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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 960

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Relating to: battery or threat to a health care provider or staff member of a health care facility and providing a penalty.

Crime and criminals — Battery Crime and criminals — Felony Hospitals and health care facilities Legislature — Criminal penalties joint review committee on Medical service — Occupations

  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, the crime of battery is defined as intentionally causing

another person bodily harm and is a Class A misdemeanor. Under current law, if the

battery is a special circumstance battery—for example, the battery is committed by

a prisoner or against certain individuals because of the individual's professional

status—the penalty is increased. Under current law, it is a Class H felony to commit

a battery against a nurse, an emergency medical care provider, or a person who is

working in an emergency department.

Under this bill, it is a Class H felony to commit a battery against a person who

is a health care provider, a staff member of a health care facility, or a family member

of a health care provider or staff member, or to threaten such a person, if the battery

or threat is in response to an action taken by the health care provider in his or her

official capacity, or in response to something that happened at the health care facility.

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: Armstrong (R) , Born (R) , Cabral-Guevara (R) , Dittrich (R) , Duchow (R) , Edming (R) , Gundrum (R) , James (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Magnafici (R) , Moses (R) , Novak (R) , Steffen (R) , Vorpagel (R) , Vos (R) , Wittke (R)

10 cosponsors

Ballweg and Darling , Doyle (D) , Feyen (R) , Kurtz and Oldenburg , LeMahieu (R) , Marklein (R) , Milroy (D) , Schraa (R) , Wanggaard (R) , Wichgers (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 14, Noes 1

Passed 14–1 Feb 17, 2022 official source full page

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

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Mar 4, 2022 official source full page

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

Senate: CONCURRENCE

Passed 31–0 Mar 8, 2022 official source full page

Not voting · 2

Full history

  1. Feb 7, 2022 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Vos, Magnafici, Armstrong, Born, Cabral-Guevara, Dittrich, Duchow, Edming, Gundrum, James, Kuglitsch, Moses, Novak, Steffen, Vorpagel and Wittke; cosponsored by Senators LeMahieu, Wanggaard and Feyen

  2. Feb 7, 2022 · Assembly

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

  3. Feb 8, 2022 · Assembly

    Senators Ballweg and Darling added as cosponsors

  4. Feb 8, 2022 · Assembly

    Representative Schraa added as a coauthor

  5. Feb 9, 2022 · Assembly

    Representatives Kurtz and Oldenburg added as coauthors

  6. Feb 9, 2022 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  7. Feb 10, 2022 · Assembly

    Senator Marklein added as a cosponsor

  8. Feb 11, 2022 · Assembly

    Representative Wichgers added as a coauthor

  9. Feb 16, 2022 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  10. Feb 17, 2022 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  11. Feb 17, 2022 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 14, Noes 1

  12. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 9:16 AM on 2-23-2022 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 29

  13. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  14. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  15. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  16. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  17. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  18. Feb 23, 2022 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  19. Feb 24, 2022 · Senate

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

  20. Feb 25, 2022 · Senate

    Representative Milroy added as a coauthor

  21. Mar 2, 2022 · Senate

    Withdrawn from committee on Judiciary and Public Safety and rereferred to committee on Senate Organization pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)

  22. Mar 2, 2022 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  23. Mar 4, 2022 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

  24. Mar 4, 2022 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 3-8-2022 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  25. Mar 8, 2022 · Senate

    Read a second time

  26. Mar 8, 2022 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  27. Mar 8, 2022 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  28. Mar 8, 2022 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 31, Noes 0

  29. Mar 8, 2022 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  30. Mar 9, 2022 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  31. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    LRB correction

  32. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 3-15-2022

  33. Mar 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 3-22-2022

  34. Mar 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 3-23-2022. 2021 Wisconsin Act 209

  35. Mar 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Published 3-24-2022

  36. Apr 8, 2022 · Assembly

    Representative Doyle added as a coauthor