Senate

Citation procedure re violation of rules promulgated by U.W. Board of Regents: court may consider the violator's nonappearance to be a plea of no contest and enter judgment accordingly - SB389

City of Milwaukee Employes' Retirement System (CMERS): investment of funds revised re Uniform Prudent Investor Act - AB870

City of Milwaukee Employes' Retirement System (CMERS): investment of funds revised re Uniform Prudent Investor Act - SB463

College savings program bank deposit trust fund and college savings program credit union trust fund established  - AB1153

College savings program bank deposit trust fund and college savings program credit union trust fund established  - SB661

Comm.Dept may assess a forfeiture for violating certain licensing requirements; interest, AG authority, and school fund provisions -  AB750

Comprehensive planning statutes: city or village that does not border a town is exempt -  SB607

Cornell, (SSG) Todd: life and military service commended - SJR71

Debt related to property tax: county or municipality may certify to DOR for setoff from state tax refunds  - AB538

Declaration to physicians (living will): MA administrators required to discuss with MA recipients residing in long-term care facilities -  AB791

DOR administration of taxes and fees: revisions re assessments and audits, claims for refunds, penalties for taxpayer negligence, notice of nonacquiescence, declaratory ruling, interest on unpaid amounts, awarding costs of litigation to prevailing party, and rule-making process - SB518

Drug and alcohol testing program required for public works contracts subject to prevailing wage law; confidentiality and employment discrimination provisions  - AB736

Drug paraphernalia possession, manufacture, or delivery by persons 17 years old and older: city, village, or town allowed to enact and enforce an ordinance prohibiting  - AB307

Education credit re income and franchise taxes to businesses and corporations that pay certain tuitions; DOR report required - AB297

Education credit re income and franchise taxes to businesses and corporations that pay certain tuitions; DOR report required - SB152

Electric service provided by municipal utilities to rental dwellings: procedure to collect arrearages modified  - SB170

Elementary and secondary education laws and administrative rules: DPI waiver provisions modified  - SB101

Employment discrimination based on conviction record: educational agency exempt re unpardoned felony conviction  - AB284

Employment discrimination based on conviction record: educational agency exempt re unpardoned felony conviction  - SB151

Family Care resource centers and care management organizations: DHFS authority to contract with certain entities to provide, JCF provision; pilot project requirements eliminated - SB653

Film production companies: income and franchise tax credits created -  SB563

Fire calls on certain highways: DOT reimbursement to city or village fire department revised - AB610

Fire calls on certain highways: DOT reimbursement to city or village fire department revised - SB276

GIB required to study feasibility of developing certain group health insurance plans; report required  - AB516

Graffiti violations: damage threshold for felony senetence lowered -  SB227

Group health benefit plan definition: number of individual health benefit plans increased - SB420

Group health claims experience disclosure: insurer may not charge for requests under certain conditions  - SB241

Health care claims information: contract with a data organization for the collection, analysis, and dissemination of required and conditions set; Board on Health Care Information, Interagency Coordinating Council, and Independent Review Board eliminated -  AB907

Health care coverage for employees covered by MERA: collective bargaining prohibited; employers may unilaterally change providers and any savings must be used to increase salaries; GIB and OCI provisions -  SB242

Health care coverage for employees covered by MERA: collective bargaining prohibited; employers may unilaterally change providers and portion of savings must be used to increase wages; GIB and OCI provisions -  AB515

Health care liability plan for health care providers: return of funds in excess of surplus and incurred liabilities revised - AB737

Health care liability plan for health care providers: return of funds in excess of surplus and incurred liabilities revised - SB550

Health savings account: nonrefundable individual income tax credit created -  AB4

Health savings account: nonrefundable individual income tax credit created -  SB7

Health savings account option for state employees under certain health plans: GIB required to offer  - AB341

Health savings account option for state employees under certain health plans: GIB required to offer  - SB131

Information technology development projects: state enterprise development fund created for the purpose of making grants to state agencies in the executive branch with the exception of the U.W. System; DOA duties, appropriations, annual report, and chief information officer provisions  - SB433

Interfund transfers re state government: transfer date must be during the fiscal year the law takes effect  - SB446

Joint Committee on State Mandates created; LFB and report provisions -  AB173

Joint Committee on State Mandates created; LFB provision -  SB5

Jury instructions in civil actions: court to explain legal conclusions from the jury's findings - SB159

Local levy limits applied to political subdivisions: exception created re charges assessed by a joint fire department  - AB1180

Local levy limits applied to political subdivisions: exception created re charges assessed by a joint fire department  - SB680

Local professional baseball park district: sunset on collection of sales and use taxes established and use of revenue specified; LAB audit required -  SB19

Long-term care insurance for local government employees: GIB required to offer -  AB517

MERA: final offer re compensation and fringe benefits submitted to WERC limited -  AB857

Motor vehicle seller under a retail installment contract may opt not to include public liability coverage in the insurance policy; written notification to buyer required  - SB385

MPCP cap on eligible number of pupils eliminated for 2005-06 school year; 2006-07 school year limit may not exceed 2005-06 number -  AB3

MPCP cap on eligible number of pupils eliminated for 2005-06 school year; 2006-07 school year limit may not exceed 2005-06 number -  SB6

MPCP: enrollment cap eliminated; income requirement modified re continuing student or sibling of pupil; eligibility requirement re previous enrollment changed; LAB provision  - AB941

MPCP: enrollment cap eliminated; income requirement modified re continuing student or sibling of pupil; eligibility requirement re previous enrollment changed; LAB provision  - SB521

MPCP revisions re enrollment caps, income requirement for continuing student or sibling of pupil, and eligibility requirement re previous enrollment; private schools participating in MPCP required to achieve certain accreditation, and administer certain tests; LAB report required; SAGE per pupil payment increased -  AB1057

MPCP revisions re enrollment caps, income requirement for continuing student or sibling of pupil, and eligibility requirement re previous enrollment; private schools participating in MPCP required to achieve certain accreditation, and administer certain tests; LAB report required; SAGE per pupil payment increased -  SB618

Multiple sclerosis programs: individual income tax checkoff created; report from National Multiple Sclerosis Society required -  SB167

Needle electromyography: only a physician or chiropractic neurologist permitted to perform - SB394

New school district: calculation of special adjustment aid and revenue limit revised -  SB482

Organ transport vehicles and emergency medical device transport vehicles are authorized emergency vehicles; siren, lights, and safety and training course provisions  - AB712

Parking vehicles on highway abutting residences and commercial enterprises: local authority may permit under certain conditions; 1st class city may set aside parking spaces adjacent to U.W. System campus under certain conditions  - AB667

Parking vehicles on highway abutting residences and commercial enterprises: local authority may permit under certain conditions; 1st class city may set aside parking spaces adjacent to U.W. System campus under certain conditions  - SB329

Partial vetoes of parts of bill sections without rejecting the entire bill section prohibited: constitutional amendment (1st consideration) -  AJR68

Property tax assessment review by DOR: filing fee returned to owner under certain condition -  SB94

Pupil instruction hours required in annual reports from school boards to DPI -  SB520

Real property in City of Milwaukee used for school purposes: proceeds from sale may be deposited in school operations fund re payment of principal on bonds - SB685

Referenda to exceed school district revenue limit or approve school district borrowing: scheduling requirements revised - SB171

Rental vehicle damage: provisions revised re definition of ``accident", storage fees, repair estimates, and use of credit - AB1024

Rental vehicle damage: provisions revised re definition of ``accident", storage fees, repair estimates, and use of credit - SB623

Repeat drunken driving offenses: felony penalties revised -  AB1097

Research and research facilities: tax credits modified re engine manufacturing and vehicle design - SB103

Revocation of probation, parole, or extended supervision proceedings: admissibility of felony victim's prior testimony - AB890

Revocation of probation, parole, or extended supervision proceedings: admissibility of felony victim's prior testimony - SB632

SAGE evaluation: appropriation and longitudinal study provisions -  SB519

School bus loading and unloading of passengers: use of warning lights revised -  AB379

School medical services re MA program: reimbursements modified; DHFS and DPI provisions -  SB313

Sex offender on parole, probation, extended supervision, supervised release, or conditional release re conviction for sexual assault of a child: Corr.Dept and DHFS required to track the person using a GPS tracking device; felony provision  - AB591

Sex offender on parole, probation, extended supervision, supervised release, or conditional release re conviction for sexual assault of a child: Corr.Dept and DHFS required to track the person using a GPS tracking device; felony provision  - SB295

Sex offender registry: Corr.Dept required to make certain information available to school boards and governing bodies of private schools; confidentiality provision  - AB535

Sex offender registry information re delinquency case or registrant who is a child: police chief, sheriff, and Corr.Dept may release under certain conditions - AB99

Sex offender registry information re delinquency case or registrant who is a child: police chief, sheriff, and Corr.Dept may release under certain conditions - SB59

Sex offenses against children: certain penalties revised; child pornography surcharge created; child sex offender prohibition on working with children modified; computers used to facilitate a child sex crime provision -  AB942

Sex offenses against children: certain penalties revised; child pornography surcharge created; child sex offender prohibition on working with children modified; computers used to facilitate a child sex crime provision -  SB580

``Sexual contact" definition expanded re third person -  SB409

Sexually violent person laws revised re definitions, commitment proceedings and petitions, probable cause hearing, trial on commitment petition, change of venue, experts for examination, right to remain silent, hearings to juries, discovery, confidentiality of certain records, juvenile delinquency dispositions, privileged communications with health care providers, presentence reports, periodic reexamination, supervised release, discharge from commitment, failure to comply with time limits, escape, and DAs -  AB1091

Sexually violent person placed on supervised release: if county of residence includes a 1st class city, person must be placed in city, town, or village he or she lived in at the time of the offense - SB537

Single-sex schools and courses: public and charter schools may establish -  AB114

Smoking prohibition in restaurants and taverns expanded; designated smoking areas eliminated - AB372

Smoking prohibitions: designated areas limited; ``place of employment" definition expanded; restaurants, bowling centers, and restaurants holding an intoxicating liquor or beer license provisions revised; prohibition on smoking in immediate vicinity of the state capitol revised  - AB440

Smoking prohibitions: designated areas limited; ``place of employment" definition expanded; restaurants, bowling centers, and restaurants holding an intoxicating liquor or beer license provisions revised; prohibition on smoking in immediate vicinity of the state capitol revised  - SB199

Social security benefits, taxable amounts: individual income tax credit created and phased in over set amount of time  - SB190

Special education aid for contracting with public or private agency expanded to cover more services; speech therapy provision -  SB177