2013 Subject Index to Legislation

Special Needs Scholarship Program established; DPI duties and LAB study required [Sec. 238, 1752-1754, 1854, 1870, 1880, 1885, 1887, 1890; original bill only] - AB40

Special Needs Scholarship Program for disabled pupils established; LAB duty and study required; DPI to prepare document comparing certain rights under state and federal handicapped education law - AB682

Special Needs Scholarship Program for disabled pupils established; LAB duty and study required; DPI to prepare document comparing certain rights under state and federal handicapped education law - SB525

Transform Milwaukee Jobs and Transitional Jobs programs replaced with one statewide program called the Transitional Jobs program; annual report and LAB audits required - AB905

WEDC audits by LAB: financial audit and performance evaluation audit required annually - AB236

WEDC audits by LAB: financial audit and performance evaluation audit required annually - SB193

WEDC law revisions re report to JLAC, board member terms, lead director position, governance committee, LAB financial audit, power to establish a nonprofit organization, and state procurement - AB228

WEDC law revisions re report to JLAC, board member terms, lead director position, governance committee, LAB financial audit, power to establish a nonprofit organization, and state procurement - SB205

WEDC operation requirements re procurement, code of ethics applies to employees, annual reports, and independent audit [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 193o, q, 2055m-x, 9150 (1q)] - AB40

legislative council _lc_ Legislative council (LC), see Joint Legislative Council

legislative fiscal bureau Legislative Fiscal Bureau

Biennial budget bill: process for removal of nonfiscal policy items established; LFB and JCF provisions - AB148

Common core standards: implementation suspended; DPI, LFB, and JLC studies required; procedure for adopting college and career readiness standards; reports required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9134 (2q)] - AB40

Legislature may not enact any bill in the second year of the fiscal biennium that increases GPR expenditures without additional funding if the LFB determines GPR expenditures will exceed revenues - AB475

Public school financing law changes re general school aids formula, counting low-income pupils, per pupil adjustment, school aid factors, high-poverty aid, delayed school aid payments, per pupil aid, and revenue limits; eliminates school levy property tax credit and the first dollar property tax credit; DPI, DOA, LFB, and JCF duties - AB650

State Mandates, Joint Committee on, created; legislature may not enact bills with state-imposed mandates unless they either receive a hearing or are funded; state agency rules provision; LFB report requirement - AB395

legislative reference bureau Legislative Reference Bureau, see also Blue Book

Administrative code, Administrative Register, and statutes: electronic publication provisions [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 27d-pk, 197p, 415g, h, 575b-t, 1599p, 1991p, 1996bp-tp, 2317p, 9127 (1q), (1r), 9327 (1q), 9427 (1q), (1r)] - AB40

Health benefit exchange: a state agency, or the governor, must request the LRB to prepare legislation allowing the agency to take action to create or implement; restrictions on using federal or state moneys to create - AB514

Health benefit exchange: a state agency, or the governor, must request the LRB to prepare legislation allowing the agency to take action to create or implement; restrictions on using federal or state moneys to create - SB392

Legislative and congressional redistricting: new procedure for preparing the plans, LRB duties specified; Redistricting Advisory Commission created - AB185

Legislative and congressional redistricting: new procedure for preparing the plans, LRB duties specified; Redistricting Advisory Commission created - SB163

Public deposits: maximum payment for losses from a single financial institution increased and interest changed to match the escrow account interest rate published by LRB - AB57

Public deposits: maximum payment for losses from a single financial institution increased and interest changed to match the escrow account interest rate published by LRB - SB66

Publication and effective dates of acts revised, LRB duties - SB2

Technical college districts' facilities, properties, assets, employees, and liabilities transferred to TCS Board; technical college district boards prohibited from levying property tax; TCS Board to develop transition plan to submit to JCF; sales and use tax increase; referendum required; LRB duties - AB177

legislative studies Legislative studies, see Studies

legislative technology services bureau Legislative Technology Services Bureau

LTSB software development team congratulated for the Legislative Staff Achievement Award from the National Association of Legislative Information Technology - SJR48

legislature Legislature, see also Redistricting

Bay View labor strike and tragedy in 1886: anniversary commemorated every May 2nd and Assembly Chief Clerk to remove portrait of Governor Jeremiah Rusk from public display and hang historic photo of the iron puddlers in Bay View for set number of days - AR11

Convention under Article V of the United States Constitution: appointing delegates modified; legislature required to create a joint committee of correspondence re communication between delegates and the legislature - AB635

Early childhood brain development: policy decisions enacted by the legislature will acknowledge and take into account the principles of - SJR59

Federal moneys accepted by the state may not be returned to the federal government without the approval of the legislature by law if the expenditure may increase employment in this state - AB588

Federal moneys accepted by the state may not be returned to the federal government without the approval of the legislature by law if the expenditure may increase employment in this state - SB323

Meetings of governmental bodies including the legislature: enactment of laws requiring reasonable notice and public access, two-thirds majority vote provision. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - SJR35

NRB nominates DNR Secretary with advice and consent of the Senate, term of office provisions; filling an NRB member vacancy modified - AB517

NRB nominates DNR Secretary with advice and consent of the Senate, term of office provisions; filling an NRB member vacancy modified - SB388

Partisan caucus of Senate or Assembly: exception to open meetings - AB104

Recall of incumbent congressional, judicial, or legislative elective officer or county elective officer specified in the Wisconsin Constitution: grounds limited and filing officer duties; legislature required to establish a code of ethics for government officials and a board to administer it. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - AJR25

Recall of incumbent congressional, judicial, or legislative elective officer or county elective officer specified in the Wisconsin Constitution: grounds limited and filing officer duties; legislature required to establish a code of ethics for government officials and a board to administer it. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - SJR24

legislature _ audit committee, joint legislative Legislature -- Audit Committee, Joint Legislative

DOT engineering consultants: LAB analysis requested [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9127 (2q)] - AB40

Fees charged to students: UW Board of Regents annual report to JCF and JLAC required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 609m] - AB40

GAB performance evaluation audit required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9115 (1d)] - AB40

LAB financial auditing duties revised including eliminating certain audits; confidentiality of reports to the state fraud, waste, and mismanagement hotline; and access to tax records maintained by DOR; JLAC provision - AB36

LAB financial auditing duties revised including eliminating certain audits; confidentiality of reports to the state fraud, waste, and mismanagement hotline; and access to tax records maintained by DOR; JLAC provision - SB27

UW Board of Regents: proposed methodology for calculating program revenue balances and reserves submitted to JLAC; PR account balance limits and policies on distribution and expenditure of tuition, fee, and GPR proposals to JCF; tuition and segregated fees cannot increase for 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9148 (4L)-(4n)] - AB40

WEDC annual financial audit required, report to JLAC - AB220

WEDC annual financial audit required, report to JLAC - SB186

WEDC law revisions re report to JLAC, board member terms, lead director position, governance committee, LAB financial audit, power to establish a nonprofit organization, and state procurement - AB228

WEDC law revisions re report to JLAC, board member terms, lead director position, governance committee, LAB financial audit, power to establish a nonprofit organization, and state procurement - SB205

WEDC operation requirements re procurement, code of ethics applies to employees, annual reports, and independent audit [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 193o, q, 2055m-x, 9150 (1q)] - AB40

legislature _ bills Legislature -- Bills, see Bills, Legislative

legislature _ caucus Legislature -- Caucus, see Legislature

legislature _ committees Legislature -- Committees, see also Legislature -- specific committee name

AG opinion request by the Assembly Committee on Organization re acquisition or holding of land under Chapter 710 of the statutes is rescinded - AR24

Assembly committee structure and names for the 2013-14 legislative session established [Assembly rule 9 (1)] - AR2

Assembly Organization, Committee on, required to appoint a joint task force on clean and renewable energy, report required - AR27

Assembly rule revisions re conducting Committee on Assembly Organization meetings by ballot, behavior in gallery, and dress code [Assembly rules 23 (1m), 26 (8), (9), 56 (4)] - AR4

Assembly rules revised and created re votes in committee, meeting on unintroduced proposals, provision of calendar to members, questions of assembly or personal privilege, temporary committee appointments, 24-hour notice rule for committee meetings, Assembly chief clerk duties, reconsideration of proposals and amendments, proposed administrative rules notices and reports, and special, extraordinary, and extended sessions [Assembly rules 3 (1)(r), 5 (2), (4), 9 (2)(cd), 11 (4), (5)(a), (10), 17d (2), 29 (3), 53 (4), 61 (5), 73 (2)(a), (3), (4)(c), (9), 93 (2), (3), 95 (38), (50), (54), (58), (63)] - AR3

Clean and renewable energy joint task force: committees on Assembly and Senate organization required to immediately appoint, findings deadline set - AJR122

Clean energy: Speaker of the Assembly required to appoint a special committee on, report required - AR26

Convention under Article V of the United States Constitution: appointing delegates modified; legislature required to create a joint committee of correspondence re communication between delegates and the legislature - AB635

LifeSkills Academy in City of Milwaukee that closed: DPI to contact Florida agency about LifeSkills Academy that opened there and report to the Assembly about any other parental choice program schools that abruptly closed; Committee on Assembly Organization to contact state agencies re proceedings to recover state funds - AR23

Lobbyists required to file expense statements with GAB re influencing or disseminating uniform, model, suggested, or recommended legislation; reporting scholarships or any thing of pecuniary value for attending a meeting or conference by state public officials or person providing the scholarship required; written statement to organizing committees required for reimbursement of legislator travel expenses; prohibiting payment of certain membership fees from moneys allocated to operation of legislators' offices; penalty provisions; JRCCP report - AB866

Meetings of governmental bodies, including legislative committees: laws requiring reasonable notice of and public access to; legislative members subject to citations and civil penalties for violations. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - AJR61

Meetings of governmental bodies, including legislative committees: laws requiring reasonable notice of and public access to; legislative members subject to citations and civil penalties for violations. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - SJR58

Public notice of Assembly committee meetings revisions [Assembly rules 11 (9), (12), 93 (9)] - AR17

Public notice of Senate, Assembly, and joint committee meetings revisions [Joint rule 27] - AJR62

Public notice of Senate committee meetings revisions [Senate rules 25 (1)(b), (c), 93 (2)] - SR4

Senate rules revised and created re admittance to Senate spaces, order and decorum, Senate chamber definition, display of signs and objects, electronic devices, points of order, Assembly messages, Committee on Senate Organization chairperson, individuals in Senate meeting rooms, referral of proposals and appointments, and Senate rules [Senate rules 4 (6), 7 (title) to (5), 13m (4), (8), 13r, 17 (6), 18 (1b), 20 (1)(b) 2., 25 (1)(a), (5), (6), 42 (2)(c), 56m (title), (1), (2m), 69, 99 (77)] - SR2

Senate rules revised and created re admittance to Senate spaces, order and decorum, Senate chamber definition, display of signs and objects, electronic devices, points of order, Assembly messages, Committee on Senate Organization chairperson, individuals in Senate meeting rooms, and Senate rules [Senate rules 4 (6), 7 (title) to (5), 13m (4), (8), 13r, 17 (6), 18 (1b), 20 (1)(b) 2., 25 (1)(a), (5), (6), 56m (title), (1), (2m), 69, 99 (77)] - SR3

Speaker of the Assembly required to appoint a special committee to devise ways to ensure WEDC follows state law; hearings and deadline for findings provisions - AR8

State Affairs and Government Operations, Committee on, created; eliminates committees on State Affairs, Rural Affairs, and Government Operations and State Licensing [Assembly rules 9 (1)(h), (n), (p)] - AR19

State Mandates, Joint Committee on, created; legislature may not enact bills with state-imposed mandates unless they either receive a hearing or are funded; state agency rules provision; LFB report requirement - AB395

Supreme Court justices appointed by the governor with advice and consent of the Senate, judicial selection committee provision: constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - SJR86

legislature _ criminal penalties, joint review committee on Legislature -- Criminal Penalties, Joint Review Committee on

Assault weapons: ban on transportation, purchase, possession, or transfer of created; exceptions and penalty provisions; JRCCP report - AB222

Badger Health Benefit Authority created and must establish and operate a Wisconsin Health Benefit Exchange in this state; JRCCP report - SB12

Battery to family member of a public officer and harassing, threatening, or intimidating a legislator or his or her family: crimes and penalties created; JRCCP report - AB213

Biological specimen for DNA analysis: individuals who must submit samples expanded; immunity from liability for certain law enforcement and DHS personnel; conditions for purging records; DNA surcharge; JRCCP report [Sec. 388, 390, 818, 1234, 1906-1935, 1937, 2150, 2155, 2156, 2291, 2292, 2324, 2325, 2327-2329, 2343, 2344, 2353-2358, 2361, 2362, 9126 (1), 9326 (1), 9426 (1); A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, JLC study required, 1914d, 2328c, 2344c, 2360w, deletes 1927; A.Amdt.3: further revisions] - AB40

Campaign finance law: scope of regulated activity expanded to include organizations or individuals who use communications media which includes references to candidates for certain offices within 60 days of an election; Clean Election Fund established to provide grants to qualifying candidates for campaign expenses, penalty provisions; JRCCP report and emergency rule provisions - AB353

Child death review program established in DHS; Child Death Review Council created, reports and recommendations required; local child death review teams recognized; access to records, confidentiality, and immunity provisions; JRCCP report - AB554

Child death review program established in DHS; Child Death Review Council created, reports and recommendations required; local child death review teams recognized; access to records, confidentiality, and immunity provisions; JRCCP report - SB436

Child neglect crime and penalties revised, repeated acts of neglect of the same child crime created, and definition provisions; JRCCP report - AB626

Child neglect crime and penalties revised, repeated acts of neglect of the same child crime created, and definition provisions; JRCCP report - SB471

Computerized communication that invites a person to harass a third person or contact a third person with obscene, lewd, or profane language or suggestive acts prohibited; JRCCP report - AB156

Controlled substances: description of the chemical structure of a prohibited or restricted substance re synthetic cannabinoid specified; Salvinorin A listed as a controlled substance; new hallucinogenic and stimulant substances added to Schedule I and other schedules modified; JRCCP report - AB406