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Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

SB 163

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Relating to: causing bodily harm to a nurse and providing a penalty. (FE)

Crime and criminals — Battery Crime and criminals — Felony Hospitals and health care facilities Medical service — Occupations Nurses

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Senate, completed
  3. Passes Assembly, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, a person who intentionally causes bodily harm to another

person without the other person's consent commits the crime of battery, a Class A

misdemeanor. Under current law, the penalty for battery is increased in certain

circumstances. For example, if a person commits battery against certain victims,

such fire fighters, jurors, or emergency medical care providers, the person is guilty

of a Class H felony. This bill makes it a Class H felony to commit battery against a

licensed registered nurse (RN), a licensed practical nurse (LPN), or an individual

working under the supervision of an RN or LPN.

Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime,

the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a

report concerning the proposed penalty and the costs or savings that are likely to

result if the bill is enacted.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Carpenter (D) , Cowles (R) , Feyen (R) , Jacque (R) , Kooyenga (R) , Marklein (R) , Nass (R) , Testin (R)

25 cosponsors

Brooks (R) , Dittrich (R) , Duchow (R) , Fields (D) , Horlacher (R) , James (R) , Kerkman (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Kulp (R) , Kurtz (R) , Magnafici (R) , Murphy (R) , Novak (R) , Ohnstad (D) , Ott (R) , Petersen (R) , Quinn (R) , Rohrkaste (R) , Skowronski (R) , Spiros (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Tittl (R) , Tranel (R) , Tusler (R) , Wichgers (R)

Votes

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

Passed 5–0 Sep 25, 2019 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 4, Noes 1

Passed 4–1 Sep 25, 2019 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 62, Noes 36

Passed 62–36 Jan 21, 2020 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. Apr 11, 2019 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Kooyenga, Carpenter, Cowles, Feyen, Jacque, Marklein, Nass and Testin; cosponsored by Representatives Magnafici, Duchow, Tittl, Kuglitsch, Brooks, Dittrich, Horlacher, James, Kerkman, Kulp, Kurtz, Murphy, Novak, Ohnstad, Ott, Petersen, Rohrkaste, Sinicki, Skowronski, Spiros, Thiesfeldt, Tranel, Tusler, Wichgers and Quinn

  2. Apr 11, 2019 · Senate

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

  3. Apr 30, 2019 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Jun 6, 2019 · Senate

    Representative Fields added as a cosponsor

  5. Jun 11, 2019 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Jun 11, 2019 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  7. Sep 17, 2019 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  8. Sep 18, 2019 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Jacque

  9. Sep 25, 2019 · Senate

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 4, Noes 1

  10. Sep 25, 2019 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  11. Sep 25, 2019 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  12. Sep 25, 2019 · Senate

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

  13. Oct 17, 2019 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Senator Kooyenga

  14. Nov 1, 2019 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 11-5-2019 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  15. Nov 4, 2019 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  16. Nov 5, 2019 · Senate

    Read a second time

  17. Nov 5, 2019 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  18. Nov 5, 2019 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  19. Nov 5, 2019 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  20. Nov 5, 2019 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  21. Nov 5, 2019 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  22. Nov 6, 2019 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  23. Jan 16, 2020 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  24. Jan 16, 2020 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 1-21-2020 by Committee on Rules

  25. Jan 21, 2020 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  26. Jan 21, 2020 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Spreitzer, Emerson, Crowley, Stubbs and McGuire

  27. Jan 21, 2020 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 62, Noes 36

  28. Jan 21, 2020 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  29. Jan 21, 2020 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  30. Jan 21, 2020 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  31. Jan 21, 2020 · Assembly

    Representative Sinicki withdrawn as a cosponsor

  32. Jan 21, 2020 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  33. Jan 22, 2020 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  34. Jan 27, 2020 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  35. Feb 3, 2020 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 2-3-2020

  36. Feb 6, 2020 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 2-5-2020. 2019 Wisconsin Act 97

  37. Feb 6, 2020 · Senate

    Published 2-6-2020