Date of enactment: March 27, 2024
2023 Senate Bill 514 Date of publication*: March 28, 2024
2023 WISCONSIN ACT 226
AN ACT to amend 346.17 (3) (a), 346.17 (3) (b), 346.17 (3) (c) and 346.17 (3) (d) of the statutes; relating to: fleeing
an officer and providing a penalty.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 346.17 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended
to read:
346.17 (3) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), (c) or
(d), any person violating s. 346.04 (3) is guilty of a Class
I H felony.
SECTION 2. 346.17 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended
to read:
346.17 (3) (b) If the violation results in bodily harm,
as defined in s. 939.22 (4), to another, or causes damage
to the property of another, as defined in s. 939.22 (28), the
person is guilty of a Class H G felony.
SECTION 3. 346.17 (3) (c) of the statutes is amended
to read:
346.17 (3) (c) If the violation results in great bodily
harm, as defined in s. 939.22 (14), to another, the person
is guilty of a Class F E felony. The court shall impose
a bifurcated sentence under s. 973.01, and the confine-
ment portion of the bifurcated sentence imposed on the
person shall be not less than one year and 6 months.
SECTION 4. 346.17 (3) (d) of the statutes is amended
to read:
346.17 (3) (d) If the violation results in the death of
another, the person is guilty of a Class E D felony. The
court shall impose a bifurcated sentence under s. 973.01,
and the confinement portion of the bifurcated sentence
imposed on the person shall be not less than 2 years and
6 months.
SECTION 5.0Initial applicability.
(1) This act first applies to violations committed on
the effective date of this subsection.
* Section 991.11, WISCONSIN STATUTES: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor’s
partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”