Wisconsin House Bill 537 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 12-3)
Status: Failed on April 13 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-04-13 - Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

An Act to repeal 961.55 (1) (d) 1., 961.55 (1) (d) 2., 961.55 (1) (d) 3., 961.55 (1) (d) 4., 961.55 (5) (a), 961.55 (5) (e) 1., 961.55 (5) (e) 2., 973.075 (1) (b) 2m. and 973.075 (5m); to renumber and amend 961.55 (5) (e) (intro.) and 973.075 (1) (b) 1m. (intro.); to amend 29.934 (1) (d), 961.55 (title), 961.55 (1) (intro.), 961.55 (1) (d) (intro.), 961.55 (3) (intro.), 961.55 (5) (b), 961.555 (1), 961.555 (2) (a), 973.075 (title), 973.075 (1) (intro.), 973.075 (1) (bg), 973.075 (1) (bm), 973.075 (1) (d), 973.075 (1) (e), 973.075 (4), 973.075 (5) (intro.), 973.076 (1) (a) and 973.076 (1) (b) 1.; and to create 961.55 (1g), 961.55 (1k), 961.55 (1m), 961.55 (1r), 961.555 (3m), 961.555 (5), 973.075 (1g), 973.075 (1k), 973.075 (1m), 973.075 (1r), 973.075 (5r), 973.076 (3m) and 973.076 (5) of the statutes; Relating to: forfeiture of property seized in relation to a crime. (FE)

Forfeiture of property seized in relation to a crime. (FE)

Rep. Gary Tauchen [R]	Rep. Adam Jarchow [R]	Sen. David Craig [R]	Rep. Dean Knudson [R]
Rep. Frederick Kessler [D]	Rep. John Murtha [R]	Rep. Evan Goyke [D]	Rep. Scott Allen [R]
Rep. Paul Tittl [R]	Rep. Bob Gannon [R]	Rep. Dan Knodl [R]	Sen. Rob Hutton [R]
Sen. Steve Nass [R]	Sen. Frank Lasee [R]	Sen. Robert Wirch [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-04-13	House	Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
2016-02-18	House	Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Tauchen
2016-02-15	House	Withdrawn from committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety and referred to committee on Rules pursuant to Assembly Rule 42 (3)(c)
2016-02-12	House	Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Tauchen
2016-01-28	House	Public hearing held
2016-01-28	House	Representative Kremer added as a coauthor
2016-01-26	House	Representative C. Taylor added as a coauthor
2015-12-11	House	Fiscal estimate received
2015-12-10	House	Fiscal estimate received
2015-12-08	House	Fiscal estimate received
2015-11-24	House	Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety
2015-11-24	House	Introduced

Type	Source
Summary	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2015/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab537
Text	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2015/REG/AB537.pdf