Legislative Committees

Children in need of protection or services: laws revised and expanded -  SB501

Custodial parent moving with, or removing, child after divorce and joint legal custody re physical placement order: provisions revised; custody study fee increased  - SB420

Electronic benefit transfer system for food stamp and other programs: DHSS to implement; county participation optional  - SB445

Emergencies resulting from enemy action or natural or man-made disasters: role of state agencies, including DMA, specified -  SB418

Emergency government, Division of, name changed to Division of emergency management; related references to agencies and personnel revised -  SB419

Environmental statutes (chap. 144, Wis.Stats.) renumbered and reorganized -  SB622

Farmland preservation program revisions; farmland tax relief credit repealed -  SB370

Guardian ad litem: parent or guardian liable for compensation; state payment to counties modified; contracting encouraged - AB742

Immunization program modified; school health services plan adoption required -  SB469

Information technology sharing by state agencies; DOA duties and implementation plan requirements  - SB396

Intergovernmental cooperation enhancement recommendations re municipal revenue sharing, police, libraries and CESA and technical college districts; report required  - SB491

Legislative information policy and privacy bureau created, JCLO duties set; JCIP duties expanded re public video conferencing -  SB395

Local roads improvement program: counties may bid for city, village or town highway projects - SB542

State fire programs interagency coordinating council created, sunset provided; SERB membership and duties revised  - AB746

Tribal law enforcement officers: LESB to reimburse for certain training -  SB502

Tribal prisoners confined in county jail: agreements between sheriff and county board and recognized tribe authorized - SB503

U.W. system chancellors: powers and duties revised -  SB371

Wisconsin information service council created to broadcast government proceedings; DOA and JCLO duties set  - SB397

Labor and employment, Committee on — Assembly

Prevailing wage rates and hours laws revised re state and local public works projects; coverage of certain truck drivers revised - AB632

Law revision committee

Academic excellence higher education scholarship program: grade point average requirement revised (remedial legislation) - AB765

Adult court: petition procedure revised re waiver of jurisdiction after child becomes 18 -  SB258

Agricultural law revisions re fertilizer control law terminology, tonnage fees and weights and measures (remedial legislation) - SB470

Alcohol testing before issuance of citation: court decision codified -  SB570

Bank trust power language: references to lunatics deleted (remedial legislation) -  SB464

Check tendered but not cashed: court decision codified re statute of limitations -  SB574

Condemnation proceedings: award of litigation expenses modified; judicial decicion codified - AB466

Criminal defamation: court decision codified re civil law privileges applied to criminal cases - SB577

DETF revisions re WRS lump sum payment, intestate or abandoned accounts notification, GIB contracting with public or private entities, life insurance to certain Milwaukee teachers and application date for long-term disability insurance benefits (remedial legislation) -  SB483

DHSS revisions re learnfare sanctions, HIRSP eligibility, maternal and child health services, noncompliance by nursing homes and intermediate care facilities and WIC administration (remedial legislation) -  AB863

DORL licensure and regulations for funeral directors, public accountants, pharmacists, physicians and optometrists revised (remedial legislation) -  AB759

Health insurance revised re coverage of optometrist services and preexisting condition exclusions or limitations (remedial legislation) -  SB471

Homestead exemption: court decision codified re residence requirement and use of proceeds from sale  - SB575

Jail commitment for failure to pay fine, costs and applicable assessments: limit specified -  AB832

Juvenile court intake worker initiating proceedings under children's code: language modified - SB485

Limited-English speaking pupils from Southeast Asian language groups: grants and terminology revised (remedial legislation) -  SB465

Lobbying prohibited practices: exemptions for reimbursements or payments revised re a published work, presentation of a talk or participation in a meeting relating to state governmental affairs -  SB259

Motor vehicle operation, registration and titling laws revised; school bus nonoperation, ignition interlock device, highway improvement date and DOT duty provisions (remedial legislation) -  AB821

Natural resources laws revised re stocking or introduction of fish, spawn or wild animals permit and languages and technical changes in water systems and abandoned container provisions (remedial legislation) -  AB865

Personnel commission authority revised re appointing authority appeals and family or medical leave complaints (remedial legislation) -  AB771

Placing foreign objects in edibles: law expanded -  SB294

Plea of guilty or no contest: grounds for withdrawal re possible immigration consequences revised - AB862

Private rehabilitation counseling or training costs under WC: technical change (remedial legislation)  - SB472

PSC revisions re advance planning, telecommunications utilities, public utilities and terminology updates (remedial legislation) -  AB912

Recreational use of property: owner's immunity from liability expanded re death of participant - SB292

Restitution for read-in crimes - AB467

Revisor's correction bill - AB685

Revisor's correction bill - SB344

Revisor's correction bill - SB436

Revisor's correction bill - SB675

Secretary of state duties re oaths of office, trademark, notary public applicants and certain corporate regulations modified (remedial legislation) -  SB586

Securities laws revisions (remedial legislation) -  SB484

Summons revision re time for state to answer in certain cases; payment of costs to governmental units representing individuals (remedial legislation) -  SB435

Tax laws: technical changes re property, motor vehicle fuel, aviation fuel, alcohol beverage and cigarette taxes and county tax roll settlement sheets (remedial legislation)  - AB866

Traffic regulation cases requiring forfeiture: appeals limited -  AB465

Unfair trade practices: provision re knowledge that a benefit is prohibited -  AB864

Vehicle displayed for sale on highway: law revised -  AB525

Weatherization assistance program; recycled paper purchased by state agencies; surety bond approval re counties (remedial legislation) -  SB482

Writ of habeas corpus: filing petition for certain cases specified  - AB831

Legislative organization, Joint committee on (Senate)

Floorperiods for 1995-96 session created; deadline for Governor's budget message extended -  SJR1

Official state newspaper: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel designated -  SJR15

Official state newspaper: Wisconsin State Journal designated  - SJR60

Organization, Committee on — Assembly

Bonus deer hunting permits: fee exemption for certain land owners under certain conditions; must already have permit for current season -  AB1099

Brown, Ronald Harmon: life and public service -  AJR96

DPI and State superintendent restructuring and Education commission created by 1995 WisAct 27 eliminated; HEAB and EAB restored with modifications; school district notice of tax levy and rate to certain property owners  - AB1102

Internal revenue code redefined re income and franchise taxes; earned income tax credit and military personnel tax benefit provisions -  AB1097

Kohl, Helmut, Chancellor of Germany: welcome to Wisconsin -  AR34

Law enforcement week and Law enforcement memorial day proclaimed -  AJR101

Metallic mineral mines or mine waste disposal facilities: bond required for certain remedial action  - AB1101

Professional baseball park district created; provisions re bond issuance, room tax, contracting, highway improvements, surplus state land sale and LAB audit -  SE5AB1

Property tax levy and rate: school district notice to owners of taxable property specified -  AB1100

Property tax relief by state paying two-thirds of local school costs: advisory referendum -  AJR102

Revival of 1995 AB-33 (U.W. system undergraduate tuition and academic fees) -  AJR97

Revival of 1995 AB-758 (sulfide ore mining) -  AJR98

Revival of 1995 AB-812 (Public intervenor office, DNR and DATCP Secretaries re 1995 WisAct 27)  - AJR99

Secretary of state duties re oaths of office, trademark, notary public applicants and certain corporate regulations modified - AB1096

State income or sales tax rates increases: advisory referendum on question of two-thirds vote of both houses  - AJR103

State investment rate provisions re Chap.45, Laws of 1981: rejection of federal preemption opt-out provision repealed - AB1095

Stock and nonstock, nonprofit corporation: reinstatement period after being administratively dissolved revised  - AB1098

Waukesha county: 150th anniversary commemorated -  AJR100

Organization, Committee on — Senate

Adjourn January 1995 special session except for consideration of vetoes and partial vetoes -  JR5SJR1

Internal revenue code redefined re income and franchise taxes; earned income tax credit and military personnel tax benefit provisions -  SB674

Organization of 1995-96 Senate; list of officers; notification to Assembly and Governor -  SR1

Senate rules revised [Senate rules 5(2)(c), 7(4), 8(1), 17 (1)(o), 18(2), (3), 20(1), (2), 21, 22(2), 25(1), 26(1), 29, 30(1), (2), (3)(intro.) and d, 31(3), 32(1), (2), 33(3), 34(title), (1), (2), (3), 35, 42(1), 44, 45, 46(1), (5), 48, 50(1), 89, 93(1), (3), 94(3)(a), 95, 98(4)(intro.)] -  SR2

State-federal relations, Senate Special committee on, created -  SR3