13 Relating to: the definition of sexual intercourse for the crime of incest.

Date of enactment: May 21, 2009
2009 Assembly Bill 27 Date of publication*: June 5, 2009

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2007-08 : 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].

2009 WISCONSIN ACT 13

An Act to amend 944.06 of the statutes; relating to: the definition of sexual intercourse for the crime of incest.

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

Section 1 . 944.06 of the statutes is amended to read:

944.06 Incest. Whoever marries or has nonmarital sexual intercourse , as defined in s. 948.01 (6), with a person he or she knows is a blood relative and such relative is in fact related in a degree within which the marriage of the parties is prohibited by the law of this state is guilty of a Class F felony.