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2009 - 2010 LEGISLATURE
April 2, 2009 - Introduced by Representatives Vos, Kerkman, A. Ott, Turner,
Zepnick and Brooks, cosponsored by Senators Lehman and A. Lasee. Referred
to Committee on Criminal Justice.
AB192,1,2
1An Act to create 940.20 (6m) of the statutes;
relating to: battery to a highway
2construction or maintenance worker and providing a penalty.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, a person who intentionally causes bodily harm to another
without the other person's consent commits the crime of ordinary battery. A person
convicted of ordinary battery is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor and may be fined
not more than $10,000, imprisoned for not more than nine months, or both.
Current law provides more severe penalties for battery committed against
certain public agents, emergency care providers, and government officials and
employees, including a person operating or driving a public transit vehicle. A person
who causes bodily harm to the operator or driver on a public transit vehicle is guilty
of a Class I felony and may be fined not more than $10,000, imprisoned for not more
than three years and six months, or both.
Under this bill, a person who causes bodily harm to a person who is working to
construct, repair, or maintain a highway is guilty of a Class I felony and may be fined
not more than $10,000, imprisoned for not more than three years and six months, or
both.
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:
AB192, s. 1
1Section
1. 940.20 (6m) of the statutes is created to read:
AB192,2,22
940.20
(6m) Battery to highway construction or maintenance worker.
AB192,2,33
(a) In this subsection:
AB192,2,44
1. "Highway" has the meaning given in 340.01 (22).
AB192,2,75
2. "Highway construction or maintenance worker" means a person who is
6employed by or working pursuant to a contract with the state or with a local unit of
7government to construct, repair, or maintain a highway.
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(b) Whoever intentionally causes bodily harm to a highway construction or
9maintenance worker when the highway construction or maintenance worker is
10acting in an official capacity is guilty of a Class I felony.
