181 Relating to: interfering with a signal transmitted by a global positioning system and providing a penalty.

Date of enactment: March 26, 2008
2007 Assembly Bill 597 Date of publication*: April 9, 2008

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2005-06 : 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 as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

2007 WISCONSIN ACT 181

An Act to amend 946.465 of the statutes; relating to: interfering with a signal transmitted by a global positioning system and providing a penalty.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1 . 946.465 of the statutes, as created by 2005 Wisconsin Act 431 , is amended to read:

946.465 Tampering with a global positioning system tracking device. Whoever, without the authorization of the department of corrections, intentionally tampers with , or blocks, diffuses, or prevents the clear reception of, a signal transmitted by, a global positioning system tracking device or comparable technology that is provided under s. 301.48 is guilty of a Class I felony.