LRB-0207/P1
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2013 - 2014 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Kirby, BB0086 - Location of crime laboratories
For 2013-2015 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
crimes
Currently, DOJ maintains three crime laboratories whose employees perform duties including deoxyribonucleic acid testing, firearms identification, the comparison and identification of toolmarks, chemistry, identification of questioned documents, metallurgy, comparative microscopy, instrumental detection of deception, the identification of fingerprints, toxicology, serology, and forensic photography. Current law requires that the laboratories are located in the cities of Madison, Milwaukee, and Wausau.
This bill removes the requirement that DOJ locate a crime laboratory in the cities of Madison, Milwaukee, and Wausau.
For further information see the state and local 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:
Section
1. 165.75 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
165.75 (2) The laboratories shall be located in the cities of Madison, Milwaukee and Wausau. The personnel of the laboratories shall consist of such employees as are authorized under s. 20.922. The laboratory in the city of Milwaukee is named the William J. McCauley crime laboratory.
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