254 Relating to: aiding a felon and providing penalties. (FE)

  Date of enactment: April 8, 2014
2013 Assembly Bill 274   Date of publication*: April 9, 2014

* 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."

2013 WISCONSIN ACT 254

An Act to repeal 946.47 (3); to amend 946.47 (1) (intro.); and to create 946.47 (2m) of the statutes; relating to: aiding a felon and providing penalties.

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

Section 1 . 946.47 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

946.47 (1) (intro.) Whoever does either of the following is guilty of a Class I felony may be penalized as provided in sub. (2m) :

Section 2 . 946.47 (2m) of the statutes is created to read:

946.47 (2m) Whoever violates sub. (1) is guilty of the following:

(a) A Class G felony, if the offense committed by the felon being aided is, or would have been if the offense had been committed in this state, any of the following:

1. A Class A, B, C, or D felony.

2. An unclassified felony that is punishable by a sentence of life imprisonment.

(b) A Class I felony, if the offense committed by the felon being aided is, or would have been if the offense had been committed in this state, any of the following:

1. A Class E, F, G, H, or I felony.

2. An unclassified felony that is not punishable by a sentence of life imprisonment.

Section 3 . 946.47 (3) of the statutes is repealed.