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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 SENATE BILL 897
January 27, 2026 - Introduced by Senators
Marklein
,
Wanggaard
,
James
,
Cabral-Guevara
and
Nass
, cosponsored by Representatives
Kurtz
,
Novak
,
Behnke
,
Dittrich
,
Duchow
,
Knodl
,
Kreibich
,
Maxey
,
Mursau
,
O'Connor
,
Penterman
,
Piwowarczyk
,
Sinicki
,
Tucker
and
Wichgers
. Referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety.
SB897,1,3
1
An Act
to renumber and amend
947.016 (3);
to create
947.016 (3) (am) of the
2
statutes;
relating to:
threats to health care providers and providing a
3
penalty.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, it is a Class H felony to threaten a health care provider or a person who works in a health care facility under specific circumstances.
This bill defines "health care provider" and "health care facility" to include certain workers, such as emergency medical technicians, who may not work at a health care facility. These definitions align with the definition of those terms under current battery provisions. The bill also provides that the felony penalty applies if the threat is in response to an action taken by a health care provider in his or her official capacity, regardless of whether the action occurred at a health care facility.
Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime, the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a report.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SB897,1
1
Section
1
.
947.016 (3) of the statutes, as created by
2025 Wisconsin Act 2
4, is
2
renumbered 947.016 (3) (bm) and amended to read:
SB897,2,7
3
947.016
(3)
(bm)
Health care providers and staff and their family members.
4
The person threatens a
current or former
health care provider or a person who
5
works
or formerly worked
in a health care facility or a family member of a
current or
6
former
health care provider or a person who works
or formerly worked
in a health
7
care facility under all of the following circumstances:
SB897,2,11
8
1. At the time of the threat, the person knows or should have known that the
9
victim
is or was formerly a health care provider or
works or formerly worked in a
10
health care facility or is a family member of the person who
is or was formerly a
11
health care provider or who
works or formerly worked in a health care facility.
SB897,2,15
12
2. The threat is in response to an action occurring at
the
a
health care facility
13
or an action by
a health care provider acting in his or her official capacity or by
an
14
official, employee, or agent of
the
a
health care facility acting in his or her official
15
capacity.
SB897,2
16
Section
2
.
947.016 (3) (am) of the statutes is created to read:
SB897,2,17
17
947.016
(3)
(am) In this subsection:
SB897,2,18
18
1. “Health care facility” has the meaning given in s. 940.51 (12).
SB897,2,19
19
2. “Health care provider” has the meaning given in s. 940.51 (13).
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