Key Votes
SB 263 - Expanding Access to Public Defenders - Key Vote
Wisconsin Key Votes
Stages
- March 16, 2010 Executive Signed
- March 4, 2010 House Bill Passed
- Jan. 28, 2010 Senate Bill Passed
- Aug. 11, 2009 Introduced
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Issues
Stage Details
Legislation - Signed (Executive) - March 16, 2010
Title: Expanding Access to Public Defenders
Signed by Governor Jim Doyle III
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) - March 4, 2010
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (21-12) - Jan. 28, 2010 (Key vote)
Title: Expanding Access to Public Defenders
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that expands eligibility requirements to qualify for representation by a public defender.
Highlights:
-Requires public defenders to consider the following when determining the eligibility of an individual (Secs. 4-5):
- -The total assets of a person shall not exceed $2,500 in total combined equity value;
-The first $30,000 of the equity value of the individual's home shall be excluded;
-To treat income as available to the individual to pay the costs of legal representation only if the income exceeds 115 percent at or below the poverty line; and
-To treat the assets or income of the individual's spouse as the person's assets or incomes, unless the spouse was the victim of a crime the person allegedly committed.
Legislation - Introduced (Senate) - Aug. 11, 2009
Title: Expanding Access to Public Defenders
Sponsors
- G. Spencer Coggs (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jon Erpenbach (WI - D)
- Dave Hansen (WI - D)
- Julie M. Lassa (WI - D)
- John W. Lehman (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mark F. Miller (WI - D)
- Luther S. Olsen (WI - R)
- Jeffrey T. 'Jeff' Plale (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Fred A. Risser (WI - D)
- Judith Biros 'Judy' Robson (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Dale W. Schultz (WI - R)
- Jim Sullivan (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Lena C. Taylor (WI - D)
- Kathleen Vinehout (WI - D)
- Robert W. Wirch (WI - D)
Co-sponsors
- Terese L. Berceau (WI - D)
- Garey D. Bies (WI - R)
- Pedro A. Colon (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Kristen Dexter (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jason M. Fields (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Tamara D. Grigsby (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Gary Hebl (WI - D)
- Gordon Hintz (WI - D)
- Andy Jorgensen (WI - D)
- Frederick P. Kessler (WI - D)
- Cory Mason (WI - D)
- Louis John Molepske Jr. (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Alvin R. 'Al' Ott (WI - R)
- Joseph T. 'Joe' Parisi (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Sandra K. 'Sandy' Pasch (WI - D)
- Jerry J. Petrowski (WI - R) (Out Of Office)
- Sondy Pope (WI - D)
- Jon Richards (WI - D)
- Kelda Helen Roys (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Donna J. Seidel (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Gary E. Sherman (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jennifer Shilling (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jeffrey E. 'Jeff' Smith (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- James R. 'Jim' Soletski (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Richard J. 'Dick' Spanbauer (WI - R) (Out Of Office)
- Tony Staskunas (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Gary Tauchen (WI - R)
- Robert L. Turner (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Terry Van Akkeren (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Karl Van Roy (WI - R) (Out Of Office)
- Annette Polly Williams (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Leon D. Young (WI - D)
