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Assembly
Record of Committee Proceedings

Committee on Corrections and the Courts
Assembly Bill 729
Relating to: permitting the period for which a serious juvenile offender program participant may be placed in a juvenile secured correctional facility to be extended; prohibiting a juvenile who has been adjudicated delinquent from being transferred to an adult prison; permitting a juvenile who has been sentenced as an adult to be transferred to an adult prison on reaching 15 years of age; permitting a juvenile to be placed in a juvenile secured correctional facility only until the juvenile reaches 18 years of age; and requiring the juvenile court, when placing a juvenile who has been adjudged delinquent outside the home or when denying parental visitation with such a juvenile, to warn the parents of any applicable termination of parental rights grounds and of the conditions necessary for the juvenile to be returned to the home or for the parent to be granted visitation.
By Representatives Walker, Albers, Cullen, Hahn, Hines, Jeskewitz, Ladwig, Montgomery, Musser, Olsen, Plale, Rhoades, Ryba, Stone and Townsend; cosponsored by Senators Jauch, Burke, Darling, Huelsman and Rosenzweig.

January 16, 2002 Referred to Committee on Corrections and the Courts.

February 6, 2002 PUBLIC HEARING HELD

Present: (10) Representatives Walker, Suder, Friske, Owens, Skindrud, Underheim, Balow, Coggs, Pocan and Colon.

Absent: (0) None.

Appearances for

· Deputy Administrator Silvia Jackson, DOC, Division of Juvenile Corrections

Appearances against

· None

Appearances for Information Only

· None

Registrations for

· Jill Jacklitz, WI Council on Children and Families

Registrations against
· Sen. Gwen Moore, 4th Senate District

· Jenny Boese, State Bar, Individual Rights and Responsiblities Section

February 27, 2002 EXECUTIVE SESSION

Present: (10) Representatives Walker, Suder, Friske, Owens, Skindrud, Underheim, Balow, Coggs, Pocan and Colon.

Absent: (0) None.

Moved by Representative Underheim, seconded by Representative Suder, that Assembly Amendment 1

be recommended for adoption.

Ayes: (10) Representatives Walker, Suder, Friske, Owens, Skindrud, Underheim, Balow, Coggs, Pocan and Colon.
Noes: (0) None.

Absent: (0) None.

ADOPTION RECOMMENDED, Ayes 10, Noes 0, Absent 0

Moved by Representative Suder, seconded by Representative Underheim, that Assembly Bill 729

be recommended for passage.

Ayes: (9) Representatives Walker, Suder, Friske, Owens, Skindrud, Underheim, Balow, Coggs and Pocan.
Noes: (1) Representative Colon.

Absent: (0) None.

PASSAGE RECOMMENDED, Ayes 9, Noes 1, Absent 0

Committee Clerk