SB30: Bill Text

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2001 - 2002 LEGISLATURE

2001 Senate BILL 30

January 26, 2001 - Introduced by Senators Plache, Burke, Moore, Moen and Schultz, cosponsored by Representatives Ladwig, Starzyk, J. Lehman, Coggs, Pocan, Townsend, Berceau, Miller, Albers and Wasserman. Referred to Committee on Economic Development and Corrections.

SB30,1,2 An Act to amend 302.01 of the statutes; relating to: renaming the women's minimum security correctional facility at Union Grove, Racine County.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Currently, the women's minimum security correctional facility at Union Grove, Racine County, is named the Robert E. Ellsworth Women's Center. This bill names that facility the Cordelia Harvey Women's Center. Cordelia Harvey was the spouse of Louis P. Harvey, the 7th governor of Wisconsin.

For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.

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

SB30, s. 1 Section 1. 302.01 of the statutes is amended to read:

SB30,2,18 302.01 State prisons named and defined. The penitentiary at Waupun is named "Waupun Correctional Institution". The correctional treatment center at Waupun is named "Dodge Correctional Institution". The penitentiary at Green Bay is named "Green Bay Correctional Institution". The medium/maximum penitentiary at Portage is named "Columbia Correctional Institution". The medium security institution at Oshkosh is named "Oshkosh Correctional Institution". The medium security penitentiary near Fox Lake is named "Fox Lake Correctional Institution". The penitentiary at Taycheedah is named "Taycheedah Correctional Institution". The medium security penitentiary at Plymouth is named "Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution". The penitentiary at the village of Sturtevant in Racine county is named "Racine Correctional Institution". The medium security penitentiary at Racine is named "Racine Youthful Offender Correctional Facility". The resource facility at Oshkosh is named "Wisconsin Resource Center". The minimum security women's correctional facility at the village of Union Grove in Racine County is named "Cordelia Harvey Women's Center." The institutions named in this section, the correctional institutions authorized under s. 301.16 (1n) and (1v), correctional institution authorized under 1997 Wisconsin Act 4, section 4 (1) (a), correctional institution authorized under s. 301.046 (1), correctional institution authorized under s. 301.048 (4) (b), minimum security correctional institutions authorized under s. 301.13, the probation and parole holding facilities authorized under s. 301.16 (1q) and state-local shared correctional facilities when established under s. 301.14, are state prisons.

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