At Issue
Recently Passed Legislation
Recently passed legislation is a feature of the At Issue column in
response to your requests for more information on new laws. Summaries of
1997 Acts 61 - 83 appeared in the May 1998 Wisconsin Lawyer at
page 26; summaries of 1997 Acts 84 - 136 appeared in the June 1998 issue
at page 52. Due to the volume of legislation passed during the regular
and special sessions, legislative summaries appear in multiple
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* - Publication date statutory note
Water and sewage systems
on certain farmland, and financing methods
Publication date*:May 12, 1998
Relating to: The authority of towns and town sanitary
districts to levy special assessments for water and sewage systems on
certain farmland, and the methods used by cities, villages, towns, and
metropolitan sewerage districts to finance sewerage projects and
granting rule-making authority.
Regulating cigarette and tobacco products
Publication date*:May 12, 1998
Relating to: Cigarette and tobacco products retailer license
fees, restrictions on the sale of cigarettes or tobacco products from a
vending machine and granting rule-making authority.
Certified capital company programs
Publication date*:May 12, 1998
Relating to: Creating a certified capital company program
for companies that make certain types of investments, providing tax
credits to persons who make certain investments in certified capital
companies, granting rule-making authority and making an
appropriation.
Effective date: This act takes effect on July 1, 1999.
Personnel Commission authority
Publication date*:May 12, 1998
Relating to: The authority of the personnel commission to
receive and process complaints relating to family or medical leave, and
appeals to the personnel commission of delegatory actions taken by an
appointing authority (suggested as remedial legislation by the personnel
commission).
Rabies vaccinations of dogs
Publication date*:May 12, 1998
Relating to: Rabies vaccination of dogs.
Public service commission enforcement of interconnection agreements,
user protection of telecommunication services
Publication date*:May 12, 1998
Relating to: Enforcement of interconnection agreements by
the public service commission, protections for users of certain
telecommunication services, granting rule-making authority and providing
a penalty.
Effective date: This act takes effect on Jan. 1, 1999.
Prohibiting certain partial-birth abortions
Publication date*:May 13, 1998
Relating to: Prohibiting performance of certain
partial-birth abortions, imposing civil liability for the performance of
certain partial-birth abortions and providing a penalty.
Sexual assault and "date rape" controlled substances
Publication date*:May 13, 1998
Relating to: Sexual assault, the controlled substance
flunitrazepam, making ketamine, gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, and
gamma-hydroxybutyrolactone controlled substances and providing
penalties.
Dental services provided by
the Marquette University School of Dentistry
Publication date*:May 13, 1998
Relating to: The provision of dental services by the
Marquette University School of Dentistry.
Effective date: This act takes effect retroactively to July
1, 1997.
Tuition grants awarded by the higher education aids board
Publication date*:May 13, 1998
Relating to: Increasing the maximum amount of tuition grants
awarded by the higher educational aids board.
Initial applicability: This act first applies to tuition
grants awarded for the 1998-99 academic year.
Police relief associations
Publication date*:May 13, 1998
Relating to: Various changes in the provisions regarding
police relief associations.
Property sold due to delinquent property taxes
Publication date*:May 13, 1998
Relating to: Deductions from the sales price of property
that is sold because of delinquent property taxes.
Initial applicability: This act first applies to sales of
property the taxes on which become delinquent on the effective date of
this subsection.
Educational requirements for residential and licensed
appraisers
Publication date*:May 13, 1998
Relating to: Experience and continuing education
requirements for certified general and residential appraisers and
licensed appraisers and granting rule-making authority.
Downer Woods on the U.W. - Milwaukee campus
Publication date*:May 13, 1998
Relating to: Downer Woods on the campus of the University of
Wisconsin - Milwaukee.
Mutual insurance holding companies
- 1997 Wisconsin Act 227
- 1997 Assembly Bill 773
Publication date*:May 13, 1998
Relating to: Formation of mutual insurance holding
companies, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority and making an
appropriation.
School aid distribution schedule
Publication date*:May 13, 1998
Relating to: The school aid distribution schedule.
Regulating water or sewer service to mobile home parks
Publication date*:May 13, 1998
Relating to: Regulating water or sewer service provided to
occupants of mobile home parks, providing an exemption form emergency
rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation
and providing a penalty.
Effective dates: This act takes effect on the first day of
the 12th month beginning after publication, except as follows: SECTION
22 (1) of this act takes effect on the day after publication.
Electronic filing of certain campaign finance reports
Publication date*:May 13, 1998
Relating to: Electronic filing of certain campaign finance
reports with the elections board, requiring the exercise of rule-making
authority, use of information copied from campaign finance reports and
statements, providing a penalty and making an appropriation.
Confidentiality of health-care information
Publication date*:May 13, 1998
Relating to: Collection, analysis and dissemination of
health-care information by the department of health and family services,
confidentiality of patient health-care records, health-care provider
confidentiality, storage and disposal of documents containing medical
and financial information, membership of the board on health-care
information, authorizing disclosure of personal medical information to
an insurer, disclosure by an insurer of personal medical information,
granting rule-making authority, providing a penalty and making
appropriations.
Effective dates: This act takes effect on the day after
publication, except as follows: The treatment of sections 51.30 (4) (a),
146.82 (2) (b) and 610.70 of the statutes takes effect on the first day
of the 13th month beginning after publication.
Release of a person convicted of a misdemeanor pending appeal
Publication date*:May 13, 1998
Relating to: Release of a person convicted of a misdemeanor
pending appeal.
Initial applicability: This act first applies to offenses
committed on the effective date of this subsection.
Powers of attorney
Publication date*:May 13, 1998
Relating to: Powers of attorney.
Food stamps for qualified aliens
Publication date*: June 8, 1998
Relating to: Food stamps for qualified aliens and making an
appropriation.
Budget bill adjustments
Publication date*: June 16, 1998
Relating to: Creating a compensation plan for certain senior
executive positions at the U.W. System; transferring from the department
of workforce development to the department of commerce the
administration of the housing design and construction requirements of
the fair housing law; wage claim enforcement; providing an exception to
the law prohibiting discrimination in public places of accommodation to
permit a domestic abuse services organization to provide separate
services for persons of different sexes and to provide for separate
treatment of persons based on sex with regard to the provision of those
services; exempting multilevel multifamily housing without elevators
from the multifamily housing accessibility law; employer notification of
employees, retirees, and dependents of cessation of health-care
benefits; a Wisconsin promise challenge grant program; a grant for a
distance education center; a grant for a business conference center;
grants for revolving loan funds for economic development; loans for
renovation of buildings, purchase of land, buildings, machinery or
equipment or construction of buildings; a grant for historic theater
renovation; tourism marketing; the rural economic development program;
grants for supplier training and a technology transfer program;
administration of brownfields redevelopment activities; use of penalty
revenues under the physician and health-care provider loan assistance
programs; transferring from the department of health and family services
to the department of corrections the responsibility for establishing and
collecting fees for juvenile correctional services provided by the
department of corrections; compensation to counties for providing crime
victim and witness services; parental liability for guardian ad litem
fees in juvenile court proceedings; payments to counties for guardian ad
litem fees; increasing the per diem payments made to temporary reserve
judges; time limits for prosecution of crimes against children; allowing
victims to attend and make statements at parole interviews or hearings;
requirements for promotion from 4th grade to 5th grade and from 8th
grade to 9th grade; responsibility for providing a free appropriate
public education to children with disabilities; grants to teachers who
are certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards;
creating a grant program for peer review and mentoring of teachers;
counting of suspensions, conviction and revocations related to driving
while intoxicated and ignition interlock devices; determining the amount
appropriated as general school aid; the family practice residency
program of the Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc.; grants to certain
school districts for telecommunications access awarded by the technology
for educational achievement in Wisconsin board; the issuance of
alternative teaching permits and teaching licenses; the Wisconsin
Humanities Council; funding for the Wisconsin sesquicentennial
commission; court reporter fees; changing the name of the two-year
campuses in the U.W. System; administrative expenses of the
environmental education board; revising dispute settlement procedures in
local government employment other than law enforcement and fire fighting
employment; training services provided by the department of employment
relations; the nonpoint source water pollution abatement program;
classifying state probation and parole officers as protective occupation
participants for the purposes of the Wisconsin retirement system; the
dry cleaner environmental response program; immunity from liability for
handling petroleum-contaminated soil on a highway improvement project;
deadlines for the land recycling loan program; hazardous waste disposal
facilities; voluntary party liability for cleaning up property that is
contaminated with hazardous substances and that was acquired from a
local governmental unit; petroleum discharge cleanups; tire waste
cleanup; a study of landfill cleanups; arbitration of appeals under the
petroleum storage remedial action program; soil and water resource
management; funding for a nonpoint source water pollution abatement
project; clean water fund program federal financial hardship assistance;
the authority of the department of agriculture, trade and consumer
protection to prohibit the use of atrazine in a specified area in the
town of North Lancaster, Grant County; administrative forfeitures for
violations of safe drinking water rules; a grant to the Milwaukee Public
Museum; providing community aids funding for Milwaukee County; the
contribution required of Milwaukee County for child welfare services
provided in Milwaukee County; child welfare, children in out-of-home
care, termination of parental rights and adoption; criminal history and
abuse record searches of operators, employees and nonclient residents of
certain entities that provide care for children or adults; a child's
first book initiative; prohibitions on funding for pregnancy programs,
projects or services that conduct abortion-related activities; proposed
legislation to establish a new long-term care system for services to
elderly and adult disabled individuals; authorizing increase of the
statewide nursing home bed limit for the partial conversion of a
hospital; minimum daily hours of service in nursing homes for certain
nursing home residents; requirements for nursing home reports;
requesting an audit; assessing hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers
for costs, after July 1, 1999, of collection of health-care data; a
pilot project for management of long-term care programs; violations of
statutes and rules by nursing homes; authorizing counties to contract
for health and social services on a prepaid or postpaid, per capita
basis; care required and provided in adult family homes, community-based
residential facilities and nursing homes; critical access hospitals;
prohibiting reimbursement of the Marquette University School of
Dentistry for providing dental services in the Southside Guadalupe
Dental Clinic and requiring reimbursement for providing dental services
in any other clinic in the city of Milwaukee; inclusion of stepparents
in the badger care program; the submittal date for a report on the
future of the state centers for the developmentally disabled;
eliminating the monthly reimbursement limit on community options program
services for medical assistance recipients; transferring medical
assistance funds to the community options program because of decreased
nursing home bed use; neonatal intensive care unit training grants;
medical assistance eligibility for working recipients of supplemental
security income; supplemental payments to supplemental security income
recipients; medical assistance outreach; eliminating the requirement for
an annual report on access to obstetric and pediatric services under the
medical assistance program; interim assistance for applicants of
supplemental security income; provision of information necessary for the
administration of child support and economic support programs;
specialized medical vehicles; electronic benefits transfer under the
food stamp program; issuing new and redesigned registration plates for
certain vehicles registered by the department of transportation; highway
lighting for certain USH 10 interchanges; county administration of
public assistance records; exempting certain health insurance policies
from coverage requirements related to temporomandibular disorders
treatment and certain charges for dental care; placing a limit on
coverage of temporomandibular disorders treatment; allowing a prior
authorization requirement for treatment of temporomandibular disorders;
disclosure and use of information about newly hired employees for
delinquent tax collection purposes; guaranteed renewability of
individual health benefit plans; an exemption from renewability
requirements for short-term insurance; requirements for managed care
plans; coverage of prescription drugs and devices; limited coverage of
experimental treatment; modification to eligibility for coverage under
the health insurance risk-sharing plan without preexisting condition
exclusion; the transportation and sale of fish; private fishing
preserves; fish farms; hunting of small game in state parks, fees
collected for certain fishing approvals issued by the Lac du Flambeau
band of the Lake Superior Chippewa; the Southeastern Wisconsin Fox River
commission; fees for snowmobile trail use stickers; the wildlife damage
abatement and wildlife damage claim program; the transportation
facilities economic assistance program; snowmobile trail maintenance
aids; county forest administrator grants; eligibility for the managed
forest land program; identification of the ordinary high-water mark of
certain lakes; benefits payable and contributions permitted under the
Wisconsin retirement system; payment and performance assurance
requirements for public works projects; state interfund borrowing
limitations; transfers from the general fund to the property tax relief
fund; a plan to adjust appropriations to the department of
transportation to eliminate any projected deficit in the transportation
fund; grants for recycling of computers and wheelchairs; studying the
future of the Wisconsin School for the Visually Handicapped; creating an
individual income tax deduction for amounts paid for certain higher
education costs; the penalty provision for premature sales or transfers
of business assets or assets used in farming that were received from
family members; taxation of nonresident gambling winnings at Native
American casinos in Wisconsin; offsetting an individual's manufacturer's
sales tax credit against the individual's alternative minimum tax
liability; lowering the individual income tax rates; division of town
sanitary district assets and indiliabilities; disciplinary procedures
for law enforcement officers in first class cities; changing the income
tax standard deduction for dependents; Menominee County management
review issues; the income tax and franchise tax credit for sales taxes
paid on fuel and electricity used in manufacturing; the mining tax;
using certain surpluses in the general fund to fund a change in the
school property tax credit; defining the Internal Revenue Code for state
income and franchise tax purposes; a property tax exemption for
computers; creating a sales tax and use tax exemption for admissions to
county fairs; state aid payments to municipalities; changes to the
financing of certain tax incremental districts; a motor vehicle fuel tax
exemption; a sales tax and use tax exemption for certain commodities;
board of review procedures; discontinuing the property tax exemption for
nuclear shelters; information on tax warrants; liability for sales
taxes; property tax procedures; the motor vehicle rental fee; the sales
tax exemption for auctions; the sales tax on calling cards; creating a
tax amnesty program; increasing the department of revenue's ability to
collect delinquent taxes; the food that is subject to the sales tax;
denying, suspending and revoking licenses and similar documents to
persons who owe delinquent taxes or fail to reveal their social security
numbers or federal employer identification numbers; discontinuation of
the adult entertainment tax; issuing regular operator's licenses to
drivers licensed to operate certain noncommercial vehicles in another
country; weight limitations for vehicles and combinations of vehicles
transporting bulk potatoes; traffic regulations at railroad crossings;
specific information signs along STH 172; installing traffic control
signals in the city of Greenfield; the transportation infrastructure
loan program; law enforcement agency access to photographs of applicants
for operators' licenses and identification cards; directional signs
along I 39 for the Korean War Memorial; an alternative traffic violation
and registration pilot program; administration of a national guard youth
program; helicopter support services; the maximum allowable veterans
home loan; transferring employees at the legislative reference bureau
into the unclassified service of the state; the touring exhibit of the
Wisconsin state capitol; subsistence grants to veterans; retention of
special counsel to prosecute certain actions with respect to the
boundaries of the Indian reservations located in this state and the
rights of non-Indians owning property within those reservations;
repealing the repeal of the pharmacy internship board; renaming the
integrated legislative information system staff; release to certain
persons of the address of a Wisconsin works participant; participation
of cooperative educational service agencies in educational
telecommunications access program; occupational taxes imposed on bingo
receipts; grants to private schools under the educational
telecommunications access program; contributions to the universal
service fund by certain telecommunications utilities; changing conflict
of interest provisions and lottery participation restrictions that
affect certain employees of the department of revenue; breast cancer
screening; allocation of space in the state capitol for the capitol
press corps; administration of vaccines by pharmacists; granting
rule-making authority; providing an exemption from emergency rule
procedures; providing an exemption from rule-making procedures; granting
and decreasing bonding authority; making and decreasing appropriations;
and providing penalties.
Effective dates: Various effective dates for many different
sections. Please refer to Act 237.
Charter schools and the Wisconsin retirement system
Publication date*: June 17, 1998
Relating to: Charter schools and the Wisconsin retirement
system.
Compulsory school attendance
Publication date*: June 17, 1998
Relating to: Compulsory school attendance, truancy, habitual
truancy, the penalties for contributing to truancy, truancy planning
committees and school district truancy plans.
School district and cooperative educational
service agency reporting requirements
Publication date*: June 17, 1998
Relating to: Eliminating some of the school district and
cooperative educational service agency reporting requirements and
granting rule-making authority.
Effective date: This act takes effect on July 1, 1998.
Counties and municipalities that may participate in proposed
landfill or hazardous waste facility negotiation
Publication date*: June 17, 1998
Relating to: The counties and municipalities that may
participate in negotiation and arbitration concerning a proposed
landfill or hazardous waste facility and the number of members on a
local negotiating committee.
Sport shooting range immunity and responsibilities
Publication date*: June 17, 1998
Relating to: Sport shooting range immunity and
responsibilities.
Recovered materials and used engine oil filter recycling
Publication date*: June 17, 1998
Relating to: Recovered materials and the recycling of used
engine oil filters.
Annual school and school district performance reports
Publication date*: June 17, 1998
Relating to: Information included in the annual school and
school district performance reports.
Requirements for driver education courses
Publication date*: June 17, 1998
Relating to: Requirements for driver education courses.
Elections to city, village or town planning commissions
Publication date*: June 17, 1998
Relating to: The election of certain persons to a city,
village or town planning commission.
Composition of land information board
Publication date*: June 17, 1998
Relating to: The composition of the land information
board.
Recodification of fish and game laws
Publication date*: June 17, 1998
Relating to: Recodification of fish and game laws.
Effective date: This act takes effect on Jan. 1, 1999.
Changes to hunting and fishing regulations
Publication date*: June 17, 1998
Relating to: Various changes to hunting and fishing
regulations and granting rule-making authority.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the day after
publication, except as follows:
(1) The repeal and recreation of section 29.09 (1m) of the statutes
takes effect on Jan. 1, 1999.
Two-digit date prefix on forms
Publication date*: June 18, 1998
Relating to: The two-digit date prefix specified on forms
(Revisor's Correction Bill).
Reinstating a time limitation and notice provision to 1997 AB
261
Publication date*: June 18, 1998
Relating to: Reinstating a time limitation and notice
provision created by 1997 Wisconsin Act .... (1997 Assembly Bill 261)
that was unintentionally repealed by 1997 Wisconsin Act .... (1997
Senate Bill 384) (Revisor's Correction Bill).
Revising statutes to correct errors
Publication date*: June 18, 1998
Relating to: Repealing, consolidating, renumbering, amending
and revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of
correcting errors, supplying omissions, correcting and clarifying
references, eliminating defects, anachronisms, conflicts, ambiguities
and obsolete provisions, deleting, reconciling conflicts and repelling
unintended repeals (Revisor's Correction Bill).
Revising statutes to correct errors
Publication date*: June 18, 1998
Relating to: Repealing, consolidating, renumbering, amending
and revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of
correcting errors, supplying omissions, correcting and clarifying
references, and eliminating defects, anachronisms, conflicts,
ambiguities and obsolete provisions (Revision Bill).
Revising statutes to correct errors
Publication date*: June 18, 1998
Relating to: Repealing, consolidating, renumbering, amending
and revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of
correcting errors, supplying omissions, correcting and clarifying
references and eliminating defects, anachronisms, conflicts, ambiguities
and obsolete provisions (section 13.93 (2) (j) Revision Bill).
Special distinguishing registration plates
Publication date*: June 18, 1998
Relating to: Special distinguishing registration plates,
payments to authorized special groups, granting rule-making authority
and making an appropriation.
Family day care centers
Publication date*: June 22, 1998
Relating to: A parent's right to know certain information
about a family day care center and the posting and making available to
parents of reports and notices of violations by family day care
centers.
Appointing a person as a village trustee or common council
member
Publication date*: June 22, 1998
Relating to: The appointment of a person to act as a village
trustee or common council member.
Removing disabled vehicles, debris and obstructions from freeways
and expressways and stopping after a motor vehicle accident
Publication date*: June 22, 1998
Relating to: Removal of disabled vehicles, accident debris
and other obstructions from freeways and expressways and stopping after
a motor vehicle accident.
Temporary Class B licenses
Publication date*: June 19, 1998 (revised)
Relating to: Temporary "Class B" licenses.
Mattress, upholstered spring, comforter, pad, cushion,
or pillow for sleeping or reclining
Publication date*: June 22, 1998
Relating to: The manufacture, distribution and sale in this
state of any mattress, upholstered spring, comforter, pad, cushion, or
pillow designed and manufactured for the purpose of sleeping or
reclining and providing a penalty.
Effective date: This act takes effect on Jan. 1, 1999.
Regulating music, art and dance therapists
Publication date*: June 22, 1998
Relating to: The regulation of music, art, and dance
therapists, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty.
Effective dates: This act takes effect on the first day of
the 6th month beginning after publication, except as follows:
(1) The treatment of sections 440.03 (14) (c) and 440.08 (2) (a) 67q.
of the statutes takes effect on Oct. 2, 1999.
Retail theft
Publication date*: June 22, 1998
Relating to: Retail theft.
Real estate brokers
Publication date*: June 22, 1998
Relating to: The role and definition of a real estate
broker.
The farm mediation and arbitration and the farmer assistance
programs, exit from and entry into dairy industry
Publication date*: June 23, 1998
Relating to: The farm mediation and arbitration program, the
farmer assistance program, exit from and entry into the dairy industry
and granting rule-making authority.
Security interests in growing crops
Publication date*: June 23, 1998
Relating to: Security interests in growing crops.
Violent crimes against elder persons
Publication date*: June 24, 1998
Relating to: Committing certain violent crimes against an
elder person and providing a penalty.
Operating snowmobiles near persons not on snowmobiles
Publication date*: June 24, 1998
Relating to: Operation of snowmobiles in proximity to
persons not on snowmobiles.
Authorizing certain county community programs, boards,
and directors to govern and operate an entity to operate
a mental health-related facility
Publication date*: June 24, 1998
Relating to: Authorizing certain county community programs,
boards, and certain county community programs directors, together with
private or public organizations or affiliations, to organize, establish,
and participate in the governance and operation of an entity to operate
a mental health-related service.
Exempting wood harvesting slashers from vehicle registration
Publication date*: June 24, 1998
Relating to: Exempting wood harvesting slashers from vehicle
registration and granting rule-making authority.
Notices of proposals by American Indian tribal governments to
redesignate areas for air quality purposes
Publication date*: June 24, 1998
Relating to: Notices concerning proposals by American Indian
tribal governing bodies to redesignate areas for air quality
purposes.
Criminal invasion of privacy
Publication date*: June 24, 1998
Relating to: Criminal invasion of privacy and providing a
penalty.
Access by a child's substitute care provider to information
about the child that is necessary to care for the child
Publication date*: June 24, 1998
Relating to: Access by a child's substitute care provider to
medical information concerning the child that is necessary for the care
of the child, the child's religious affiliation or belief and
information relating to any involvement of the child in any sexual
abuse, in any criminal gang or in any other group in which any child was
traumatized as a result of his or her association with that group or in
any activities that are harmful to the child.
Granting credit against child or family support
Publication date*: June 24, 1998
Relating to: Granting credit against child or family
support.
Minimum percentage of recycled fiber in newsprint and
the newspaper recycling fee
Publication date*: June 25, 1998
Relating to: The specified minimum percentage of
postconsumer fiber contained in newsprint and the newspaper recycling
fee.
Supervision and placement of persons who commit certain sex
offenses
Publication date*: June 25, 1998
Relating to: Lifetime supervision for persons who commit
certain sex offenses, restrictions on the placement of persons released
on parole for certain serious sex offenses and of sexually violent
persons who are granted supervised release, granting rule-making
authority and providing a penalty.
Effective dates: This act takes effect on the day after
publication, except as follows:
(1p) The repeal and recreation of section 939.615 (3) (b) of the
statutes takes effect on Dec. 31, 1999.
Committing a serious sex crime while infected with HIV
Publication date*: June 25, 1998
Relating to: Committing a serious sex crime while infected
with human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or
a sexually transmitted disease and providing a penalty.
Penalties for certain traffic offenses committed where persons
working on a utility facility are at risk from traffic
Publication date*: June 25, 1998
Relating to: Penalties for certain traffic offenses
committed where persons working on a utility facility are at risk from
traffic, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the first day of
the 4th month beginning after publication.
Tampering with farm equipment hour meters
Publication date*: June 25, 1998
Relating to: Tampering with hour meters of farm equipment and
providing a penalty.
Effective dates: This act takes effect on the day after publication,
except as follows:
(1) The treatment of section 100.48 (3) and (4) (b) of the statutes,
the amendment of section 100.48 (4) (a) of the statutes and Section 3
(2) of this act take effect on the first day of the 7th month beginning
after publication.
Sale or return or consignment sales under the UCC
Publication date*: June 25, 1998
Relating to: "Sale or return" or consignment sales under the
uniform commercial code.
Statutory rape prosecution pilot program, nursing home
forfeitures
Publication date*: June 25, 1998
Relating to: A statutory rape prosecution pilot program,
nursing home forfeitures and making an appropriation.
Effective dates; health and family services: This act takes
effect on July 1, 1998, or the day after publication, whichever is
later, except as follows:
(1) Statutory rape prosecution pilot program.
The repeal of section 20.435 (3) (c) of the statutes takes effect on
July 1, 2000.
Prohibiting day care licensure, certification, and employment
of persons adjudicated delinquent after age 12
Publication date*: June 25, 1998
Relating to: Prohibiting a person who has been adjudicated
delinquent on or after his or her 12th birthday for committing a serious
crime from day care licensure, certification, employment, contracting,
or residence.
Effective date: This act takes effect on Oct. 1, 1998, or on
the day after publication, whichever is later.
Transportation project plats
Publication date*: June 25, 1998
Relating to: Transportation project plats.
Sentences for felony offenses, parole, extended supervision,
and creating a criminal penalties study commission
Publication date*: June 29, 1998
Relating to: Sentences for felony offenses, parole, extended
supervision, creating a criminal penalties study committee, granting
rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing
penalties.
Effective dates: This act takes effect on the day after
publication, except as follows:
(1) Increase in felony penalties. The treatment of sections 11.61 (1)
(a) and (b), 12.60 (1) (a), 13.05, 13.06, 13.69 (6m), 23.33 (13) (cg),
26.14 (8), 29.99 (1) (c), (1m) (c), (11m) (a) and (11p) (a), 30.80 (2g)
(b), (c) and (d) and (3m), 36.25 (6) (d), 47.03 (3) (d), 49.127 (8) (a)
2., (b) 2. and (c), 49.141 (7) (a) and (b), (9) (a) and (b) and (10)
(b), 49.49 (1) (b) 1., (2) (a) and (b), (3), (3m) (b) and (4) (b), 49.95
(1), 51.15 (12), 55.06 (11) (am), 66.4025 (1) (b) and (c), 69.24 (1)
(intro.), 70.47 (18) (a), 71.83 (2) (b), 86.192 (4), 97.43 (4), 97.45
(2), 100.17(7)(b), 100.26 (2), (5) and (7), 101.143 (10) (b), 101.94 (8)
(b), 102.835 (11) and (18), 102.85 (3), 108.225 (11) and (18), 114.20
(18) (c), 125.075 (2), 125.085 (3) (a) 2., 125.105 (2) (b), 125.66 (3),
125.68 (12) (b) and (c), 132.20 (2), 133.03 (1) and (2), 134.05 (4),
134.16, 134.20 (1) (intro.), 134.205 (4), 134.58, 139.44 (1), (1m), (2)
and (8) (c), 139.95 (2) and (3), 146.345 (3), 146.35 (5), 146.60 (9)
(am), 146.70 (10) (a), 154.15 (2), 154.29 (2), 166.20 (11) (b) 1. and
2., 167.10 (9) (g), 175.20 (3), 180.0129 (2), 181.0129 (2), 185.825,
200.09 (2), 214.93, 215.12 (6) (b), 215.12, 215.21 (21), 218.21 (7),
220.06 (2), 221.0625 (2) (intro.), 221.0636 (2), 221.0637 (2), 221.1004
(2), 253.06 (4) (b), 285.87 (2) (b), 291.97 (2) (b) (intro.) and (c),
299.53 (4) (c) 2., 302.095 (2), 341.605 (3), 342.06 (2), 342.065 (4)
(b), 342.155 (4) (b), 342.156 (6) (b), 342.30 (3) (a), 342.32 (3),
344.48 (2), 346.17 (3) (a), (b), (c) and (d), 346.65 (5), 346.74 (5)
(b), (c) and (d), 350.11 (2m), 446.07, 447.09, 450.11 (9) (b), 450.14
(5), 450.15 (2), 551.58 (1), 552.19 (1), 553.52 (1) and (2), 562.13 (3)
and (4), 565.50 (2) and (3), 601.64 (4), 641.19 (4) (a) and (b), 765.30
(1) (intro.) and (2) (intro.), 768.07, 783.07, 939.50 (3) (b), (bc),
(c), (d) and (e), 946.85 (1), 961.41 (1) (a), (b), (cm) 1., 2., 3., 4.
and 5., (d) 1., 2., 3., 4., 5. and 6., (e) 1., 2., 3., 4., 5. and 6.,
(f) 1., 2. and 3., (g) 1., 2. and 3., (h) 1., 2. and 3., (i) and (j),
(1m) (a), (b), (cm) 1., 2., 3., 4. and 5., (d) 1., 2., 3., 4., 5. and
6., (e) 1., 2., 3., 4., 5. and 6., (f) 1., 2. and 3., (g) 1., 2. and 3.,
(h) 1., 2. and 3., (i) and (j), (1n) (c), (2) (a), (b), (c) and (d),
(3g) (a) 1. and 2. and (4) (am) 3., 961.42 (2), 961.43 (2), 961.455 (1),
968.31 (1) (intro.), 968.34 (3), 968.43 (3) and 977.06 (2) (b) of the
statutes and section 455 (1) of this act take effect on Dec. 31,
1999.
(2) Miscellaneous provisions. The repeal and recreation of sections
302.11 (1) and 304.06 (1) (b) of the statutes takes effect on Sept. 1,
1998.
Pharmacological treatment for certain child sex offenders
Publication date*: June 29, 1998
Relating to: Pharmacological treatment for persons convicted
of certain child sex offenses and certain persons found to be sexually
violent persons, affecting parole and making an appropriation.
Effective date: This act takes effect on Jan. 1, 1999.
Forfeitures of property used to commit certain crimes
Publication date*: June 29, 1998
Relating to: Forfeiture of property used to commit certain
crimes and court fees in property forfeiture proceedings.
Redrawing school district boundaries
Publication date*: June 29, 1998
Relating to: Procedures to create a school district out of
the territory of one or more existing school districts and information
provided to persons filing a petition for a referendum on the detachment
of large territory from one school district and its attachment to
another school district.
Publication of noxious weeds notice
Publication date*: June 29, 1998
Relating to: The publication of a noxious weeds notice by a
city, village, or town.
Changing rental unit energy efficiency requirements
Publication date*: June 29, 1998
Relating to: Changing rental unit energy efficiency
requirements and creating a procedure for issuing citations for failure
to comply with existing stipulations relating to rental unit energy
efficiency requirements.
Effective dates: This act takes effect on the day after
publication, except as follows:
(1) The treatment of sections 101.122 (7) (e) and 778.25 (1) (a) 7.,
(b) and (c), (2) (intro.) and (b) and (3) of the statutes takes effect
on the first day of the 6th month beginning after publication.
Remedial legislation by the department of corrections
Publication date*: June 29, 1998
Relating to: Fiscal responsibilities of the department of
corrections and the disposal of property belonging to prisoners and
inmates under the supervision of the department of corrections;
standards for delivery of health services in state correctional
institutions; and discharge of persons from probation (suggested as
remedial legislation by the department of corrections).
Remedial legislation by the director of state courts
Publication date*: June 29, 1998
Relating to: The location of refusal hearings, the citation
procedure used for certain violations, judgments regarding minors and
interference with custody of a nonmarital child (suggested as remedial
legislation by the director of state courts).
Remedial legislation by the department of revenue
Publication date*: June 29, 1998
Relating to: The forms used to claim motor vehicle fuel tax
refunds; replacing obsolete references to "special fuel" and "motor
fuel"; authorizing the department of revenue to give seized cigarettes
to law enforcement officers for use in criminal investigations; seized
alcohol beverages; unpaid installments of the estate tax; garnishment of
earnings by debtors; the place of trial for criminal violations of
certain income and franchise tax provisions; the statute of limitations
for income taxes and franchise taxes; income tax information returns;
and defining "one month" for the sales tax on certain rentals (suggested
as remedial legislation by the department of revenue).
Effective dates: This act takes effect on the day after
publication, except as follows:
(1) Income tax information returns. The treatment of sections 71.65
(2) (b) and (5), 71.70 (1) and (2), 71.72 and 71.73 (2) of the statutes
takes effect on Jan. 1, 1999.
Protecting fetus from mother's drug or alcohol abuse
- 1997 Wisconsin Act 292
- 1997 Assembly Bill 463
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: Unborn children who are at substantial risk of
serious physical injury due to the habitual lack of self-control of
their expectant mothers in the use of alcohol beverages, controlled
substances, or controlled substance analogs, exhibited to a severe
degree and priority for pregnant women for private treatment for alcohol
or other drug abuse.
Child abuse and neglect prevention program
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: Creating a child abuse and neglect prevention
program, medical assistance for certain case management services, child
abuse and neglect prevention and early childhood family education center
grants awarded by the child abuse and neglect prevention board, training
programs and training requirements for staff of county departments or
licensed child welfare agencies under contract with county departments
whose responsibilities include investigation or treatment of child abuse
and neglect and making appropriations.
Effective dates: This act takes effect on the day after
publication, except as follows:
(1) The repeal and recreation of section 25.67 (2) (a) 1. and (b) of
the statutes takes effect on Jan. 1, 1999.
Terminating parental rights over children adjudicated in need of
protection or services and placed outside the home three or more
times
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: Termination of parental rights over a child who
on three or more occasions has been adjudicated to be in need of
protection or services and placed outside his or her home by an order of
the juvenile court due to conditions caused by the parent.
Causing harm or death to a fetus
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: Causing harm or death to an unborn child and
providing penalties.
Holding juveniles in municipal lockup facilities
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: Holding juveniles in municipal lockup
facilities and granting rule-making authority.
Revising the UCC investment securities chapter
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: Revising the investment securities chapter of
the uniform commercial code.
Professional standards council for teachers
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: Creating a professional standards council for
teachers.
Income and franchise taxes
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: Income tax and franchise tax credits for sales
taxes paid on fuel and electricity used in manufacturing, the
apportionment of income for the corporate income tax and franchise tax,
and requiring and permitting the promulgation of rules.
Regulating professional geologists, hydrologists and soil
scientists
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: The regulation of professional geologists,
hydrologists, and soil scientists, creating an examining board of
professional geologists, hydrologists and soil scientists, providing an
exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority
and providing a penalty.
DNR permit guarantee program
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: The permit guarantee program of the department
of natural resources and requiring the exercise of rule-making
authority.
Excluding agricultural transactions from
Wisconsin consumer act provisions
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: Excluding agricultural transactions from
provisions of the Wisconsin consumer act.
* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes
1995-96: 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].
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