Senate

Family planning demonstration project re MA: minimum age requirement increased -  SB552

Fine, forfeiture, fee, and surcharge collection: use of debt collector and credit or debit cards allowed; certified debt collection by DOR modified; DOT may disclose certain information to DOR - AB211

Fines and forfeitures imposed by circuit court unrelated to transportation: percentage retained by county increased  - AB152

First degree sexual assault of a child resulting in great bodily harm to the child: maximum penalty increased to life imprisonment -  SB629

Frivolous claims as determined by the court: awarding damages and appeals procedure -  AB855

Frivolous claims as determined by the court: awarding damages and appeals procedure -  SB501

Funeral procession: flashing lights on vehicles permitted -  SB238

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

High school physical education credit for participation in extracurricular sports; WIAA provision - SB229

Home-canned acidic fruits or vegetables sold at a farmers' market or similar event exempt from food processing plant license requirement under certain conditions; DATCP duties specified - SB205

Home exchange service owned by DVA: sales and use tax exemption for sale of personal property and taxable services - AB162

Hormonal medication administered after sexual intercourse for control of fertility: person employed or under contract with U.W. System to provide health services to students prohibited from dispensing, prescribing, or advertising; UWHCA exception -  AB343

Hotel, restaurant, bed and breakfast, rooming house, or vending machine: permit to operate may be transferred re change in organization of the business -  AB742

Human growth and development programs: school board must ensure course materials include information on abstinence - SB286

Ice fishing shanty: DNR may not promulgate or enforce rule requiring removal before certain date; exception for safety concerns -  AB128

Ice holes in lakes created by aerating water: alternative warning methods allowed for certain organizations  - AB923

Immigration status re individual seeking or receiving public assistance: prohibiting enactment or enforcement of an ordinance that would prohibit an employee of a political subdivision from inquiring about -  SB715

Impact fees: laws revised re imposition by, accounting and use of GAAP, and payment; report required  - SB681

Impact fees: laws revised re imposition by, time period it must be used, accounting and use of GAAP, and payment; report required -  AB1156

Income and franchise tax documents not provided on time to DOR: inadvertent error expanded re directing DOR to credit tax payment to taxpayer's account for which taxes are not due - SB458

Intoxicating liquor manufacturer or rectifier and ``Class A" licensee may provide taste samples directly to consumer under certain conditions; DOR provision - AB839

Legal custody or periods of physical placement of child: court authorized to make modifications contingent on future events or change in conditions -  AB311

Length-of-service awards to qualifying EMTs: counties permitted to provide -  SB432

Managed forest land: disclosure on real estate condition report or in writing required re sale of land  - SB62

Marriage and parental responsibility instruction in human growth and development course, during same school year, required -  AB309

Medical examiner or coroner also serving in certain emergency services positions: provisions revised re conflicts in compatibility of offices -  AB201

Medium security correctional institutions on grounds of Lincoln Hills, Ethan Allen, and Southern Oak Girls schools for persons under 21 years of age established; assessments charged to counties re juvenile secured facilities revised; number of inmates at Ethan Allen and Lincoln Hills schools to be equal  - AB699

Mental responsibility of a defendant in a criminal action: deadline for examining physician or psychologist to report to opposing counsel or examiner specified - SB574

Midwives who are not registered nurses: DRL licensure requirements established; penalty provision  - AB709

Midwives who are not registered nurses: DRL licensure requirements established; penalty provision  - SB477

Milwaukee Board of Fire and Police Commissioners: membership increased -  SB695

Mitigation payment agreements re public utilities: PSC approval modified -  AB615

Mitigation payment agreements re public utilities: PSC approval modified -  SB400

Mobile air conditioners: prohibiting DATCP from promulgating or enforcing certain restrictions to substitutes for ozone-depleting refrigerants -  SB342

Mobile emergency communications equipped vehicle owned by an amateur radio organization with certain unexpired license: 5 year registration for set amount allowed  - AB982

Motor vehicle fuel tax rate reduced for set period of time; transportation fund provision -  AB729

Movie with ``restricted" rating: public library may not loan or rent to a minor without proof of consent from parent or guardian - SB258

Off-premises business area signs along highways: multiple or variable messages permitted under certain conditions; DOT may restrict the illumination of messages  - SB548

Outdoor advertising sign removal or denial or revocation of certain licenses or permits: person aggrieved by DOT notice may bypass DHA administrative hearing process and institute a civil action in circuit court -  AB741

OWI conviction: DOT to purge driving records of first conviction after 10 years under certain conditions; court may not consider purged violation to determine penalty for subsequent OWI offense -  AB344

Patrol boats responding to an emergency or pursuing a suspect: exemption from boating laws; emergency light provisions revised -  SB587

Payday loan providers: requirements and prohibitions created; reports required -  SB674

Person injured by manufactured product: criteria established re liability of manufacturer, distributor, or seller  - SB58

Police officer in 1st class city: payment of salary after discharge revised -  SB307

Police officer or fire fighter in a 1st class city is not entitled to salary, wages, or benefits upon discharge if criminal charges are pending; appeal, reimbursement, and trial provisions  - AB1032

Police officer or fire fighter in a 1st class city is not entitled to salary, wages, or benefits upon discharge if criminal charges are pending; appeal, reimbursement, resignation, retirement, and trial provisions -  SB649

Property tax exemption for certain properties modified and the exemption for properties owned by benevolent associations specified; tax-exempt leased property provisions  - SB570

Public construction contracts: minimum bid amount raised re lowest responsible bidder requirement  - AB146

Punitive damages: proof the plaintiff must provide modified - AB843

Punitive damages: proof the plaintiff must provide modified - SB447

Pupil removed from class, school property, or school-sponsored activity: authority extended to teacher's assistants and school employees; classroom code of conduct provision  - SB410

Rabies vaccination requirement for dogs: exemption for reasons related to the dog's health; letter from veterinarian required - AB527

Railroad revisions re federal and state regulations -  AB588

Real estate documents: requirements for recording media revised -  SB27

Recreational mobile home personal property tax exemption revised -  SB326

Referenda to exceed school district revenue limit modified re approval of excess revenue for a recurring purpose  - AB584

Restoration of nonconforming structure re zoning of shorelands: conditions on ordinances to include ``other natural occurances" - SB253

Revenue limit for state and local governmental units created; excess revenue, reduction in state aid, emergency reserve fund, reducing the revenue limit, and exceeding the revenue limit via a referendum provisions; individuals or class of individuals may bring a suit to enforce the revenue limits; amendment may be amended with approval of one legislature, rather than two, and ratification by the people: constitutional amendment (1st consideration) -  AJR77

Revenue limit for state and local governmental units created; excess revenue, reduction in state aid, emergency reserve fund, reducing the revenue limit, and exceeding the revenue limit via a referendum provisions; individuals or class of individuals may bring a suit to enforce the revenue limits; amendment may be amended with approval of one legislature, rather than two, and ratification by the people: constitutional amendment (1st consideration) -  SJR63

RRC abolished; JSCRS authority to hire a research director and staff eliminated; LC duties specified  - SB527

School district determination of and notification to municipalities of tax levies: deadlines modified  - SB412

School district may invest certain funds held in trust to provide post-employment benefits -  SB113

Self-service laundry services: income tax credit created re sales and use taxes paid -  AB952

Self-service laundry services: sales tax exemption expanded -  AB413

Self-service laundry services: sales tax exemption expanded -  SB203

``Sexual contact" definition expanded -  AB444

Sovereignty under the 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the U.S. Constitution claimed; federal mandates provision  - SR17

State minimum wage law required to be construed as an enactment of statewide concern; living wage ordinance permitted but must conform to state minimum wage law  - AB49

State minimum wage law required to be construed as an enactment of statewide concern; living wage ordinance permitted but must conform to state minimum wage law  - SB18

Tangible personal property that becomes part of a municipal or nonprofit organization's facility: sales and use tax exemptions created; includes property purchased by construction contractor and transferred -  AB126

Tangible personal property that becomes part of a municipal or nonprofit organization's facility: sales and use tax exemptions created; includes property purchased by construction contractor and transferred -  SB57

Teacher employment contract: term modified; nonrenewal for arbitrary or capricious reasons prohibited  - SB643

TID creation by counties in which no cities or villages are located authorized; approval of all town boards required - SB153

Town board meetings: location requirements revised -  AB295

Town plan commission appointment procedure modified re towns authorized to exercise village powers  - AB904

Town plan commission appointment procedure modified re towns authorized to exercise village powers  - SB476

Town sanitary district commissioner: maximum value of a contract in which a commissioner may have an interest increased - AB1066

Trailers or semitrailers used to transport livestock: exception from certain DOT permit modified re axles  - AB556

Transportation project plats: filing by DOT or a municipality and making corrections revised -  SB499

Trespass law exemption for retrieval of hunting dogs created - AB663

Two-vehicle combination operating on highway without permit: maximum overall length increased; livestock exemption eliminated -  SB154

Two-vehicle combination transporting livestock: highway permit exemption modified re trailer axles  - AB300

U.W. Medical School: obsolete provision re limitation on size of entering class eliminated -  AB1002

U.W. Medical School: obsolete provision re limitation on size of entering class eliminated -  SB549

Voluntary and informed consent for abortions: printed information and physician oral information to include data re pain awareness of unborn child at gestational age of 20 weeks - AB321

Voluntary and informed consent for abortions: printed information and physician oral information to include data re pain awareness of unborn child at gestational age of 20 weeks - SB138

Volunteer Health Care Provider Program: status as a state agent of DHFS extended to provider regardless of certain medical malpractice insurance coverage - AB789

Voter registration at office of the county clerk or board of election commissioners permitted -  AB888

Voter registration deadline changed; polling place registration eliminated; residency requirement revised; provisional ballot conditions; simultaneous voter registration re motor vehicle driver's license, public assistance, armed forces recruiting offices, and offices for services to persons with disabilities - SB396