48.01 (1) (br) To encourage innovative and effective prevention, intervention and treatment approaches, including collaborative community efforts and the use of community-based programs, as significant strategies in planning and implementing legislative, executive and local government policies and programs relating to children and their families and substitute families and to unborn children and their expectant mothers.
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Section 17
. 48.01 (1) (dm) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.01 (1) (dm) To divert children and unborn children from formal proceedings under this chapter to the extent that this is consistent with protection of children, unborn children and the public safety.
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Section 18
. 48.02 (1) (am) of the statutes is created to read:
48.02 (1) (am) When used in referring to an unborn child, serious physical harm inflicted on the unborn child, and the risk of serious physical harm to the child when born, caused by the habitual lack of self-control of the expectant mother of the unborn child in the use of alcohol beverages, controlled substances or controlled substance analogs, exhibited to a severe degree.
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Section 19
. 48.02 (17m) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.02 (17m) “Special treatment or care" means professional services which need to be provided to a child or his or her family to protect the well-being of the child, prevent placement of the child outside the home or meet the special needs of the child. “Special treatment or care" also means professional services which need to be provided to the expectant mother of an unborn child to protect the physical health of the unborn child and of the child when born from the harmful effects resulting from the habitual lack of self-control of the expectant mother in the use of alcohol, controlled substances or controlled substance analogs, exhibited to a severe degree. This term includes, but is not limited to, medical, psychological or psychiatric treatment, alcohol or other drug abuse treatment or other services which the court finds to be necessary and appropriate.
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Section 20d. 48.02 (19) of the statutes is created to read:
48.02 (19) “Unborn child" means a human being from the time of fertilization to the time of birth.
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Section 20r. 48.029 of the statutes is created to read:
48.029 Pregnancy testing prohibited. No law enforcement agency, district attorney, corporation counsel, county department, licensed child welfare agency or other person involved in the investigation or prosecution of an allegation that an unborn child has been the victim of or is at substantial risk of abuse may, without a court order, require a person to take a pregnancy test in connection with that investigation or prosecution.
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Section 21m. 48.06 (1) (a) 1. of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is amended to read:
48.06 (1) (a) 1. In counties with a population of 500,000 or more, the department shall provide the court with the services necessary for investigating and supervising child welfare and unborn child welfare cases under this chapter. The department is charged with providing child welfare and unborn child welfare intake and dispositional services and with administration of the personnel and services of the child welfare and unborn child welfare intake and dispositional sections of the department. The department shall include investigative services for all children and unborn children alleged to be in need of protection or services to be provided by the department.
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Section 22m. 48.06 (1) (a) 3. of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is amended to read:
48.06 (1) (a) 3. The county board of supervisors does not have authority and may not assert jurisdiction over the disposition of any case or, child, unborn child or expectant mother of an unborn child after a written order is made under s. 48.21 or 48.213 or if a petition is filed under s. 48.25.
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Section 23m. 48.06 (1) (am) 3. of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is amended to read:
48.06 (1) (am) 3. Each intake worker providing services under this chapter whose responsibilities include investigation or treatment of child abuse or neglect or unborn child abuse shall successfully complete additional training in child abuse and neglect and unborn child abuse protective services approved by the department under s. 48.981 (8) (d). Not more than 4 hours of the additional training may be applied to the requirement under subd. 1.
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Section 24m. 48.06 (2) (c) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is amended to read:
48.06 (2) (c) Each intake worker providing services under this chapter whose responsibilities include investigation or treatment of child abuse or neglect or unborn child abuse shall successfully complete additional training in child abuse and neglect and unborn child abuse protective services approved by the department under s. 48.981 (8) (d). Not more than 4 hours of the additional training may be applied to the requirement under par. (b).
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Section 25
. 48.065 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.065 (1) The board of supervisors of any county may authorize the chief judge of the judicial administrative district to appoint one or more part-time or full-time juvenile court commissioners who shall serve at the discretion of the chief judge. A juvenile court commissioner shall be licensed to practice law in this state and shall have been so licensed for at least 2 years immediately prior to appointment and shall have a demonstrated interest in the welfare of children and unborn children. The chief judge may assign law clerks, bailiffs and deputies to the court commissioner. The chief judge shall supervise juvenile court commissioners, law clerks, bailiffs and deputies, except that the chief judge may delegate any of those duties.
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Section 26
. 48.065 (2) (bm) of the statutes is created to read:
48.065 (2) (bm) Conduct hearings under s. 48.213 and thereafter order an adult expectant mother of an unborn child to be held in or released from custody.
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Section 27
. 48.065 (2) (gm) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.065 (2) (gm) Conduct uncontested proceedings under s. ss. 48.13 and 48.133.
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Section 28
. 48.065 (3) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.065 (3) (c) Make dispositions other than approving consent decrees and other than dispositions in uncontested proceedings under s. 48.13 or 48.133.
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Section 29
. 48.065 (3) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.065 (3) (e) Make changes in placements of children or of the expectant mothers of unborn children, or revisions or extensions of dispositional orders, except in uncontested proceedings under s. 48.13 or 48.133.
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Section 30
. 48.067 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.067 (1) Provide intake services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for the purpose of screening children taken into custody and not released under s. 48.20 (2) and the adult expectant mothers of unborn children taken into custody and not released under s. 48.203 (1);
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Section 31
. 48.067 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.067 (2) Interview, unless impossible, any child
or expectant mother of an unborn child who is taken into physical custody and not released, and where
when appropriate interview other available concerned parties. If the child cannot be interviewed, the intake worker shall consult with the child's parent or a responsible adult. If an adult expectant mother of an unborn child cannot be interviewed, the intake worker shall consult with an adult relative or friend of the adult expectant mother. No child may be placed in a secure detention facility unless the child has been interviewed in person by an intake worker, except that if the intake worker is in a place which is distant from the place where the child is or the hour is unreasonable, as defined by written court intake rules, and if the child meets the criteria under s. 48.208, the intake worker, after consulting by telephone with the law enforcement officer who took the child into custody, may authorize the secure holding of the child while the intake worker is en route to the in-person interview or until 8 a.m. of the morning after the night on which the child was taken into custody.
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Section 32
. 48.067 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.067 (3) Determine whether the child or the expectant mother of an unborn child shall be held under s. 48.205 and such policies as the judge shall promulgate under s. 48.06 (1) or (2);
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Section 33
. 48.067 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.067 (4) If the child or the expectant mother of an unborn child is not released, determine where the child or expectant mother shall be held;
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Section 34
. 48.067 (6m) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.067 (6m) Conduct the multidisciplinary screen in counties that have a pilot an alcohol and other drug abuse program under s. 48.547.
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Section 35
. 48.067 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.067 (8) Make interim recommendations to the court concerning children, and unborn children and their expectant mothers, awaiting final disposition under s. 48.355; and
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Section 36
. 48.069 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.069 (1) (a) Supervise and assist a child and the child's family or the expectant mother of an unborn child pursuant to informal dispositions, a consent decree or order of the court.
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Section 37
. 48.069 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.069 (1) (c) Make an affirmative effort to obtain necessary or desired services for the child and the child's family or for the expectant mother of an unborn child and investigate and develop resources toward that end.
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Section 38
. 48.07 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.07 (4) County departments that provide developmental disabilities, mental health or alcohol and other drug abuse services. Within the limits of available state and federal funds and of county funds appropriated to match state funds, the court may order county departments established under s. 51.42 or 51.437 to provide special treatment or care to a child if special treatment or care has been ordered under s. 48.345 (6) and if s. 48.362 (4) applies or to provide special treatment or care to the expectant mother of an unborn child if special treatment or care has been ordered under s. 48.347 (4) and if s. 48.362 (4) applies.
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Section 39
. 48.08 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.08 (1) It is the duty of each person appointed to furnish services to the court as provided in ss. 48.06 and 48.07 to make such investigations and exercise such discretionary powers as the judge may direct, to keep a written record of such investigations and to submit a report to the judge. Such person shall keep informed concerning the conduct and condition of the a child or expectant mother of an unborn child under the person's supervision and shall report thereon on that conduct and condition as the judge directs.
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Section 40
. 48.08 (3) of the statutes is created to read:
48.08 (3) Any person authorized to provide or providing intake or dispositional services for the court under s. 48.067 or 48.069 has the power of police officers and deputy sheriffs only for the purpose of taking the expectant mother of an unborn child into physical custody when the expectant mother comes voluntarily or when there is a substantial risk that the physical health of the unborn child, and of the child when born, will be seriously affected or endangered due to the expectant mother's habitual lack of self-control in the use of alcohol beverages, controlled substances or controlled substance analogs, exhibited to a severe degree.
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Section 41
. 48.09 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.09 (5) By the district attorney or, if designated by the county board of supervisors, by the corporation counsel, in any matter arising under s. 48.13, 48.133 or 48.977. If the county board transfers this authority to or from the district attorney on or after May 11, 1990, the board may do so only if the action is effective on September 1 of an odd-numbered year and the board notifies the department of administration of that change by January 1 of that odd-numbered year.
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Section 42
. 48.133 of the statutes is created to read:
48.133 Jurisdiction over unborn children in need of protection or services and the expectant mothers of those unborn children. The court has exclusive original jurisdiction over an unborn child alleged to be in need of protection or services which can be ordered by the court whose expectant mother habitually lacks self-control in the use of alcohol beverages, controlled substances or controlled substance analogs, exhibited to a severe degree, to the extent that there is a substantial risk that the physical health of the unborn child, and of the child when born, will be seriously affected or endangered unless the expectant mother receives prompt and adequate treatment for that habitual lack of self-control. The court also has exclusive original jurisdiction over the expectant mother of an unborn child described in this section.
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Section 43
. 48.135 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.135 (title) Referral of children
and expectant mothers of unborn children to proceedings under chapter 51 or 55.
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Section 44
. 48.135 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.135 (1) If a child alleged to be in need of protection or services or a child expectant mother of an unborn child alleged to be in need of protection or services is before the court and it appears that the child or child expectant mother is developmentally disabled, mentally ill or drug dependent or suffers from alcoholism, the court may proceed under ch. 51 or 55. If an adult expectant mother of an unborn child alleged to be in need of protection or services is before the court and it appears that the adult expectant mother is drug dependent or suffers from alcoholism, the court may proceed under ch. 51.
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Section 45
. 48.135 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.135 (2) Any Except as provided in ss. 48.19 to 48.21 and s. 48.345 (14), any voluntary or involuntary admissions, placements or commitments of a child made in or to an inpatient facility, as defined in s. 51.01 (10), shall be governed by ch. 51 or 55. Except as provided in ss. 48.193 to 48.213 and s. 48.347 (6), any voluntary or involuntary admissions, placements or commitments of an adult expectant mother of an unborn child made in or to an inpatient facility, as defined in s. 51.01 (10), shall be governed by ch. 51.
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Section 46
. 48.14 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.14 (5) Proceedings under chs. 51 and 55 which apply to minors and proceedings under ch. 51 which apply to the adult expectant mothers of unborn children, if those adult expectant mothers appear to be drug dependent or to suffer from alcoholism.
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Section 47
. 48.15 of the statutes is amended to read:
48.15 Jurisdiction of other courts to determine legal custody. Nothing contained in ss. 48.13, 48.133 and 48.14 deprives other courts of the right to determine the legal custody of children by habeas corpus or to determine the legal custody or guardianship of children if the legal custody or guardianship is incidental to the determination of causes pending in the other courts. But the jurisdiction of the court assigned to exercise jurisdiction under this chapter and ch. 938 is paramount in all cases involving children alleged to come within the provisions of ss. 48.13 and 48.14 and unborn children and their expectant mothers alleged to come within the provisions of ss. 48.133 and 48.14 (5).
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Section 48m. 48.185 (1) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 80, is amended to read:
48.185 (1) Subject to sub. (2), venue for any proceeding under ss. 48.13, 48.133, 48.135 and 48.14 (1) to (9) may be in any of the following: the county where the child or the expectant mother of the unborn child resides or the county where the child or expectant mother is present. Venue for proceedings brought under subch. VIII is as provided in this subsection except where the child has been placed and is living outside the home of the child's parent pursuant to a dispositional order, in which case venue is as provided in sub. (2). Venue for a proceeding under s. 48.14 (10) is as provided in s. 801.50 (5s).
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Section 49
. 48.185 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.185 (2) In an action under s. 48.41, venue shall be in the county where the birth parent or child resides at the time that the petition is filed. Venue for any proceeding under s. 48.363, 48.365 or 48.977, or any proceeding under subch. VIII when the child has been placed outside the home pursuant to a dispositional order under s. 48.345 or 48.347, shall be in the county where the dispositional order was issued, unless the child's county of residence has changed, or the parent of the child or the expectant mother of the unborn child has resided in a different county of this state for 6 months. In either case, the court may, upon a motion and for good cause shown, transfer the case, along with all appropriate records, to the county of residence of the child or, parent or expectant mother.
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Section 49x. Subchapter IV (title) of chapter 48 [precedes 48.19] of the statutes is amended to read:
Chapter 48
subchapter iv
holding a child or an
expectant mother in custody
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Section 50
. 48.19 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.19 (1) (c) An order of the judge if made upon a showing satisfactory to the judge that the welfare of the child demands that the child be immediately removed from his or her present custody. The order shall specify that the child be held in custody under s. 48.207 (1).
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Section 51
. 48.19 (1) (cm) of the statutes is created to read:
48.19 (1) (cm) An order of the judge if made upon a showing satisfactory to the judge that the child is an expectant mother, that due to the child expectant mother's habitual lack of self-control in the use of alcohol beverages, controlled substances or controlled substance analogs, exhibited to a severe degree, there is a substantial risk that the physical health of the unborn child, and of the child when born, will be seriously affected or endangered unless the child expectant mother is taken into custody and that the child expectant mother is refusing or has refused to accept any alcohol or other drug abuse services offered to her or is not making or has not made a good faith effort to participate in any alcohol or other drug abuse services offered to her. The order shall specify that the child expectant mother be held in custody under s. 48.207 (1).
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Section 52
. 48.19 (1) (d) 8. of the statutes is created to read:
48.19 (1) (d) 8. The child is an expectant mother and there is a substantial risk that the physical health of the unborn child, and of the child when born, will be seriously affected or endangered due to the child expectant mother's habitual lack of self-control in the use of alcohol beverages, controlled substances or controlled substance analogs, exhibited to a severe degree, unless the child expectant mother is taken into custody.
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Section 53
. 48.193 of the statutes is created to read:
48.193 Taking an adult expectant mother into custody. (1) An adult expectant mother of an unborn child may be taken into custody under any of the following:
(a) A warrant.
(b) A capias issued by a judge under s. 48.28.
(c) An order of the judge if made upon a showing satisfactory to the judge that due to the adult expectant mother's habitual lack of self-control in the use of alcohol beverages, controlled substances or controlled substance analogs, exhibited to a severe degree, there is a substantial risk that the physical health of the unborn child, and of the child when born, will be seriously affected or endangered unless the adult expectant mother is taken into custody and that the adult expectant mother is refusing or has refused to accept any alcohol or other drug abuse services offered to her or is not making or has not made a good faith effort to participate in any alcohol or other drug abuse services offered to her. The order shall specify that the adult expectant mother be held in custody under s. 48.207 (1m).
(d) Circumstances in which a law enforcement officer believes on reasonable grounds that any of the following conditions exists:
1. A capias or warrant for the apprehension of the adult expectant mother has been issued in this state or in another state.
2. There is a substantial risk that the physical health of the unborn child, and of the child when born, will be seriously affected or endangered due to the adult expectant mother's habitual lack of self-control in the use of alcohol beverages, controlled substances or controlled substance analogs, exhibited to a severe degree, unless the adult expectant mother is taken into custody.
3. The adult expectant mother has violated the conditions of an order under s. 48.213 (3) or the conditions of an order for temporary physical custody by an intake worker.
(2) When an adult expectant mother of an unborn child is taken into physical custody as provided in this section, the person taking the adult expectant mother into custody shall immediately attempt to notify an adult relative or friend of the adult expectant mother by the most practical means. The person taking the adult expectant mother into custody shall continue such attempt until an adult relative or friend is notified, or the adult expectant mother is delivered to an intake worker under s. 48.203 (2), whichever occurs first. If the adult expectant mother is delivered to the intake worker before an adult relative or friend is notified, the intake worker, or another person at his or her direction, shall continue the attempt to notify until an adult relative or friend of the adult expectant mother is notified.
(3) Taking into custody is not an arrest except for the purpose of determining whether the taking into custody or the obtaining of any evidence is lawful.
