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2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
May 8, 2019 - Introduced by Representatives Schraa,
Gruszynski, Edming, James,
Mursau, Pope, Sinicki and Tusler, cosponsored by Senators Hansen,
Jacque
and Smith. Referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety.
AB198,1,4
1An Act to renumber and amend 940.20 (2m) (b); and
to create 940.20 (2m) (a)
21p. of the statutes;
relating to: battery or threat to a probation, extended
3supervision, and parole agent; a community supervision agent; or an aftercare
4agent or a family member of the agent and providing a penalty.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, a person who intentionally causes bodily harm to a
probation, extended supervision, and parole agent; a community supervision agent;
or an aftercare agent is guilty of a Class H felony. This bill expands the crime so that
intentionally harming a family member of the agent, or threatening to harm the
agent or a family member of the agent, is also a Class H felony.
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.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB198,1
5Section
1. 940.20 (2m) (a) 1p. of the statutes is created to read:
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940.20
(2m) (a) 1p. “Family member” means a spouse, child, stepchild, foster
7child, parent, sibling, or grandchild.
AB198,2
1Section
2. 940.20 (2m) (b) of the statutes is renumbered 940.20 (2m) (b) (intro.)
2and amended to read:
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940.20
(2m) (b) (intro.) Whoever intentionally causes bodily harm
or threatens
4to cause bodily harm to
the person or family member of a probation, extended
5supervision, and parole agent, a community supervision agent, or an aftercare agent
,
6under all of the following circumstances is guilty of a Class H felony:
AB198,2,8
72. The act or threat is in response to any action taken by the agent acting in an
8official capacity
and.
AB198,2,11
91. At the time of the act or threat, the
person actor knows or has reason to know
10that the victim is a probation, extended supervision and parole agent, a community
11supervision agent, or an aftercare agent,
by an
or a member of the agent's family.
AB198,2,13
123. The act
or threat is done without the consent of the person
so injured, is guilty
13of a Class H felony harmed or threatened.
