1995 Wisconsin Act 467

  Date of enactment: June 27, 1996
1995 Senate Bill 418   Date of publication*: July 10, 1996

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 1993-94: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

1995 WISCONSIN ACT 467

An Act to create 166.03 (5a) of the statutes; relating to: the role of state agencies in emergencies resulting from enemy action or natural or man-made disasters.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Prefatory note: This bill was developed by the joint legislative council's special committee on emergency government services. The bill codifies and clarifies current practice by providing that, unless otherwise specified by law, the role of any of the state's agencies, including the department of military affairs and division of emergency government, in an emergency under ch. 166 (emergency government) is to assist local units of government and local law enforcement agencies in responding to the emergency.

467,1 Section 1 . 166.03 (5a) of the statutes is created to read:

166.03 (5a) Role of state agency in emergency. Unless otherwise specified by law, the role of any state agency, including the department of military affairs and its division of emergency government, in an emergency under this chapter, is to assist local units of government and local law enforcement agencies in responding to the emergency.