LRB-0968/P1
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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Schmidt, BB0104 - Judicial Branches in
2019 Act 184
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
courts and procedure
Circuit courts
This bill adds to the statutory list of judicial circuit branches to reflect the circuit court branches authorized under
2019 Wisconsin Act 184 to be added by the director of state courts, with four designated to begin operation in August 2022 and four designated to begin operation in August 2023.
Under current law, the statutes contain a list dividing, by administrative district and judicial circuit, how many branches each circuit has.
2019 Wisconsin Act 184 authorized the director of state courts to add four additional circuit court branches to begin operation on August 1, 2022, and four additional circuit court branches to begin operation on August 1, 2023. Act 184 further authorized the director of state courts to allocate each new branch to any county that the director of state courts determined to be in need of an additional circuit court branch and that established, or will have established, by May 31 of the year the court would begin operation, the appropriate infrastructure to support an additional circuit court branch. Act 184 further authorized the director of state courts to require any county, as a condition for receiving a circuit court branch allocation, to have established or to apply for a grant to establish a drug court. The director of state courts allocated new circuit court branches to Adams, Eau Claire, Vilas, and Waushara Counties, which were designated to begin operation on August 1, 2022. The director of state courts has also allocated new circuit court branches to Clark, Manitowoc, Sawyer, and Wood Counties, and these are designated to begin operation on August 1, 2023.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 753.06 (4) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
753.06 (4) (c) Manitowoc County. The circuit has 3 4 branches.
Section
2. 753.06 (4) (dm) of the statutes is amended to read:
753.06 (4) (dm) Waushara County. The circuit has
one branch 2 branches.
Section
3. 753.06 (7) (ag) of the statutes is amended to read:
753.06 (7) (ag) Adams County. The circuit has
one branch 2 branches.
Section
4. 753.06 (7) (ar) of the statutes is amended to read:
753.06 (7) (ar) Clark County. The circuit has
one branch 2 branches.
Section
5. 753.06 (9) (L) of the statutes is amended to read:
753.06 (9) (L) Vilas County. The circuit has
one branch 2 branches.
Section
6. 753.06 (9) (m) of the statutes is amended to read:
753.06 (9) (m) Wood County. The circuit has 3 4 branches.
Section
7. 753.06 (10) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
753.06 (10) (g) Eau Claire County. The circuit has 5 6 branches.
Section
8. 753.06 (10) (L) of the statutes is amended to read:
753.06 (10) (L) Sawyer County. The circuit has
one branch 2 branches.
Section 9107.
Nonstatutory provisions; Circuit Courts.
(1) Circuit courts designated to begin operation in 2022. The circuit court branches added in s. 753.06 (4) (dm), (7) (ag), (9) (L), and (10) (g) are the additional branches authorized to be added and allocated by the director of state courts under s. 753.0605 (2) to begin operation on August 1, 2022.
(2)
Circuit courts designated to begin operation in 2023. The circuit court branches added in s. 753.06 (4) (c), (7) (ar), (9) (m), and (10) (L) are the additional branches authorized to be added and allocated by the director of state courts under s. 753.0605 (3) to begin operation on August 1, 2023.
Section 9407.
Effective dates; Circuit Courts.
(1) Circuit court branches. The treatment of s. 753.06 (4) (c), (7) (ar), (9) (m), and (10) (L) and Section 9107 (2
) of this act take effect on August 1, 2023.
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