2021 WISCONSIN ACT 187
An Act to renumber and amend 940.20 (2m) (b); to amend 940.20 (2m) (a) 1. and 1m. and 940.20 (2m) (a) 2.; and to create 940.20 (2m) (a) 1o. and 940.20 (2m) (a) 1p. of the statutes; relating to: battery or threat to a probation, extended supervision, and parole agent; a community supervision agent; or an aftercare agent or a family member of the agent and providing a penalty.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
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Section
1. 940.20 (2m) (a) 1. and 1m. of the statutes are amended to read:
940.20 (2m) (a) 1. “Aftercare agent" means any person authorized by the department of corrections to exercise control over a juvenile on aftercare or authorized by a federally recognized American Indian tribe or band to exercise control over a juvenile on aftercare or a comparable program that is authorized by the tribe or band.
1m. “Community supervision agent" means any person authorized by the department of corrections to exercise control over a juvenile on community supervision or authorized by a federally recognized American Indian tribe or band to exercise control over a juvenile on community supervision or a comparable program that is authorized by the tribe or band.
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Section 1o. 940.20 (2m) (a) 1o. of the statutes is created to read:
940.20 (2m) (a) 1o. “Exercise control” includes exercising control either directly or through a subordinate and includes transporting the individual.
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Section 2
. 940.20 (2m) (a) 1p. of the statutes is created to read:
940.20 (2m) (a) 1p. “Family member” means a spouse, child, stepchild, foster child, parent, sibling, or grandchild.
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3. 940.20 (2m) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
940.20 (2m) (a) 2. “Probation, extended supervision and parole agent" means any person authorized by the department of corrections to exercise control over a probationer, parolee, or person on extended supervision
or authorized by a federally recognized American Indian tribe or band to exercise control over a probationer, parolee, or person on extended supervision or a comparable program that is authorized by the tribe or band.
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Section 4
. 940.20 (2m) (b) of the statutes is renumbered 940.20 (2m) (b) (intro.) and amended to read:
940.20 (2m) (b) (intro.) Whoever intentionally causes bodily harm or threatens to cause bodily harm to the person or family member of a probation, extended supervision, and parole agent, a community supervision agent, or an aftercare agent, under all of the following circumstances is guilty of a Class H felony:
2. The act or threat is in response to any action taken by the agent acting in an official capacity and
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1. At the time of the act or threat, the person actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is a probation, extended supervision and parole agent, a community supervision agent, or an aftercare agent, by an
or a member of the agent's family.
3. The act or threat is done without the consent of the person so injured, is guilty of a Class H felony
harmed or threatened.
