AB376: Bill Text

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2009 - 2010 LEGISLATURE

2009 Assembly BILL 376

August 18, 2009 - Introduced by Representatives Turner, Davis, Brooks, Berceau, Shilling, Mason, Hilgenberg, Pope-Roberts, Nass, Kaufert, Gundrum, Zepnick, Lothian, Townsend, Gunderson, Murtha, Steinbrink, Hintz, Hebl, A. Ott, Zigmunt, Nerison, Vruwink, Schneider, Petrowski, Spanbauer and Van Akkeren, cosponsored by Senators Lehman, Kedzie, Lassa, Darling, Erpenbach, Wirch, Schultz, Olsen, Coggs and Taylor. Referred to Committee on Corrections and the Courts.

AB376,1,2 An Act to create 973.20 (15) of the statutes; relating to: restitution for misappropriation from a cemetery of certain objects that relate to a veteran.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, a court generally must order a person who is convicted of a crime to pay restitution to any victim of the crime unless the court finds substantial reason not to order restitution. This bill specifies that a court must require a person who is convicted of misappropriating, from a cemetery, an object that indicates that a deceased was a veteran, to reimburse the cost of replacing the object.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB376, s. 1 Section 1. 973.20 (15) of the statutes is created to read:

AB376,1,7 973.20 (15) If misappropriation, from a cemetery, of an object that indicates that a deceased was a veteran, as described in s. 45.001, is a crime considered at sentencing, the restitution order shall require that the defendant reimburse an individual, organization, or governmental entity for the cost of replacing the object.

AB376, s. 2 Section 2. Initial applicability.

AB376,2,2 (1) This act first applies to restitution orders made on the effective date of this subsection.

AB376,2,3 (End)