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2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1,
TO ASSEMBLY BILL 817
February 11, 2020 - Offered by Representatives Crowley, Bowen, Hintz,
Hesselbein, Spreitzer, Doyle, B. Meyers, McGuire, Neubauer, Fields, Pope,
Ohnstad, Sargent, Subeck, Sinicki, C. Taylor, Emerson, Cabrera, Goyke,
Brostoff and Stuck.
AB817-ASA1,1,3
1An Act to repeal 946.49 (1) (a) and (b);
to renumber and amend 946.49 (1)
2(intro.);
to amend 946.49 (2); and
to create 946.49 (3) of the statutes;
relating
3to: bail jumping and providing a penalty.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB817-ASA1,1
4Section 1
. 946.49 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is renumbered 946.49 (1) and
5amended to read:
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946.49
(1) Whoever, having been released from custody under ch. 969,
7intentionally fails
to appear as required or to comply with
the terms a term of his or
8her bond
that prohibits contact with another individual or prohibits his or her
9presence in a specified location is
: guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
AB817-ASA1,2
10Section 2
. 946.49 (1) (a) and (b) of the statutes are repealed.
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11Section
3. 946.49 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB817-ASA1,2,2
1946.49
(2) A witness for whom bail has been required under s. 969.01 (3) is
2guilty of a Class
I felony B misdemeanor for failure to appear as provided.
AB817-ASA1,4
3Section
4. 946.49 (3) of the statutes is created to read:
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946.49
(3) A prosecutor may charge a person for a violation under sub. (1) only
5once per underlying criminal charge for which he or she has been released on bond.
