Subject Index

Low-income energy assistance program: eligibility expanded for fiscal year 2005-06; one-time fund transfer from the petroleum inspection fund -  FE6 AB1

Low-income energy assistance program: eligibility expanded for fiscal year 2005-06; one-time fund transfer from the petroleum inspection fund [S.Amdt.1: applications due by certain date] -  FE6 SB1

Low-income energy assistance program: eligibility expanded for fiscal year 2005-06; one-time funding transfer from the petroleum inspection fund -  SB598

Low-income home energy assistance program funding restriction removed [Sec. 60, 61, 80] - AB100

MA GPR appropriation decreased and transfer of certain amount from general fund to MA trust fund; low-income energy assistance program income eligibility revised and GPR appropriation -  SB582

Renewable Energy Awareness Week (the week of the summer solstice) and Renewable Energy Awareness Day (June 21) to be designated each year -  SJR28

Renewable energy requirements re electric utilities and cooperatives modified; certain state agencies required to generate or purchase renewable energy; energy efficiency standards imposed in certain state contracts; energy conservation code changed; anaerobic digestor research funding; public benefits program revisions; report provisions  - AB841

Renewable energy requirements re electric utilities and cooperatives modified; certain state agencies required to generate or purchase renewable energy; energy efficiency standards imposed in certain state contracts; energy conservation code changed; anaerobic digestor research funding; public benefits program revisions; report provisions [S.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, PSC duties revised, corn-burning furnace pilot program added; S.Amdt.1: energy consuming equipment provisions] -  SB459

Renewable resource and tangible personal property that uses a renewable resource: sales tax exemption created; technology development grants or loans for research, development, or commercialization activities related to  - SB81

Renewable resource energy requirement for electric utilities and cooperatives: additional deadline created  - SB110

Special orders of business for March 7, 2006 established re AB-19, AB-33, AB-96, AB-353, AB-588, AB-596, AB-671, AB-673, AB-675, AB-680, AB-681, AB-686, AB-751, AB-801, AB-838, AB-842, AB-856, AB-874, AB-900, AB-928, AB-934, AB-936, AB-958, AB-973, AB-974, AB-975, AB-987, AB-989, AB-990, AB-1008, AB-1015, AB-1024, AB-1028, AB-1060, AB-1077, SB-103, SB-350, SB-369, SB-405, SB-447, SB-450, SB-459, SB-501, SB-502, SB-510, SB-536, SB-537, SB-602 -  AR50

Wind farm with certain megawatt capacity is a qualified wholesale electric company for utility aid payment and license fee purposes -  AB245

Wind farm with certain megawatt capacity is a qualified wholesale electric company for utility aid payment and license fee purposes -  SB115

Window replacement loan program created re dwellings constructed before 1950; DOA administrative authority and report required; utility public benefits fund, DHFS, and nonprofit corporation provisions -  AB1030

Window replacement loan program created re dwellings constructed before 1950; DOA administrative authority and report required; utility public benefits fund, DHFS, and nonprofit corporation provisions -  SB622

engineer Engineer

Engineer positions re highway delivery functions: DOT may request reallocation [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9148 (7f)]  - AB100

Engineering instruction by U.W. Platteville at U.W. Rock County campus: appropriation for - AB53

Regents allocation of funds re recommendations of the Committee on Baccalaureate Expansion and the U.W. Rock County engineering initiative [Sec. 9152 (4); A.Sub.Amdt.1: funding revisions, U.W. Fox Valley engineering initiative funding] - AB100

Riprap used to prevent erosion verified by a licensed professional engineer: agencies, other than DNR, prohibited from promulgating or enforcing a rule under certain circumstances - AB734

english language English language

Court interpreters re persons with limited English proficiency required, regardless of indigence [Sec. 2452, 2453, 9307 (1); original bill only] -  AB100

English for Southeast Asian children: funding re aid to Wausau School District shifted from DWD to DPI; Head Start supplement from TANF funds eliminated [Sec. 179, 188, 1107, 1108, 1859] -  AB100

English language proficiency assessment system: DPI authorized to assist in forming consortium to obtain funds for purchase [Sec. 1857] -  AB100

environmental protection Environmental protection, see also Air pollution; Natural resource; Petroleum; Sanitation and sewerage management; Solid waste management; Water — Pollution; Wetland

Ambient air quality standards and nonattainment areas, emission standards for hazardous air pollutants, air pollution permit exemptions, and wastewater discharged from point sources: DNR authority modified -  AB1221

Aquatic invasive species management grants: nonprofit conservation organizations and qualified lake associations made eligible [Sec. 493-495; A.Sub.Amdt.1: funding revisions, organization and association eligibility removed, deletes 493, 494] -  AB100

Brownfield definition revised to include abandoned residential property re assignment of property contaminated by hazardous substances [A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions]  - AB464

Brownfield definition revised to include abandoned residential property re assignment of property contaminated by hazardous substances -  SB198

Brownfields grant program to city of Madison [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 156i, 9108 (3f)] -  AB100

Clean Water Fund, Safe Drinking Water Loan, and Land Recycling Loan programs: bonding and present value subsidy changes [Sec. 461, 462, 2157-2159] -  AB100

Condemnation of real property owned by city, county, town, or village by a public utility or foreign transmission provider for the location or construction of transmission lines authorized; DOA, PSC, and environmental impact fee provisions  - AB412

Conservation fund: transfers from environmental and recycling funds re management of fish and wildlife sources [A.Sub. Amdt.1: Sec. 9235 (3m), (4m)] -  AB100

Contaminated property: residual contamination after cleanup under administration of agency with authority over the site, DNR and notification provisions; ERTID revisions; local governmental exemption from solid waste management standards under certain conditions; voluntary party liability exemption modified -  AB999

Contaminated property: residual contamination after cleanup under administration of agency with authority over the site, DNR and notification provisions; ERTID revisions; local governmental exemption from solid waste management standards under certain conditions; voluntary party liability exemption modified -  SB546

DATCP grants re agricultural products and wastes as energy sources, reduction and use of agricultural wastes, and biochemical development [for section numbers and further revisions, see entry under ``Energy conservation"]  - AB100

Dredged materials that contain PCBs: solid waste disposal facility prohibited from accepting; municipal liability re materials from Great Lakes basin contaminated with PCBs provision  - AB34

Electronically conducted transactions under DNR administered environmental programs: fees to cover costs authorized [Sec. 239, 2203; original bill only] - AB100

Emergency response teams (regional): highest standards for hazardous materials responder required  - AB25

Emergency response teams (regional): highest standards for hazardous materials responder required  - SB2

Environmental claims under general liability insurance policies; fee for removal of contaminated material from navigable waters authorized -  AB222

Environmental claims under general liability insurance policies; fee for removal of contaminated material from navigable waters authorized -  SB137

Environmental claims under general liability insurance policies: Wisconsin law applied unless policy specifies otherwise  - SB356

Environmental fund transfer to general fund [Sec. 9235 (2)] - AB100

Environmental repair bonding authority increased [Sec. 464] - AB100

ERTID: maximum period of certification and expenditure period increased -  AB896

Hazardous substances: abusing or distributing or possessing with intent to abuse or distribute prohibited; definitions and exceptions [A.Amdt.1: household products added to definition] - AB214

Ice holes in lakes created by aerating water: alternative warning methods allowed for certain organizations [A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, openings, streams, and ponds added, liability and penalty provisions added, rule-making authority removed, owner of riparian property provisions added]  - AB923

Impact fees: laws revised re imposition by, accounting and use of GAAP, and payment; report required [S.Amdt.2: GAAP and report provisions removed, publication of municipal budget summary and requirements on plat approval conditions provisions added] -  SB681

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

Impact fees: time period in which it must be used and refund process modified -  AB1077

Impact fees: time period in which it must be used and refund process modified -  SB659

Invasive species classification system: terminology correction (remedial legislation) -  SB556

Invasive species control program grants: cap raised and eligible recipients expanded -  SB50

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

Special orders of business for June 23, 2005 established re AB-222, AB-270, AB-414, AB-461, AB-498, AB-499, AB-501, AB-506 -  AR19

Vehicle environmental impact fee: sunset date removed [Sec. 2255; A.Sub.Amdt.1: sunset date extended]  - AB100

WRS creditable service re the Commissioned Corps of the federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the federal Environmental Science Services Administration  - SB314

environmental remediation tax incremental district _ertid_ Environmental remediation tax incremental district (ERTID), see Property tax

ephraim, village of Ephraim, Village of, see Door County

epilepsy Epilepsy

Epilepsy drugs: pharmacist prohibited from substituting a drug product equivalent without prescribing practitioner and patient consent; certain health insurers prohibited from penalizing a participating provider, pharmacist, or enrollee for requesting specific epilepsy drugs -  AB1210

equal education Equal education, see Discrimination in education

equal housing Equal housing, see Discrimination in housing

equalized valuation Equalized valuation, see Property tax

erosion control Erosion control, see Soil and soil conservation; Waterways and water power

ertid _environmental remediation tax incremental district_ ERTID (Environmental remediation tax incremental district), see Property tax

escalator Escalator, see Public safety

escrow account Escrow account, see Mortgage

estate of deceased person Estate of deceased person

Anatomical gift: donor's family, guardian, agent re power of attorney, or personal representative of estate prohibited from refusing to honor a document of gift  - AB168

``Declaration of final disposition" provisions created -  AB984

Nonprobate transfer of real property on death: new mechanism created -  AB650

Nonprobate transfer of real property on death: new mechanism created -  SB255

Uniform Principal and Income Act of 1997 to replace the Revised Uniform Principal and Income Act of 1962; provisions re revocable living trusts, fiduciaries, unitrust, and principal [A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions] - AB140

Uniform Principal and Income Act of 1997 to replace the Revised Uniform Principal and Income Act of 1962; provisions re revocable living trusts, fiduciaries, unitrust, and principal - SB93

estate tax Estate tax

Estate tax imposed by the state reduced -  AB1154

Estate tax imposed by the state reduced -  SB9

Estate tax imposed by the state reduced -  SB16

Estate tax repealed - SB35

Tax revisions: appealing determination of the board of assessors, DOR authority to reduce taxes and certain costs, a spouse's tax liability, bona fide angel investment credit, employer re single-owner entity, qualified retirement fund, refund of sales or use tax received erroneously, estate tax interest, mailing tax-related documents, earned income tax credit, and audit of emissions inspectors contracted with DOT - AB482

Tax revisions: appealing determination of the board of assessors, DOR authority to reduce taxes and certain costs, a spouse's tax liability, bona fide angel investment credit, employer re single-owner entity, qualified retirement fund, refund of sales or use tax received erroneously, estate tax interest, mailing tax-related documents, earned income tax credit, and audit of emissions inspectors contracted with DOT - SB218

ethanol Ethanol, see Gasoline

ethics Ethics

Campaign activity by state employees holding appointive positions prohibited; knowingly soliciting or discouraging political activity by a person who has business with a unit of government prohibited; Ethics Board training programs coverage extended; penalty provisions -  AB1189

Code of Ethics for Local Public Officials applied to certain members of district boards of a local professional baseball park district and a cultural arts district and definition of ``local government" clarified; statement of economic interests by candidates for joint municipal judgeship required before county clerk may certify candidate's name (remedial legislation)  - SB360

Government Accountability Board created and Enforcement Division provisions; Elections Board and Ethics Board abolished -  SB1

Health care provider or facility or employee who, in good faith, reports, initiates, or testifies in an action or proceeding re violations of laws or ethical standards by another health care provider or facility or employee: immunity from liability provided - AB1127