Senate Bill 1134
Criminal sentence adjustment due to sentencing
Topics: Legislature: Criminal Penalties, Joint Review Committee on, Prison, Sentences and penalties
Stopped in committee
It never got a , so it never came up for a vote. The last day for votes this session was Mar 19, 2026. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.
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Introduced, passed
Mar 19, 2026
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Senate vote, not reached
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Mar 23, 2026: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
It never got a hearing in the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety. The committee's chair at the time was Van Wanggaard. Chairs decide which bills get a hearing. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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Committee
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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
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Author
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What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
Under current law, a prison inmate who is serving a bifurcated sentence for certain felonies committed on or after December 31, 1999 may petition the sentencing court to adjust their sentence if the the inmate has served at least 85 percent of the confinement in prison portion of their sentence for a Class C to E felony or 75 percent for a Class F to I felony. When an inmate files a petition, the sentencing court may either deny the petition or hold the petition for further consideration. If the court holds the petition for further consideration, the court must notify the district attorney of the inmate’s petition. If the district attorney objects to adjustment of the inmate’s sentence within 45 days of receiving notification, the court must deny the inmate’s petition.
Current law provides several grounds for such a petition, including that there has been a change in law or procedure related to sentencing or revocation of extended supervision effective after the inmate was sentenced that would have resulted in a shorter term of confinement in prison or, if the inmate was returned to prison upon revocation of extended supervision, a shorter period of confinement in prison upon revocation, if the change had been applicable when the inmate was sentenced. Under current law, in such case, the only sentence adjustment that a court may make is to reduce the term of confinement in prison and make a corresponding increase in the term of extended supervision, unless an extension of the term of extended supervision would result in a longer term of extended supervision than the maximum that the offender could have received if the change in law or procedure had been applicable when the inmate was originally sentenced. In that case, the court may reduce the length of the term of extended supervision so that the term of extended supervision does not exceed the maximum term of extended supervision that the offender could have received if the change in law or procedure had been applicable when the inmate was originally sentenced.
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This bill provides that an inmate may also file such a petition if there has been a change in law or procedure related to sentencing that would have resulted in a shorter term of extended supervision. The bill also provides that when a sentencing court modifies any sentence because of a change in law or procedure related to sentencing or revocation by reducing a term of confinement in prison, the court must reduce the length of the term of extended supervision so that the term of extended supervision does not exceed the maximum term of extended supervision that the offender could have received if the change in law or procedure had been applicable when the inmate was originally sentenced or the maximum term of extended supervision for the offense at the time the petition for sentence adjustment was filed, whichever is shorter.
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.
Who's behind it
Dora Drake, a Democrat, is its .
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Author (1)
- Dora Drake · Democrat, Senate
What happened
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Mar 23, 2026
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Mar 19, 2026
Sent to the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety.
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Mar 19, 2026
Introduced in the Senate.
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- Mar 19, 2026 · Senate
Introduced by Senator Drake
- Mar 19, 2026 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety
- Mar 23, 2026 · Senate
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
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