Tabled
Relating to: regulation of ferrous metallic mining and related activities, procedures for obtaining approvals from the Department of Natural Resources for the construction of utility facilities, making an appropriation, and providing penalties. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: extending the expenditure period for a tax incremental district in the city of Marinette. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the exclusion of veterinarians from the prescription drug monitoring program.
State and Local Finance
Relating to: modifying the requirements for sharing tax increments by tax incremental districts and limiting the participation of certain special purpose districts in tax incremental district financing. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: sales and property tax exemptions for property used by commercial radio and television stations. (FE)
Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage
Relating to: a catch-and-release only season for bass fishing. (FE)
Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage
Relating to: civil actions and zoning conditions related to noise that are applicable to bird hunting preserves.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: restrictions on hunting within a specified distance of hospitals, sanatoriums, or school grounds and restrictions imposed by local governmental units on hunting with a bow and arrow or crossbow.
Criminal Justice
Relating to: law enforcement officers who are on duty, off-duty law enforcement officers, and former law enforcement officers and going armed with firearms.
Criminal Justice
Relating to: representations depicting nude children and requiring sex offender registration for adults who commit the offense against a child who is under the age of 16. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: notification requirements for registered sex offenders who are on school premises and providing penalties. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: alcohol sale, possession, and consumption at Peninsula State Park.
Environment and Forestry
Relating to: methods of providing assistance under the Clean Water Fund Program and the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program and projects that are eligible for assistance under the Clean Water Fund Program. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: workforce training, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: payment of unemployment insurance benefits under a work-sharing program. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: a tax credit for hospitality business advertising. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the restoration of information from an original birth certificate after adoption. (FE)
Campaigns and Elections
Relating to: appointment and residency of election officials.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: torts and personal injury trusts. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the notice and degree requirements for the examination to practice as a certified public accountant.
Tabled
Relating to: the Department of Transportation's initial costs of production for special registration plates supporting the Lions Clubs of Wisconsin and supporting motorcycle safety. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: municipal court fees. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: funding postretirement health care benefits of local government employees.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the method of recounting votes cast with automatic tabulating equipment.
Transportation
Relating to: special distinguishing registration plates for motorcycles owned or leased by veterans with disabilities and providing a penalty. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: fees charged for access to public records. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: state agencies entering into contracts for legal services on a contingent fee basis. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: criteria for supervised release from commitment as sexually violent persons, placement of females committed as sexually violent persons, permitted outings under direct supervision for individuals on supervised release, and supervised release and discharge of individuals committed as sexually violent persons.
Judiciary
Relating to: collateral source payments.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the transportation in this state of game taken in another state or on Indian land.
Available for scheduling
Relating to: allowing American Indian tribes and bands to insure property under the local government property insurance fund.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: tribal treatment facility participation in the intoxicated driver program. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: extending the time period for counties to seek reimbursement from prisoners for expenses associated with confinement in jail. (FE)
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: the use of nuclear energy to comply with renewable portfolio standards and the time period for using credits to comply with such standards.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the effective date for licensing and registration requirements for electricians and electrical contractors. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: the authority and responsibilities of the Legislative Audit Bureau and state auditor, eliminating certain expired audit requirements, and requiring confidentiality during investigations of reports made to the state fraud, waste, and mismanagement hotline. (FE)
Available for scheduling
Relating to: requiring the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation to organize trade and marketing forums for Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III manufacturers and making an appropriation. (FE)
Agriculture, Small Business, and Tourism
Relating to: a manufacturer marketing assistance program for Wisconsin Tier II and Tier III manufacturers and making an appropriation. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: powers and duties of an electric transmission company and certificates of public convenience and necessity and permits for certain electric generating facilities and high-voltage transmission lines.
Vetoed in Part
Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2013 legislature. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: creating a local freight bridge program, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Education
Relating to: prohibiting the Milwaukee Public Schools from imposing residency requirements on teachers. (FE)
Transportation
Relating to: age and speed restrictions on, and safety certification requirements for, the operation of all-terrain vehicles and utility terrain vehicles.
Transportation
Relating to: creating an off-road vehicle council.
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: preference in state and local government contracts and procurement for materials manufactured in the United States. (FE)
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: regulation of metallic mining, an occupation tax on iron mining, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: entrepreneurial tax credit access grants.
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: state procurement of products and services from businesses located in this state and setting a goal for local government to purchase a certain percentage of products and services from businesses located in this state. (FE)
Workforce Development
Relating to: increasing the funding for grants to provide skills enhancement services and making an appropriation. (FE)
Workforce Development
Relating to: payment of unemployment insurance benefits under a work-sharing program. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: employment by a former member of the legislature as a lobbyist. (FE)
Workforce Development
Relating to: workforce growth grants to technical college districts and making an appropriation. (FE)
Insurance
Relating to: Medical Assistance for certain adults who are not currently eligible for traditional Medicaid or BadgerCare Plus. (FE)
Available for scheduling
Relating to: limiting the times for voting by absentee ballots in person.
Tabled
Relating to: designating and marking a specified highway route in the counties of Rock, Dane, Jefferson, Dodge, and Fond du Lac as the Rock River Trail Scenic and Historic Route. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: indication of veteran status on an operator's license or identification card and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Financial Institutions
Relating to: payments for losses of public deposits in failed or failing financial institutions. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: bank service corporations and credit union service organizations. (FE)
Calendar
Relating to: searches by a law enforcement officer of a person on probation, parole, or extended supervision. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: selection of student information system software vendors by the Department of Public Instruction.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: alcohol beverages violations involving underage persons on licensed premises.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the definition of intoxicant.
Financial Institutions
Relating to: an income and franchise tax credit for investments in a community development financial institution. (FE)
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: costs of replacement or relocation of certain municipal utility facilities required by the construction of a freeway and eligibility for the safe drinking water loan program. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: proof of motor vehicle liability insurance.
Tabled
Relating to: the vehicle registration exemption for amphibious motor vehicles. (FE)
Available for scheduling
Relating to: requiring persons accused of violating traffic laws and ordinances related to driving while intoxicated to appear in person in court. (FE)
Transportation, Public Safety, and Veterans and Military Affairs
Relating to: penalties for driving a vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant and providing a penalty. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: requiring a mandatory minimum sentence for causing bodily harm to another while driving while intoxicated and providing a penalty. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: mandatory period of confinement for homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle and providing a penalty. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: penalties for operating-while-intoxicated offenses and providing a penalty. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: seizure and forfeiture of motor vehicles used in certain operating-while-intoxicated offenses and providing a penalty. (FE)
State Affairs
Relating to: requiring certain information in state agency budget requests. (FE)
Available for scheduling
Relating to: increasing the crime victim and witness assistance surcharge, dedicating funds for crime prevention organizations, and creating local crime prevention funding boards. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: the applicability of a county shoreland zoning ordinance in a shoreland area annexed by, or incorporated as, a city or village.
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: a sales and use tax exemption for building materials that become a part of a facility for a local unit of government or nonprofit organization. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: reports by the Dwelling Code Council on the one- and two-family dwelling code. (FE)
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: an income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
Financial Institutions
Relating to: trust funds related to cemetery lots, mausoleum spaces, and cemetery merchandise.
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: creating a preference in state procurement for Wisconsin-based businesses. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: contracting with residential contractors.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: trafficking food stamp program benefits. (FE)
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: limiting the regulation of wind energy systems by local governments. (FE)
Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage
Relating to: exceptions to requirements for fishing licenses and aquatic plant management permits. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: changing the compensation structure by which a Milwaukee County supervisor may be paid, changing the term length of a Milwaukee County supervisor, affecting the right of an annuitant under the Milwaukee County Employee's Retirement System to be rehired by Milwaukee County, limiting the authority of Milwaukee County to enter into certain intergovernmental agreements, removing and clarifying some authority of the Milwaukee County board, increasing and clarifying the authority of the Milwaukee County executive, deleting obsolete statutory references, and requiring a referendum. (FE)
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: an exemption from the prevailing wage law for a public works project that is intended to facilitate the reuse of a vacant or underutilized industrial facility. (FE)
Ways and Means
Relating to: expanding and increasing the tax exemption for retirement plan income received by an individual. (FE)
Tourism
Relating to: authorizing the village of Stockholm to become a premier resort area. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the method of reporting election returns by municipalities.
Colleges and Universities
Relating to: posting contact information for each technical college district board member on the college's and technical college system's Internet sites.
Elections and Urban Affairs
Relating to: communications by members of the legislature.
Campaigns and Elections
Relating to: alternate sites for absentee voting in person.
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: an appeal or protest of a service contract award. (FE)
Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage
Relating to: use of dogs in hunting wolves.
Ways and Means
Relating to: adopting federal law as it relates to an income tax deduction for certain educators and creating an individual income tax deduction for educators who use their own funds to purchase classroom educational supplies. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: prohibiting certain telephone calls using electronically prerecorded messages, rules for requesting a listing in the nonsolicitation directory, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: the creation of a state 911 council.
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: calls to 911 made from multiline telephone systems.
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: funding for the state 911 telecommunications system and granting rule-making authority.
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: the state 911 grant program and granting rule-making authority.
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: state 911 telecommunications services and making an appropriation. (FE)
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: telecommunications subscriber records, proprietary information of certain communications providers, and updates to certain 911 telecommunications service databases.
Tabled
Relating to: designating and marking STH 128 as the 128th Infantry Memorial Highway. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: application of the open meetings law to legislative party caucuses.
Agriculture
Relating to: applications for farmland preservation agreements.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: municipal utility customer information.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: an entertainer's surety bond. (FE)
Small Business Development
Relating to: sales tax holidays in August and in November. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: fees for dental services.
Health and Human Services
Relating to: a pilot program to limit foods under FoodShare and providing an exemption from rule-making procedures. (FE)
Health
Relating to: requiring congenital heart defect screening in newborns and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: telecommunications systems installed on tower sites under the management and control of the Department of Natural Resources and the suspension of portions of a rule of the Department of Natural Resources.
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: a school district revenue limit adjustment for school safety. (FE)
State Affairs
Relating to: creating a veterans-themed lottery game, changing the primary source of funding for the veterans and surviving spouses property tax credit, and making appropriations. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: remittance transfers under the Uniform Commercial Code Article 4A, relating to funds transfers.
Ways and Means
Relating to: eliminating the estate tax. (FE)
Health
Relating to: examination and continuing education requirements for chiropractic licensure in this state. (FE)
Judiciary
Relating to: exceptions to the prohibition against firearms in school zones.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the regulation of oleoresin of capsicum in containers sold in this state. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: inadmissibility of a statement of apology or condolence by a health care provider.
Ways and Means
Relating to: creating an individual income tax deduction for certain contributions to a Coverdell Education Savings Account. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: changing the elements that must be included in a county development plan. (FE)
Education
Relating to: failure to report bullying in public schools and providing a penalty.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: inattentive driving and providing a penalty.
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: creation of an independent pardon council.
Education
Relating to: contracts for additional charter schools.
Ways and Means
Relating to: a property tax exemption for a nonprofit resale store. (FE)
Available for scheduling
Relating to: recall petition requirements.
Tabled
Relating to: increasing the allowable number of project plan amendments, and lengthening the time during which tax increments may be allocated and expenditures for project costs may be made, for Tax Incremental District Number 3 in the city of Wausau. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: the payment of travel expenses of national guard members on state active duty. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: the sale of lead acid batteries and acceptance of used lead acid batteries.
Ways and Means
Relating to: federalizing the treatment of capital losses. (FE)
Housing and Real Estate
Relating to: the applicability of the one-family and two-family dwelling code to certain structures used for camping and the exclusion of certain recreational vehicles and portable toilet systems from the definition of plumbing. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: financial aid for service members and their immediate families and making an appropriation. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: authorization for an additional deputy adjutant general in the department of military affairs.
Rules
Relating to: ratification of the state and province emergency management assistance compact.
Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage
Relating to: requiring an open season for woodchucks.
Corrections
Relating to: sales and transfers of firearms and providing a penalty. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the duty of physicians to inform patients of treatment options. (FE)
Small Business Development
Relating to: indemnification provisions in contracts for the sale of services.
Campaigns and Elections
Relating to: notice of certain political contributions made to a judge or justice.
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: an objective standard for the disqualification of a judge or justice.
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: disqualification of a judge or justice.
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: equally divided determinations of the Wisconsin Supreme Court on matters of judicial discipline or permanent disability.
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: judicial disqualification based on campaign financial support.
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: authority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court to review a decision of a justice to deny a motion to disqualify the justice.
Finance
Relating to: increasing the amount of the supplement to the federal historic rehabilitation tax credit. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: legislative consideration of nonfiscal policy items in the biennial budget bill. (FE)
Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage
Relating to: decoys placed in water for migratory game bird hunting.
Children and Families
Relating to: posttermination of parental rights contact between a child and a birth relative of the child; disclosure of the name and address of an out-of-home placement of a child; sharing of home study reports with another agency; elimination of home studies for certain proposed adoptive parents; disclosure of the name and last-known address of a proposed adoptive parent of a child to an agency that is determining the availability of an adoptive placement for a sibling of the child; providing full faith and credit to a tribal court proceeding for a suspension of parental rights or an adoption under tribal law or custom; and jurisdiction over and venue for an adoption petition. (FE)
Children and Families
Relating to: the right of a parent to have counsel in a proceeding for a child alleged to be in need of protection or services; the power of the juvenile court to appoint counsel in such a proceeding; and elimination of the right to a jury trial in such a proceeding or in a proceeding for termination of parental rights; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. (FE)
Children and Families
Relating to: children in need of protection or services jurisdiction over, and grounds for involuntary termination of parental rights to, a child under 3 years of age whose parent had an involuntary termination of parental rights within 3 years prior to the child's birth; reasonable efforts by an agency to return a child safely home when the child has been adjudged to be in need of protection or services; requirements for further participation in an action to terminate parental rights by a man alleged to be the child's father; revising certain grounds for an involuntary termination of parental rights and certain notice exceptions for an involuntary termination of parental rights proceeding; waiver of counsel for a parent in an involuntary termination of parental rights or a contested adoption proceeding; and requiring a parent's signature on a petition for postdispositional relief or a notice of appeal of a termination of parental rights order or a child in need of protection or services or paternity adjudication. (FE)
Judiciary
Relating to: an exception to the hearsay rule of evidence if a witness is unavailable.
Rules
Relating to: annual or consecutive month permits for vehicles or combinations of vehicles transporting loads near the Wisconsin-Michigan border. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: a sea lamprey control program.
Rules
Relating to: prohibiting certain computer messages or postings that invite harassment or obscene, lewd, or profane communication and providing a penalty. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: motor vehicle registration by the Department of Transportation, historic military vehicles, and Kei class vehicles. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: the homeownership mortgage loan program administered by the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority.
Tabled
Relating to: penalties for certain traffic offenses committed while sanitation workers are at risk from traffic and providing a penalty. (FE)
Insurance
Relating to: wrongful death of an unborn child. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: injunctions suspending or restraining the enforcement or execution statewide of a statute of this state.
Financial Institutions
Relating to: exemption from regulation for certain annuities and providing a penalty. (FE)
Transportation
Relating to: creating a vehicle registration exemption for motor vehicles held by garagekeepers that are operated for purposes of repair, service, or testing. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: local ordinances regarding possession of marijuana or a synthetic cannabinoid. (FE)
Transportation, Public Safety, and Veterans and Military Affairs
Relating to: certification cards to carry concealed weapons for residents of Wisconsin who formerly were employed as law enforcement officers in another state. (FE)
Enacted into law
Relating to: creating an individual income tax exemption for military income received by active duty members of the U.S. armed forces who die in a combat zone. (FE)
Ways and Means
Relating to: assessing property used for aging cheese as manufacturing property. (FE)
State Affairs
Relating to: allowing the town of Union in Eau Claire County to exceed its retail liquor license quota by issuing one additional retail license. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the consumption of alcohol beverages on commercial quadricycles and providing a penalty.
Ways and Means
Relating to: post-retirement employment of annuitants under the Wisconsin Retirement System, participation status under the Wisconsin Retirement System, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Available for scheduling
Relating to: jurisdiction in matters relating to domestic abuse restraining orders and injunctions, child abuse restraining orders and injunctions, and harassment restraining orders and injunctions. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: the prohibition on telephone solicitations to residential customers, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: special distinguishing registration plates associated with Wisconsin Trout Unlimited and making an appropriation. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: payment of county medical examiners and medical examiner's assistants.
Transportation, Public Safety, and Veterans and Military Affairs
Relating to: training standards for law enforcement officers regarding domestic abuse incidents and complaints, and law enforcement reports following a domestic abuse incident. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: temporary restraining orders and injunctions for domestic abuse, child abuse, individuals at risk, and harassment, confidential name change petitions, and ex parte orders with a judge substitution. (FE)
Colleges and Universities
Relating to: transferring technical college district assets, liabilities, and employees to the technical college system board; limiting the authority of technical college district boards and prohibiting them from levying property taxes; increasing the rate of the state sales tax and use tax, and requiring a referendum. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: operation of certain existing sport shooting ranges.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: private interests in Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation contracts.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: penalties and testing for operating-while-intoxicated offenses and providing a penalty. (FE)
Vetoed in Part
Relating to: venture capital investment program. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: the sale of homemade baked goods and homemade canned goods. (FE)
Insurance and Housing
Relating to: miscellaneous provisions related to rental and vehicle towing practices and eviction proceedings, prohibitions on enacting ordinances that place certain limitations or requirements on landlords, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: payment of interest on advances made by the federal government to the unemployment reserve fund and making an appropriation. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: legislative and congressional redistricting. (FE)
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: the police and fire protection fee imposed on certain communications services. (FE)
Judiciary and Labor
Relating to: admissibility of evidence of other acts of domestic abuse at a proceeding alleging an act of domestic abuse.
Financial Institutions
Relating to: priority of certain refinance mortgages. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: incorporations of villages and cities involving more than one town.
Rules
Relating to: travel, association, and residency conditions of release before trial for individuals charged with felony sexual assault of a child.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: theft of communication and video services, civil damages resulting from the theft of certain services, and providing penalties. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: the investigation of a child abuse report in which a person who is not a caregiver of the child is suspected of permitting, allowing, or encouraging the child to engage in prostitution. (FE)
Criminal Justice
Relating to: definition of trafficking of an individual under the age of 18.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the authority to hunt certain animals with a crossbow, establishing open seasons for hunting with a crossbow, and information required to be included on certain hunting license applications and certain hunting tags. (FE)
Ways and Means
Relating to: creating a refundable individual income tax credit for tuition expenses paid for dependents who attend certain public and private elementary and secondary schools. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: creating an incentive program for reporting fraud to a state hotline, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: utility aid payments to towns and counties for production plants that generate electricity from wind power. (FE)
Ways and Means
Relating to: a sales and use tax exemption for silver and gold. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: hunting, fishing, and trapping approvals issued to recipients of the purple heart medal. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the law governing repair, replacement, and refund under a motor vehicle warranty.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: giving certain veterans priority in registering for courses at the University of Wisconsin System.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: certification of election observers.
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: restricting the use of drones and providing a penalty. (FE)
Judiciary
Relating to: granting victims of certain offenses a right to be accompanied by a victim advocate.
Transportation
Relating to: the removal of nonconforming outdoor advertising signs along highways. (FE)
Available for scheduling
Relating to: special registration plates displaying the words Choose Life and making an appropriation. (FE)
Ways and Means
Relating to: the late payment of property taxes because of a medical emergency. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: special registration plates expressing support for the family members of law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty and making an appropriation. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: the prohibition against adults knowingly permitting or failing to take action to prevent the illegal consumption of alcohol beverages by underage persons.
Ways and Means
Relating to: uses of moneys in the budget stabilization fund.
Family Law
Relating to: a presumption that equalizing physical placement to the highest degree is in the child's best interest.
Judiciary and Labor
Relating to: seizure of property used in the crime of child enticement.
Criminal Justice
Relating to: battery to family member of a public officer, harassment of a legislator or his or her family, and providing penalties. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: ex parte communications in contested cases before the Public Service Commission.
Environment and Forestry
Relating to: the number of wastewater discharge permits required for a publicly owned sewage treatment facility or system.
Available for scheduling
Relating to: prohibiting the group insurance board from contracting for or providing abortion services and exempting religious employers, religious organizations, and religious institutions of higher education from contraceptive insurance coverage.
Available for scheduling
Relating to: civil liability for performing a sex-selective abortion, and providing a penalty. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: employer access to, and observation of, the personal Internet accounts of employees and applicants for employment; educational institution access to, and observation of, the personal Internet accounts of students and prospective students; landlord access to, and observation of, the personal Internet accounts of tenants and prospective tenants; and providing a penalty. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: various changes in the unemployment insurance law; license revocations based on delinquency in payment of unemployment insurance contributions; granting rule-making authority; providing a penalty; and making an appropriation. (FE)
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: annual financial audit of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.
Criminal Justice
Relating to: prohibition on certain bullets and providing a penalty. (FE)
Corrections
Relating to: ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines and providing a penalty. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: possession of dogs by certain felony offenders and providing a penalty. (FE)
Criminal Justice
Relating to: sale and use of fetal body parts and providing a penalty. (FE)
Elections and Urban Affairs
Relating to: various changes in the campaign finance laws; exemption of certain electors from the requirement to present proof of identification when voting in an election; identifying documentation to establish proof of residency for voter registration; recording the type of identifying document provided as proof of residence; limiting the times for voting by absentee ballot in person; the method of reporting election returns by municipalities; fees for election recounts; the method of recounting votes cast with automatic tabulating equipment; residency of election officials; recall petition requirements; the procedure for recounting ballots when electors voting in person are required to sign the poll list and fail to do so; challenging an elector's registration during recount proceedings; witness addresses on absentee ballot certificates; nominees submitted by the Government Accountability Board candidate committee; securing ballot containers; party representation for election officials serving at polling places; and scheduling of referendums. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: grants to technical college district boards under the Workforce Advancement Training Program. (FE)
Health
Relating to: requirements to perform abortions, requiring an ultrasound before informed consent for an abortion, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: board of directors, powers and duties, including reporting requirements, and financial audits of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: eligibility of certain employees who are affected by labor disputes for unemployment insurance benefits. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: animals believed to have been involved in fighting or being held as evidence.
Environment and Forestry
Relating to: a citation procedure applicable to wetland discharge violations, sturgeon spearing license issuance period, electronic methods for reporting natural resource and environmental law violations, publication of class 1 notices, air dispersion modeling requirements, and membership on the Dry Cleaner Environmental Response Council. (FE)
Health and Human Services
Relating to: an optional incentive program for counties and tribes that identify fraudulent activity in certain public assistance programs, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE)
Ways and Means
Relating to: repealing the changes made to the earned income tax credit in 2011 Wisconsin Act 32. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: highway maps published by the Department of Transportation. (FE)
Campaigns and Elections
Relating to: appointment and training of special registration deputies by county clerks and boards of election commissioners, employment of special registration deputies, and providing a penalty.
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: audits of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation by the Legislative Audit Bureau. (FE)
Insurance
Relating to: motor vehicle repair practices.
Insurance
Relating to: social and financial impact reports. (FE)
Consumer Protection
Relating to: prohibiting merchants from imposing credit card surcharges in consumer credit transactions.
Tabled
Relating to: experience requirements for real estate brokers and granting rule-making authority.
Labor
Relating to: requiring the payment of health insurance premiums, and establishing a loan program, for survivors of a law enforcement officer, emergency medical technician, or fire fighter who dies, or has died, in the line of duty and making appropriations. (FE)
Corrections
Relating to: charges for inmate telephone use at a jail or house of correction. (FE)
Judiciary
Relating to: increasing the rate paid to private attorneys for representing indigent clients. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: special distinguishing registration plates displaying the words In God We Trust and making an appropriation. (FE)
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: prohibiting abusive work environments and permitting a person who has been subjected to such an environment to bring a civil action.
Health
Relating to: expansion of accredited health care teaching institution facilities, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Health
Relating to: limitations on requiring and requesting vaccination against influenza. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: restricting the release of credit information about certain protected individuals and providing a penalty. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: instructional programs for nurse aides and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Criminal Justice
Relating to: creating an enhanced penalty for harassing, intimidating, or recklessly endangering a law enforcement officer, a fire fighter, an emergency medical technician, a first responder, or an ambulance driver, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Judiciary and Labor
Relating to: allowing a county to seek reimbursement for expenses incurred in confining a prisoner in jail. (FE)
Criminal Justice
Relating to: disposition of fetal remains and providing a penalty. (FE)
Judiciary
Relating to: restricting access to and limiting information contained in the Consolidated Court Automation Programs and providing a penalty. (FE)
Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage
Relating to: free admission to state parks and state trails for veterans. (FE)
Hold (Available for Scheduling)
Relating to: lengthening the time during which tax increments may be allocated and expenditures for project costs may be made for Tax Incremental District Number 1 in the village of Wales. (FE)
Colleges and Universities
Relating to: citations to underage persons for alcohol beverages violations and disciplinary sanctions against University of Wisconsin System students for such violations and providing penalties. (FE)
Judiciary
Relating to: exemption from civil liability for electric service providers.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: maintenance and removal of vegetation obstructing the view of outdoor advertising signs along highways under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: operation of farm tractors on highways.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: enrollment requirements for recipients of talent incentive grants. (FE)
Transportation
Relating to: registration of all-terrain vehicles and utility terrain vehicles used exclusively for agricultural purposes or used exclusively on private property. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: motor vehicle registration, motor carrier appeals, rulemaking procedures, and modifying and repealing various rules promulgated by the Department of Transportation. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: the state civil service. (FE)
Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage
Relating to: requirements for attaching a plate to an all-terrain vehicle or a utility terrain vehicle.
Criminal Justice
Relating to: the statute of limitations for sexual contact with a child.
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: exempting from the prevailing wage law a public works project that is subject to the federal Davis-Bacon Act. (FE)
Tourism
Relating to: the commencement of fall classes in public schools.
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: legislative vacancies.
Judiciary
Relating to: authorizing the circuit court to order a person who engages in discrimination in employment, unfair honesty testing, or unfair genetic testing to pay compensatory and punitive damages. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: additional providers in the volunteer health care provider program and proof of financial responsibility and malpractice insurance requirements for certain advanced practice nurses serving as volunteer health care providers. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: corporate powers of Marine Corps League corporations. (FE)
Insurance
Relating to: requiring distribution of autism-related information, providing funding for the Medical Assistance autism benefit, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Criminal Justice
Relating to: obtaining a search warrant for certain civil violations. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: aiding a felon and providing penalties. (FE)
Transportation
Relating to: requiring approval by a municipal governing body before construction of highway roundabouts. (FE)
Transportation
Relating to: penalties for motor vehicle safety belt and child restraint system violations and providing a penalty.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: rule-making procedures and modifying and repealing various rules promulgated by the Department of Financial Institutions. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: definition of common motor carrier. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: knowledge tests for commercial driver license applicants who hold a military commercial driver license. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: warning lights on police vehicles.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: warning lights on school buses.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the length of vehicles that may be operated on the highway without an overlength permit. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: commercial motor vehicle out-of-service violations. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the length limit for certain vehicle combinations operated on the highway without a permit. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: deadlines for claiming lottery prizes, motor vehicle fuel bulk plants, repealing the woodland tax, property tax publications, the manufacturing and agriculture tax credit, manufacturing property tax assessment objections, and reporting capital stock transfers. (FE)
Environment and Forestry
Relating to: methods of establishing proof of financial responsibility for the closure and long-term care of a landfill. (FE)
Agriculture
Relating to: the sale of unpasteurized milk products and an exemption from rules and licensing and permitting requirements for certain dairy farms. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: county payments to public libraries in adjacent counties. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: authorizing a city or village to require the Department of Revenue to redetermine the value of the tax incremental base of certain tax incremental districts. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: an expenditure of $90,000 from the general fund for payment of a claim against the state made by Robert Lee Stinson. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: requirements concerning barbering and cosmetology licensure. (FE)
Aging and Long-Term Care
Relating to: therapeutic alternate drug selections in nursing homes, performance of patient services by a pharmacist, and the practice of pharmacy.
Health
Relating to: requiring an official at a youth athletic activity to complete an online training program on concussions.
Judiciary
Relating to: the number of jurors in felony cases. (FE)
Available for scheduling
Relating to: special distinguishing registration plates associated with the ALS Association and making an appropriation. (FE)
Judiciary
Relating to: inadmissibility of a statement of apology or condolence by a health care provider.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the use of race-based nicknames, logos, mascots, and team names by school boards.
Finance
Relating to: creation of a Wisconsin election campaign fund, making appropriations, and providing penalties. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: requiring the Family Care benefit and self-directed services option to be provided in certain northeastern Wisconsin counties. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: increasing funding for domestic abuse grants and making an appropriation. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: defaults on payday loans and loans by licensed lenders.
Finance
Relating to: the engagement of engineering and similar services by the Department of Transportation. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for interest paid on certain student loans. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: grants for farm to school programs and making an appropriation. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: grazing lands conservation grants and making an appropriation. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: monitoring industrial sand mining and processing operations and making an appropriation. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: eligible applicants under the broadband expansion grant program.
Finance
Relating to: reduction of local levy limit by amount of certain fee revenue received. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: requiring the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation to disclose certain expenditure information and information relating to contracts and grants. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: unclassified division administrators in the state civil service system. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: Medicaid expansion, eligibility, and other changes to BadgerCare Plus, and making appropriations. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: providing services to children on the waiting list for the Children's Long-term Support waiver programs and making an appropriation. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: family planning services provided through the Medical Assistance program. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: eliminating the collection of deoxyribonucleic acid at arrest. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: expungement of deoxyribonucleic acid from crime laboratories if person not adjudicated guilty or delinquent. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: family planning services and making an appropriation. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: sale or lease of state property.
Finance
Relating to: sale or lease of the state capitol or capitol park.
Finance
Relating to: sale or lease of property located within Camp Randall.
Finance
Relating to: the process for sale of state-owned real property.
Finance
Relating to: sale or lease of certain state-owned real property that was acquired, constructed, and improved with gift, grant, or federal funds.
Finance
Relating to: collective bargaining over workplace safety for employees of the Department of Corrections.
Finance
Relating to: the reduction in school aid to the Milwaukee Public Schools to offset costs of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: the expulsion of pupils from a private school participating in a parental choice program and granting rule-making authority.
Finance
Relating to: high school graduation requirements for pupils attending a private school under a parental choice program.
Finance
Relating to: assessing pupils in private schools participating in a parental choice program for reading readiness.
Finance
Relating to: the requirements for participation in a parental choice program and the percentage of pupils who may attend a private school under such a program.
Finance
Relating to: requiring that a private school participating in a parental choice program be located in this state.
Finance
Relating to: attendance at a public school of pupils enrolled in home-based private educational programs. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: a part-time open enrollment program for public school pupils. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: study of options for state employee health insurance coverage.
Finance
Relating to: the authority of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System to charge students mandatory refundable fees.
Finance
Relating to: repealing the changes made to local residency requirements in 2013 Wisconsin Act 20.
Finance
Relating to: restoring indexing provisions to the homestead tax credit. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: remedies against manufacturers, distributors, sellers, and promoters of a product.
Finance
Relating to: funding for Wisconsin higher education grants for University of Wisconsin System students and making appropriations. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: funding for Wisconsin higher education grants for technical college students and making appropriations. (FE)
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: allowing refunds for the early stage seed and angel investment tax credits and having the Department of Administration administer the credits and making an appropriation. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: violation of motor vehicle salvage dealer licensing requirements and providing a penalty.
State Affairs
Relating to: an official state language, use of English for governmental written expression, acquiring language proficiency, and use of languages for nongovernmental purposes.
Workforce Development, Forestry, Mining, and Revenue
Relating to: setoffs against tax refunds for debts related to providing ambulance services. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: prohibiting consideration of the conviction record of an applicant for employment before the applicant has been selected for an interview.
Rules
Relating to: the distribution by schools of a concussion and head injury information sheet and the participation by pupils in a youth athletic activity.
State Affairs
Relating to: taste samples of intoxicating liquor provided on certain retail licensed premises.
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: installation of smart meters by certain public utilities and cooperative associations. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: penalties for violation of certain moped dealer and recreational vehicle dealer requirements and providing a penalty.
Rules
Relating to: motorcycle operator's licenses and rider courses. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: substitute special education teachers and paraprofessional staffing services. (FE)
Transportation
Relating to: authorizing the creation of a Fox Cities regional transit authority and making appropriations. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: exemptions from securities registration requirements. (FE)
Workforce Development
Relating to: funding and position authority for vocational rehabilitation services and making an appropriation. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: allowing placement of net pens in navigable waters under a statewide general permit and exceptions for certain requirements that apply to fish farms. (FE)
Campaigns and Elections
Relating to: the scope of regulated activity under the campaign finance law, public financing of elections for certain state offices, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, making appropriations, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Campaigns and Elections
Relating to: political disbursements and obligations by corporations and cooperative associations.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: annual or consecutive month permits for vehicles or combinations of vehicles transporting loads near the Wisconsin-Michigan border. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: a grant for the relocation of a county trunk highway in Manitowoc and Sheboygan counties and making an appropriation. (FE)
Criminal Justice
Relating to: penalty enhancer for certain crimes committed on the premises of a gas station if actor is armed and providing a penalty. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: exclusion of certain independent contractors from coverage under the worker's compensation law and the unemployment insurance law.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to lease state forest land to the Boulder Junction Shooting Range for terms not exceeding 30 years. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: emergency detention, involuntary commitment, and privileged communications and information.
Criminal Justice
Relating to: granting immunity from certain criminal prosecutions for a person who seeks aid for another person.
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: eliminating study on consolidating the Department of Safety and Professional Services and the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. (FE)
Financial Institutions
Relating to: regulation by local ordinance of residential mortgage loans.
Insurance
Relating to: eliminating the requirement that the Group Insurance Board offer to state employees a health care coverage option that consists of a high-deductible health insurance plan and a health savings account. (FE)
Insurance
Relating to: eliminating certain proposed changes to the Medical Assistance program and BadgerCare Plus that have not been approved by the federal government. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: various changes in the unemployment insurance law. (FE)
Judiciary
Relating to: statutes of limitation on claims involving property damage and on claims arising from a motor vehicle accident and covered by a motor vehicle insurance policy.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: purchases or transfers of rifles or shotguns in other states.
Finance
Relating to: regulation of off-highway vehicles, creating an off-highway vehicle council, granting rule-making authority, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, making appropriations, and providing penalties. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: allowing pupils in grades 7 and 8 to earn high school credit.
Rules
Relating to: mortgage satisfaction and an exception to the real estate transfer fee. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: an exemption from the county property tax levy for municipalities on Madeline Island and Washington Island that levy taxes for airports or for public health or economic development services. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: electronic delivery by property and casualty insurers of notices and documents.
Labor
Relating to: deletion of the waiting period for collection of unemployment insurance benefits. (FE)
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: development opportunity zones for areas experiencing mass layoffs or business closings. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the net worth method of providing proof of financial responsibility for certain solid waste facilities.
Education
Relating to: accountability provisions for private schools participating in a parental choice program and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
Campaigns and Elections
Relating to: reporting of the principal place of employment of certain individuals who make political contributions.
Education
Relating to: the student information system, a school and school district accountability system, low-performing schools and school districts, and charter school contracts. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: a cumulative preference system for sturgeon spearing permits and the transfer of a sturgeon spearing license to a minor. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: the definitions of an all-terrain vehicle and a utility terrain vehicle, restrictions on operating an all-terrain vehicle or a utility terrain vehicle on a roadway, and seating requirements for utility terrain vehicles.
Education
Relating to: the school district levy for community programs and services. (FE)
Judiciary
Relating to: criminal procedure and providing penalties.
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: exceptions to the prohibition of release of customer information by a municipal utility.
Tourism
Relating to: changes to the local room tax. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: the effect of changes in requirements for development-related permits or authorizations on persons who apply for the permits or authorizations.
Rules
Relating to: the age at which a person who is alleged to have violated a criminal law, a civil law, or a municipal ordinance and who is not alleged to have committed certain violent offences or has not previously been convicted of a crime or adjudicated delinquent is subject to juvenile court jurisdiction. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: traffic violations resulting in harm to vulnerable highway users, driver education instruction, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Transportation, Public Safety, and Veterans and Military Affairs
Relating to: the maximum speed limit on freeways and expressways. (FE)
Education
Relating to: parental notification for questioning pupils about criminal activity.
Rules
Relating to: the display and sale of novelty lighters and providing a penalty. (FE)
Insurance
Relating to: copayments, deductibles, or coinsurance for oral chemotherapy and injected or intravenous chemotherapy. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: residency of election officials.
Rules
Relating to: labeling of duplicate ballots.
State Affairs
Relating to: creation of a Joint Committee on State Mandates and required funding of state mandates. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: absentee voting at residential care facilities. (FE)
Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage
Relating to: shining wild animals.
Tabled
Relating to: technical excellence higher education scholarships, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: career and technical education incentive grants and making an appropriation. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: participation in certain training by unemployment insurance claimants, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: a Transitional Jobs program. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: local youth apprenticeship grants and making an appropriation. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: a tuition reimbursement program for apprentices and employers, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: examination requirements for various professional credentials and powers of the Board of Nursing. (FE)
Family Law
Relating to: relinquishing custody of a newborn child. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: controlled substances, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: snowmobile registration, trail use sticker requirements, and funding for supplemental snowmobile trail aids. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: a dental hygienist's administration of nitrous oxide inhalation analgesia and practice of dental hygiene. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: investigation of deaths involving a law enforcement officer. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: nonconforming uses and manufactured home communities.
Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage
Relating to: limitation of a property owner's liability when lands are used for noncommercial aviation.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: exemption of outside salespersons from the minimum wage law.
Ways and Means
Relating to: income and franchise tax credits for insulating concrete forms used to construct a building. (FE)
Retirement Systems
Relating to: purchase of military service under the Wisconsin Retirement System. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: changing the method by which a municipality may collect the costs of razing a building from a property owner. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: the sharing of tax increments. (FE)
Available for scheduling
Relating to: authorizing the city of Milwaukee to sell eligible school facilities to eligible purchasers. (FE)
Elections and Urban Affairs
Relating to: fees for election recounts.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: counting votes for write-in candidates.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: providing a printed name for signers of nomination papers and petitions.
Transportation
Relating to: eligibility for disaster damage aids paid by the Department of Transportation. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: raffles that involve the racing of plastic or rubber ducks. (FE)
Criminal Justice
Relating to: impoundment of motor vehicle registration plates for certain operating while intoxicated and other offenses and providing a penalty. (FE)
Environment and Forestry
Relating to: the sale, collection, and recycling of mercury-added thermostats, the disposal of mercury-added products, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: the maximum width of, and projecting loads on, vehicles carrying poles, pipe, girders, and similar materials.
Rules
Relating to: special registration plates honoring this state's support of the United States Olympic Committee and making an appropriation. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: the price of a Class A raffle ticket.
Aging and Long-Term Care
Relating to: requiring the Family Care benefit and self-directed services option to be provided in certain northeastern Wisconsin counties. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: requirements for persons officiating at a marriage.
Tabled
Relating to: disclosing ownership of a dam to prospective buyers of certain real property and updating disclosure reports for certain real property.
Urban Education
Relating to: awarding grants to certain rural school districts, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: the purchase of food by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin-System. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: the authority and responsibilities of the Department of Safety and Professional Services and the various boards under that department, the membership of the Cosmetology Examining Board, professional licensure of pharmacists, the Pharmacy Examining Board's operation of the prescription drug monitoring program, authorizing the construction, installation, alteration, operation, and inspection of elevators and other similar conveyances, and licensing requirements for elevator mechanics, inspectors, and contractors. (FE)
Education
Relating to: school bullying, unlawful use of computer systems, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: admission of minors for inpatient treatment. (FE)
Health
Relating to: requiring county community programs board appointees to include consumers, family members of consumers, law enforcement personnel, and hospital employees or representatives and increasing the size of county community programs boards.
Criminal Justice
Relating to: disabled offender recidivism reduction pilot programs, and making an appropriation.
Rules
Relating to: the sales and use tax exemption for aircraft parts, maintenance, and labor. (FE)
Workforce Development, Forestry, Mining, and Revenue
Relating to: the public disclosure of licensed dry cleaners.
Tabled
Relating to: vapor recovery system removal grants.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: information on a person who is required to register as a sex offender and notification of law enforcement when certain sex offenders change residential addresses. (FE)
Aging and Long-Term Care
Relating to: an alert system for missing adults at risk and reports to law enforcement regarding missing persons. (FE)
Children and Families
Relating to: the unexplained absence of a child receiving care from a child care provider.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: fees imposed on the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste at licensed solid waste and hazardous waste disposal facilities. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: identification presentation and monitoring for certain prescription drugs. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: training and agreements for administering the drug naloxone, requiring emergency medical technicians to carry naloxone, and immunity for certain individuals who administer naloxone. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: granting immunity from certain criminal prosecutions for offenses relating to a controlled substance or a controlled substance analog.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: programs for the disposal of drugs, including controlled substances, and certain medical or drug-related items, and the regulation of prescription drugs. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: coverage of certain individuals engaged in sales activity outside a permanent retail establishment under the unemployment insurance law. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: grants for crisis intervention team training and making an appropriation. (FE)
Health
Relating to: creating a mechanism for an interested person to request an emergency stabilization and providing a penalty. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: child psychiatry consultation program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: uses and disclosures of protected health information. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: creation of a primary care and psychiatry shortage grant program, exempting from taxation amounts received from such a grant program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: grants to counties to contract for peer-run respite centers and making an appropriation. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: reporting on county performance on providing core mental health services and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
Available for scheduling
Relating to: providing grants to counties that offer treatment and diversion programs to people with mental illnesses and making an appropriation. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: mental health benefits and reimbursement for mental health services under the Medical Assistance program. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: individual placement and support program for employment of individuals experiencing mental illness and making an appropriation. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: grants to mental health mobile crisis units and making an appropriation. (FE)
Children and Families
Relating to: the refund setoff for state debt collections. (FE)
Hold (Available for Scheduling)
Relating to: distributing a sexually explicit image without consent and providing a penalty. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: nitrogen oxide emission standards for certain simple cycle combustion turbines. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: providing notice of firearm prohibition when serving notice for certain injunction hearings and process for surrendering firearms following the granting of certain injunctions. (FE)
Children and Families
Relating to: causing harm to a child by cosleeping while intoxicated, providing information about cosleeping while intoxicated, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: state procurement and construction contracts with disabled veteran-owned businesses. (FE)
Judiciary and Labor
Relating to: court orders regarding the installation of an ignition interlock device. (FE)
Aging and Long-Term Care
Relating to: admission of Family Care enrollees to mental health institutes and making an appropriation. (FE)
Veterans
Relating to: vehicle admission receipts issued to certain members of the U.S. armed forces and to certain members of the national guard. (FE)
Retirement Systems
Relating to: increasing the minimum retirement age under the Wisconsin Retirement System. (FE)
Retirement Systems
Relating to: determination of final average earnings for the purpose of calculating Wisconsin Retirement System annuities. (FE)
Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage
Relating to: transfer of certain fish and game approvals to persons with disabilities. (FE)
Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage
Relating to: transfer of Class A bear licenses to persons awarded the Purple Heart or serving on active duty in the U.S. armed forces.
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: establishing a nanotechnology information hub and a nanotechnology council. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: required general fund structural balance. (FE)
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: local regulation of nonmetallic mining; local regulation of air quality; local regulation of water quality; local regulation of the use of explosives in mining, quarrying, and related activities; highway use contracts by local governments; and local regulation of borrow sites and material disposal sites for transportation projects of the Department of Transportation. (FE)
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: entrepreneurial assistance grants and making an appropriation.
State and Local Finance
Relating to: expanding the authority of towns to create tax incremental financing districts. (FE)
Consumer Protection
Relating to: penalties for violating provisions related to lead poisoning and exposure and providing a penalty.
Insurance
Relating to: medical use of marijuana, the regulation of marijuana distribution organizations, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, making appropriations, and providing a penalty. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: a minimum tax on tobacco products, placement of cigarettes or tobacco products by retailers, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: law enforcement standards and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
Urban and Local Affairs
Relating to: local ordinances regulating borrow sites and material disposal sites for certain transportation projects. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: the carry-back of net operating losses, the sales and use tax exemption for commercial printing, the jobs tax credit, the electronic medical records credit, the manufacturing and agriculture credit, and the relocated business credit. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the sale of eggs.
Criminal Justice
Relating to: crimes against animals.
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: exempting from the prevailing wage law public works projects erected, constructed, repaired, remodeled, or demolished for a school district or for a cooperative educational service agency. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: involuntary commitment proceedings and limited appearance by corporation counsel. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: the number of mathematics and science credits required for a high school diploma.
Tabled
Relating to: the laws of trusts, the Uniform Trust Code, the Uniform Principal and Income Act, powers of appointment, and changes to estate recovery and divestment provisions relating to public assistance programs. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: indexing for inflation of, and making other changes to, the college savings plan income tax deduction. (FE)
Transportation
Relating to: motor vehicle adaptive equipment for drivers with physical disabilities and providing a penalty. (FE)
Elections and Urban Affairs
Relating to: exemption of certain electors from the requirement to present proof of identification when voting in an election and use of veterans identification cards as proof of identification.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the waiver of fees imposed on waste disposed of at a solid or hazardous waste disposal facility. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: the definition of human trafficking.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: releases of customer information by municipal utilities.
Available for scheduling
Relating to: a higher wild animal protection surcharge for certain animals of a larger size. (FE)
Colleges and Universities
Relating to: student loans, the individual income tax subtract modification for tuition and student fees, creating an authority, to be known as the Wisconsin Student Loan Refinancing Authority, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Housing and Real Estate
Relating to: exempting certain one- and two-family dwellings from the requirements of having smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors and from standards and rules relating to plumbing.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: emergency detention pilot program in Milwaukee County. (FE)
Campaigns and Elections
Relating to: the form and content of certain communications made for political purposes.
Health
Relating to: the use of an epinephrine auto-injector on school premises or at a school-sponsored activity.
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: cosmetologist training hours and exemption of makeup artists from barbering and cosmetology licensure requirements. (FE)
Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage
Relating to: public access to managed forest land that is located in a proposed mining site. (FE)
Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage
Relating to: issuance of wild turkey hunting licenses to qualified resident and nonresident landowners. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: professional land surveyors; the practice of professional land surveying; surveying land abutting navigable waters; various changes regarding platting, surveying, and certified survey maps; and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Education
Relating to: directing school boards to provide instruction about the recent history of the Hmong people.
Consumer Protection
Relating to: permitting a funeral establishment to be located in a cemetery, prohibiting discrimination against a funeral establishment that has no relationship with a cemetery, prohibiting discrimination against a cemetery that has no relationship with a funeral establishment, and eliminating a property tax exemption for cemetery authority property. (FE)
Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage
Relating to: an exemption for recipients of the purple heart medal from the cumulative preference system for issuing wild turkey hunting licenses and tags.
Rules
Relating to: the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation's officers, committees, and reporting obligations.
Rules
Relating to: use of special identification cards for persons with physical disabilities. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: expanding the requirement of county board approval of a town amendment of its zoning ordinances. (FE)
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: dry cask storage of spent fuel from nuclear power plants and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Health
Relating to: requiring legislation for agencies to take an action to, request federal moneys to, and use state moneys to assist the federal government to create or implement a health benefit exchange. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: rule-making procedures and repealing various rules promulgated by the Department of Workforce Development.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: rule-making procedures and modifying certain rules promulgated by the Department of Workforce Development for the administration of the laws governing traveling sales crews.
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: the appointment and term of service of the secretary of natural resources and vacancies on the Natural Resources Board.
Finance
Relating to: awards for the victims of crimes and making an appropriation. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: resolution of claims against the state for wrongful imprisonment of innocent persons, exempting from taxation certain amounts an individual receives from the claims board or legislature, health benefits for wrongfully imprisoned persons, and making appropriations. (FE)
Judiciary
Relating to: removing certain information contained in the Consolidated Court Automation Programs Internet site. (FE)
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: grants for hiring new employees and making an appropriation. (FE)
State and Local Finance
Relating to: requiring a city, village, town, or county to share with overlying taxation jurisdictions certain payments for potential services received from a tax-exempt entity. (FE)
Judiciary and Labor
Relating to: interest rates on judgments in small claims actions.
Judiciary
Relating to: expunging a record of a conviction or adjudication of delinquency if the offender was a victim of human trafficking.
Hold (Available for Scheduling)
Relating to: creating a property tax exemption for a nonprofit youth baseball association. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: reasonable accommodation of any condition of an employee that is related to pregnancy or childbirth and of an employee's inability to adequately undertake the job-related responsibilities of a particular job because of pregnancy, childbirth, or a related condition.
Transportation
Relating to: the operation of all-terrain vehicles and utility terrain vehicles on highways for the purpose of certain types of access and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Transportation
Relating to: special distinguishing registration plates displaying the words Support Planned Parenthood and making an appropriation. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: employment discrimination on the basis of family status. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: reporting deaths; death investigations and other duties of coroners and medical examiners; disposition of bodies; creating a medicolegal investigation examining board; licensure of coroners, medical examiners, and medicolegal investigation staff members; granting rule-making authority; making an appropriation; and providing penalties. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: creation of a wage council to study and make recommendations concerning increases in the living wage and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: changing the names, Wisconsin higher education grants, and tuition grants, to Wisconsin grants.
Rules
Relating to: school district bonds, promissory notes, and state trust fund loans.
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: the procedure for deciding certain claims against the state filed with the claims board and making appropriations.
Tabled
Relating to: prohibiting municipalities from providing alcohol beverages retailers with identification scanners.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: prohibition on tracking the location of a cellular telephone by law enforcement without a warrant. (FE)
State and Local Finance
Relating to: creation of a neighborhood improvement district. (FE)
Small Business Development
Relating to: modifying the jobs credit to provide an increased credit to small businesses. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: emergency vehicles operated as escorts for vehicle processions.
Family Law
Relating to: a presumption that equalizing physical placement to the highest degree is in the child's best interest and child support changes, including prohibiting basing support on income over $150,000 per year, deducting the amount of health insurance premiums from the support amount, prohibiting increasing support above the standard amount, prohibiting orders that set minimum future support amounts, and requiring a support revision if there has been a substantial change in circumstances. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: the sales and use tax exemption for equipment used in a fertilizer blending, feed milling, or grain drying operation. (FE)
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: a state minimum wage, permitting the enactment of local living wage ordinances, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
Campaigns and Elections
Relating to: public financing of campaigns for the office of justice of the supreme court, making appropriations, and providing penalties. (FE)
Health
Relating to: a pupil's possession and use of an epinephrine auto-injector.
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: disinfection of drinking water supplied by a municipal water system. (FE)
State and Local Finance
Relating to: short-term tax incremental districts and expenditure of tax increments for relocation of commercial or industrial enterprises. (FE)
State and Local Finance
Relating to: disseminating information about a tax incremental district's annual budget and value increment, requiring a political subdivision to evaluate a tax incremental district's performance, increasing the amount that a political subdivision may add to its levy limit upon the dissolution of a tax incremental financing district, and extending the life and expenditure period for certain tax incremental financing districts. (FE)
State and Local Finance
Relating to: expanding the definition of project costs to include certain cash payments with regard to a tax incremental financing district. (FE)
Urban Education
Relating to: authorizing independent charter schools, eliminating instrumentality charter schools, establishing magnet schools, replication process for certain operators of charter schools, and utilizing an alternative process for educator effectiveness. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: requirements and local ordinances related to certificates of food protection practices. (FE)
Children and Families
Relating to: smoking in private residences that are used as child care centers. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the definition and practice of dentistry for professional licensing purposes.
Judiciary
Relating to: arbitration agreements used by long-term care facilities, civil and criminal actions against health care providers and long-term care providers, use in civil and criminal actions and confidentiality of incident and occurrence reports, use as evidence of records given to a regulatory agency, use in criminal actions of records of reviews and evaluations of health care providers, limits on noneconomic damages, limits on punitive damages, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: creating a statewide program to review child deaths and providing a penalty. (FE)
Education
Relating to: standards for admission into a course offered by a school district of a pupil enrolled in a home-based private educational program.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: strip searches. (FE)
Available for scheduling
Relating to: eliminating an obsolete statutory provision.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: resolving an ambiguity relating to carrying a firearm in certain public buildings (Correction Bill).
Enacted into Law
Relating to: special group plates for women veterans, vehicle title information provided to county registers of deeds, the issuance of more than one motor vehicles operator's license to a person, location of emissions inspection stations, and insurance registration for motor carriers operating in multiple jurisdictions (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Transportation). (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: juries in criminal cases and contents of registers of officials.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: affecting various provisions of the statutes to correct errors and reconcile conflicts (Corrections Bill).
Enacted into Law
Relating to: affecting various provisions of the statutes to make corrections and reconcile conflicts (Corrections Bill).
Enacted into Law
Relating to: fixing an incorrect cross-reference under the statute of limitations for repeated sexual assault of the same child; numbers of subsections; sexual assault of a child; suspension of license to carry a concealed weapon if the person is prohibited from possessing a dangerous weapon as a condition of release when charged with a felony or misdemeanor (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Justice).
Enacted into Law
Relating to: revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of supplying omissions and eliminating defects (Correction Bill).
Enacted into Law
Relating to: repealing the schedule of election occurrences.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: minors acknowledging paternity; service of the summons and petition in a paternity action when the respondent is deceased; the form for a paternity action summons; releasing a frozen bank account of a support obligor; determining eligibility for Wisconsin Shares; notices to, and the exercise of rights by, a guardian ad litem in an unborn child in need of protection or services proceeding; requiring a diligent investigation by an agency that receives a report of child abuse or neglect if the agency cannot identify an individual who is suspected of the abuse or neglect; eliminating a voluntary foster care education program; the prohibition against a person who has committed armed robbery from showing that he or she has been rehabilitated for purposes of being licensed, certified, or contracted with to provide child care (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Children and Families).
Enacted into Law
Relating to: access to public records (suggested as remedial legislation by the Legislative Reference Bureau).
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the effective date of administrative rules promulgated by state agencies (suggested as remedial legislation by the Legislative Reference Bureau).
Enacted into Law
Relating to: revising various provisions of the statutes to make corrections and reconcile conflicts (Correction Bill).
Tabled
Relating to: extended out-of-home care to 21 years of age for children with individualized education programs, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Ways and Means
Relating to: providing a grant to the city of Milwaukee and making an appropriation. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: exam and other requirements for instructors in cosmetology, barbering, aesthetics, manicuring, and electrology and continuing education requirements for cosmetologists. (FE)
Education
Relating to: requiring school board members to complete an orientation and training program. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: designation of agricultural enterprise areas. (FE)
Health
Relating to: psychiatric and behavioral care and treatment for individuals with dementia, dementia care units, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: objecting to property tax assessments. (FE)
Available for scheduling
Relating to: traffic control at nonfunctioning or malfunctioning traffic control signals.
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: administrative and civil penalties for failure to pay the minimum wage and providing a penalty.
Labor
Relating to: health care benefits plans for school districts.
Rules
Relating to: authorizing the transfer of certain tax credits earned in connection with economic development in this state.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: advertising related to adoption or other permanent physical placements of a child, delegation of parental power regarding the care and custody of a child for more than one year, unauthorized interstate placements of children, requesting a study of adoption disruption and dissolution, and providing penalties. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Professional Employees in Research, Statistics, and Analysis for the 2013-14 fiscal year, covering employees in the professional research, statistics, and analysis collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Attorneys Association for the 2013-14 fiscal year, covering employees in the professional legal collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Service Employees International Union, for the 2013-14 fiscal year, covering employees in the professional patient care collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Building Trades Negotiating Committee, for the 2013-14 fiscal year, covering employees in the building trades crafts collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, for the 2013-14 fiscal year, covering employees in the professional education collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
Education
Relating to: use of the state's student information system by a private school participating in a parental choice program.
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: the return of federal funds to the federal government.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: issuance by a first class city of a license for a retail food establishment and a permit for a restaurant or bed and breakfast establishment.
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: board of directors of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.
Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage
Relating to: regulating certain rafting outfitters.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: solicitation of a fee by a business or individual for a public record, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: rule-making procedures and repealing administrative rules relating to the estate tax and the county operating levy rate limit.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: renewable energy portfolio standards.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: Public Service Commission certificates for certain activities; tampering with telecommunications or electric wires; regulation of pay telephone service providers and cable television telecommunications service providers; accident reporting by telecommunications utilities; the definition of transmission facility; availability of public utility rate schedules; and rule-making procedures.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: renewable resource credits, removal of certain natural gas service laterals, natural gas public utility service in municipalities, and granting rule-making authority.
Public Safety and Homeland Security
Relating to: inclusion in the economic impact analysis for a proposed rule an assessment of the impact that the proposed rule will have on public health and the environment. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: changing the method for charging interest that may be charged on special assessments and changing the interest rate paid on claims for certain unlawfully assessed property taxes and creating an exception for local levy limits. (FE)
Available for scheduling
Relating to: rule-making procedures and modifying and repealing various administrative rules promulgated by the Department of Public Instruction.
Tabled
Relating to: the furnishing of intoxicating liquor taste samples at certain retailer trade association events.
Tabled
Relating to: creating an exception to the prohibition against underage persons entering or being on premises operating under a retail alcohol beverage license.
Environment and Forestry
Relating to: an exemption from wetland permitting and mitigation requirements for a discharge into a wetland located in the city of Sturgeon Bay.
Campaigns and Elections
Relating to: providing proof of residence when registering to vote.
Labor
Relating to: authorizing the circuit court to order a person who engages in discrimination in employment on the basis of military service to pay compensatory and punitive damages. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: cooperation of Wisconsin licensed real estate brokers with out-of-state real estate brokers, salespersons, and time-share salespersons, powers of out-of-state brokers, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the number of nomination paper signatures required for city-wide offices in second class and third class cities.
Consumer Protection
Relating to: manufacture and sale of food and beverage containers that contain bisphenol A and providing penalties. (FE)
Insurance
Relating to: network status or affiliation based on influenza vaccination status.
Children and Families
Relating to: physical education in public schools. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: changing the timing of eligibility changes and other changes to BadgerCare Plus. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: the provision of compensatory time off in lieu of overtime compensation by private employers. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: allowing a victim of a crime to view portions of a presentence investigation report.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: modifying the duties of a county clerk; the counties in which a board of election commissioners is required; and staffing of a board of election commissioners in populous counties. (FE)
Transportation
Relating to: railroad track clearance and railroad walkways and providing a penalty. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: allowing municipal prisoners to be imprisoned in a bordering county within or outside of the state. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: prohibiting the collection of a pupil's biometric data and the use of any device to assess a pupil's physiological or emotional state.
Education
Relating to: directing the Department of Public Instruction to establish model academic standards and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Education
Relating to: the student information system, the disclosure of personally identifiable student data, and the disclosure of pupil records. (FE)
Health
Relating to: allowing health care providers licensed outside the state to participate in and requirements on nonprofit agencies in the volunteer health care provider program. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: human trafficking, human trafficking victims, property forfeitures, rights of victims, admitting evidence of past actions, definitions of certain offenses, and providing penalties. (FE)
Housing and Real Estate
Relating to: exempting from taxation certain amounts received by a realtor for the sale of a foreclosed property. (FE)
Housing and Real Estate
Relating to: requiring a demolition bond in foreclosure actions. (FE)
Housing and Real Estate
Relating to: a program for installing lighting on tax delinquent properties and properties in foreclosure and charging an additional fee for filing a foreclosure action to be used for lighting installation. (FE)
Housing and Real Estate
Relating to: a grant to the city of Milwaukee to support the HOME GR/OWN program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Housing and Real Estate
Relating to: entry on property in foreclosure. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: neglect of a child and providing penalties. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: the qualifications of members of the Milwaukee area technical college district board.
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: unauthorized possession of a correctional employee's or a health services employee's personal identifying information and providing a penalty. (FE)
Campaigns and Elections
Relating to: authorization for electors to vote in the primary of more than one political party.
Health
Relating to: elimination of a provision that excepts spiritual treatment of a child in the law criminalizing physical abuse of a child and in the laws governing the practice of medicine or surgery, the investigation of child abuse or neglect, the administration of psychotropic medication to juveniles in correctional custody, and the election of Christian Science treatment in lieu of medical or surgical treatment. (FE)
Ways and Means
Relating to: sales and use tax exemption for the sale of gun safes. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: retail liquor license quotas. (FE)
Natural Resources
Relating to: eligibility of persons with disabilities to receive annual fishing licenses at reduced fees. (FE)
Available for scheduling
Relating to: statute of limitations for arson crimes and the definition of a Molotov cocktail.
Available for scheduling
Relating to: appointing delegates for a convention under Article V of the United States Constitution.
Tabled
Relating to: snowmobile safety program field training requirements.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: adulterated, misbranded, and insanitary food.
Consumer Protection
Relating to: growing and processing industrial hemp, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: the use of a cellular or other wireless telephone while driving a motor vehicle in a construction zone and providing a penalty.
Consumer Protection
Relating to: secondhand jewelry transactions. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: stalking and sexual offenses under the code of military justice. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: the sale, of high-concentration alcohol beverages and providing penalties. (FE)
Education
Relating to: public hearings regarding the adoption of college and career readiness standards. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: sales tax bad debt return adjustments for private label credit card bad debt. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: the information contained in referendum questions to authorize exceeding county levy limits.
Tabled
Relating to: motor vehicle fuel tax exemption certificates. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: agricultural emergency permits issued by the Department of Transportation for vehicles transporting oversize loads. (FE)
Transportation
Relating to: operation of agricultural vehicles on highways and providing a penalty. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: rule-making procedures and modifying and repealing various rules promulgated by the Department of Financial Institutions. (FE)
Education
Relating to: counting low-income pupils for state school aid purposes; calculating the amount to be appropriated for state general school aid; school aid factors; special adjustment aids; hold harmless aid; per pupil aid; school district revenue limits; the first dollar and school levy property tax credits; and making an appropriation. (FE)
Health
Relating to: assisting counties to request to expand Medical Assistance eligibility. (FE)
Judiciary
Relating to: the presumption of reasonableness in a criminal or civil case involving self-defense. (FE)
Criminal Justice
Relating to: personal property within repossessed motor vehicles and providing a penalty. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: tests administered to newborns for congenital disorders. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: establishing the shoreline of Lake Michigan in the city of Milwaukee.
Hold (Available for Scheduling)
Relating to: notifications concerning the assertion of rights under a patent or pending patent and providing a penalty. (FE)
Small Business Development
Relating to: agency discretion in imposing penalties for minor violations of rules by small businesses and granting rule-making authority.
Health
Relating to: prescriptions or orders for the use of diagnostic X-ray equipment by radiography examining board licensees and permit holders.
Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage
Relating to: acreage requirements for areas in which farm-raised deer that may be hunted are kept.
Insurance
Relating to: the sale of limited lines travel insurance. (FE)
Urban and Local Affairs
Relating to: authorizing towns to withdraw from county zoning and requiring certain towns to enact a zoning ordinance and a comprehensive plan. (FE)
Education
Relating to: school district expenditures for community programs and services and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: authorizing ordinances and resolutions that specify a greater number of parcels into which certified survey maps may divide land.
Judiciary
Relating to: waiver of a parent's right to counsel in a contested adoption or an involuntary termination of parental rights proceeding for failure to personally appear as ordered by the juvenile court.
Environment and Forestry
Relating to: access to land acquired with stewardship funding and access to managed forest land. (FE)
Environment and Forestry
Relating to: deposits on the sale of certain lead acid batteries.
Labor
Relating to: permitting an employee to voluntarily choose to work without one day of rest in seven.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: providing grants to counties that offer substance abuse treatment and diversion from incarceration and making an appropriation. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: rule-making procedures and practice standards for certified public accountants.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the registration of antique snowmobiles. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: local airports and the process for enacting aerial approach ordinances. (FE)
Transportation
Relating to: signs for the Nichole M. Frye Memorial Bridge on STH 141 in Oconto County. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: fees charged for credentials administered by the department of safety and professional services. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: placement of a child in a shelter care facility under a voluntary agreement. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: evaluation of infants for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and referral of infants who have that condition for services and treatment. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: prohibiting the disclosure of a determination that a person has abused or neglected a child for purposes of a caregiver background check when that abuse or neglect has not been substantiated.
Health and Human Services
Relating to: rule-making procedures; amending various rules promulgated by the Department of Children and Families governing the certification of child care operators, governing the licensing of child welfare agencies, and establishing standards for the operation of child care centers; and eliminating rules promulgated by the Department of Children and Families related to retaining public assistance case records and the transitional jobs demonstration project.
Rules
Relating to: the regulation of mortgage loan originators, mortgage brokers, and mortgage bankers. (FE)
Environment and Forestry
Relating to: high capacity well approvals. (FE)
Environment and Forestry
Relating to: adaptive management plans for reducing discharges of phosphorus and total suspended solids to the waters of the state and a statewide variance to the water quality standard for phosphorus for certain dischargers. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: creating a civil cause of action for victims of commercial sexual exploitation.
Education
Relating to: creating a Special Needs Scholarship Program for disabled pupils, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: licensing structure for electricians and electrical apprentices; reciprocal agreements between this state and other states relating to the regulation of electricians, electrical contractors, electrical inspectors, and electrical apprentices; exemptions from licensing and supervisory requirements for electricians; inspections of electrical work within certain facilities; and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: various changes in the unemployment insurance law. (FE)
Corrections
Relating to: restricting information available on the consolidated court automated Internet site. (FE)
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: a state minimum wage, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: payment of wages by electronic fund transfer to a payroll card account. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: eligibility for a broker's or salesperson's license or a time-share salesperson's certificate of registration following a criminal conviction, immunity for employing real estate brokers in certain actions, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Hold (Available for Scheduling)
Relating to: transferring responsibility over biennial updating of voter registration list to the Government Accountability Board. (FE)
Hold (Available for Scheduling)
Relating to: reporting registration and voting statistics.
Rules
Relating to: liability and immunity of sport shooting ranges.
Judiciary
Relating to: a duty of podiatrists, chiropractors, dentists, and optometrists to inform patients of treatment options and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: providing funding for a crime prevention program in the city of Milwaukee and making an appropriation. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: operation of off-highway motorcycles, granting rule-making authority, providing penalties, and making appropriations. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the regulation of motor vehicle air conditioners. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: authorizing a school board to create a capital improvement trust fund. (FE)
Colleges and Universities
Relating to: the amount of an academic excellence higher education scholarship, the number of those scholarships that may be awarded in an academic year, the eligibility criteria for those scholarships, creating an individual income tax credit for certain academic scholarship recipients, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Children and Families
Relating to: a child care provider waking a sleeping child under two years of age and granting rule-making authority.
Retirement Systems
Relating to: classifying county jailers, detention officers, and correctional officers as protective occupation participants under the Wisconsin Retirement System. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: eligibility requirements under the managed forest land program relating to parcel size and production of merchantable timber, management plans for managed forest lands, orders adding and withdrawing managed forest land, renewal of orders designating managed forest land, areas of managed forest lands that are open for public access, allowing managed forest lands to be used for recreational activities, regulation of cutting of timber on managed forest land and on forest croplands, withdrawal taxes and fees imposed on the withdrawal of managed forest land and yield taxes imposed for cutting timber from managed forest land, the sale or transfer of managed forest land, expiration of orders designating managed forest land, withdrawal of forest croplands that are held in trust for Indian tribes, a study of the managed forest land program, a report on exempt withdrawals from the managed forest land program and the forest cropland program, elimination of references to the woodland tax law, granting rule-making authority, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: opioid treatment programs and making an appropriation. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: development of a system of short-term sanctions for individuals who violate conditions of extended supervision, parole, probation, or a deferred prosecution agreement and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: the possession of certain wild animals and providing a penalty. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: state highway funding and making an appropriation. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: portable electronics insurance.
Judiciary
Relating to: the liability of an adult sponsor of a minor applicant for a motor vehicle operator's license.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: extending the time certain injunctions remain in effect. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: the disclosure of juvenile court records to, and admission to juvenile court hearings of, an entity engaged in the bona fide research, monitoring, or evaluation of activities conducted under a federal court improvement grant.
State and Local Finance
Relating to: the property tax exemption for biogas or synthetic gas energy systems and property subject to a tax incremental financing agreement. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: alerts for missing adults at risk and making an appropriation. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: various changes to the worker's compensation law, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: exempting employers from keeping records of the hours of employment of an employee who is exempt from the overtime pay requirement and who is not compensated on an hourly rate basis.
Transportation
Relating to: driving skills tests for certain noncommercial motor vehicle drivers. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: yielding to an overtaking vehicle.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the cancellation of a motor vehicle title or registration for fraud on the Department of Transportation. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: expiration of motor vehicle operators' licenses issued after cancellation. (FE)
Financial Institutions
Relating to: pleading requirements, and the cure of defaults on certain obligations, under the Wisconsin Consumer Act.
Health
Relating to: Milwaukee County mental health functions, programs, and services, creation of the Milwaukee County Mental Health Board, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Ways and Means
Relating to: authorizing a county to increase its sales and use tax under certain circumstances and requiring a referendum. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: creation of a wage council to study and make recommendations concerning increases in the living wage, increasing the state minimum wage, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: the filing of a wage claim or the bringing of a wage claim action by a collective bargaining representative on behalf of an employee and the priority of a wage claim lien over a prior lien of a commercial lending institution and over the rights of a purchaser of any property of the employer.
Housing and Real Estate
Relating to: prohibiting discrimination in housing because of political opinions, beliefs, or affiliations.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: authorizing the village of Biron to allocate positive tax increments from Tax Incremental District Number 2 in the village to Tax Incremental District Number 3 in the village. (FE)
State and Local Finance
Relating to: the deadlines for certain reports used by local units of government and by the Joint Committee on Finance. (FE)
Housing and Real Estate
Relating to: collection of certain utility arrearages by a municipal utility and the provision of municipal utility service to tenants. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: providing that cannabidiol is not a tetrahydrocannabinol and dispensing cannabidiol as a treatment for a seizure disorder.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: a firearm prohibition for an individual subject to an individuals-at-risk injunction and disclosure of and access to information regarding individuals who are prohibited from possessing a firearm. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: regulation of hospitals, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: classified research at University of Wisconsin System institutions and exemption from open records requirements.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: rule-making procedures and modifying and repealing various rules promulgated by the Department of Natural Resources.
Rules
Relating to: the property tax exemption for rented personal property. (FE)
Finance
Relating to: payments to counties for designated county forest lands and distribution of amounts paid to municipalities by owners of closed managed forest lands. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: an addition to the 2013-15 Authorized State Building Program. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: powers and duties of the board of veterans affairs; reimbursement of veterans' tuition at tribal colleges; documentation for eligibility to veterans homes; operation of veterans homes; eligibility and procedural requirements for veterans home loans, veterans personal loans, county veterans service grants, and American Indian veterans grants; and funeral honors, burial, and disinterment of veterans. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: own risk and solvency assessments, supervisory colleges, consolidated hearings for mergers of insurance companies, proxy voting by mutual policyholders, a presumption and exceptions with respect to the disclosure of insurance-related information, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: rule-making procedures and modifying and creating administrative rules related to long-term care insurance.
Calendar
Relating to: requiring the Department of Transportation to contract for driver improvement course services, forwarding by courts of traffic violation convictions, and making an appropriation. (FE)
State Affairs
Relating to: requiring an ignition interlock device to be installed for committing a drunken driving offense.
Transportation
Relating to: overtaking and passing vehicles.
Rules
Relating to: eligibility for a license to carry a concealed weapon for a member of the U.S. armed forces stationed in Wisconsin.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the requirement that a Wisconsin works agency establish a children's services network and the membership of the Milwaukee Child Welfare Partnership Council.
Tabled
Relating to: licensure of physicians; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the operation of all-terrain vehicles and utility terrain vehicles on highway bridges. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: licenses for new dairy plants, food warehouses, food processing plants, retail food establishments, and meat establishments. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: milk procurement fees.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: limits on liability for persons offering agricultural tourism activities.
State and Local Finance
Relating to: creating special provisions for a city or village to create a tax incremental district in recently annexed territory. (FE)
Education
Relating to: requirements for new private schools seeking to participate in a parental choice program and requiring a private school participating in a parental choice program to maintain accreditation. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: number of school days and hours of instruction held in a school year and state aid for summer classes.
Available for scheduling
Relating to: preemption of local ordinances that require employees of a local governmental unit, employees of a contractor of a local governmental unit, or employees who perform work funded by a local governmental unit to be paid at a minimum wage rate specified in the ordinance and preemption of residency requirements for laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers employed on local projects of public works to which the prevailing wage law applies. (FE)
Health
Relating to: required notices by a health care provider who orders a test for the presence of Lyme disease. (FE)
Criminal Justice
Relating to: requiring racial impact statements for bills that create a new crime, modify an existing crime, or modify the penalty for an existing crime. (FE)
Campaigns and Elections
Relating to: electronic voter registration, verification of certain registrations, and proof of residence for voting in an election and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Insurance
Relating to: expanding eligibility for the earned income tax credit; hospital best practices for postpartum patients and newborns; hospital staff privileges and written agreements required for nurse-midwives; coverage of nurse-midwives under the injured patients and families compensation fund; a report on information related to hospital neonatal intensive care units; an electronic application and information system to determine eligibility and register for public assistance programs; directing the Department of Health Services to request a Medical Assistance waiver; evidence-based home visitation program services for persons who are at risk of poor birth outcomes or of abusing or neglecting their children; designating race and ethnicity on birth certificates; a report on fetal and infant mortality and birth outcomes; requiring informed consent for performance on pregnant women of certain elective procedures prior to the full gestational term of a fetus; cultural competency training for certain students enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System and the technical college system; granting rule-making authority; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: employment discrimination based on employment status. (FE)
Ways and Means
Relating to: state payments for municipal services and making an appropriation. (FE)
Ways and Means
Relating to: creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit based on the federal tax credit for certain expenses for household and dependent care services. (FE)
Ways and Means
Relating to: an income and franchise tax credit for hiring young people for summer employment. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: accessing and obtaining patient health records by public defenders. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: a grant program to support creative industries, job creation, or economic development in this state and making an appropriation. (FE)
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: the allocation of unused early stage seed investment credits. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: exempting electronic smoking devices from the types of smoking devices that may not be used in certain locations.
Rules
Relating to: regulation of mobile dentistry and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: notifications to law enforcement officers and dissemination to the public when registered out-of-state sex offenders enter a community.
Health
Relating to: chiropractor registration to practice acupuncture, fee-splitting with a nonchiropractor acupuncturist, and granting the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: collective bargaining for public employees, prohibiting employees other than public safety employees from bargaining collectively on insurance contributions and employee required contributions to retirement, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE)
Available for scheduling
Relating to: unlawful use of a global positioning device and providing a penalty. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: authorizing Marquette University to create a police department and employ university police officers. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: the definition of project costs under the tax incremental financing program. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: emergency heating assistance loan guarantees.
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: liability of the state for a violation of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, Fair Labor Standards Act, or Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 or of Title I of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. (FE)
Urban Education
Relating to: categorical aids for special education and making an appropriation. (FE)
Education
Relating to: requiring a private school participating in a parental choice program to employ certain special education staff and to comply with certain provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: procedures for utility projects that require a permit from the Department of Natural Resources. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: administration of medications at a camp.
Rules
Relating to: child abuse investigations when a court suspects a person of permitting, allowing, or encouraging a child to engage in prostitution and consent decrees or deferred prosecution agreements for such a child. (FE)
Education
Relating to: utilizing an alternative process for educator effectiveness.
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: prohibiting certain mining and drilling activities that cause the destruction or filling in of a lake bed, reservoir, or flowage or that cause the withdrawal of water from a reservoir or flowage.
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: state 911 telecommunications services, police and fire protection fee imposed on certain communications services, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: eliminating voluntary intoxication as a defense to criminal liability. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: energy emergencies and vehicle weight limits. (FE)
Tabled
Relating to: ordinances, variances, and rules relating to the constructing or altering of, or adding to, public buildings and buildings that are places of employment, the creation of a building code council, and inspections of public buildings and buildings that are places of employment, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: creating an optional holiday for state employees to observe the birthday of Cesar E. Chavez. (FE)
Transportation
Relating to: issuance of motor vehicle operator's licenses and identification cards by the Department of Transportation. (FE)
Colleges and Universities
Relating to: University of Wisconsin and technical college nonresident tuition exemptions. (FE)
Transportation
Relating to: operator's licenses held by, and registration of motor vehicles by, persons on active duty in the U.S. foreign service. (FE)
Criminal Justice
Relating to: attempt to possess a schedule I or II controlled substance or analog that is a narcotic.
Retirement Systems
Relating to: creditable military service under the Wisconsin Retirement System. (FE)
Criminal Justice
Relating to: the criminal justice coordinating council. (FE)
Transportation
Relating to: use of wireless telephones while driving and providing a penalty. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: minimum hourly wages for procurement contracts entered into by an executive branch agency, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: requiring a local governmental unit to create a civil service system with a just cause standard of discipline for its employees. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: including water trails in the state trail system. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: the regulation of raffles. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: the display of historical registration plates on collector vehicles.
Urban Education
Relating to: qualifications of teachers at private schools participating in a parental choice program.
Urban and Local Affairs
Relating to: county payments to public libraries in adjacent counties and charging certain individuals for the provision of library service. (FE)
Urban and Local Affairs
Relating to: Department of Administration review of certain annexations. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: pedestrians crossing railroad tracks and penalties for violations relating to railroad crossings and providing a penalty. (FE)
Education
Relating to: requiring certain persons to hold certificates of food protection practices in order to operate certain school lunchrooms participating in the National School Lunch Program. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: establishing a process for the return of unclaimed property by the state. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: the penalty for failing to stop for a school bus displaying flashing red warning lights and providing a penalty. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: substance abuse by employees performing work on public utility projects located in public rights-of-way and passing emergency or roadside service vehicles stopped on or near the highway. (FE)
Environment and Forestry
Relating to: shoreline maintenance activities in outlying waters. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: nonprofit organization grant program administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs; grant reduction, suspension, or termination and record-keeping and audit requirements for various grant programs administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; and making an appropriation. (FE)
State and Local Finance
Relating to: expanding the authority of towns to create tax incremental financing districts and authorizing certain towns to participate in multijurisdictional tax incremental financing districts. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: procedures to preserve and determine the validity of certain liens and to make payments to prime contractors of public works contracts.
Insurance
Relating to: authorizing out-of-state risk retention groups to provide health care liability insurance. (FE)
Natural Resources
Relating to: the sale and purchase of lands by the Natural Resources Board for the purpose of the completion of a recreational trail. (FE)
Criminal Justice
Relating to: marijuana possession, regulation of marijuana distribution, operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of marijuana, making an appropriation, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing penalties. (FE)
Judiciary
Relating to: creating a surcharge to be paid by persons convicted of certain crimes against children and certain crimes against sexual morality, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: fraudulent motor vehicle emission inspection reports and providing a penalty. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: closing hours for retail sales by wineries.
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: municipal quotas for retail intoxicating liquor licenses. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: closing hours for retail sales by wineries and the possession and consumption of intoxicating liquor and fermented malt beverages on retail premises of wineries.
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: local regulation of nonmetallic mining and preservation of marketable nonmetallic mineral deposits. (FE)
Urban Education
Relating to: creation of a grant program for teachers employed by sparsely populated school districts, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Judiciary
Relating to: expunging a court record of an offense committed before the offender reaches the age of 25. (FE)
Workforce Development
Relating to: requirements for the department of workforce development when issuing determinations under the unemployment insurance law or any other law regulating employment that is administered by that department. (FE)
Public Safety and Homeland Security
Relating to: using force against a certified or licensed social worker, school social worker, mental health worker, human services or social services worker, or public health worker.
Small Business Development
Relating to: the state main street program and business area revitalization services.
Ways and Means
Relating to: authorizing certain same-sex couples to file a joint individual income tax return. (FE)
Consumer Protection
Relating to: agreements relating to liability for unauthorized use of credit cards or debit cards.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: enforcement of parking violations involving spaces reserved for persons with disabilities.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: parking violations involving spaces reserved for persons with disabilities and providing a penalty.
Transportation
Relating to: the requirement to reserve parking spaces for persons with physical disabilities.
Transportation
Relating to: signs reserving parking spaces for persons with physical disabilities.
Enacted into Law
Relating to: parking spaces reserved for persons with physical disabilities. (FE)
Available for scheduling
Relating to: suspension of operating privilege for failure to pay monetary judgment.
Environment and Forestry
Relating to: approval, reporting, and fee requirements for certain wells. (FE)
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: the cost threshold for applicability of the prevailing wage law to a project of public works. (FE)
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: an income and franchise tax credit for providing full-time employment to part-time employees. (FE)
Consumer Protection
Relating to: contract and lease language that limits a party's access to procedural or substantive rights.
Urban Education
Relating to: school district sparsity aid and and making an appropriation. (FE)
Enacted into Law
Relating to: limiting the security a town or municipality may require as a condition of plat approval.
Rules
Relating to: activities affecting waters of this state carried out under the direction of the Department of Transportation, performance standards and effluent limitations for new and modified point sources of pollution, and termination of certain permits authorizing discharges into waters of this state. (FE)
Campaigns and Elections
Relating to: deceptive election practices and providing a penalty. (FE)
Aging and Long-Term Care
Relating to: creation of a private retirement security plan and making appropriations. (FE)
Education
Relating to: the school day milk program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Children and Families
Relating to: grants for homeless youths, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Ways and Means
Relating to: defining prepared foods for purposes of imposing sales and use taxes. (FE)
Agriculture
Relating to: operation of agricultural vehicles on highways. (FE)
Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage
Relating to: establishing a sporting heritage grant program, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Financial Institutions
Relating to: the combined reporting of income from businesses incorporated in foreign jurisdictions considered tax havens and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Judiciary
Relating to: base pay paid to a former district attorney appointed to an assistant district attorney position. (FE)
Judiciary
Relating to: making the first offense of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant a crime, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Transportation
Relating to: use of lamps on vehicles when visibility is limited by weather conditions and providing a penalty.
Environment and Forestry
Relating to: areawide water quality management planning for Dane County. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: county aid for town bridges and culverts. (FE)
Rules
Relating to: revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of supplying omissions and eliminating defects (Correction Bill).
Rules
Relating to: form required for certain residential repair or construction contracts (suggested as remedial legislation by the Legislative Reference Bureau).
Judiciary
Relating to: the definition of an oral communication for purposes of authorizing or prohibiting an interception of an oral communication.
Judiciary
Relating to: the return of a seized firearm to the person who owns the firearm. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: the duty disability benefit program under the Wisconsin Retirement System, prohibited subjects of collective bargaining under the Municipal Employment Relations Act and the State Employment Labor Relations Act, and requiring the Legislative Audit Bureau to conduct a program evaluation audit of certain disability and survivor benefit programs of public employee retirement systems in this state. (FE)
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: authorized activities of Class A beer retailers and of brewers.
State Affairs and Government Operations
Relating to: creating a Wisconsin Beer Commission and making an appropriation. (FE)
Transportation
Relating to: online instruction provided by driver schools licensed by the Department of Transportation. (FE)
Financial Institutions
Relating to: prohibiting certain actions against financial institutions for offers, promises, agreements, or commitments that are not in writing.
Environment and Forestry
Relating to: replacement and maintenance of existing culverts and design and engineering work for the construction and placement of certain culverts. (FE)
Judiciary
Relating to: legal representation for an adult expectant mother of an unborn child who is alleged to be in need of protection or services.
Health
Relating to: effect of advance directives and powers of attorney for health care during pregnancy. (FE)
Children and Families
Relating to: payments to child care providers, preventing fraud in the child care subsidy program, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Judiciary
Relating to: litigation procedure, and debt collection, under the Wisconsin Consumer Act.
Consumer Protection
Relating to: the definition of payday loan.
Environment and Forestry
Relating to: radon measurement and mitigation and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Campaigns and Elections
Relating to: attempts to influence action upon model or similar proposed legislation, prohibiting the expending of certain moneys by members of the legislature, reporting by certain persons providing or state public officials receiving certain things of value, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Urban and Local Affairs
Relating to: prohibiting the inclusion of Racine County in the jurisdiction of a local professional baseball park district. (FE)
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: monitoring industrial sand mining and processing operations, a fee on the extraction of certain sand, compensation for costs incurred because of sand mining, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Campaigns and Elections
Relating to: voter registration; proof of residence for registration and voting purposes; review of certain expenditures of the Government Accountability Board by the Joint Committee on Finance; and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Financial Institutions
Relating to: creation of a category of business corporation identified as a benefit corporation and a category of limited liability company identified as a low-profit limited liability company.
Insurance
Relating to: health insurance coverage of early intervention services. (FE)
Ways and Means
Relating to: reducing and increasing certain individual income tax rates and expanding the number of brackets to what existed before the enactment of 2013 Wisconsin Act 20, disregarding a taxpayer's election to include another in its combined group, disallowing certain carry-forward amounts for combined reporting purposes, repealing the income and franchise tax credit for qualified production activities income, repealing the changes made to the earned income tax credit in 2011 Wisconsin Act 32, increasing the personal exemption for certain individuals, restoring indexing provisions to the homestead tax credit, and eliminating the individual income tax exclusion for long-term capital gains other than for farm assets. (FE)
Education
Relating to: state school aid and making an appropriation. (FE)
Consumer Protection
Relating to: labeling of genetically engineered food and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Education
Relating to: four-year-old kindergarten and making an appropriation. (FE)
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: renewable portfolio standards and credits; electricity derived from biofuels; electric utility purchases of renewable energy and customer-generated electricity; distributed generation rules; granting rule-making authority; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
Public Safety and Homeland Security
Relating to: smoking in motor vehicles while children are present, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: state assistance to school districts in achieving energy efficiencies. (FE)
Judiciary
Relating to: incorporation of the town of Ledgeview in Brown County.
Judiciary
Relating to: laying out, altering, or discontinuing a town line highway.
Judiciary
Relating to: appealing a municipal court matter after review by a circuit court.
Judiciary
Relating to: intimidating a witness.
Judiciary
Relating to: lesser included homicide crimes.
Criminal Justice
Relating to: making a false report of an active shooter, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Criminal Justice
Relating to: possession of firearms by individuals who are habitual criminals. (FE)
Criminal Justice
Relating to: restoring the right to vote to certain persons barred from voting as a result of a felony conviction, changing the information required on voter registration forms, and changing voting procedure for certain persons who are convicted of felonies. (FE)
Workforce Development
Relating to: imposing a fee on an employer whose employee receives certain public assistance benefits. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: the employment of apprentices on state public works projects. (FE)
Colleges and Universities
Relating to: providing free tuition and fees for resident students enrolled in technical colleges and University of Wisconsin college campuses and making an appropriation. (FE)
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: youth summer jobs programs in first class cities and making an appropriation. (FE)
Criminal Justice
Relating to: possession of tetrahydrocannabinols, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Health
Relating to: creating the BadgerCare Plus restoration fund, providing funding for the well-woman program and reducing infant morbidity and mortality, and making appropriations. (FE)
Education
Relating to: requiring teachers and administrators employed by and owners of private schools participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program and in the choice program for other eligible school districts to be subject to the background investigation requirements and employment restrictions imposed upon teachers in public schools. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: paid family leave, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE)
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: using a Made in Wisconsin logotype and authorizing the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
Corrections
Relating to: length of time in confinement following revocation of extended supervision or probation for violating a condition. (FE)
Campaigns and Elections
Relating to: elimination of certain gubernatorial approval requirements for administrative rules proposed by the Government Accountability Board.
Labor
Relating to: paid sick leave. (FE)
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: value of solar tariffs for electric utilities. (FE)
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: energy supply and demand study and electric utility integrated resource plans. (FE)
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: Public Service Commission contracts for studies of energy storage and solar thermal devices. (FE)
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: creating the Wisconsin Renewable Energy Development Authority to participate in and guarantee certain energy-related loans, implement other energy-related programs, and make certain grants and making an appropriation. (FE)
Energy and Utilities
Relating to: eligibility for certain low-income energy assistance.
Health
Relating to: eligibility for and premiums under the Medical Assistance purchase plan and disregarding assets in an independence account and retirement benefits for purposes of determining eligibility and cost-sharing requirements under a number of Medical Assistance and long-term care programs. (FE)
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional Jobs program, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE)
Labor
Relating to: leave from employment for the purpose of serving as an organ donor. (FE)
Campaigns and Elections
Relating to: ethics training for legislators-elect; making the code of ethics applicable to state public officials-elect; and the requirement to file and the required content of statements of economic interests.
Transportation
Relating to: the creation of a Southeastern Regional Transit Authority and a Milwaukee Transit Authority and making appropriations. (FE)
Transportation
Relating to: authorizing the creation of a Southeast Regional Transit Authority and making appropriations. (FE)
Public Safety and Homeland Security
Relating to: the authority of the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection related to the inspection for, and abatement of, pests on properties that are not agricultural lands or agricultural business premises. (FE)
Ways and Means
Relating to: eliminating the personal property tax. (FE)
Jobs, Economy and Mining
Relating to: restoring and increasing the film production credit. (FE)
Tourism
Relating to: increasing state funding for the arts and making an appropriation. (FE)
Ways and Means
Relating to: creating a refundable individual income tax credit for low-income individuals who receive certain government benefits and making an appropriation. (FE)
Environment and Forestry
Relating to: pollinator habitat conservation, a pollinator report, and making appropriations. (FE)
Education
Relating to: educational technology, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE)
Small Business Development
Relating to: grants to certain small businesses that receive federal grants. (FE)
Veterans
Relating to: establishment of a veterans court grant program and making an appropriation.
Public Safety and Homeland Security
Relating to: teen dating violence education. (FE)
Health
Relating to: requiring health insurance coverage of amino-acid-based elemental formulas. (FE)
Health
Relating to: training in traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder awareness for law enforcement officers, tribal officers, emergency medical technicians, and first responders and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Veterans
Relating to: creating a pilot program to provide civil legal services for veterans who are residents of Milwaukee, Chippewa, Eau Claire, or Dunn county, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Tourism
Relating to: increasing funding for tourism marketing related to bicycling in this state and making an appropriation. (FE)
Housing and Real Estate
Relating to: disapproval of amendments to condominium documents.
Education
Relating to: fraud in parental choice programs and providing a penalty. (FE)
Colleges and Universities
Relating to: a study of the viability of permitting students to attend certain institutions of higher education without paying tuition or fees. (FE)
Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage
Relating to: regulation of captive new world quail by the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Ways and Means
Relating to: creating a refundable individual income tax credit for tuition expenses paid for dependents who attend certain private elementary and secondary schools, and charter schools. (FE)
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