexual assault to law enforcement, the health care professional must notify a law enforcement agency within 24 hours of collecting the kit; or 2) if the victim does not want to report the sexual assault to law enforcement, the health care professional must send the kit to the state crime laboratories within 72 hours for storage. Under the bill, if a law enforcement agency has received notification from a health care professional that a kit has been collected, the law enforcement agency must take possession of the kit within 72 hours, and must send the kit to the state crime laboratories for processing within 14 days. If the victim changes his or her mind about wanting to have his or her kit analyzed after it is given to a law enforcement agency but before the agency sends the kit to the state crime laboratories for processing, the agency must send the kit to the state crime laboratories for storage rather than for processing.
Under the bill, once the state crime laboratories takes possession of a sexual assault kit, it must do one of the following: 1) if it has received the kit of a person who has not consented to analysis, securely store the kit for a period of ten years; or 2) if it has received the kit of a person who has consented to analysis, process the kit and then send it to a law enforcement agency to store the kit for a period of 50 years, or until the date of the expiration of the statute of limitations, or until the end of a term of imprisonment or probation of a person convicted in the sexual assault case, whichever is longer.
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Under current law, local law enforcement agencies report certain crime statistics to the Department of Justice. This bill requires law enforcement agencies to provide additional data to DOJ regarding sexual assault kits collected and processed in Wisconsin in addition to the data currently being reported. This bill also requires DOJ to publish data on law enforcement agency compliance with DOJ reporting requirements.
Who's behind it
34 lawmakers are its . 20 are Republicans and 14 are Democrats.
27 more lawmakers .
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Authors (34)
- Beth Meyers · Democrat, Assembly
- Joan Ballweg · Republican, Senate
- David Bowen · Democrat, Assembly
- Janel Brandtjen · Republican, Assembly
- Jonathan Brostoff · Democrat, Assembly
- Chris Taylor · Democrat, Assembly
- Dave Considine · Democrat, Assembly
- Cindi Duchow · Republican, Assembly
- Rob Hutton · Republican, Senate
- Samantha Kerkman · Republican, Assembly
- Joel Kitchens · Republican, Assembly
- Bob Kulp · Republican, Assembly
- LaKeshia Myers · Democrat, Assembly
- John Macco · Republican, Assembly
- Dave Murphy · Republican, Assembly
- Jeff Mursau · Republican, Assembly
- Tod Ohnstad · Democrat, Assembly
- Jon Plumer · Republican, Assembly
- Sondy Pope · Democrat, Assembly
- Romaine Quinn · Republican, Senate
- Timothy Ramthun · Republican, Assembly
- Melissa Sargent · Democrat, Assembly
- Katrina Shankland · Democrat, Assembly
- Christine Sinicki · Democrat, Assembly
- Ken Skowronski · Republican, Assembly
- Pat Snyder · Republican, Assembly
- John Spiros · Republican, Assembly
- Mark Spreitzer · Democrat, Senate
- David Steffen · Republican, Assembly
- Lisa Subeck · Democrat, Assembly
- Jeremy Thiesfeldt · Republican, Assembly
- Paul Tittl · Republican, Assembly
- Ron Tusler · Republican, Assembly
- Robyn Vining · Democrat, Assembly
Signed on in support (27)
- Jimmy Anderson · Democrat, Assembly
- Tim Carpenter · Democrat, Senate
- Rob Cowles · Republican, Senate
- Alberta Darling · Republican, Senate
- Steve Doyle · Democrat, Assembly
- Jodi Emerson · Democrat, Assembly
- Jason Fields · Democrat, Assembly
- Staush Gruszynski · Democrat, Assembly
- Dave Hansen · Democrat, Senate
- Hesselbein, Goyke, Billings and Hintz
- LaTonya Johnson · Democrat, Senate
- Kolste, Stubbs and Hebl
- Lena Taylor · Democrat, Senate
- Chris Larson · Democrat, Senate
- Tip McGuire · Democrat, Assembly
- Neubauer and Zimmerman
- Jerry Petrowski · Republican, Senate
- Riemer, Stuck and Milroy
- Janis Ringhand · Democrat, Senate
- Fred A. Risser · Democrat, Senate
- Patty Schachtner · Democrat, Senate
- Jennifer Shilling · Democrat, Senate
- Jeff Smith · Democrat, Senate
- Vruwink, Haywood and Crowley
- Van Wanggaard · Republican, Senate
- Bob Wirch · Democrat, Senate
- JoCasta Zamarripa · Democrat, Assembly
What it would cost
State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.
What happened
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Apr 1, 2020
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Nov 13, 2019 to Dec 4, 2019
17 more representatives signed on in support.
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Nov 11, 2019
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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Oct 7, 2019
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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May 17, 2019 to May 30, 2019
5 more representatives signed on in support.
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May 15, 2019
Sent to the Assembly Committee on Health.
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May 15, 2019
Introduced in the Assembly.
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- May 15, 2019 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Steffen, Sargent, Macco, Thiesfeldt, C. Taylor, Ballweg, Bowen, Brandtjen, Brostoff, Considine, Duchow, Hutton, Kerkman, Kitchens, Kulp, B. Meyers, Murphy, Mursau, L. Myers, Ohnstad, Plumer, Pope, Quinn, Ramthun, Shankland, Sinicki, Skowronski, Snyder, Spiros, Spreitzer, Subeck, Tittl, Tusler and Vining; cosponsored by Senators Cowles, Schachtner, Darling, Carpenter, Hansen, Johnson, Larson, Petrowski, Ringhand, Risser, Shilling, L. Taylor, Wanggaard, Wirch and Smith
- May 15, 2019 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Health
- May 17, 2019 · Assembly
Representative Gruszynski added as a coauthor
- May 22, 2019 · Assembly
Representative Emerson added as a coauthor
- May 28, 2019 · Assembly
- May 30, 2019 · Assembly
Representative Fields added as a coauthor
- Oct 7, 2019 · Assembly
Fiscal estimate received
- Nov 11, 2019 · Assembly
Fiscal estimate received
- Nov 13, 2019 · Assembly
Representative Doyle added as a coauthor
- Nov 19, 2019 · Assembly
- Nov 20, 2019 · Assembly
Representatives Hesselbein, Goyke, Billings and Hintz added as coauthors
- Nov 21, 2019 · Assembly
Representative Zamarripa added as a coauthor
- Nov 25, 2019 · Assembly
- Nov 26, 2019 · Assembly
Representative McGuire added as a coauthor
- Dec 3, 2019 · Assembly
Representatives Vruwink, Haywood and Crowley added as coauthors
- Dec 4, 2019 · Assembly
Representative Anderson added as a coauthor
- Apr 1, 2020 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary
From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate