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Vol. 71, No.
6, June 1998
At Issue
Recently Passed Legislation
Land and water conservation board, renumbering provisions
Publication date*: April 29, 1998
Relating to: Advisory members of the land and water conservation
board and the renumbering of certain provisions of chapter 134 of the statutes
(suggested as remedial legislation by the department of agriculture, trade
and consumer protection).
Department of workforce development remedial legislation
Publication date*: April 29, 1998
Relating to: Updating obsolete terminology in the fair employment,
vocational rehabilitation, worker's compensation, minimum wage, and fair
housing laws and deleting an obsolete reference in the fair employment law
(suggested as remedial legislation by the department of workforce development).
Department of public instruction remedial legislation
Publication date*: April 29, 1998
Relating to: Eliminating obsolete language and provisions from
the statutes governing public schools and the department of public instruction
(suggested as remedial legislation by the department of public instruction).
Effective date: This act takes effect on July 1, 1998, or on the
day after publication, whichever is later.
Department of health and family services remedial legislation
Publication date*: April 29, 1998
Relating to: Mental health crisis intervention services; requirements
for a Level I local health officer; coordination by a local board of health
of activities of a sanitarian; fetal death reports; access by a coroner,
deputy coroner, medical examiner or medical examiner's assistant to patient
health care records; confidentiality restrictions on cancer reports; service
contracts under community integration programs; eliminating outdated requirements
for bed assessments for nursing homes and intermediate care facilities for
the mentally retarded; designation by a nursing home of a person to accept
service of notice or mail; required information for licenses for nursing
homes and community-based residential facilities; eliminating a date for
posting notice about the long-term care ombudsman program; eliminating dates
for determinations that nursing homes are institutions for mental diseases;
resident rights and responsibilities for residents of nursing homes and
community-based residential facilities; eliminating dates for requesting
and providing information about nursing homes; evaluations of integrating
services projects; eliminating a requirement for a plan and report on school-community
alcohol and drug abuse prevention and other services; eliminating a requirement
that a person investigating a report of suspected or threatened emotional
abuse of a child determine that the person responsible for the emotional
damage is neglecting, refusing or unable for reasons other than poverty
to remedy the harm; and prohibiting an adoptive parent from moving for relief
from an order granting adoption or petitioning for a rehearing of such an
order (suggested as remedial legislation by the department of health and
family services).
Veterans benefits
Publication date*: April 30, 1998
Relating to: Veterans benefits for veterans who are delinquent
in child or spousal support, maintenance, medical expenses or birth expenses.
Veterans burials
Publication date*: April 30, 1998
Relating to: The information gathered regarding veterans burials.
Strobe lights on school buses
Publication date*: April 30, 1998
Relating to: Requiring strobe lights on school buses.
Effective date: This act take effect on the first day of the 6th
month beginning after publication.
State employee leave for disaster relief service
Publication date*: April 30, 1998
Relating to: Leaves of absence for certain state employees to
participate in providing certain disaster relief services and granting rule-making
authority.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the first day of the
4th month beginning after publication.
Police access to photographs of operator licenses
and identification card applicants
Publication date*: April 30, 1998
Relating to: Law enforcement agency access to photographs of applicants
for operators' licenses and identification cards and providing a penalty.
Initial applicability: This act first applies to photographs taken
on Jan. 1, 1998.
Licensing of motor vehicle dealers, salespersons,
sales finance companies, and salvage dealers
Publication date*: April 30, 1998
Relating to: The licensing of motor vehicle dealers and salespersons,
sales finance companies and motor vehicle salvage dealers and providing
a penalty.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the first day of the
4th month beginning after publication.
Veterans education, treatment facilities, and health care
Publication date*: April 30, 1998
Relating to: Veterans part-time classroom study, veterans tuition
and fee reimbursement, veterans retraining grants, authority to construct
and operate residential, treatment and nursing care facilities in southeastern
Wisconsin, veterans health care aid grants and veterans housing loans.
Prohibiting installing certain devices in wells
Publication date*: May 1, 1998
Relating to: Prohibiting the installation of certain devices in
wells.
Public comments at meetings of governmental bodies
Publication date*: May 1, 1998
Relating to: Public comments at meetings of governmental bodies.
Information signs on USH 14
Publication date*: May 1, 1998
Relating to: Authorizing specific information signs on a certain
portion of USH 14.
Qualified domestic relations orders
Publication date*: April 30, 1998
Relating to: Qualified domestic relations orders under the Wisconsin
retirement system.
Load weight limits on trucks
Publication date*: May 1, 1998
Relating to: Load weight limits on trucks registered with the
department of transportation as special interest, reconstructed, replica,
street modified or homemade vehicles.
Selection of election officials
Publication date*: May 1, 1998
Relating to: The method of selection of election officials.
Social security numbers
in student I.D. numbers
Publication date*: May 1, 1998
Relating to: The use of a person's social security number in his
or her student identification number.
Effective date: This act takes effect on Jan. 1, 2000.
Statute of limitations for special education appeals
Publication date*: May 1, 1998
Relating to: Statute of limitations for special education appeals.
Initial applicability: This act first applies to the refusal or
proposal of a school board under section 115.81 (1) (a) of the statutes,
as affected by this act, that occurs on the effective date of this subsection.
Sex offender registration requirements
Publication date*: May 1, 1998
Relating to: Exempting certain persons from the sex offender registration
requirements and the prohibition on child sex offenders working with children.
Whistle blower protection for reporting
to state officials abuse or neglect in certain facilities
Publication date*: May 1, 1998
Relating to: Protection against retaliation for reporting to any
state official abuse or neglect in certain facilities, providing a cause
of action and providing a penalty.
Brewer representatives at tasting
events on Class B premises
Publication date*: May 1, 1998
Relating to: The presence of representatives of a brewer at certain
tasting events held on Class "B" premises.
Litigation by incarcerated persons
Publication date*: May 1, 1998
Relating to: Litigation by persons incarcerated, imprisoned, confined
or detained in a jail or prison, the time period for the state to respond
to an action and limiting access to public records.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the first day of the
4th month beginning after publication.
Property tax exemption exclusion
for health and fitness centers
Publication date*: May 1, 1998
Relating to: Limiting the property tax exemption for hospitals
to exclude health and fitness centers.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the Jan. 1 after publication.
Railroad crossings
Publication date*: May 1, 1998
Relating to: Stopping at railroad crossings, reckless driving
at railroad crossings, creating a railroad crossing improvement assessment,
making an appropriation and providing penalties.
Rate for the tax on cider
Publication date*: May 1, 1998
Relating to: The rate for the tax on cider.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the first day of the
2nd month beginning after publication.
*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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