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2025 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 949 - Awards for the victims of crimes.
949.03 - Compensable acts.

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WI Stat § 949.03 (2025)
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949.03 Compensable acts. The department may order the payment of an award for personal injury or death which results from:

NOTE: Section 949.03 (intro.) is shown as renumbered from sub. (1) (intro.) by the legislative reference bureau under s. 13.92 (1) (bm) 2.

(1m) Preventing or attempting to prevent the commission of a crime; apprehending or attempting to apprehend a suspected criminal; aiding or attempting to aid a police officer to apprehend or arrest a suspected criminal; aiding or attempting to aid a victim of a crime specified in sub. (2); or aiding or attempting to aid a victim of the crime specified and the condition provided in sub. (4).

NOTE: Sub. (1m) is shown as renumbered from sub. (1) (a) by the legislative reference bureau under s. 13.92 (1) (bm) 2. The cross-references to sub. (2) and sub. (4) were changed from par. (b) and par. (c) by the legislative reference bureau under s. 13.92 (1) (bm) 2. to reflect the renumbering under s. 13.92 (1) (bm) 2. of s. 949.03 (1) (a).

(2) The commission or the attempt to commit any crime specified in s. 346.62 (4), 346.63 (2) or (6), 940.01, 940.02, 940.03, 940.05, 940.06, 940.07, 940.08, 940.09, 940.10, 940.21, 940.22 (2), 940.225, 940.23, 940.235, 940.24, 940.25, 940.285, 940.29, 940.30, 940.302 (2), 940.305, 940.31, 940.32, 940.60, 940.61, 940.62, 940.66, 941.327, 942.09, 943.02, 943.03, 943.04, 943.10, 943.20, 943.231 (1), 943.32, 943.81, 943.86, 943.87, 947.016 (1), (2), or (3), 948.02, 948.025, 948.03, 948.04, 948.05, 948.051, 948.06, 948.07, 948.075, 948.08, 948.085, 948.09, 948.095, 948.20, 948.21 (1), 948.30, or 948.51 or s. 940.19, 2023 stats., s. 940.198, 2023 stats., s. 940.20, 2023 stats., s. 940.201, 2023 stats., or s. 940.204, 2023 stats.

NOTE: Sub. (2) is shown as renumbered from sub. (1) (b) by the legislative reference bureau under s. 13.92 (1) (bm) 2.

(3) The commission or the attempt to commit abuse described in s. 48.02 (1) (g).

NOTE: Sub. (3) is shown as renumbered from sub. (1) (bn) by the legislative reference bureau under s. 13.92 (1) (bm) 2.

(4) The commission or the attempt to commit the crime specified in s. 346.67 (1) if the victim was a pedestrian, a person riding a bicycle, or a person in a buggy.

NOTE: Sub. (4) is shown as renumbered from sub. (1) (c) by the legislative reference bureau under s. 13.92 (1) (bm) 2.

History: 1975 c. 224 s. 145za; 1975 c. 344; 1977 c. 173, 239; 1979 c. 118; 1983 a. 199, 356, 538; 1985 a. 275; 1985 a. 293 s. 3; 1985 a. 306 s. 5; 1987 a. 90, 332, 380, 399, 403; 1989 a. 105, 140, 359; 1993 a. 92, 227; 1995 a. 153, 374, 456; 1997 a. 35, 143, 258; 2001 a. 109; 2005 a. 212, 277; 2007 a. 97, 116; 2011 a. 271; 2013 a. 362; 2015 a. 350; 2021 a. 76, 209; 2023 a. 10; 2025 a. 24 s. 93; s. 13.92 (1) (bm) 2.

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