Key Votes
AB 377 - Emergency Contraception for Sexual Assault Victims - Key Vote
Wisconsin Key Votes
Stages
- March 13, 2008 Executive Signed
- Feb. 28, 2008 Senate Bill Passed
- Jan. 23, 2008 House Bill Passed
- May 31, 2007 Introduced
Family
- AB 377 - Emergency Contraception for Sexual Assault Victims
- ASA 1 - Emergency Contraception for Sexual Assault Victims
Issues
Stage Details
Legislation - Signed (Executive) - March 13, 2008
Title: Emergency Contraception for Sexual Assault Victims
Signed by Governor Jim Doyle III
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (25-6) - Feb. 28, 2008 (Key vote)
Title: Emergency Contraception for Sexual Assault Victims
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that requires hospitals to offer emergency contraception to victims of sexual assault.
Highlights:
- Requires hospitals to provide a sexual assault victim with accurate and unbiased information regarding emergency contraception (sec. 1).
- Requires hospitals to immediately provide emergency contraceptives to the victim upon request (sec. 1).
- Requires hospitals to inform the victim of her option to report the assault to law enforcement and any available options for her to receive an examination in order to obtain evidence (sec. 1).
- Allows hospitals to refuse to provide emergency contraceptives to a victim who is pregnant (sec. 1).
- Fines violators $2,500 to $5,000. Allows hospitals to contest a penalty within 10 days of receiving notice of the fine from the Department of Health and Family Services. Requires the department to hold a hearing within 30 days of an appeal and deliver a decision within 15 days after the hearing (sec. 2).
- Assembly Substitute offered by Representatives Wood, Musser, and Pocan.
Note:
NOTE: THIS IS A SUBSTITUTE BILL, MEANING THE LANGUAGE OF THE ORIGINAL BILL HAS BEEN REPLACED. THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE SUBSTITUTE BILL TEXT DIFFERS FROM THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF THE TEXT CAN VARY GREATLY.
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (61-35) - Jan. 23, 2008 (Key vote)
Title: Emergency Contraception for Sexual Assault Victims
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that requires hospitals to offer emergency contraception to victims of sexual assault.
Highlights:
- Requires hospitals to provide a sexual assault victim with accurate and unbiased information regarding emergency contraception (sec. 1).
- Requires hospitals to immediately provide emergency contraceptives to the victim upon request (sec. 1).
- Requires hospitals to inform the victim of her option to report the assault to law enforcement and any available options for her to receive an examination in order to obtain evidence (sec. 1).
- Allows hospitals to refuse to provide emergency contraceptives to a victim who is pregnant (sec. 1).
- Fines violators $2,500 to $5,000. Allows hospitals to contest a penalty within 10 days of receiving notice of the fine from the Department of Health and Family Services. Requires the department to hold a hearing within 30 days of an appeal and deliver a decision within 15 days after the hearing (sec. 2).
- Assembly Substitute offered by Representatives Wood, Musser, and Pocan.
Note:
NOTE: THIS IS A SUBSTITUTE BILL, MEANING THE LANGUAGE OF THE ORIGINAL BILL HAS BEEN REPLACED. THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE SUBSTITUTE BILL TEXT DIFFERS FROM THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF THE TEXT CAN VARY GREATLY.
Legislation - Introduced (House) - May 31, 2007
Title: Emergency Contraception for Sexual Assault Victims
Sponsors
- Chuck Benedict (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Terese L. Berceau (WI - D)
- Spencer Black (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Frank Boyle (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Tamara D. Grigsby (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Gary Hebl (WI - D)
- Steve Hilgenberg (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Gordon Hintz (WI - D)
- Ann Hraychuck (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Dean R. Kaufert (WI - R)
- Frederick P. Kessler (WI - D)
- James E. 'Jim' Kreuser (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Louis John Molepske Jr. (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Terry M. Musser (WI - R) (Out Of Office)
- Joseph T. 'Joe' Parisi (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mark Pocan (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Sondy Pope-Roberts (WI - D)
- Jon Richards (WI - D)
- Donna J. Seidel (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mike Sheridan (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Gary E. Sherman (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jennifer Shilling (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Christine M. Sinicki (WI - D)
- Jeffrey E. 'Jeff' Smith (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- James R. 'Jim' Soletski (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Barbara L. Toles (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- David M. 'Dave' Travis (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Robert L. Turner (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Amy Sue Vruwink (WI - D)
- Sheldon A. Wasserman (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jeffrey 'Jeff' Wood (WI - I) (Out Of Office)
- Leon D. Young (WI - D)
- Josh Zepnick (WI - D)
Co-sponsors
- Timothy W. 'Tim' Carpenter (WI - D)
- G. Spencer Coggs (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jon Erpenbach (WI - D)
- Dave Hansen (WI - D)
- Robert 'Bob' Jauch (WI - D)
- Pat Kreitlow (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Julie M. Lassa (WI - D)
- John W. Lehman (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mark F. Miller (WI - D)
- Jeffrey T. 'Jeff' Plale (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Fred A. Risser (WI - D)
- Judith Biros 'Judy' Robson (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jim Sullivan (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Lena C. Taylor (WI - D)
- Robert W. Wirch (WI - D)
