Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 897

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: threats to health care providers and providing a penalty.

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

Introduced, stopped here
Passes Senate, not reached
Passes Assembly, not reached
Governor signs, not reached
Law, not reached

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, it is a Class H felony to threaten a health care provider or a person who works in a health care facility under specific circumstances.

This bill defines "health care provider" and "health care facility" to include certain workers, such as emergency medical technicians, who may not work at a health care facility. These definitions align with the definition of those terms under current battery provisions. The bill also provides that the felony penalty applies if the threat is in response to an action taken by a health care provider in his or her official capacity, regardless of whether the action occurred at a 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.

Registered lobbying interests · 4

Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0

Passed 8–0 Mar 3, 2026 official source full page

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

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