2017 Wisconsin Act 129

  Date of enactment: December 8, 2017
2017 Senate Bill 300   Date of publication*: December 9, 2017

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication."

2017 WISCONSIN ACT 129

An Act to create 942.09 (4) and 948.015 (10) of the statutes; relating to: soliciting an intimate representation from a minor and providing a criminal penalty.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

129,1 Section 1. 942.09 (4) of the statutes is created to read:

942.09 (4) (a) Except as provided in par. (b) or (c), whoever solicits an intimate or private representation from a person who the actor believes or has reason to believe has not attained the age of 18 years is guilty of a Class I felony.

(b) If the person who solicits the intimate or private representation has attained the age of 18 years but has not attained the age of 21 years and if the child solicited is not more than 3 years younger than the person who solicits the intimate or private representation, he or she is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

(c) Paragraph (a) does not apply if the person who solicits the intimate or private representation has not attained the age of 18 years.

129,2 Section 2. 948.015 (10) of the statutes is created to read:

948.015 (10) Section 942.09 (4) (a), relating to solicitation of an intimate or private representation of a child.