Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB70 Compare Versions

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3	3	2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 70
5	5	February 27, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives SPIROS, BEHNKE, CALLAHAN,
6	6	DITTRICH, DONOVAN, EDMING, GREEN, KITCHENS, MOSES, MURPHY, MURSAU,
7	7	NEYLON, PENTERMAN, PLUMER, RETTINGER and ROZAR, cosponsored by Senators
8	8	WANGGAARD, BALLWEG, CABRAL-GUEVARA, JAMES and MARKLEIN. Referred to
9	9	Committee on Judiciary.
10	10	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
11	11	AN ACT to create 947.065 of the statutes; relating to: participation in a riot and
12	12	providing a penalty.
13	13	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
14	14	This bill makes it a Class I felony to urge, promote, organize, encourage, or
15	15	instigate others to commit a riot and a Class H felony to intentionally commit an act
16	16	of violence while participating in a riot.
17	17	The bill defines a “riot” as a public disturbance that involves an act of violence,
18	18	as part of an assembly of at least three persons, that constitutes a clear and present
19	19	danger of property damage or personal injury or a threat of an act of violence, as part
20	20	of an assembly of at least three persons having the ability of immediate execution of
21	21	the threat, if the threatened action constitutes a clear and present danger of property
22	22	damage or personal injury.
23	23	Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime,
24	24	the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a
25	25	report.
26	26	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
27	27	enact as follows:
28	28	SECTION 1. 947.065 of the statutes is created to read:
29	29	947.065 Rioting. (1) In this section:
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36	36	(a) “Incite” means to urge, promote, organize, encourage, or instigate other
37	37	persons. “Incite” does not mean to advocate, orally or in writing, ideas or expressions
38	38	of belief that do not involve urging, promoting, organizing, encouraging, or
39	39	instigating or to assert, orally or in writing, the rightness of, or the right to commit,
40	40	an act.
41	41	(b) “Riot” means a public disturbance involving at least one of the following:
42	42	1. An act of violence by one or more persons that are part of an assembly of at
43	43	least 3 persons, that results in or constitutes a clear and present danger of damage
44	44	to the property of any other person or injury to another person.
45	45	2. A threat of the commission of an act of violence by one or more persons that
46	46	are part of an assembly of at least 3 persons having, individually or collectively, the
47	47	ability to immediately execute the threat, if the performance of the threatened act
48	48	of violence constitutes a clear and present danger of damage to the property of any
49	49	other person or injury to another person.
50	50	(2) Whoever intentionally incites another to commit a riot is guilty of a Class
51	51	I Felony.
52	52	(3) Whoever intentionally commits an act of violence while participating in a
53	53	riot is guilty of a Class H Felony.
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