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WI SB5

Bill

Status

Passed

8/11/2025

Primary Sponsor

Van Wanggaard

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Creates a new standalone statute (s. 940.202) criminalizing battery or threats against jurors and their family members, classified as a Class H felony punishable by up to 6 years imprisonment and/or $10,000 fine

  • Expands protection to cover prospective jurors who have received a jury summons, current jurors, and former jurors, as well as their spouses, children, stepchildren, foster children, parents, siblings, and grandchildren

  • Broadens the triggering conduct from actions related to "any verdict or indictment assented to" to any reason "related to the person's service as a juror"

  • Adds the new juror battery/threat offense to multiple statutory lists including violent felony definitions, felony murder provisions, racketeering activity, serious crimes for bail purposes, and victim compensation eligibility

  • Authorizes courts to prohibit convicted individuals from contacting jurors who served at any proceeding during their sentence or probation period

Legislative Description

Battery or threat to jurors and providing a penalty.

Last Action

Representative Doyle added as a cosponsor

1/23/2026

Committee Referrals

Rules5/27/2025
Judiciary and Public Safety1/24/2025

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