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WI AB417

Bill

Status

Introduced

9/15/2025

Primary Sponsor

Paul Melotik

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Origin

State Assembly

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Expands mandatory communicable disease testing of criminal defendants from specific offenses (throwing bodily substances at public safety workers) to any crime where the defendant's bodily substances potentially exposed a public safety worker, prosecutor, or correctional staff member to disease

  • Creates an expedited emergency testing process allowing district attorneys to bypass the normal 72-hour hearing requirement when immediate testing could prevent bodily harm to the exposed worker

  • Courts must immediately hear emergency testing applications and grant orders if probable cause exists that expedited testing will prevent harm from delayed results

  • Requires convicted defendants to pay restitution for the costs of any court-ordered communicable disease testing

  • Test results cannot be included in the defendant's permanent medical record and are not admissible in civil, criminal, or administrative proceedings

Legislative Description

Emergency testing of a criminal defendant for certain diseases. (FE)

Last Action

Representative Billings added as a coauthor

3/16/2026

Committee Referrals

Rules10/16/2025
Criminal Justice and Public Safety9/15/2025

Full Bill Text

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