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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 251

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Relating to: impersonating a public officer, public employee, or employee of a utility and providing a penalty.

Crime and criminals Crime and criminals — Felony Legislature — Criminal penalties joint review committee on Public employee Public officers Public utility

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Assembly, completed
  3. Passes Senate, 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, it is a Class I felony for a person to assume to act in an official

capacity of a public office knowing that he or she is not a public officer, employee, or

utility employee or to exercise any function of a public office that he or she is not

qualified to exercise.

Under the bill, it is a Class I felony for a person to impersonate or represent

oneself to be a public officer, employee, or utility employee with the intent to mislead

others into believing that he or she is actually a public officer or employee or the

employee of a utility.

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.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Brandtjen (R) , Cabrera (D) , Callahan (R) , Edming (R) , Gundrum (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Moses (R) , Mursau (R) , Schraa (R) , Stubbs (D) , Wichgers (R)

10 cosponsors

Agard (D) , Anderson (D) , Ballweg (R) , Bewley (D) , Doyle (D) , Jacque (R) , Penterman, Steffen and Bowen , Pfaff (D) , Ringhand (D) , Subeck (D)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 14, Noes 0

Passed 14–0 Nov 15, 2021 official source full page

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

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 7, Noes 0

Passed 7–0 Feb 16, 2022 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 8, 2021 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Callahan, Brandtjen, Cabrera, Edming, Gundrum, Kuglitsch, Moses, Mursau, Schraa, Stubbs and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senators Jacque, Agard and Ballweg

  2. Apr 8, 2021 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety

  3. Apr 9, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Doyle added as a coauthor

  4. Apr 9, 2021 · Assembly

    Senator Bewley added as a cosponsor

  5. Apr 13, 2021 · Assembly

    Senator Ringhand added as a cosponsor

  6. May 4, 2021 · Assembly

    Senator Pfaff added as a cosponsor

  7. Aug 25, 2021 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  8. Aug 25, 2021 · Assembly

    Representatives Penterman, Steffen and Bowen added as coauthors

  9. Sep 8, 2021 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  10. Nov 15, 2021 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  11. Nov 15, 2021 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 14, Noes 0

  12. Jan 20, 2022 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 1-25-2022 by Committee on Rules

  13. Jan 25, 2022 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  14. Jan 25, 2022 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  15. Jan 25, 2022 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  16. Jan 25, 2022 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  17. Jan 25, 2022 · Assembly

    Representative Subeck added as a coauthor

  18. Jan 25, 2022 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  19. Jan 26, 2022 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  20. Jan 26, 2022 · Senate

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

  21. Feb 8, 2022 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  22. Feb 16, 2022 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  23. Feb 16, 2022 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 7, Noes 0

  24. Feb 16, 2022 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  25. Feb 18, 2022 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-22-2022 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  26. Feb 22, 2022 · Senate

    Read a second time

  27. Feb 22, 2022 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  28. Feb 22, 2022 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  29. Feb 22, 2022 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in

  30. Feb 22, 2022 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  31. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  32. Feb 28, 2022 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 2-28-2022

  33. Mar 10, 2022 · Assembly

    Representative Anderson added as a coauthor

  34. Apr 13, 2022 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 4-13-2022

  35. Apr 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 4-15-2022. 2021 Wisconsin Act 263

  36. Apr 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Published 4-16-2022