1997 Senate Bill 1 - Relating to: spousal impoverishment under the medical assistance program. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 2 - Relating to: regulation of various trading practices on the National Cheese Exchange. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 3 - Relating to: issuance of metallic mining permits for the mining of sulfide ore bodies. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 4 - Relating to: creating an income tax exemption for certain higher education costs. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 5 - Relating to: the appointment of the secretary of natural resources.
1997 Senate Bill 6 - Relating to: calculation of school aid under the state school aid formula. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 7 - Relating to: designations for the Wisconsin election campaign fund by individuals filing state income tax returns, income and franchise tax deductions for certain business expenses related to lobbying, public information related to the Wisconsin election campaign fund, eligibility requirements for and the amounts of grants from the Wisconsin election campaign fund, disbursement levels for candidates for certain state offices, independent disbursements in support of or opposition to candidates for certain state offices, contribution restrictions and limitations, treatment of legislative campaign committees, disposition of residual or excess campaign funds, regulation of certain telephoning activities pertaining to elections, information provided on campaign finance registration statements, electronic filing of campaign finance reports with the elections board, composition of the elections board, elimination of legislative partisan caucus staffs, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, making appropriations and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 8 - Relating to: transferring the public intervenor to the department of justice and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 9 - Relating to: exempting from taxation unemployment compensation benefits. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 10 - Relating to: rules of conduct for a business receiving business assistance from the department of commerce and a business entering into an industrial development revenue bonding agreement with a municipality, the employment impact estimates required to be submitted by such a business and providing penalties. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 11 - Relating to: reimbursement of costs incurred because of discharges from heating oil tanks that serve buildings primarily used for religious worship and heating oil tanks that serve nonprofit private schools. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 12 - Relating to: imposing service fees on certain tax-exempt real property and making those fees aidable revenues for calculating shared revenue payments. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 13 - Relating to: expanding the homestead tax credit and reducing the state-funded school aid percentage. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 14 - Relating to: employment relations for members of the University of Wisconsin System faculty and academic staff. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 15 - Relating to: issuing crossbow hunting permits to persons who are physically unable to use a bow and arrow. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 16 - Relating to: creditable military service under the Wisconsin retirement system. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 17 - Relating to: requiring the public service commission to establish maximum hospital rates, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 18 - Relating to: limiting the property tax exemption for hospitals to exclude health and fitness centers. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 19 - Relating to: certification by electors who render assistance in voting at polling places.
1997 Senate Bill 20 - Relating to: the authority of the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection to prohibit the use of atrazine in a specified area in the town of North Lancaster, Grant County.
1997 Senate Bill 21 - Relating to: prohibiting the installation of certain devices in wells.
1997 Senate Bill 22 - Relating to: increasing the limit on policies issued by the state life insurance fund.
1997 Senate Bill 23 - Relating to: special distinguishing registration plates associated with the Green Bay Packers professional football team, payments to D.A.R.E. Wisconsin, Ltd., and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 24 - Relating to: requirements for a state health officer. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 25 - Relating to: the school aid distribution schedule. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 26 - Relating to: ordinances that prohibit truancy and habitual truancy and authorize suspension of the operating privilege of a person under 18 years of age if he or she drops out of school. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 27 - Relating to: permitting certain individuals to make written requests for medication for the purpose of ending their lives, and providing penalties. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 28 - Relating to: restricting the Milwaukee parental choice program to nonsectarian private schools.
1997 Senate Bill 29 - Relating to: discontinuing the property tax exemption for governmental property that is leased and which the lessee uses as a country club. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 30 - Relating to: providing a penalty of either death or life imprisonment for the first-degree intentional homicide of a child younger than 16 years old, affecting parole eligibility and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 31 - Relating to: the requirements for receiving an automatic joint survivor death benefit under the Wisconsin retirement system. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 32 - Relating to: the 5-year vesting requirement to receive an annuity under the Wisconsin retirement system. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 33 - Relating to: the minimum number of persons required on train crews, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty.
1997 Senate Bill 34 - Relating to: disposal facilities on outlying waters for toilet wastes from boats and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 35 - Relating to: the purchase of used home furnishings by antique dealers and recyclers and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 36 - Relating to: notice of tort claims against governmental entities. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 37 - Relating to: deductions to labor and professional organizations from annuity payments under the Wisconsin retirement system. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 38 - Relating to: the composition of the land information board.
1997 Senate Bill 39 - Relating to: stopping at railroad crossings, reckless driving at railroad crossings and providing penalties. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 40 - Relating to: the election of certain persons to a city, village or town planning commission.
1997 Senate Bill 41 - Relating to: security deposits made by motor fuel dealers.
1997 Senate Bill 42 - Relating to: legislative approval of Indian gaming compacts.
1997 Senate Bill 43 - Relating to: senate approval of Indian gaming compacts.
1997 Senate Bill 44 - Relating to: professional land surveyors and the practice of professional land surveying. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 45 - Relating to: including surveys, appraisals and architectural and engineering plans under the construction lien law.
1997 Senate Bill 46 - Relating to: substitution of judges. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 47 - Relating to: production by the state and local governments of customized work products compiled from public records. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 48 - Relating to: committing certain crimes while possessing, using or threatening to use a firearm and providing penalties. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 49 - Relating to: eliminating recovery for personal injury for persons injured while involved in a felony. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 50 - Relating to: increasing a school district's revenue limit for certain technology-related expenditures. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 51 - Relating to: background investigations of applicants for employment in, and employes of, private schools participating in the Milwaukee parental choice program.
1997 Senate Bill 52 - Relating to: the expenditure of $23,850 from moneys appropriated to the department of transportation for payment of a claim against the state made by Barbara Hestekin. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 53 - Relating to: eligibility for the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority's property tax deferral loan program.
1997 Senate Bill 54 - Relating to: specific information signs. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 55 - Relating to: restrictions on on-property signs. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 56 - Relating to: an individual income tax deduction for long-term care insurance premiums. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 57 - Relating to: hazardous materials transportation registration fees. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 58 - Relating to: the individual income tax filing threshold for certain married persons. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 59 - Relating to: classifying state probation and parole officers as protective occupation participants for the purposes of the Wisconsin retirement system. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 60 - Relating to: income that may be retained by a medical assistance beneficiary who is in an institution. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 61 - Relating to: creating a property tax exemption for nonprofit organizations that rehabilitate housing for sale to low-income persons. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 62 - Relating to: requiring certain persons to hold boating safety certificates. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 63 - Relating to: use of vending machines for the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 64 - Relating to: vehicles or vehicle parts having an altered or obliterated vehicle identification number. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 65 - Relating to: the retail sale of firearms and providing a penalty.
1997 Senate Bill 66 - Relating to: the purchase of health care coverage by private employers through the group insurance board, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 67 - Relating to: exempting the sales of flex-time time-share property from the sales tax. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 68 - Relating to: changing the name of the department of industry, labor and job development to the department of workforce development. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 69 - Relating to: making the establishment of the school calendar a permissive subject of collective bargaining for municipal employers. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 70 - Relating to: creating a plea and verdict of guilty but mentally ill in certain criminal cases. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 71 - Relating to: authorization for electors to vote in the primary of more than one political party.
1997 Senate Bill 72 - Relating to: tuition for undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin System and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 73 - Relating to: discontinuing the property tax exemption for nuclear shelters. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 74 - Relating to: narrowing the property tax exemption for educational and other institutions to exclude recreational organizations. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 75 - Relating to: lowering the prohibited alcohol concentration for certain offenses involving alcohol use. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 76 - Relating to: acquisition of certain property by the building commission.
1997 Senate Bill 77 - Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 1997 legislature, and making appropriations.
1997 Senate Bill 78 - Relating to: assignments of earnings, pension benefits, lottery winnings and other benefits for the payment of assessments, fines, restitution and surcharges and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 79 - Relating to: review of obscenity prosecutions by the attorney general.
1997 Senate Bill 80 - Relating to: obscene sexual conduct.
1997 Senate Bill 81 - Relating to: testing for the presence of the human immunodeficiency virus and sexually transmitted diseases in criminal defendants and juveniles alleged to be delinquent or in need of protection or services who are found not competent to proceed or not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 82 - Relating to: applying cash deposited for bail to restitution payments ordered in criminal cases. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 83 - Relating to: the number of days on which school districts must hold school each year. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 84 - Relating to: state payment of the property taxes on certain residences of disabled veterans and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 85 - Relating to: mergers, consolidations and acquisitions of electric or gas public utilities, formation of electric or gas public utility holding companies, and electric or gas public utility affiliates in a holding company system. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 86 - Relating to: the development zones environmental remediation credit, increasing the total tax benefits limit under the development zone program and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 87 - Relating to: the imposition of special charges for environmental testing and remediation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 88 - Relating to: increasing forfeitures for motor vehicle speed restriction violations committed in school zones and providing penalties.
1997 Senate Bill 89 - Relating to: authorizing the state superintendent of public instruction to award grants for family involvement in education projects and making appropriations. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 90 - Relating to: commencement of the fall semester at public schools. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 91 - Relating to: qualifications for absentee voting. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 92 - Relating to: the salary of the research director of the joint survey committee on retirement systems. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 93 - Relating to: the property tax exemption for professional sports home stadiums. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 94 - Relating to: the Wisconsin morning milk program and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 95 - Relating to: a state minimum wage, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 96 - Relating to: homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle and providing a penalty.
1997 Senate Bill 97 - Relating to: various changes to the family and medical leave law, leave for school conferences and activities and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 98 - Relating to: prohibiting smoking in the state capitol building and on the state capitol grounds and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 99 - Relating to: requiring insurance coverage of preventive pediatric health care services. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 100 - Relating to: performance bonding requirements for certain contracts for public improvements or public works. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 101 - Relating to: release of certain persons convicted of a misdemeanor pending appeal.
1997 Senate Bill 102 - Relating to: the use of school district property by citizen associations.
1997 Senate Bill 103 - Relating to: information received by a school official regarding the use by a pupil of alcohol or other drugs.
1997 Senate Bill 104 - Relating to: exempting from income taxation the pension benefits of certain teachers who taught in other states. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 105 - Relating to: use of taxes levied by a local professional baseball park district. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 106 - Relating to: eligibility to attend a home-based private educational program.
1997 Senate Bill 107 - Relating to: the term of the student member of the state technical college board.
1997 Senate Bill 108 - Relating to: employment of minors 11 years of age in the sale or distribution of newspapers.
1997 Senate Bill 109 - Relating to: electronic filing of certain campaign finance reports with the elections board and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 110 - Relating to: the appointment of the secretary of agriculture, trade and consumer protection.
1997 Senate Bill 111 - Relating to: advertising practices of public utilities and sewerage service providers. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 112 - Relating to: the temporary placement of young adult offenders at a juvenile secured correctional facility and making appropriations. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 113 - Relating to: the temporary placement of young adult offenders at a juvenile secured correctional facility. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 114 - Relating to: death benefits to dependents of certain volunteer clergy and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 115 - Relating to: exempting from income taxation the pension benefits of certain national guard technicians and interest and penalty waivers for certain payments made to national guard technicians. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 116 - Relating to: an individual income tax exemption for payments for medical care insurance. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 117 - Relating to: interest and penalty waivers for certain payments made to national guard technicians. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 118 - Relating to: minimum sentences for certain sex offenses. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 119 - Relating to: hours of labor and one day of rest in 7 for persons employed in the manufacture of butter, cheese or other dairy products from nonperishable milk, in the distribution of nonperishable milk or cream or in canning or freezing nonperishable agricultural commodities and granting rule-making authority.
1997 Senate Bill 120 - Relating to: adjusting a school district's revenue limit upon the transfer of services.
1997 Senate Bill 121 - Relating to: interest payments under a restitution order. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 122 - Relating to: exposing a child to harmful descriptions or narrations and providing a penalty.
1997 Senate Bill 123 - Relating to: notification of a juvenile's school if a juvenile delinquency proceeding is terminated without a finding that the juvenile has committed a delinquent act. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 124 - Relating to: the prohibition of obtaining title by adverse possession to real estate owned by a public body. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 125 - Relating to: required disclosures by persons who receive payment from other persons for the cost of conducting certain polls.
1997 Senate Bill 126 - Relating to: the school aid distribution schedule. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 127 - Relating to: tourist-oriented directional signs. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 128 - Relating to: the method of selection of election officials.
1997 Senate Bill 129 - Relating to: the playing of bingo by persons under the age of 18.
1997 Senate Bill 130 - Relating to: sale of rabies vaccine and rabies vaccination of dogs.
1997 Senate Bill 131 - Relating to: prohibiting performance of certain partial-birth abortions and providing a penalty.
1997 Senate Bill 132 - Relating to: deductions from the sales price of property that is sold because of delinquent property taxes. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 133 - Relating to: records maintained by the department of transportation of security interests in certain vehicles. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 134 - Relating to: segregated fees at the University of Wisconsin System.
1997 Senate Bill 135 - Relating to: dividing land within an assessor's plat by subdivision plat or certified survey map. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 136 - Relating to: hunting approvals issued to persons born on or after January 1, 1973. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 137 - Relating to: authorization for the attorney general and district attorneys to issue subpoenas to investigate alleged violations of the open meetings law.
1997 Senate Bill 138 - Relating to: treatment of child care expenses, ordering trusts for the support of children, order of disbursement of wages for Huber law inmates, ordering payment of postmajority support for a child with exceptional educational needs and paternity judgments and blood test costs. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 139 - Relating to: enacting traffic regulation ordinances that conform with rules of the department of transportation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 140 - Relating to: access to public records.
1997 Senate Bill 141 - Relating to: motor vehicle hit-and-run offenses and providing penalties.
1997 Senate Bill 142 - Relating to: sexual assaults causing substantial bodily harm.
1997 Senate Bill 143 - Relating to: the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 144 - Relating to: the valuation of a state employe's accumulated sick leave credits for the payment of health insurance premiums under a group health insurance program administered by the group insurance board. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 145 - Relating to: increasing the limits, and authorizing occurrence or claims-made coverage, for health care liability insurance and granting rule-making authority.
1997 Senate Bill 146 - Relating to: imposing liability upon the owner of a vehicle for the improper display or use of a license plate, registration sticker or other evidence of registration and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 147 - Relating to: regulating water or sewer service provided to occupants of mobile home parks, providing an exemption form emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 148 - Relating to: the dollar limits in wrongful death and medical malpractice actions.
1997 Senate Bill 149 - Relating to: promulgation of emergency rules and the extension of emergency rules by the joint committee for review of administrative rules.
1997 Senate Bill 150 - Relating to: the apportionment of certain services costs among counties and municipalities. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 151 - Relating to: granting credit against child or family support.
1997 Senate Bill 152 - Relating to: qualification of candidates for justice of the supreme court for grants from the Wisconsin election campaign fund and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 153 - Relating to: changing the term "assisted living facility" to "residential care apartments" and defining the term "stove" for the purposes of residential care apartments. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 154 - Relating to: a use tax exemption for medicines. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 155 - Relating to: bonding authority of the Wisconsin Health and Educational Facilities Authority.
1997 Senate Bill 156 - Relating to: regulation of physician assistants and the authority of physician assistants to prescribe drugs and devices. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 157 - Relating to: mandatory release on parole. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 158 - Relating to: the property tax exemption for professional sports home stadiums and imposing the sales tax on the lease of sky boxes and private luxury boxes by for-profit professional sports teams. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 159 - Relating to: disclosure of human immunodeficiency virus test results by attending physicians. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 160 - Relating to: possession of a firearm by certain persons and providing a penalty.
1997 Senate Bill 161 - Relating to: including certain disabled veterans as members of a targeted group for the development zones jobs credit. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 162 - Relating to: creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for low-income persons. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 163 - Relating to: the child care worker loan repayment assistance program; early childhood councils; requiring recipients of child care funding to have received training in child development and safety; training and network development for special needs child care providers; eligibility for low-income child care funding recipients; a tax credit for employers who provide child care; funding for child care resource and referral services; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 164 - Relating to: release of a person convicted of a misdemeanor pending appeal. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 165 - Relating to: reductions in automobile insurance premiums for persons age 55 and older who complete an accident prevention course and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 166 - Relating to: calculation of interest expense of affiliated entities under medical assistance. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 167 - Relating to: modifying the structure of the individual income tax system. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 168 - Relating to: substitute care providers of children, termination of parental rights, the appointment of a relative of a child as the guardian of the child, paternity determinations and the duties of juvenile court intake workers. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 169 - Relating to: reimbursement for costs incurred because of discharges from certain petroleum product storage tanks, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 170 - Relating to: the agricultural chemical cleanup program, fees related to pesticides, fertilizers and soil and plant additives, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 171 - Relating to: allowing victims to attend and make statements at parole interviews or hearings. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 172 - Relating to: institutional placement and parole eligibility of certain sex offenders.
1997 Senate Bill 173 - Relating to: termination of parental rights over a child who on 3 or more separate occasions has been placed outside of his or her home by an order of the juvenile court. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 174 - Relating to: prohibiting the use of cigarettes and tobacco products on the premises of shopping malls and in the common areas of privately owned residential buildings, regulating smoking in restaurants and in private schools, colleges and universities, authorizing the department of health and family services to enforce smoking restrictions in restaurants, authorizing the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin System to prohibit the use of cigarettes and tobacco products on property that is subject to its jurisdiction and authorizing a person owning, leasing or renting a building to prohibit the use of cigarettes and tobacco products in the area of that building that is subject to that person's control. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 175 - Relating to: specifying that Prader-Willi syndrome is a developmental disability. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 176 - Relating to: transferring responsibility for administering the uniform commercial code lien system and business organization filing requirements, authorizing positions, granting rule-making authority and making appropriations. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 177 - Relating to: the revocation of licenses issued by the department of public instruction and reports about licensees made to the department by administrators of educational agencies. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 178 - Relating to: exempting certain resident students from tuition at the University of Wisconsin System and at the technical college system. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 179 - Relating to: seizure and forfeiture of motor vehicles. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 180 - Relating to: the sale of advertising space in folded highway maps, the sale of highway service maps and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 181 - Relating to: establishment of species harvest limits and allotment of individual licensee catch quotas among holders of commercial fishing licenses and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 182 - Relating to: requiring instruction in public schools on the history of organized labor. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 183 - Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Attorneys Association, Inc., for the 1995-97 biennium, covering employes in the professional legal collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 184 - Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Attorneys Association, Inc., for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employes in the professional legal collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 185 - Relating to: misrepresentations of the locations of businesses and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 186 - Relating to: the regulation of home inspectors, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority and providing penalties. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 187 - Relating to: effective recycling programs, effective landfill siting programs and solid waste capacity fees. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 188 - Relating to:
1997 Senate Bill 189 - Relating to: national guard tuitions grants. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 190 - Relating to: noncompetitive appointment of certain disabled veterans to positions in the classified service of the state. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 191 - Relating to: disclosure requirement concerning charitable solicitations.
1997 Senate Bill 192 - Relating to: the expulsion of pupils from school and creating a council on pupil discipline in the department of public instruction. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 193 - Relating to: criminal slander of title, civil slander of title, simulating legal process, falsely assuming to act as a public officer, public employe or utility employe, failing to file a statement terminating a security interest under a financing statement and providing penalties.
1997 Senate Bill 194 - Relating to: required emissions inspections of motor vehicles transferred to surviving spouses. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 195 - Relating to: rights of victims of crime, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 196 - Relating to: abandonment of a child and providing a penalty.
1997 Senate Bill 197 - Relating to: mental health treatment of minors (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 198 - Relating to: the presence of alcohol in the body of an underage person.
1997 Senate Bill 199 - Relating to: the elimination of the state lottery and pari-mutuel wagering, prohibiting new claims under the farmland relief tax credit, providing a penalty and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 200 - Relating to: stationery utilized by state agencies for outside correspondence.
1997 Senate Bill 201 - Relating to: "sale or return" or consignment sales under the uniform commercial code.
1997 Senate Bill 202 - Relating to: standards for determining legal custody and physical placement of children in actions affecting the family, jurisdictional requirements in actions affecting the family, prohibitions against moving a child outside of a school district after divorce, standards for modifying custody and physical placement orders, temporary orders in actions affecting the family, visitation rights of 3rd parties, prohibiting the appointment of a guardian ad litem in all but certain actions affecting the family and making records of paternity proceedings open records. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 203 - Relating to: a state minimum wage, overtime pay for executive, administrative and professional employes, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 204 - Relating to: the membership of the laboratory of hygiene board. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 205 - Relating to: requiring Class "B" and "Class B" licensees to maintain employment records on the licensed premises and to make such records available for inspection.
1997 Senate Bill 206 - Relating to: requiring insurance coverage of certain immunizations for children. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 207 - Relating to: looking into a building for sexual purposes, criminal invasion of privacy and providing penalties.
1997 Senate Bill 208 - Relating to: requiring notice to an insured before a liability insurance claim is paid.
1997 Senate Bill 209 - Relating to: notice to individuals prior to release of public records containing personally identifiable information pertaining to the individuals and a right of action to restrain the release of such information.
1997 Senate Bill 210 - Relating to: distribution of periodic publications containing information relating to the Wisconsin retirement system. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 211 - Relating to: exempting certain persons who have committed sex offenses from the sex offender registration requirements. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 212 - Relating to: establishment of a requirement that petitions for the recall of a city, village, town or school district officer include a statement of the grounds for recall which constitute cause for recall.
1997 Senate Bill 213 - Relating to: payment of health insurance premiums for University of Wisconsin System faculty and certain administrative staff. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 214 - Relating to: creating a pretrial intoxicated driver intervention grant program and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 215 - Relating to: voting on legislation that increases certain tax rates.
1997 Senate Bill 216 - Relating to: school district professional employe compensation and fringe benefits. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 217 - Relating to: abating nuisances caused by solid waste resulting from manufacturing tires. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 218 - Relating to: health insurance coverage requirements, including preexisting condition exclusions, guaranteed issue, guaranteed acceptance, portability, rating restrictions, contract termination and renewability and fair marketing standards; eliminating the small employer health insurance plan and board; collective bargaining of certain health care coverage requirements; granting rule-making authority; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 219 - Relating to: priority of support-related obligations as tax setoffs. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 220 - Relating to: operating an unregistered vehicle, temporary operation plates and creating presumption that certain motor vehicles located on a highway are unregistered or improperly registered vehicles. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 221 - Relating to: the issuance of alternative teaching permits and teaching licenses. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 222 - Relating to: the use of bicycle helmets and providing a penalty.
1997 Senate Bill 223 - Relating to: lowering the prohibited alcohol concentration for certain offenses involving alcohol use, installation of an ignition interlock device in cases involving intoxicated operation of a motor vehicle, seizure and forfeiture of motor vehicles and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 224 - Relating to: possession of ignition devices by minors and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 225 - Relating to: the use of original manufacturer replacement parts.
1997 Senate Bill 226 - Relating to: the payment of wages and commissions owed to employes and commission salespersons whose employment ends, the termination or alteration of sales representative agreements and providing penalties. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 227 - Relating to: requiring headlights and other required lamps on vehicles to be lighted while windshield wipers are being used. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 228 - Relating to: immunity of guardians ad litem. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 229 - Relating to: creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for certain married persons. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 230 - Relating to: the admission of veterans to the University of Wisconsin System. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 231 - Relating to: creditable military service under the Wisconsin retirement system. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 232 - Relating to: income tax refunds for certain disabled veterans. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 233 - Relating to: sentences for felony offenses, parole, community supervision, granting rule-making authority and providing penalties. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 234 - Relating to: discontinuing the tax on owners of domestic mink. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 235 - Relating to: revocation or suspension of the privilege to engage in a fish or game activity and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 236 - Relating to: creating an income tax credit and franchise tax credit for hiring disabled veterans and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 237 - Relating to: creating a sales tax exemption and a use tax exemption for sales by educational foundations. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 238 - Relating to: lump sum settlements of worker's compensation claims. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 239 - Relating to: advising juveniles and parents of the possible consequences of a juvenile court proceeding. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 240 - Relating to: a study of the aquaculture industry and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 241 - Relating to: veterans benefits for veterans who are delinquent in child or spousal support, maintenance, medical expenses or birth expenses. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 242 - Relating to: the information gathered regarding veterans burials.
1997 Senate Bill 243 - Relating to: Vietnam veteran eligibility for veterans benefits. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 244 - Relating to: pawnbroking by certain licensed lenders and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 245 - Relating to: transferring funds in the fixed retirement investment trust of the Wisconsin retirement system and increasing the retirement formula multiplier for certain participating employes in the Wisconsin retirement system for creditable service earned before January 1, 1998. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 246 - Relating to: prohibiting certain insurance practices on the basis of domestic abuse. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 247 - Relating to: licensing and community oversight of child welfare agencies, group homes and community-based residential facilities and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 248 - Relating to: increasing the revenue limit of a 1st class city school district and exempting a 1st class city school district from the qualified economic offer provisions affecting salary and fringe benefit costs for represented and nonrepresented school district professional employes. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 249 - Relating to: classifying county coroners and deputy coroners as protective occupation participants for the purposes of the Wisconsin retirement system. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 250 - Relating to: uniform fees chargeable for certified duplicate health care records and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 251 - Relating to: the operating privilege of an underage person convicted of certain alcohol-related offenses. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 252 - Relating to: fermented malt beverage wholesalers. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 253 - Relating to: creating a lien for services provided by a chiropractor. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 254 - Relating to: powers of attorney.
1997 Senate Bill 255 - Relating to: federal waivers under the food stamp program. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 256 - Relating to: the transfer of firearms and providing a penalty.
1997 Senate Bill 257 - Relating to: the determination of the annual earnings period under the Wisconsin retirement system for certain technical college district and cooperative educational service agency employes. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 258 - Relating to: the regulation and licensure of podiatrists, abolishing the podiatry examining council and creating a podiatrists affiliated credentialing board, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 259 - Relating to: library lending incentive aid and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 260 - Relating to: the operation of private businesses in state prisons. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 261 - Relating to: replacing the property tax exemption for benevolent retirement homes for the aged with a property tax exemption for charitable retirement homes for the aged. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 262 - Relating to: the regulation of massage therapists and bodyworkers, creating a massage therapy and bodywork examining board, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 263 - Relating to: the hunter education and safety program and hunting approvals issued to bow hunters. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 264 - Relating to: unborn children who are at substantial risk of serious physical injury due to the habitual lack of self-control of their expectant mothers in the use of alcohol beverages, controlled substances or controlled substance analogs, exhibited to a severe degree. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 265 - Relating to: leaves of absence for certain state employes to participate in providing certain disaster relief services. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 266 - Relating to: state agent status for certain psychiatrists who are county employes or provide services under certain county contracts. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 267 - Relating to: election of school board members from apportioned areas by the electors of those areas. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 268 - Relating to: school district bonds, promissory notes and revenue limits and excluding certain debt service from a school district's shared cost. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 269 - Relating to: the number of members on the system board in certain federated library systems; nomination and approval of members of a library system board in a federated public library system; public library advisory committees; exemption from the county property tax levy for library services; the establishment by counties of standards for public libraries; convening a public library and school library technology conference; public library system aids; reports on the effectiveness of public library systems; withdrawal from and participation in public library systems; appeals to the state superintendent of public instruction of a county library board or county board of supervisors' disapproval of a town's request to establish a public library; authorizing private colleges and universities to participate in telecommunications networks; and requiring counties to pay public libraries for services provided to residents of the county that reside in municipalities that do not maintain public libraries. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 270 - Relating to: littering and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 271 - Relating to: exempting certain resident students from tuition at the University of Wisconsin System and at the technical college system. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 272 - Relating to: mediation of special education program disputes between a parent and a school board. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 273 - Relating to: truancy planning committees and school district truancy plans. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 274 - Relating to: removal of disruptive pupils from the class and granting rule-making authority.
1997 Senate Bill 275 - Relating to: regulation of grain dealers and grain warehouse keepers. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 276 - Relating to: the regulation of athletic trainers, creating an athletic trainers affiliated credentialing board, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 277 - Relating to: the regulation of the sale of merchandise below cost and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 278 - Relating to: seizure of motor vehicles for offenses related to driving while under the influence of an intoxicant. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 279 - Relating to: driving while under the influence of an intoxicant and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 280 - Relating to: the counting of convictions, suspensions and revocations related to driving while under the influence of an intoxicant. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 281 - Relating to: eliminating requirements for approval by the joint committee on finance of certain applications for participation in the volunteer health care provider program. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 282 - Relating to: procedures to recover forfeitures for injury caused by dogs to certain wildlife. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 283 - Relating to: unsolicited messages transmitted by electronic mail. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 284 - Relating to: changing the name of a minor.
1997 Senate Bill 285 - Relating to: the intoxicated boating law; capacity plates on boats; certificate of number, registration and titling requirements for boats; prohibitions against falsifying boat titles and other documentation; prohibitions against operating boats using unsafe methods and in certain locations; boating safety course and certificates; emergency powers of counties over navigable waters; granting rule-making authority; and providing penalties. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 286 - Relating to: drug paraphernalia.
1997 Senate Bill 287 - Relating to: default judgments in municipal court cases.
1997 Senate Bill 288 - Relating to: changing the name of the 2-year campuses in the University of Wisconsin System. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 289 - Relating to: immunity in cases involving wrongful birth and wrongful life.
1997 Senate Bill 290 - Relating to: violations of solid waste laws, permits and special orders and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 291 - Relating to: the operation of private businesses in state prisons. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 292 - Relating to: prohibiting the use of telephone solicitations to solicit the sale of burial agreements, cemetery merchandise, cemetery lots, mausoleum spaces, insurance contracts to pay for funeral merchandise or services or cemetery merchandise, or burial, funeral or preneed insurance, and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 293 - Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employes in the blue collar and nonbuilding trades collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 294 - Relating to: changing the name of the clerical and related collective bargaining unit to the administrative support collective bargaining unit, ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employes in the administrative support collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 295 - Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employes in the technical collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 296 - Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employes in the security and public safety collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 297 - Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employes in the law enforcement collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 298 - Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employes in the professional social services collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 299 - Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Science Professionals, AFT, Local 3732, for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employes in the professional science collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 300 - Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the State Engineering Association for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employes in the professional engineering collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 301 - Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Building Trades Negotiating Committee, AFL-CIO, and its appropriate affiliated locals, for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employes in the building trades crafts collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 302 - Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Professional Employes in Research, Statistics and Analysis, WFT/AFT, AFL-CIO, for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employes in the professional research, statistics and analysis collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 303 - Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Education Association Council, for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employes in the professional education collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 304 - Relating to: eliminating exceptional performance awards under the compensation plan for nonrepresented state employes. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 305 - Relating to: the salaries of the executive directors of the elections board and ethics board. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 306 - Relating to: assuring financial responsibility for the operation of motor vehicles, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 307 - Relating to: requesting the joint legislative council to study shared revenue.
1997 Senate Bill 308 - Relating to: revising the investment securities chapter of the uniform commercial code.
1997 Senate Bill 309 - Relating to: burglary and providing a penalty.
1997 Senate Bill 310 - Relating to: eliminating the Wisconsin School for the Visually Handicapped and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 311 - Relating to: reserve judge qualifications.
1997 Senate Bill 312 - Relating to: permitting certain persons to make health care decisions for incapacitated persons. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 313 - Relating to: restrictions on the sale or giving away of cigarettes or tobacco products. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 314 - Relating to: the authority of counties, towns, villages and cities to enact ordinances regulating the purchase, possession, sale or giving away of cigarettes and tobacco products.
1997 Senate Bill 315 - Relating to: eliminating the office of health care information and transferring functions related to collection, analysis and dissemination of health care information to the department of health and family services, confidentiality of patient health care records, granting rule-making authority, providing a penalty and making appropriations.
1997 Senate Bill 316 - Relating to: the definition of the internal revenue code for the income tax and the franchise tax. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 317 - Relating to: sexual assault and providing a penalty.
1997 Senate Bill 318 - Relating to: dispute settlement procedures in local government employment other than law enforcement and fire fighting employment. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 319 - Relating to: release of patient health care records to the patient's health care provider. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 320 - Relating to: providing the jury with an explanation regarding the results of their findings. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 321 - Relating to: increasing the number of circuit court branches. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 322 - Relating to: certification requirements for dietitians. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 323 - Relating to: various changes to the worker's compensation law. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 324 - Relating to: allowing audiologists to engage in the practice of fitting and selling hearing aids without obtaining a hearing instrument specialist license, continuing education for hearing instrument specialists, audiologists and speech-language pathologists and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 325 - Relating to: the amount of assistance for funeral or burial expenses of recipients under certain benefits and assistance programs and the value of an irrevocable burial trust that is excluded from the resource determination under the medical assistance program. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 326 - Relating to: creating a tuition protection program for students enrolled in proprietary schools, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 327 - Relating to: various changes in the unemployment compensation law and related provisions, granting rule-making authority and making appropriations. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 328 - Relating to: prohibitions against certain practices of insurers with respect to insurance agents.
1997 Senate Bill 329 - Relating to: presumption concerning employment-connected disease for certain municipal fire fighters. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 330 - Relating to: calculating the probate filing fee. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 331 - Relating to: defining the practice of nursing to include acting under the direction of optometrists.
1997 Senate Bill 332 - Relating to: requiring the department of health and family services to establish a health care coverage plan for employers in the private sector, creating a private employer health care coverage board and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 333 - Relating to: creating a certified capital company program for companies that make certain types of investments, providing tax credits to persons who make certain investments in certified capital corporations, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 334 - Relating to: allowing a power of attorney for health care instrument to be used to make or refuse to make an anatomical gift and allowing a health care agent to make an anatomical gift.
1997 Senate Bill 335 - Relating to: evaluating proposed major highway projects; adjustments to appropriations of the department of transportation to reflect federal highway aid changes; joint committee on finance approval of any plan for the expenditure of income augmentation funds for any purpose other than augmenting federal revenues; agreement between the department of natural resources and Indian tribes or bands concerning the issuing of fishing or hunting approvals or the registration of all-terrain vehicles, boats or snowmobiles; a study on paving state bicycle trails; adjustment of agricultural chemical cleanup surcharges; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 336 - Relating to:
1997 Senate Bill 337 - Relating to: the regulation of music, art and dance therapists and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 338 - Relating to: nonutility activities by public utilities and public utility affiliates, subsidies between utility and nonutility affiliates, utility energy conservation programs and duties, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 339 - Relating to: prohibitions regarding members of public service commission.
1997 Senate Bill 340 - Relating to: a loan to a bank holding company and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 341 - Relating to: prohibiting school boards from using certain American Indian names, nicknames, logos and mascots. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 342 - Relating to: applications for metallic mining permits, denial of metallic mining permits, information concerning exploratory drilling, agreements between local governments and applicants for metallic mining permits and requirements for mining contractors and subcontractors. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 343 - Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the District 1199W/United Professionals for Quality Health Care, SEIU, AFL-CIO, for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employes in the professional patient care collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 344 - Relating to: ratification of an amendment to the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Attorneys Association, Inc., for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employes in the professional legal collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 345 - Relating to: sentences for felony offenses, parole, extended supervision and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 346 - Relating to: various changes to the Minnesota-Wisconsin student reciprocity agreement. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 347 - Relating to: the rate for the tax on cider. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 348 - Relating to: evictions of tenants in buildings used for prostitution. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 349 - Relating to: notice to employes, retirees and dependents of cessation of health care benefits, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 350 - Relating to: drilling beneath the beds of the Great Lakes and adjacent waters to explore for or produce oil or gas. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 351 - Relating to: enforcement of interconnection agreements by the public service commission, protections for users of certain telecommunications services, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 352 - Relating to: fishing licenses for certain disabled veterans. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 353 - Relating to: costs that may be imposed on a person convicted of a crime. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 354 - Relating to: changing rental unit energy efficiency requirements and creating a procedure for issuing citations for failure to comply with existing stipulations relating to rental unit energy efficiency requirements. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 355 - Relating to: effective recycling programs, reports by materials recovery facilities, waste reduction and recycling demonstration grants, liability associated with materials reuse programs, requiring studies and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 356 - Relating to: the payment of principal and interest for veterans cemeteries and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 357 - Relating to: eliminating some of the school district and cooperative educational service agency reporting requirements and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 358 - Relating to: the motor vehicle fuel tax exemption for nonhighway use. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 359 - Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Teaching Assistants' Association, AFT, Local 3220, AFL-CIO, for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employes in the program, project and teaching assistants of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Wisconsin-Extension collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 360 - Relating to: allowing brewers and alcohol beverage wholesalers to contribute money or things of value to or for the benefit of certain festivals held in 2nd class cities.
1997 Senate Bill 361 - Relating to: the administration of drug products and devices by pharmacists, continuing education for pharmacists and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 362 - Relating to: the application of the business combination and the control share voting restriction provisions of the business corporation law; dry cleaning fees; nontarget population members; the date by which certain school board resolutions pertaining to the open enrollment programs must be adopted; loans made to school districts by the technology for educational achievement in Wisconsin board; the method for calculating contributions to the universal service fund; use of the universal service fund to make grants to certain school districts for telecommunications access; financial assistance for local recycling programs; funding for a boat landing located on the Wisconsin River in the town of Buena Vista; reports concerning the environmental cooperation pilot program; funding for air and solid and hazardous waste programs; studies of fish in the Great Lakes; eligibility for child care subsidies under the Wisconsin works program; increased funding for the benefit specialist program for older individuals; the amount that a county having a population of 500,000 or more must contribute for the provision of child welfare services in that county by the department of health and family services; the photographing of a person applying for or receiving kinship care payments, of employes and prospective employes of a person applying for or receiving kinship care payments and of adult residents and prospective adult residents of the home of a person applying for or receiving kinship care payments; eliminating cross-references to the Wisconsin works health plan; computing the aviation fuel tax; a sales tax and use tax exemption for samples of medicine and registration for use tax purposes; the international fuel tax agreement; the department of revenue's expenses to administer the fee on vehicle rentals; directing the department of revenue to not adjust individual income tax withholding tables and making a technical adjustment in the calculation of income tax liability by individual nonresidents and part-year residents of this state; the sales of food by institutions of higher learning; salary-setting authority of certain state bodies; reserve "Class B" intoxicating liquor licenses; the abolishment of the emergency response board; revocation of probation for failure to pay supervision fees owed to the department of corrections; and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 363 - Relating to: reports of presentence investigations. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 364 - Relating to: creating a professional standards council for teachers. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 365 - Relating to: acquisition of a hospital owned by a nonprofit corporation, a city, a county, the state or the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 366 - Relating to: nonresident individual income tax reciprocity with the state of Illinois and making appropriations. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 367 - Relating to: notices of changed property tax assessments and board of review training and procedures. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 368 - Relating to: changes to the probate code.
1997 Senate Bill 369 - Relating to: establishing a commercial real estate broker's commission lien. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 370 - Relating to: transportation project plats.
1997 Senate Bill 371 - Relating to: the role and definition of a real estate broker. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 372 - Relating to: a sales tax and use tax exemption for property used in the maintenance of railroad tracks and rights-of-way. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 373 - Relating to: creating a bluff protection program, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 374 - Relating to: indexing the factors of the formula that is used to calculate the utility component of the shared revenue payments. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 375 - Relating to: point-of-service coverage options, requirements for and certification of health care plans and utilization review programs, prohibiting certain employment terminations, prohibiting requiring prior authorization for emergency services and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 376 - Relating to: technical college for certain Wisconsin works participants. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 377 - Relating to: requiring physicians to report injuries to, and deaths of, minors that they suspect are caused by articles intended for use by minors and requiring the secretary of agriculture, trade and consumer protection to publicize dangers created by such articles. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 378 - Relating to: creating a child abuse and neglect prevention program, medical assistance for certain case management services, authorizing the child abuse and neglect prevention board to form a nonstock, nonprofit corporation, early childhood family education center grants awarded by the child abuse and neglect prevention board, training programs and training requirements for staff of county departments or licensed child welfare agencies under contract with county departments whose responsibilities include investigation or treatment of child abuse and neglect, granting rule-making authority and making appropriations. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 379 - Relating to: driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant and providing penalties. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 380 - Relating to: requirements for managed care plans and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 381 - Relating to: requiring vehicles to stop and yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and bicyclists.
1997 Senate Bill 382 - Relating to: lifetime supervision for persons who commit certain sex offenses, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 383 - Relating to: charter schools. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 384 - Relating to: special education programs for children with disabilities and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 385 - Relating to: treatment alternatives for persons who commit violations related to driving while under the influence of an intoxicant or other drug. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 386 - Relating to: crime laboratories. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 387 - Relating to: the family practice residency program of the Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc., and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 388 - Relating to: litigation by persons incarcerated, imprisoned, confined or detained in a jail or prison, immunity from civil liability, the time period for the state to respond to an action and limiting access to public records. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 389 - Relating to: providing exceptions for dental plans from certain mandated coverages. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 390 - Relating to: commencement of the fall semester at public schools. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 391 - Relating to: persons who fail to attend when summoned as a juror and providing a penalty.
1997 Senate Bill 392 - Relating to: exemption from discipline for dentists who send impressions, measurements or patients to dental laboratories for shade verification. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 393 - Relating to: issuance of uncertified copies of vital records for events occurring before October 1, 1907. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 394 - Relating to: hunting near certain schools. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 395 - Relating to: a structure in the Rock River in the city of Beloit. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 396 - Relating to: underage persons and certain billiards centers where alcohol beverages are sold and consumed.
1997 Senate Bill 397 - Relating to: the authority of the personnel commission to receive and process complaints relating to family or medical leave and appeals to the personnel commission of delegatory actions taken by an appointing authority (suggested as remedial legislation by the personnel commission).
1997 Senate Bill 398 - Relating to: training services provided by the department of employment relations for nonstate governmental units. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 399 - Relating to: disclosure of juvenile adjudications in criminal sentencing proceedings; requests by a district attorney for assistance in carrying out his or her duties; annual reports by state agencies concerning records and forms management; and reports by the department of administration concerning distribution and usage of gasohol and alternative fuels in this state (suggested as remedial legislation by the department of administration.) (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 400 - Relating to: advisory members of the land and water conservation board and the renumbering of certain provisions of chapter 134 of the statutes (suggested as remedial legislation by the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection).
1997 Senate Bill 401 - Relating to: the delivery for sale in this state of zero emission motor vehicles. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 402 - Relating to: requiring motor vehicle headlamps to be lighted whenever the vehicle is operated upon a highway.
1997 Senate Bill 403 - Relating to: the payment of tuition at public school for pupils residing in certain foster, treatment foster or group homes.
1997 Senate Bill 404 - Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Graduate Assistants Association, AFT, Local 2169, AFL-CIO, for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employes in the program, project and teaching assistants of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 405 - Relating to: dispute resolution procedures under the municipal employment relations act, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 406 - Relating to: the Wisconsin Humanities Council and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 407 - Relating to: "good funds" requirements for loan closings and the powers and duties of credit unions and their directors, officers, employes and members. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 408 - Relating to: alcohol beverage "Class B" and reserve "Class B" licenses.
1997 Senate Bill 409 - Relating to: local regulation of billboards. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 410 - Relating to: granting bonding authority for refunding general obligation debt and for the discount sale of debt. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 411 - Relating to: increasing the tourism marketing appropriation and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 412 - Relating to: registration requirements for landscape architects. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 413 - Relating to: threats to cause bodily harm to a witness or to damage the property of a witness and providing penalties.
1997 Senate Bill 414 - Relating to: restricting state governmental units from engaging in certain commercial activities, state governmental procurement requirements and creating a legislative joint committee on public-private partnership. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 415 - Relating to: the prohibition on constructing and modifying medical waste incinerators.
1997 Senate Bill 416 - Relating to: deductibles for coverage of treatment for alcoholism and other drug abuse problems and nervous and mental disorders. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 417 - Relating to: creating a Family, Communities and Schools Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 418 - Relating to: strategic energy assessments, constraints on electric power transmission, control of certain transmission facilities by an independent system operator, the adequacy of retail electric service supplies, electric generating and transfer capacities, certification requirements applicable to certain projects proposed by public utilities, standards, permits and certificates of public convenience and necessity for certain electric generating facilities and high-voltage transmission lines, certain out-of-state sales of retail electric service, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 419 - Relating to: food stamps for qualified aliens and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 420 - Relating to: the registration of professional geologists, hydrologists and soil scientists, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 421 - Relating to: exempting persons who braid hair or who engage in certain activities preparatory to portrait photography from licensing requirements administered by the barbering and cosmetology examining board. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 422 - Relating to: authority to consider a single violation of law prohibiting furnishing alcohol beverages to an underage person in an action to revoke, suspend or refuse to renew a license or permit to sell alcohol beverages.
1997 Senate Bill 423 - Relating to: the nonstock corporation law and providing penalties. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 424 - Relating to: hours of sales by intoxicating liquor wholesalers.
1997 Senate Bill 425 - Relating to: the delegation of authority by 1st class city school districts over funds held in trust for certain pension plans. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 426 - Relating to: authorizing certain counties to let public works contracts under the design and build construction process. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 427 - Relating to: voting by the members of the conservation congress. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 428 - Relating to: the assignment of lottery prizes and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 429 - Relating to: certificates for the sales and use tax exemption for certain commodities in warehouses. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 430 - Relating to: increasing the maximum amount of tuition grants awarded by the higher educational aids board.
1997 Senate Bill 431 - Relating to: issuance of dog licenses by veterinarians. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 432 - Relating to: the fair hearing process under Wisconsin works. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 433 - Relating to: prohibiting the granting of visitation or physical placement with a child to a parent or other person who intentionally kills a parent of the child.
1997 Senate Bill 434 - Relating to: residency qualifications for certain election officials.
1997 Senate Bill 435 - Relating to: the discharge of wastewater from a sulfide mine.
1997 Senate Bill 436 - Relating to: transferring from the department of workforce development to the department of commerce the administration of the housing design and construction requirements of the fair housing law; a grant for a distance education center; grants for revolving loan funds for economic development; loans for renovation of buildings, purchase of land, buildings, machinery or equipment or construction of buildings; tourism marketing; the rural economic development program; administration of brownfields redevelopment activities; use of penalty revenues under the physician and health care provider loan assistance programs; transferring from the department of health and family services to the department of corrections the responsibility for establishing and collecting fees for juvenile correctional services provided by the department of corrections; parental liability for guardian ad litem fees in juvenile court proceedings; increasing the per diem payments made to temporary reserve judges; litigation by persons incarcerated, imprisoned, confined or detained in a jail or prison; petitions for writs of habeas corpus and limiting access to public records by persons incarcerated, imprisoned, confined or detained in a jail or prison; requirements for promotion from 4th grade to 5th grade and from 8th grade to 9th grade; grants to teachers who are certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; creating a grant program for peer review and mentoring of teachers; determining the amount appropriated as general school aid; the college tuition prepayment program; leasing technical college facilities to others; the family practice residency program of the Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc.; grants to certain school districts for telecommunications access awarded by the technology for educational achievement in Wisconsin board; revising dispute settlement procedures in local government employment other than law enforcement and fire fighting employment; the dry cleaner environmental response program; hazardous waste disposal facilities; voluntary party liability for cleaning up property that is contaminated with hazardous substances and that was acquired from a local governmental unit; tire waste cleanup; arbitration of appeals under the petroleum storage remedial action program; clean water fund program federal financial hardship assistance; administrative forfeitures for violations of safe drinking water rules; providing community aids funding for Milwaukee County; child welfare, children in out-of-home care, termination of parental rights and adoption; criminal history and abuse record searches of operators, employes and nonclient residents of certain entities that provide care for children or adults; a child's first book initiative; eligibility criteria for kinship care payments; proposed legislation to establish a new long-term care system for services to elderly and adult disabled individuals; a pilot project for management of long-term care programs; authorizing counties to contract for health and social services on a prepaid or postpaid, per capita basis; care required and provided in adult family homes, community-based residential facilities and nursing homes; critical access hospitals; reimbursement of the Marquette University School of Dentistry for providing dental services in Waushara and Monroe counties; inclusion of stepparents in the badger care program; transferring food service operations of the Southern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled from the department of health and family services to the department of corrections; the submittal date for a report on the future of the state centers for the developmentally disabled; rates by which reimbursement is reduced to the state centers for the developmentally disabled; eliminating the monthly reimbursement limit on community options program services for medical assistance recipients; medical assistance eligibility for working recipients of supplemental security income; eliminating the requirement for an annual report on access to obstetric and pediatric services under the medical assistance program; interim assistance for applicants of supplemental security income; specialized medical vehicles; electronic benefits transfer under the food stamp program; county administration of public assistance records; guaranteed renewability of individual health benefit plans; an exemption from renewability requirements for short-term insurance; the transportation and sale of fish; the Southeastern Wisconsin Fox River commission; fees for snowmobile trail use stickers; benefits payable and contributions permitted under the Wisconsin retirement system; payment and performance assurance requirements for public works projects; state interfund borrowing limitations; transfers from the general fund to the property tax relief fund; grants for recycling of computers and wheelchairs; creating a refundable individual income tax credit for educational expenses paid for dependents who attend public or certain private elementary and secondary schools; creating an individual income tax deduction for amounts paid for elementary and secondary educational costs; creating an individual income tax deduction for amounts paid for certain higher education costs; defining the Internal Revenue Code for state income and franchise tax purposes; a property tax exemption for computers; state aid payments to municipalities; creating a tax amnesty program; increasing the department of revenue's ability to collect delinquent taxes; denying and revoking licenses and similar documents to persons who owe delinquent taxes or fail to reveal their social security numbers or federal employer identification numbers; administration of the adult entertainment tax; weight limitations for vehicles and combinations of vehicles transporting bulk potatoes; the transportation infrastructure loan program; administration of a national guard youth program; the maximum allowable veterans home loan; granting rule-making authority; providing an exemption from rule-making procedures; granting and decreasing bonding authority; and making and decreasing appropriations. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 437 - Relating to: creating a hazardous painting certificate program, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 438 - Relating to: veterans part-time classroom study, veterans tuition and fee reimbursement, veterans retraining grants, authority to construct and operate residential, treatment and nursing care facilities in southeastern Wisconsin and veterans housing loans. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 439 - Relating to: advertising of the state lottery. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 440 - Relating to: increasing the cigarette tax, creating a cigarette tax fund, creating an endowed associate directorship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 441 - Relating to: prohibiting smoking areas and smoking rooms in state offices and the state capitol building and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 442 - Relating to: the expenditure of $256,744.55 from moneys appropriated to the department of transportation for payment of a claim against the state made by CleanSoils Wisconsin, Inc.
1997 Senate Bill 443 - Relating to: the creation of an additional unclassified division administrator position in the department of health and family services.
1997 Senate Bill 444 - Relating to: the Kickapoo valley reserve, the Kickapoo reserve management board and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 445 - Relating to: allowing pupils to possess and use metered dose and dry powder inhalers while in school.
1997 Senate Bill 446 - Relating to: hunting of small game in state parks and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 447 - Relating to: updating obsolete terminology in the fair employment, vocational rehabilitation, worker's compensation, minimum wage and fair housing laws and deleting an obsolete reference in the fair employment law (suggested as remedial legislation by the department of workforce development).
1997 Senate Bill 448 - Relating to: the display of license plates upon vehicles consigned for sale by dealers, distributors, manufacturers and transporters. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 449 - Relating to: costs related to investigations regarding weights and measures violations, protection for persons reporting weights and measures violations, providing for business and consumer education and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 450 - Relating to: formation of mutual insurance holding companies, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 451 - Relating to: dispositional orders, consent decrees and informal dispositions for certain children in need of protection or services; taking a child into custody; criminal history and child abuse record searches of employes, contractors and volunteers of court-appointed special advocate programs; immunity from civil liability for volunteers appointed by and employes of court-appointed special advocate programs; and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 452 - Relating to: permits for 3-vehicle combinations. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 453 - Relating to: requiring that income levels of patients be included in required induced-abortion reporting and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 454 - Relating to: payments for children of recipients of supplemental security income. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 455 - Relating to: making gamma hydroxybutyrate a controlled substance.
1997 Senate Bill 456 - Relating to: evaluating pupil academic standards. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 457 - Relating to: lake bed areas owned by Milwaukee County that are used for certain recreational purposes and to Milwaukee County's creating or acting as a board of harbor commissioners. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 458 - Relating to: the provision of dental services by the Marquette University School of Dentistry. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 459 - Relating to: vacating or discontinuing public access to lakes and streams.
1997 Senate Bill 460 - Relating to: fishing licenses issued to disabled residents. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 461 - Relating to: informed consent for HIV testing and disclosure and the penalties for disclosing HIV test results. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 462 - Relating to: requirements for driver education courses.
1997 Senate Bill 463 - Relating to: designations for the Wisconsin election campaign fund by individuals filing state income tax returns, eligibility requirements for and the amounts of grants from the Wisconsin election campaign fund, regulation of certain telephone activities pertaining to elections, disbursement levels applicable to candidates for certain state offices, contributions by lobbyists, treatment of contributions of money made by conduits, treatment of legislative campaign committees, information provided on campaign finance registration statements, filing of campaign finance reports, use of information copied from campaign finance reports, communications by certain individuals and organizations relating to candidates, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, making appropriations and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 464 - Relating to: authorizing local parole watch committees. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 465 - Relating to: weight limitations for vehicles and combinations of vehicles transporting bulk potatoes. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 466 - Relating to: requiring payment from a ward's estate of reasonable attorney fees and costs for successful petitioners in incompetency and guardianship proceedings. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 467 - Relating to: experience and continuing education requirements for certified general and residential appraisers and licensed appraisers and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 468 - Relating to: eliminating obsolete language and provisions from the statutes governing public schools and the department of public instruction (suggested as remedial legislation by the department of public instruction).
1997 Senate Bill 469 - Relating to: defining "meal" and "sandwich" for the sales tax and use tax on food and specifying the tax status of exempt food and similar goods that are packaged with other property. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 470 - Relating to: operating a motor vehicle with a suspended or revoked operating privilege, habitual traffic offenders, penalties involving sanctions against an operating privilege or operator's license, the revocation of operating privileges and vehicle registrations for failure to deposit security and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 471 - Relating to: protection against retaliation for reporting to any state official abuse or neglect in certain facilities, providing a cause of action and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 472 - Relating to: the distribution of an income tax refund to formerly married persons. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 473 - Relating to: a periodic study of the public schools. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 474 - Relating to: solvency contribution rates applicable to certain employers for unemployment insurance purposes in 1998, unemployment insurance information technology systems and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 475 - Relating to: requiring cost-benefit analyses in the rule-promulgation process. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 476 - Relating to: requirements concerning participation by labor organizations in public construction contracts and the expenditure of public grant moneys. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 477 - Relating to: training certificates for barbers, cosmetologists, barbering or cosmetology instructors, aestheticians, electrologists and manicurists and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 478 - Relating to: grants to political subdivisions for landfill cleanups, a municipal landfill cleanup fee, granting bonding authority, granting rule-making authority and making appropriations. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 479 - Relating to: The tuition revenue expenditure authority of the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin System and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 480 - Relating to: neonatal intensive care unit training grants, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 481 - Relating to: sale and distribution of recordings of certain musical works to persons under the age of 18, the purchase of recordings of certain musical works by persons under the age of 18 and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 482 - Relating to: prohibiting certain investments of the state investment board in certain music companies. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 483 - Relating to: removal of disabled vehicles, accident debris and other obstructions from freeways and expressways and stopping after a motor vehicle accident. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 484 - Relating to: naming a state office building. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 485 - Relating to: penalties for certain traffic offenses committed where persons working on a utility facility are at risk from traffic and providing a penalty.
1997 Senate Bill 486 - Relating to: prison impact assessments and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 487 - Relating to: distribution of certain state documents (suggested as remedial legislation by the department of public instruction). (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 488 - Relating to: representations concerning cheese.
1997 Senate Bill 489 - Relating to: funding for railroad crossing protection improvements and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 490 - Relating to: Downer Woods on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 491 - Relating to: a Wisconsin promise challenge grant program and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 492 - Relating to: the powers of full-time court commissioners.
1997 Senate Bill 493 - Relating to: grants to teachers who are certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 494 - Relating to: suspension of licenses, permits and other credentials for failure to pay child support or to comply with a subpoena or warrant related to paternity or child support proceedings and requiring social security numbers on license, permit and other credential applications and on certain documents concerning marriage and children; creating a record matching program to match information about delinquent child support obligors with financial account information of financial institutions; creating a statutory lien for delinquent child support obligations; creating a mechanism for enforcing child support liens; fees for the child and spousal support, establishment of paternity and medical liability support program and cooperation with child support efforts under Wisconsin works; income withholding for support or maintenance, adjudicating paternity when the mother fails to appear and other technical changes related to child support enforcement; access to certain agency records, nonliability for providing information from records, issuing subpoenas, ordering genetic tests; providing notice to new employers of a parent's obligation to provide health care coverage for a child; hospital-based voluntary establishment of paternity; administratively changing interstate income-withholding orders to sum certain amounts; presumption of paternity; access by county child support employes to tax information; acknowledgment of paternity; procedure, temporary orders and probable cause in paternity actions; payment for genetic tests in paternity actions; changes in departmental responsibility for support enforcement; intercepting delinquent support and certain other payments from pension plan disbursements; intercepting delinquent support from court judgments and settlements; granting rule-making authority; making appropriations; and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 495 - Relating to: mental health crisis intervention services; requirements for a Level I local health officer; coordination by a local board of health of activities of a sanitarian; fetal death reports; access by a coroner, deputy coroner, medical examiner or medical examiner's assistant to patient health care records; confidentiality restrictions on cancer reports; service contracts under community integration programs; eliminating outdated requirements for bed assessments for nursing homes and intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded; designation by a nursing home of a person to accept service of notice or mail; required information for licenses for nursing homes and community-based residential facilities; eliminating a date for posting notice about the long-term care ombudsman program; eliminating dates for determinations that nursing homes are institutions for mental diseases; resident rights and responsibilities for residents of nursing homes and community-based residential facilities; eliminating dates for requesting and providing information about nursing homes; evaluations of integrated services projects; matching funds requirements for participants in integrated services projects; eliminating a requirement for a plan and report on school-community alcohol and drug abuse prevention and other services; eliminating a requirement that a person investigating a report of suspected or threatened emotional abuse of a child determine that the person responsible for the emotional damage is neglecting, refusing or unable for reasons other than poverty to remedy the harm; and prohibiting an adoptive parent from moving for relief from an order granting adoption or petitioning for a rehearing of such an order (suggested as remedial legislation by the department of health and family services). (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 496 - Relating to: ozone-depleting refrigerant and mobile air conditioners. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 497 - Relating to: causing injury, death or property damage while under the influence of alcohol and providing a penalty.
1997 Senate Bill 498 - Relating to: sentencing of a person convicted of driving while under the influence of an intoxicant or other drug, the counting of the period of imprisonment when determining a penalty for driving while under the influence of an intoxicant or other drug and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 499 - Relating to: funding for the statewide immunization program and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 500 - Relating to: limiting the establishment or expansion of certain livestock operations.
1997 Senate Bill 501 - Relating to: permitting the creation of joint local water authorities and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 502 - Relating to: lead hazard control, lead-bearing paint hazard reduction, use of oil overcharge funds for lead hazard reduction in dwellings, providing restricted immunity from civil liability to certain property owners, employes and agents, requiring the Wisconsin housing and economic development authority to promote certain loan programs, granting rule-making authority and making appropriations. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 503 - Relating to: qualifications of persons engaged in the sale or service of alcohol beverages at retail. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 504 - Relating to: land use planning grants for local governments and nonprofit organizations, requiring local units of government to adopt a land use plan, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 505 - Relating to: credit assistance for Wisconsin works participants. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 506 - Relating to: liability for spilling waste or foreign matter upon or along a highway.
1997 Senate Bill 507 - Relating to: transporting bulk materials on a highway.
1997 Senate Bill 508 - Relating to: the maximum suspension period of an operating privilege suspended for failure to pay a forfeiture. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 509 - Relating to: transferring toll-free calls to pay-per-call services or international numbers, creating certain disclosure and reporting requirements and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 510 - Relating to: defining employes of fraternals to include retired employes and providing insurance for the spouses and minor children of employes of fraternals.
1997 Senate Bill 511 - Relating to: exempting from income taxation certain employer-paid fringe benefits for mass transit expenses. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 512 - Relating to: exemptions from rules regulating mining and regulating the storage and disposal of mining waste.
1997 Senate Bill 513 - Relating to: modifying eligibility standards for child care funding to permit parents of a child under the age of 18 with a special need or a child under the age of 22 with a special need who is receiving special education to receive child care funding; regulating medical assistance private duty nursing services for children; consent for release of information from a pupil's behavioral records or pupil physical health records for claiming reimbursement for school medical services; providing notice of protective placement transfers; guardian involvement in proceedings related to the ordering, review, transfer, modification or termination of a protective placement; a study of the cost of authorizing the provision of personal care services under the medical assistance program at locations other than in the recipient's home; and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 514 - Relating to: absconding from parole and providing a penalty.
1997 Senate Bill 515 - Relating to: fleeing to this state to avoid prosecution for a serious sex offense in another jurisdiction, committing a serious sex offense in this state after fleeing prosecution in another jurisdiction and providing penalties.
1997 Senate Bill 516 - Relating to: allowing criminal sentences to run concurrent with or consecutive to a previously imposed juvenile delinquency disposition.
1997 Senate Bill 517 - Relating to: establishing programs for low-income energy assistance, improving energy conservation and efficiency markets and encouraging the development and use of renewable resources, creating a public benefits and energy assistance board, establishing a public benefits and energy assistance fund, requiring electric utilities and retail cooperatives to charge access fees to customers and members, imposing requirements on the use of renewable resources by electric and gas utilities and cooperatives, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, making appropriations and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 518 - Relating to: jurisdiction in divorces.
1997 Senate Bill 519 - Relating to: creating a property tax exemption for wetlands. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 520 - Relating to: disciplinary procedures for certain local law enforcement officers. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 521 - Relating to: a parent's right to know certain information about a family day care center and the posting and making available to parents of reports and notices of violations by family day care centers. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 522 - Relating to: the itemized deductions credit. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 523 - Relating to: mapping and zoning of certain wetlands. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 524 - Relating to: the effect of dams, ditches and drains used in the cultivation of cranberries on certain trout streams. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 525 - Relating to: creating a clean energy rebate program, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 526 - Relating to: mercury emissions from major utilities, reporting mercury emissions, mercury in medical waste sent to incinerators, fish advisories and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 527 - Relating to: the manufacture, distribution and sale in this state of any mattress, upholstered spring, comforter, pad, cushion or pillow designed and manufactured for the purpose of sleeping or reclining and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 528 - Relating to: penalties for failure to report to jail in certain circumstances and for escapes from home detention programs.
1997 Senate Bill 529 - Relating to: creating a low-income energy board, requiring contributions to a low-income energy fund, imposing a heating oil fee, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 530 - Relating to: a state passenger rail plan, the creation of a passenger rail projects commission and passenger rail project selection. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 531 - Relating to: abolishing the property tax levy for school operations and establishing a school funding study committee. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 532 - Relating to: eligibility for Wisconsin works and cash grants and child care for certain participants under Wisconsin works. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 533 - Relating to: escrowing certain payments to the federal government for the disposal of radioactive waste and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 534 - Relating to: strategic energy assessments, certification requirements applicable to certain projects proposed by public utilities, certificates of public convenience and necessity for certain electric generating facilities and high-voltage transmission lines, independent system operator or transmission owner of electric transmission system, certain out-of-state retail electric sales, ownership and operation of wholesale merchant plants, service standards for electric generation, transmission or distribution facilities, regional transmission planning and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Senate Bill 535 - Relating to: creating an individual income tax subtract modification for severance pay. (FE)