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WI AB417
Bill
Status
9/15/2025
Primary Sponsor
Paul Melotik
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AI Summary
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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
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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
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Courts must immediately hear emergency testing applications and grant orders if probable cause exists that expedited testing will prevent harm from delayed results
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Requires convicted defendants to pay restitution for the costs of any court-ordered communicable disease testing
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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