Recently Passed Legislation

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Ratifying the 1997-99 District 1199W/United Professionals for Quality Health Care agreement

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 28
• 1997 Senate Bill 343

Publication date*: Nov. 21, 1997

Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the District 1199W/United Professionals for Quality Health Care, SEIU, AFL-CIO, for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employees in the professional patient care collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.

Effective date: This act takes effect on the day following publication, except that those provisions specifically identified as having other effective dates in the agreement covering employees in the professional patient care collective bargaining unit are effective on the dates provided in that agreement.

Elections and ethics boards executive director salaries

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 29
• 1997 Assembly Bill 532

Revised publication date*: Dec. 22, 1997

Relating to: The salaries of the executive directors of the elections board and ethics board.

Republished version: This republished version of 1997 Wis. Act 29 deletes the material previously inserted by Senate Amendment 2. That amendment was originally adopted in the senate on 11/18/97, but was nonconcurred in by the assembly on 11/19/97. The senate receded from its position on Senate Amendment 2 on 11/19/97.

Social security integrated annuity eligibility

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 30
• 1997 Assembly Bill 10

Publication date*: Dec. 30, 1997

Relating to: Eligibility for a social security integrated annuity under the Wisconsin retirement system.

Strobe lights on human service vehicles

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 31
• 1997 Assembly Bill 19

Publication date*: Dec. 30, 1997

Relating to: The use of strobe lights on human service vehicles and granting rule-making authority.

Effective date: This act takes effect on the first day of the 4th month beginning after publication.

Audible signal when overtaking vehicles

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 32
• 1997 Assembly Bill 87

Publication date*: Dec. 30, 1997

Relating to: The requirement of giving audible signal prior to overtaking vehicles to the left.

Vehicle identification numbers

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 33
• 1997 Assembly Bill 96

Publication date*: Dec. 30, 1997

Relating to: Vehicles or vehicle parts having an altered or obliterated vehicle identification number.

Signs along snowmobile trails

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 34
• 1997 Assembly Bill 127

Publication date*: Dec. 30, 1997

Relating to: Regulatory signs along snowmobile trails and routes.

Correcting various statute provisions

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 35
• 1997 Assembly Bill 378

Publication date*: Dec. 30, 1997

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, replacing or otherwise modifying language which discriminates on the basis of sex, reconciling conflicts and repelling unintended repeals (Revisor's Correction Bill).

Effective dates: This act takes effect on the day after publication, except as follows:

(1) The treatment of section 51.15(1)(a)(intro.) (by section 141), (4)(a)(by section144) and (5) (by section147) of the statutes and the repeal and recreation of section 51.20(7)(d) of the statutes take effect on Dec. 1, 2001.

(2) The treatment of sections 48.57(3p)(g)3. And 349.135 of the statutes takes effect on July 1, 1997.

(3) The treatment of section 76.28(4)(intro.) of the statutes takes effect on May 1, 1998.

(4m) The treatment of section 13.48(18) of the statutes takes effect on July 1, 2002, or upon completion of acquisition of property sufficient for the construction of a facility to meet the space needs of the state law library, the legislative reference bureau library and legislative and judicial branch agencies and support staffs.

Correcting various statute provisions

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 36
• 1997 Assembly Bill 380

Publication date*: Dec. 30, 1997

Relating to: Amending and revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of correcting errors, supplying omissions, correcting and clarifying references, eliminating defects, reconciling conflicts and repelling unintended repeals resulting from partial vetoes of legislative acts (Revisor's Correction Bill).

Effective dates: This act takes effect on the day after publication, except as follows:

(1) The treatment of sections 48.57(3p)(g)(intro.) of the statutes takes effect on July 1, 1997.

(2) The repeal and recreation of section 25.61 of the statutes takes effect on July 1, 2000.

Income and franchise tax definitions

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 37
• 1997 Senate Bill 316

Publication date*: Dec. 30, 1997

Relating to: The definition of the internal revenue code for the income tax and the franchise tax.

Worker's compensation law changes

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 38
• 1997 Senate Bill 323

Publication date*: Dec. 30, 1997

Relating to: Various changes to the worker's compensation law.

Effective dates: This act takes effect on Jan. 1, 1998, or on the day after publication whichever is later, except as follows:

(1) OUT-OF-STATE TREATMENT. The repeal and recreation of section 102.42(2)(a) of the statutes and section 48(5)(b) of this act take effect on Jan. 1, 2000.

Unemployment compensation law changes

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 39
• 1997 Senate Bill 327

Publication date*: Dec. 30, 1997

Relating to: Various changes in the unemployment compensation law and related provisions, granting rule-making authority and making appropriations.

Effective dates: This act takes effect on the first Sunday after publication, except as follows:

(1) The treatment of section 20.445(1)(gd)(by section 9) of the statutes takes effect on the date specified in 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, section 9246(1h).

(2) The treatment of section 20.445(1)(gd)(by section 10) of the statues takes effect on July 1, 1999.

(3) The treatment of section 71.80(16)(a)(by section 33) of the statutes takes effect on Jan. 1, 1998.

(4) The treatment of section 108.20(2m)(by section 146) of the statutes takes effect on July 1, 1999.

Ratifying the 1997-99 Wisconsin State Attorneys Association Inc. Agreement

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 40
• 1997 Senate Bill 344

Publication date*: Dec. 19, 1997

Relating to: Ratification of an amendment to the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Attorneys Association Inc., for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employees in the professional legal collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.

Effective date: This act takes effect on the day following publication, except that those provisions specifically identified as having other effective dates in the amendment to the agreement covering employees in the professional legal collective bargaining unit are effective on the dates provided in the amendment.

Appropriation changes to Budget Bill

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 41 (vetoed in part)
• 1997 Senate Bill 362

Publication date*: Dec. 15, 1997

Relating to: The application of the business combination and the control share voting restriction provisions of the business corporation law; dry cleaning fees; nontarget population members; the date by which certain school board resolutions pertaining to the open enrollment programs must be adopted; loans made to school districts by the technology for educational achievement in Wisconsin board; the method for calculating contributions to the universal service fund; use of the universal service fund to make grants to certain school districts for telecommunications access; financial assistance for local recycling programs; funding for a boat landing located on the Wisconsin River in the town of Buena Vista; reports concerning the environmental cooperation pilot program; funding for air and solid and hazardous waste programs; studies of fish in the Great Lakes; eligibility for child care subsidies under the Wisconsin works program; increased funding for the benefit specialist program for older individuals; (vetoed in part) the photographing of a person applying for or receiving kinship care payments, of employees and prospective employees of a person applying for or receiving kinship care payments and of adult residents and prospective adult residents of the home of a person applying for or receiving kinship care payments; eliminating cross-references to the Wisconsin works health plan; computing the aviation fuel tax; a sales tax and use tax exemption for samples of medicine and registration for use tax purposes; the international fuel tax agreement; the department of revenue's expenses to administer the fee on vehicle rentals; directing the department of revenue to not adjust individual income tax withholding tables and making a technical adjustment in the calculation of income tax liability by individual nonresidents and part-year residents of this state; the sales of food by institutions of higher learning; salary-setting authority of certain state bodies; reserve "Class B" intoxicating liquor licenses; the abolishment of the emergency response board; revocation of probation for failure to pay supervision fees owed to the department of corrections; and making an appropriation.

Effective dates; financial institutions: (1) RESIDENT DOMESTIC CORPORATIONS. The treatment of section 180.1130(10m) of the statutes takes effect retroactively to Oct. 14, 1997.

Effective dates; health and family services: (Vetoed in part) (2) KINSHIP CARE PHOTOGRAPH REQUIREMENT. The treatment of section 48.57(3p)(d) of the statutes takes effect on Jan. 1, 1998, or on the day after publication, whichever is later.

Effective dates; legislature: The treatment of section 20.865(4)(u)(by section 3s) of the statutes takes effect on June 30, 1999.

Effective dates; military affairs: EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. The treatment of section 166.215(5) of the statutes takes effect on July 1, 1998.

Effective dates; revenue:

(1) AVIATION FUEL TAX. The treatment of section 78.58(3) of the statutes takes effect on Jan. 1, 1998.

(2) USE TAX REGISTRATION; MEDICINE SAMPLES.

(a) The treatment of section 77.53(9m) of the statutes takes effect on Jan. 1, 1998.

(b) The treatment of section 77.54(14)(f) of the statutes takes effect on Dec. 1, 1997.

Number of persons required on train crews

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 42
• 1997 Assembly Bill 35

Publication date*: Jan. 2, 1998

Relating to: The minimum number of persons required on train crews, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty.

Meals provided by bed and breakfast establishments

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 43
• 1997 Assembly Bill 73

Publication date*: Jan. 2, 1998

Relating to: Providing a waiver from requirements relating to meals provided by bed and breakfast establishments.

Future advances under mortgages

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 44
• 1997 Assembly Bill 243

Publication date*: Jan. 2, 1998

Relating to: Priority of future advances under mortgages.

Parenting class attendance in paternity actions

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 45
• 1997 Assembly Bill 270

Publication date*: Jan. 2, 1998

Relating to: Ordering attendance at parenting classes in paternity actions.

Emission inspections of motor vehicles transferred to spouses

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 46
• 1997 Assembly Bill 343

Publication date*: Jan. 2, 1998

Relating to: Required emissions inspections of motor vehicles transferred to surviving spouses.

Prader-Willi syndrome as a developmental disability

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 47
• 1997 Assembly Bill 403

Publication date*: Jan. 2, 1998

Relating to: Specifying that Prader-Willi syndrome is a developmental disability.

Motor vehicle consumer leases

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 48
• 1997 Assembly Bill 433

Publication date*: Jan. 2, 1998

Relating to: Disclosures for motor vehicle consumer leases, financial responsibility for domestic rented or leased vehicles and the definition of motor vehicle dealer.

Regulating audiologists and speech-language pathologists

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 49
• 1997 Senate Bill 324

Publication date*: Jan. 2, 1998

Relating to: Allowing audiologists to engage in the practice of fitting and selling hearing aids without obtaining a hearing instrument specialist license, continuing education for hearing instrument specialists, audiologists and speech-language pathologists and granting rule-making authority.

Effective dates: This act takes effect on the first day of the 6th month beginning after publication, except as follows: (1) Section 25(1) of this act takes effect on the day after publication.

Ratifying the 1997-99 Teaching Assistants' Association agreement

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 50
• 1997 Senate Bill 359

Publication date*: Dec. 17, 1997

Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Teaching Assistants' Association, AFT, Local 3220, AFL-CIO, for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employees in the program, project and teaching assistants of the UW-Madison and UW-Extension collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.

Effective date: This act takes effect on the day following publication, except that those provisions specifically identified as having other effective dates in the agreement covering employees in the program, project and teaching assistants of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Wisconsin-Extension collective bargaining unit are effective on the dates provided in that agreement.

Assistance to employees who lose health-care coverage

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 51
• 1997 Assembly Bill 11

Publication date*: Jan. 8, 1998

Relating to: Requiring the office of the commissioner of insurance to provide information and technical assistance to employees and former employees who lose health-care coverage.

Technician's removing of donated human tissue

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 52
• 1997 Assembly Bill 179

Publication date*: Jan. 8, 1998

Relating to: Authorizing technicians to remove donated human bone or certain tissue.

Service charges for a storm and surface water sewerage system

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 53
• 1997 Assembly Bill 187

Publication date*: Jan. 8, 1998

Relating to: The imposition of service charges for a storm water and surface water sewerage system.

Notifying state epidemiologist of persons significantly exposed to HIV

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 54
• 1997 Assembly Bill 280

Publication date*: Jan. 8, 1998

Relating to: Disclosure to the state epidemiologist of the names of persons significantly exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus.

Regulating the sale of merchandise below cost

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 55
• 1997 Assembly Bill 283

Publication date*: Jan. 8, 1998

Relating to: The regulation of the sale of merchandise below cost and providing penalties.

Effective date: (1) This act takes effect on the first day of the seventh month beginning after publication.

Operating a city parking lot

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 56
• 1997 Assembly Bill 305

Publication date*: Jan. 8, 1998

Relating to: Authorizing a first-class city to operate a city parking lot.

Simple tooth extraction's under the volunteer health-care provider program

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 57
• 1997 Assembly Bill 385

Publication date*: Jan. 8, 1998

Relating to: Permitting dentists to perform simple tooth extraction's under the volunteer health-care provider program.

Automatic joint survivor benefit

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 58
• 1997 Senate Bill 31

Publication date*: Dec. 22, 1997

Relating to: The requirements for receiving an automatic joint survivor death benefit under the Wisconsin retirement system.

Effective dates: This act takes effect on the day after publication, except as follows:

(1) The treatment of section 40.05(2)(b) and (bu) of the statutes takes effect on the first Jan. 1 after publication.

Mediating special education program disputes

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 59
• 1997 Senate Bill 272

Publication date*: Jan. 8, 1998

Relating to: Mediation of special education program disputes between a parent and a school board.

Effective recycling programs

• 1997 Wisconsin Act 60
• 1997 Senate Bill 355

Publication date*: Jan. 8, 1998

Relating to: Effective recycling programs, reports by materials recovery facilities, waste reduction and recycling demonstration grants, liability associated with materials reuse programs, requiring studies and granting rule-making authority.

Effective dates: This act takes effect on the day after publication, except as follows:

(1) The treatment of section 287.11(2)(dm) of the statutes takes effect retroactively to Jan. 1, 1997.

*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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