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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

SB 28

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Relating to: battery by a person detained while awaiting trial as a sexually violent person and providing a penalty.

Court — Procedure Crime and criminals — Battery Crime and criminals — Felony Juvenile detention facility Legislature — Criminal penalties joint review committee on Mental health — Hospitals and institutes Sex crimes

  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 commits simple battery and is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. Current law

increases the penalty for battery under special circumstances. For instance, if a

person who is committed to a facility as a sexually violent person commits battery

against an officer, employee, agent, visitor, or other resident of the facility, the person

is guilty of a Class H felony. This bill adds that a person who is placed in a facility

awaiting a commitment trial as a sexually violent person is also guilty of a Class H

felony if he or she commits battery against an officer, employee, agent, visitor, or

other resident of the 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: Marklein (R)

6 cosponsors

Bowen (D) , Carpenter (D) , Kurtz (R) , Skowronski (R) , Steffen (R) , Stubbs (D)

Votes

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

Passed 7–0 Feb 12, 2021 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. Jan 28, 2021 · Senate

    Introduced by Senator Marklein; cosponsored by Representative Kurtz

  2. Jan 28, 2021 · Senate

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

  3. Feb 11, 2021 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  4. Feb 12, 2021 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  5. Feb 12, 2021 · Senate

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

  6. Feb 12, 2021 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  7. Feb 12, 2021 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-16-2021 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  8. Feb 16, 2021 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  9. Feb 16, 2021 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  10. Feb 16, 2021 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  11. Feb 16, 2021 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  12. Feb 16, 2021 · Senate

    Senator Carpenter added as a coauthor

  13. Feb 16, 2021 · Senate

    Read a second time

  14. Feb 16, 2021 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  15. Mar 3, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Bowen added as a cosponsor

  16. Mar 10, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Stubbs added as a cosponsor

  17. Mar 11, 2021 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  18. Mar 11, 2021 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 3-17-2021 by Committee on Rules

  19. Mar 11, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Steffen added as a cosponsor

  20. Mar 12, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Skowronski added as a cosponsor

  21. Mar 17, 2021 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up

  22. Mar 17, 2021 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  23. Mar 17, 2021 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  24. Mar 17, 2021 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  25. Mar 17, 2021 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  26. Mar 17, 2021 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  27. Mar 17, 2021 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  28. Mar 24, 2021 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  29. Mar 25, 2021 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 3-25-2021

  30. Mar 29, 2021 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 3-26-2021. 2021 Wisconsin Act 13

  31. Mar 29, 2021 · Senate

    Published 3-27-2021