1997 Wisconsin Act 1 (PDF: 
) - relating to: fees for fish and game licenses and stamps, bear hunting, shining bear, the bear hunting approval system, the wildlife damage surcharge and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 2 (PDF: ) - relating to: the salary of the research director of the joint survey committee on retirement systems. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 3 (PDF: ) - relating to: changing the name of the department of industry, labor and job development to the department of workforce development. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 4 (PDF: ) - relating to: the temporary placement of young adult offenders at a juvenile secured correctional facility. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 5 (PDF: ) - relating to: acquisition of certain property by the building commission.
1997 Wisconsin Act 6 (PDF: ) - relating to: notification of the general public concerning sex offenders. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 7 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 8 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 9 (PDF: ) - relating to: a grant to a minority nonprofit association and making appropriations. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 10 (PDF: ) - relating to: permitting the department of corrections to administer the juvenile correctional system under policies and procedures not promulgated as rules and providing an exemption from rule-making procedures. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 11 (PDF: ) - relating to: increasing the limits, and authorizing occurrence or claims-made coverage, for health care liability insurance and granting rule-making authority.
1997 Wisconsin Act 12 (PDF: ) - relating to: hunting of antlerless deer by certain holders of certificates of accomplishment issued under the hunter education and firearm safety program. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 13 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 14 (PDF: ) - relating to: eliminating exceptional performance awards under the compensation plan for nonrepresented state employes. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 15 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 16 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 17 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 18 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 19 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 20 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 21 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 22 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 23 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 24 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 25 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 26 (PDF: ) - relating to: providing supplemental benefits to certain Wisconsin retirement system annuitants and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 27 (PDF: ) - relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 1997 legislature, and making appropriations.
1997 Wisconsin Act 28 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 29 (PDF: ) - relating to: the salaries of the executive directors of the elections board and ethics board. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 30 (PDF: ) - relating to: eligibility for a social security integrated annuity under the Wisconsin retirement system. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 31 (PDF: ) - relating to: the use of strobe lights on human service vehicles and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 32 (PDF: ) - relating to: the requirement of giving audible signal prior to overtaking vehicles to the left.
1997 Wisconsin Act 33 (PDF: ) - relating to: vehicles or vehicle parts having an altered or obliterated vehicle identification number. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 34 (PDF: ) - relating to: regulatory signs along snowmobile trails and routes. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 35 (PDF: ) - relating to: repealing, consolidating, renumbering, amending and revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of correcting errors, supplying omissions, correcting and clarifying references, eliminating defects, anachronisms, conflicts, ambiguities and obsolete provisions, deleting, replacing or otherwise modifying language which discriminates on the basis of sex, reconciling conflicts and repelling unintended repeals (Revisor's Correction Bill).
1997 Wisconsin Act 36 (PDF: ) - relating to: amending and revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of correcting errors, supplying omissions, correcting and clarifying references, eliminating defects, reconciling conflicts and repelling unintended repeals resulting from partial vetoes of legislative acts (Revisor's Correction Bill).
1997 Wisconsin Act 37 (PDF: ) - relating to: the definition of the internal revenue code for the income tax and the franchise tax. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 38 (PDF: ) - relating to: various changes to the worker's compensation law. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 39 (PDF: ) - relating to: various changes in the unemployment compensation law and related provisions, granting rule-making authority and making appropriations. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 40 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 41 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 42 (PDF: ) - relating to: the minimum number of persons required on train crews, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty.
1997 Wisconsin Act 43 (PDF: ) - relating to: providing a waiver from requirements relating to meals provided by bed and breakfast establishments. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 44 (PDF: ) - relating to: priority of future advances under mortgages.
1997 Wisconsin Act 45 (PDF: ) - relating to: ordering attendance at parenting classes in paternity actions.
1997 Wisconsin Act 46 (PDF: ) - relating to: required emissions inspections of motor vehicles transferred to surviving spouses. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 47 (PDF: ) - relating to: specifying that Prader-Willi syndrome is a developmental disability. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 48 (PDF: ) - relating to: disclosures for motor vehicle consumer leases.
1997 Wisconsin Act 49 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 50 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 51 (PDF: ) - relating to: requiring the office of the commissioner of insurance to provide information and technical assistance to employes and former employes who lose health care coverage and requiring information about an employe benefit plan in the notice to the department of industry, labor and job development before a business closing or mass layoff. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 52 (PDF: ) - relating to: authorizing technicians to remove donated human bone or certain tissue. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 53 (PDF: ) - relating to: the imposition of service charges for a storm water and surface water sewerage system. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 54 (PDF: ) - relating to: disclosure of human immunodeficiency virus test results by attending physicians. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 55 (PDF: ) - relating to: the regulation of the sale of merchandise below cost and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 56 (PDF: ) - relating to: authorizing a 1st class city to operate a city parking lot. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 57 (PDF: ) - relating to: permitting dentists to perform simple tooth extractions under the volunteer health care provider program. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 58 (PDF: ) - relating to: the requirements for receiving an automatic joint survivor death benefit under the Wisconsin retirement system. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 59 (PDF: ) - relating to: mediation of special education program disputes between a parent and a school board. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 60 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 61 (PDF: ) - relating to: granting bonding authority for refunding general obligation debt and for the discount sale of debt. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 62 (PDF: ) - relating to: defining the practice of nursing to include acting under the direction of optometrists.
1997 Wisconsin Act 63 (PDF: ) - relating to: nonresident individual income tax reciprocity with the state of Illinois and making appropriations. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 64 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 65 (PDF: ) - relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Association of State Prosecutors for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employes in the assistant district attorneys collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 66 (PDF: ) - relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Physicians and Dentists Association, for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employes in the professional patient treatment collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 67 (PDF: ) - relating to: regulation of physician assistants and the authority of physician assistants to prescribe drugs and devices. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 68 (PDF: ) - relating to: the administration of drug products and devices by pharmacists, continuing education for pharmacists and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 69 (PDF: ) - relating to: the 5-year vesting requirement to receive an annuity under the Wisconsin retirement system. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 70 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 71 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 72 (PDF: ) - relating to: publication of foreclosure notices; notices to former owners of tax-deeded property; and recovery of the costs of foreclosure of tax-deeded land. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 73 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 74 (PDF: ) - relating to: prohibiting insurers from requesting genetic test information from health care providers.
1997 Wisconsin Act 75 (PDF: ) - relating to: certification requirements for dietitians. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 76 (PDF: ) - relating to: the purchase of used home furnishings by antique dealers and recyclers and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 77 (PDF: ) - relating to: allowing pupils to possess and use metered dose and dry powder inhalers while in school.
1997 Wisconsin Act 78 (PDF: ) - relating to: authorizing the child abuse and neglect prevention board to form a nonstock, nonprofit corporation. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 79 (PDF: ) - relating to: the nonstock corporation law and providing penalties. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 80 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 81 (PDF: ) - relating to: the regulation of home inspectors, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority and providing penalties. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 82 (PDF: ) - relating to: exposing a child to harmful descriptions or narrations and providing a penalty.
1997 Wisconsin Act 83 (PDF: ) - relating to: calculating the probate filing fee. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 84 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 85 (PDF: ) - relating to: leasing technical college facilities to others. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 86 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 87 (PDF: ) - relating to: the method of estimating the number of children residing in a school district for purposes of taking an annual school count. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 88 (PDF: ) - relating to: motor vehicle pursuit by law enforcement officers, training of law enforcement officers, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 89 (PDF: ) - relating to: the dollar limits in wrongful death and medical malpractice actions.
1997 Wisconsin Act 90 (PDF: ) - relating to: contracts between gas utilities and individual customers. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 91 (PDF: ) - relating to: allowing the department of transportation to contract with public utilities and rural electric cooperative associations for cooperative acquisition, development or maintenance of jointly used rights-of-way. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 92 (PDF: ) - relating to: prohibiting the parking of vehicles in access aisles adjacent to parking spaces reserved for vehicles used by persons with disabilities and reports of violations of parking spaces reserved for vehicles used by persons with disabilities.
1997 Wisconsin Act 93 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 94 (PDF: ) - relating to: access to public records.
1997 Wisconsin Act 95 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 96 (PDF: ) - relating to: the regulation of dental hygienists, creating a dental hygienists affiliated credentialing board, granting rule-making authority and providing penalties. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 97 (PDF: ) - relating to: exemption from discipline for dentists who send impressions, measurements or patients to dental laboratories for shade verification. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 98 (PDF: ) - relating to: the prohibition against underage persons entering or being on any premises operating under an alcohol beverage license.
1997 Wisconsin Act 99 (PDF: ) - relating to: dividing land within an assessor's plat by subdivision plat or certified survey map. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 100 (PDF: ) - relating to: underage persons and certain billiards centers where alcohol beverages are sold and consumed.
1997 Wisconsin Act 101 (PDF: ) - relating to: misappropriation of personal identifying information and providing a penalty.
1997 Wisconsin Act 102 (PDF: ) - relating to: the use of studded tires on school buses. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 103 (PDF: ) - relating to: the application process for the development zone program. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 104 (PDF: ) - relating to: the placement of a child with a relative for adoption and application of the interstate compact on the placement of children; the time by which a juvenile court must hold a hearing on a petition for adoptive placement of a child with a nonrelative and a petition to terminate parental rights that is filed with a petition for adoptive placement; removal of a child from a foster home, treatment foster home or group home for the purpose of placing the child by an agency for adoption; education about adoption and school age parents programs; who may be adopted; the documentation required in a permanency plan for preadoptive placement of a child in foster care or treatment foster care under a voluntary agreement; payments by an adoptive or proposed adoptive parent for the expenses of a birth parent or child; the release of identifying information by an agency that placed a child for adoption or that was appointed guardian of a child who was adopted; advertising related to adoption; the time by which a petition for a rehearing on the ground of new evidence must be filed in a juvenile court proceeding; and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 105 (PDF: ) - relating to: kinship care, creating a long-term kinship care program and making appropriations. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 106 (PDF: ) - relating to: the method of determining reductions in general transportation aids for late filing of applications for such aid. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 107 (PDF: ) - relating to: information provided to a person accused of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant, controlled substance or other drug. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 108 (PDF: ) - relating to: the prohibition of obtaining title by adverse possession to real estate owned by a public body. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 109 (PDF: ) - relating to: participation by institutions of higher education in the academic excellence higher education scholarship program and clarifying the required grade point average for academic excellence higher education scholarships (suggested as remedial legislation by the higher educational aids board).
1997 Wisconsin Act 110 (PDF: ) - relating to: participating employment status under the Wisconsin retirement system and the filing of certain documents by guardians of participants in the Wisconsin retirement system (suggested as remedial legislation by the department of employe trust funds).
1997 Wisconsin Act 111 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 112 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 113 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 114 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 115 (PDF: ) - relating to: veterans benefits for veterans who are delinquent in child or spousal support, maintenance, medical expenses or birth expenses. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 116 (PDF: ) - relating to: the information gathered regarding veterans burials.
1997 Wisconsin Act 117 (PDF: ) - relating to: eligibility requirements for certain operators of school buses and requiring strobe lights on school buses. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 118 (PDF: ) - relating to: leaves of absence for certain state employes to participate in providing certain disaster relief services. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 119 (PDF: ) - relating to: law enforcement agency access to photographs of applicants for operators' licenses and identification cards and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 120 (PDF: ) - relating to: the licensing of motor vehicle dealers and salespersons, sales finance companies and motor vehicle salvage dealers and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 121 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 122 (PDF: ) - relating to: prohibiting the installation of certain devices in wells.
1997 Wisconsin Act 123 (PDF: ) - relating to: public comments at meetings of governmental bodies.
1997 Wisconsin Act 124 (PDF: ) - relating to: authorizing specific information signs on a certain portion of USH 14. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 125 (PDF: ) - relating to: qualified domestic relations orders under the Wisconsin retirement system. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 126 (PDF: ) - relating to: load weight limits on trucks registered with the department of transportation as special interest, reconstructed, replica, street modified or homemade vehicles. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 127 (PDF: ) - relating to: the method of selection of election officials.
1997 Wisconsin Act 128 (PDF: ) - relating to: the use of a person's social security number in his or her student identification number. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 129 (PDF: ) - relating to: statute of limitations for special education appeals. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 130 (PDF: ) - relating to: exempting certain persons from the sex offender registration requirements and the prohibition on child sex offenders working with children. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 131 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 132 (PDF: ) - relating to: the furnishing of dispensing equipment by brewers and wholesalers at certain tasting events held on Class "B" premises.
1997 Wisconsin Act 133 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 134 (PDF: ) - relating to: limiting the property tax exemption for hospitals to exclude health and fitness centers. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 135 (PDF: ) - relating to: stopping at railroad crossings, reckless driving at railroad crossings and providing penalties. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 136 (PDF: ) - relating to: the rate for the tax on cider. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 137 (PDF: ) - relating to: eligibility and certification to receive the farmland preservation credit. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 138 (PDF: ) - relating to: reinstating a bank trust fund provision created by 1995 Wisconsin Act 273 that was unintentionally repealed by 1995 Wisconsin Act 336 (Revisor's Correction Bill).
1997 Wisconsin Act 139 (PDF: ) - relating to: the issuance of administrative warnings to holders of credentials issued by the department of regulation and licensing and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 140 (PDF: ) - relating to: the adoption of the Uniform Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act; the authority of nonprofit associations to acquire, hold and transfer property; the liability of nonprofit associations and their members; and the ability of nonprofit associations to sue and to be sued. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 141 (PDF: ) - relating to: liability for damages caused by dogs used to perform law enforcement functions. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 142 (PDF: ) - relating to: repealing the rejection of federal preemption over state interest rate provisions. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 143 (PDF: ) - relating to: threats to cause bodily harm to a witness or to damage the property of a witness and providing penalties.
1997 Wisconsin Act 144 (PDF: ) - relating to: investment and lending powers of savings institutions, the location of savings institution offices and the power of boards of directors of savings and loan associations to provide for pension and deferred compensation plans. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 145 (PDF: ) - relating to: registration requirements for loan originators, mortgage bankers and mortgage brokers, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 146 (PDF: ) - relating to: in-state branches of out-of-state banks; examination of state banks and trust company banks by the division of banking; action without a meeting by a bank's board of directors; dividend rights on capital stock; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 147 (PDF: ) - relating to: creating a property tax exemption for nonprofit organizations that rehabilitate housing for sale to low-income persons. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 148 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 149 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 150 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 151 (PDF: ) - relating to: hunting near certain schools. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 152 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 153 (PDF: ) - relating to: hospital visitation.
1997 Wisconsin Act 154 (PDF: ) - relating to: creating a statewide trauma care system, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 155 (PDF: ) - relating to: coverage of, and prohibiting requiring prior authorization for, treatment of an emergency medical condition. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 156 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 157 (PDF: ) - relating to: release of patient health care records to the patient's health care provider. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 158 (PDF: ) - relating to: the college tuition prepayment program. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 159 (PDF: ) - relating to: the parking of vehicles on highways adjacent to schoolhouses during specified hours.
1997 Wisconsin Act 160 (PDF: ) - relating to: the use of school district property by citizen associations.
1997 Wisconsin Act 161 (PDF: ) - relating to: the term of the student member of the state technical college board.
1997 Wisconsin Act 162 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 163 (PDF: ) - relating to: exempting certain resident students from tuition at the University of Wisconsin System and at the technical college system. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 164 (PDF: ) - relating to: special education programs for children with disabilities and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 165 (PDF: ) - relating to: ozone-depleting refrigerant and mobile air conditioners. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 166 (PDF: ) - relating to: fermented malt beverage wholesalers. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 167 (PDF: ) - relating to: barricades around ice holes.
1997 Wisconsin Act 168 (PDF: ) - relating to: disabled hunter permits issued to persons who are visually handicapped. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 169 (PDF: ) - relating to: prospecting and mining fees.
1997 Wisconsin Act 170 (PDF: ) - relating to: the regulation of hunting, fishing and trapping and the management of wild animals by local governmental units. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 171 (PDF: ) - relating to: issuance of metallic mining permits for the mining of sulfide ore bodies. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 172 (PDF: ) - relating to: vacating or discontinuing public access to lakes and streams.
1997 Wisconsin Act 173 (PDF: ) - relating to: presumption concerning employment-connected disease for certain municipal fire fighters. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 174 (PDF: ) - relating to: issuing general permits for activities in navigable waters that are located in the Wolf River and the Fox River basin area. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 175 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 176 (PDF: ) - relating to: false reports of police misconduct and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 177 (PDF: ) - relating to: defining employes of fraternals to include retired employes and providing insurance for the spouses and minor children of employes of fraternals.
1997 Wisconsin Act 178 (PDF: ) - relating to: tractor and machinery operation safety training and certification.
1997 Wisconsin Act 179 (PDF: ) - relating to: the creation of an additional unclassified division administrator position in the department of health and family services.
1997 Wisconsin Act 180 (PDF: ) - relating to: abuse of vulnerable adults and providing penalties.
1997 Wisconsin Act 181 (PDF: ) - relating to: rights of victims of crime, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 182 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 183 (PDF: ) - relating to: the performance of services for the victim by a juvenile as restitution for the juvenile's act.
1997 Wisconsin Act 184 (PDF: ) - relating to: permitting the creation of joint local water authorities and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 185 (PDF: ) - relating to: promulgation of emergency rules and the extension of emergency rules by the joint committee for review of administrative rules.
1997 Wisconsin Act 186 (PDF: ) - relating to: reporting by principals with respect to certain lobbying activities, voluntary registration by certain persons with the ethics board, compilation and use of certain information provided to the ethics board, making an appropriation and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 187 (PDF: ) - relating to: increasing the time period to serve a responsive pleading.
1997 Wisconsin Act 188 (PDF: ) - relating to: changes to the probate code.
1997 Wisconsin Act 189 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 190 (PDF: ) - relating to: enacting traffic regulation ordinances that conform with rules of the department of transportation. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 191 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 192 (PDF: ) - relating to: humane officers, the custody and disposition of animals, making an appropriation and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 193 (PDF: ) - relating to: enforcement of certain environmental laws regulating mining and water pollution.
1997 Wisconsin Act 194 (PDF: ) - relating to: the Kickapoo valley reserve, the Kickapoo reserve management board and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 195 (PDF: ) - relating to: the waiver of requirements for trapping approvals for certain special events or programs sponsored or approved by the department of natural resources. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 196 (PDF: ) - relating to: revocation or suspension of the privilege to engage in a fish or game activity and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 197 (PDF: ) - relating to: the hunter education and safety program and hunting approvals issued to bow hunters. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 198 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 199 (PDF: ) - relating to: the sale of a motor vehicle subject to a seizure for a crime related to driving while under the influence of an intoxicant or other drug and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 200 (PDF: ) - relating to: various changes to the Minnesota-Wisconsin student reciprocity agreement. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 201 (PDF: ) - relating to: misrepresentations of the locations of businesses and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 202 (PDF: ) - relating to: the eligibility for group health insurance for state employes participating under the Wisconsin retirement system. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 203 (PDF: ) - relating to: increasing the number of circuit court branches. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 204 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 205 (PDF: ) - relating to: original adult court jurisdiction over a juvenile who is alleged to have attempted or committed a violation of any state criminal law if that violation may be joined with an alleged assault, battery, homicide or attempted homicide over which the adult court has original jurisdiction, the elimination of reverse waiver for a juvenile who is once waived always waived, the imposition of a juvenile adjudication and disposition by an adult court on a juvenile who has been found to have committed a lesser offense, the financial ability of a juvenile, either alone or with the assistance of a parent with custody of the juvenile, to make restitution for any damage or injury resulting from the juvenile's act or to pay a forfeiture imposed on the juvenile, sanctions for a juvenile in need of protection or services based on habitual truancy or being a school dropout who violates a condition of his or her dispositional order and sanctions for contempt of court by a juvenile who violates a condition of his or her dispositional order, the rules of evidence at postdispositional hearings under the juvenile justice code and the disclosure of juvenile court records to other juvenile courts for the purposes of preparing a presentence investigation, determining custody of a juvenile, setting bail, impeaching a witness and determining whether a juvenile who would otherwise be an heir has intentionally killed the decedent. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 206 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 207 (PDF: ) - relating to: notification of victims, witnesses, local agencies and the public when a juvenile who has committed a delinquent act or who is not competent to proceed escapes or is released from a child caring institution or inpatient facility or from correctional supervision.
1997 Wisconsin Act 208 (PDF: ) - relating to: the filing officer for candidates for the office of municipal judge in municipal courts serving 2 or more municipalities.
1997 Wisconsin Act 209 (PDF: ) - relating to: designating the Root River watershed as a priority watershed for the nonpoint source water pollution abatement program.
1997 Wisconsin Act 210 (PDF: ) - relating to: issuance of uncertified copies of vital records for events occurring before October 1, 1907. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 211 (PDF: ) - relating to: a county treasurer's appointment of a deputy treasurer. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 212 (PDF: ) - relating to: stationery utilized by state agencies for outside correspondence.
1997 Wisconsin Act 213 (PDF: ) - relating to: the authority of towns and town sanitary districts to levy special assessments for water and sewage systems on certain farmland and the methods used by cities, villages, towns and metropolitan sewerage districts to finance sewerage projects. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 214 (PDF: ) - relating to: restrictions on the sale or giving away of cigarettes or tobacco products. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 215 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 216 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 217 (PDF: ) - relating to: sale of rabies vaccine and rabies vaccination of dogs.
1997 Wisconsin Act 218 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 219 (PDF: ) - relating to: prohibiting performance of certain partial-birth abortions and providing a penalty.
1997 Wisconsin Act 220 (PDF: ) - relating to: sexual assault, the controlled substance flunitrazepam and providing penalties.
1997 Wisconsin Act 221 (PDF: ) - relating to: the provision of dental services by the Marquette University School of Dentistry. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 222 (PDF: ) - relating to: increasing the maximum amount of tuition grants awarded by the higher educational aids board.
1997 Wisconsin Act 223 (PDF: ) - relating to: various changes in the provisions regarding police relief associations.
1997 Wisconsin Act 224 (PDF: ) - relating to: deductions from the sales price of property that is sold because of delinquent property taxes. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 225 (PDF: ) - relating to: experience and continuing education requirements for certified general and residential appraisers and licensed appraisers and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 226 (PDF: ) - relating to: Downer Woods on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 227 (PDF: ) - relating to: formation of mutual insurance holding companies, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 228 (PDF: ) - relating to: the school aid distribution schedule. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 229 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 230 (PDF: ) - relating to: electronic filing of certain campaign finance reports with the elections board and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 231 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 232 (PDF: ) - relating to: release of a person convicted of a misdemeanor pending appeal. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 233 (PDF: ) - relating to: powers of attorney.
1997 Wisconsin Act 234 (PDF: ) - relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Professional Employes Council, WFT/AFT, AFL-CIO, for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employes in the professional fiscal and staff services collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 235 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 236 (PDF: ) - relating to: food stamps for qualified aliens and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 237 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 238 (PDF: ) - relating to: charter schools. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 239 (PDF: ) - relating to: compulsory school attendance, habitual truancy, the penalties for contributing to truancy, truancy planning committees and school district truancy plans. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 240 (PDF: ) - relating to: eliminating some of the school district and cooperative educational service agency reporting requirements and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 241 (PDF: ) - relating to: the counties and municipalities that may participate in negotiation and arbitration concerning a proposed landfill or hazardous waste facility.
1997 Wisconsin Act 242 (PDF: ) - relating to: sport shooting range immunity and responsibilities. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 243 (PDF: ) - relating to: a ban on disposal and incineration of used automotive oil filters.
1997 Wisconsin Act 244 (PDF: ) - relating to: information included in the annual school and school district performance reports. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 245 (PDF: ) - relating to: requirements for driver education courses.
1997 Wisconsin Act 246 (PDF: ) - relating to: the election of certain persons to a city, village or town planning commission.
1997 Wisconsin Act 247 (PDF: ) - relating to: the composition of the land information board.
1997 Wisconsin Act 248 (PDF: ) - relating to: recodification of fish and game laws.
1997 Wisconsin Act 249 (PDF: ) - relating to: various changes to hunting and fishing regulations and granting rule-making authority.
1997 Wisconsin Act 250 (PDF: ) - relating to: the 2-digit date prefix specified on forms (Revisor's Correction Bill). (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 251 (PDF: ) - relating to: reinstating a time limitation and notice provision created by 1997 Wisconsin Act .... (1997 Assembly Bill 261) that was unintentionally repealed by 1997 Wisconsin Act .... (1997 Senate Bill 384) (Revisor's Correction Bill).
1997 Wisconsin Act 252 (PDF: ) - relating to: repealing, consolidating, renumbering, amending and revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of correcting errors, supplying omissions, correcting and clarifying references, eliminating defects, anachronisms, conflicts, ambiguities and obsolete provisions, deleting, reconciling conflicts and repelling unintended repeals (Revisor's Correction Bill).
1997 Wisconsin Act 253 (PDF: ) - relating to: repealing, consolidating, renumbering, amending and revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of correcting errors, supplying omissions, correcting and clarifying references, and eliminating defects, anachronisms, conflicts, ambiguities and obsolete provisions (Revision Bill).
1997 Wisconsin Act 254 (PDF: ) - relating to: repealing, consolidating, renumbering, amending and revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of correcting errors, supplying omissions, correcting and clarifying references and eliminating defects, anachronisms, conflicts, ambiguities and obsolete provisions. (Section 13.93 (2) (i) Revision Bill).
1997 Wisconsin Act 255 (PDF: ) - relating to: special distinguishing registration plates, payments to authorized special groups, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 256 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 257 (PDF: ) - relating to: the appointment of a person to act as a village trustee or common council member. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 258 (PDF: ) - relating to: removal of disabled vehicles, accident debris and other obstructions from freeways and expressways and stopping after a motor vehicle accident. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 259 (PDF: ) - relating to: temporary "Class B" licenses and intoxicating liquor. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 260 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 261 (PDF: ) - relating to: the regulation of music, art and dance therapists and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 262 (PDF: ) - relating to: retail theft.
1997 Wisconsin Act 263 (PDF: ) - relating to: the role and definition of a real estate broker. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 264 (PDF: ) - relating to: the farm mediation and arbitration program, eliminating the farm mediation and arbitration board, the farmer assistance program, exit from and entry into the dairy industry, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 265 (PDF: ) - Relating to: school safety; open enrollment; repealing outdated or expired reporting requirements; tuberculosis screening; providing an exemption from rule-making procedures; providing a criminal penalty; and making appropriations.
1997 Wisconsin Act 266 (PDF: ) - relating to: committing certain violent crimes against an elder person and providing a penalty.
1997 Wisconsin Act 267 (PDF: ) - relating to: operation of snowmobiles in proximity to persons not on snowmobiles.
1997 Wisconsin Act 268 (PDF: ) - relating to: authorizing certain county community programs boards and certain county community programs directors, together with private or public organizations or affiliations, to organize, establish and participate in the governance and operation of an entity to operate a mental health-related service. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 269 (PDF: ) - relating to: exempting wood harvesting slashers from vehicle registration and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 270 (PDF: ) - relating to: notices concerning proposals by American Indian tribal governing bodies to redesignate areas for air quality purposes. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 271 (PDF: ) - relating to: criminal invasion of privacy and providing a penalty.
1997 Wisconsin Act 272 (PDF: ) - relating to: access by a child's substitute care provider to medical information concerning the child, the child's religious affiliation or belief and information relating to any involvement of the child in any sexual abuse, in any cult or group that promotes criminal activity or in any activities that are harmful to the child.
1997 Wisconsin Act 273 (PDF: ) - relating to: granting credit against child or family support.
1997 Wisconsin Act 274 (PDF: ) - relating to: the specified minimum percentage of postconsumer fiber contained in newsprint. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 275 (PDF: ) - relating to: lifetime supervision for persons who commit certain sex offenses, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 276 (PDF: ) - relating to: committing a serious sex crime while infected with human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or a sexually transmitted disease and providing a penalty.
1997 Wisconsin Act 277 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 278 (PDF: ) - relating to: tampering with hour meters of farm equipment and providing a penalty.
1997 Wisconsin Act 279 (PDF: ) - relating to: "sale or return" or consignment sales under the uniform commercial code.
1997 Wisconsin Act 280 (PDF: ) - relating to: a statutory rape prosecution pilot program and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 281 (PDF: ) - relating to: prohibiting a person 12 years of age or over who has been adjudicated delinquent for committing a serious crime or who has a delinquency petition pending for a serious crime from day care licensure, certification, employment, contracting or residence. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 282 (PDF: ) - relating to: transportation project plats.
1997 Wisconsin Act 283 (PDF: ) - relating to: sentences for felony offenses, parole, community supervision, granting rule-making authority and providing penalties. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 284 (PDF: ) - relating to: pharmacological treatment for persons convicted of certain child sex offenses and certain persons found to be sexually violent persons, and affecting parole. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 285 (PDF: ) - relating to: forfeiture of property used to commit certain crimes and court fees in property forfeiture proceedings. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 286 (PDF: ) - relating to: procedures to create a school district out of the territory of one or more existing school districts and information provided to persons filing a petition for a referendum on the detachment of large territory from one school district and its attachment to another school district. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 287 (PDF: ) - relating to: the publication of a noxious weeds notice by a city, village or town. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 288 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 289 (PDF: ) - relating to: fiscal responsibilities of the department of corrections and the disposal of property belonging to prisoners and inmates under the supervision of the department of corrections; standards for delivery of health services in state correctional institutions; and discharge of persons from probation (suggested as remedial legislation by the department of corrections). (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 290 (PDF: ) - relating to: the location of refusal hearings, the citation procedure used for certain violations, judgments regarding minors and interference with custody of a nonmarital child (suggested as remedial legislation by the director of state courts).
1997 Wisconsin Act 291 (PDF: ) - relating to: the forms used to claim motor vehicle fuel tax refunds; replacing obsolete references to "special fuel" and "motor fuel"; authorizing the department of revenue to give seized cigarettes to law enforcement officers for use in criminal investigations; seized alcohol beverages; unpaid instalments of the estate tax; garnishment of earnings by debtors; the place of trial for criminal violations of certain income and franchise tax provisions; the statute of limitations for income taxes and franchise taxes; income tax information returns; and defining "one month" for the sales tax on certain rentals (suggested as remedial legislation by the department of revenue). (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 292 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 293 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 294 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 295 (PDF: ) - relating to: causing harm or death to an unborn child and providing penalties. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 296 (PDF: ) - relating to: holding juveniles in municipal lockup facilities and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 297 (PDF: ) - relating to: revising the investment securities chapter of the uniform commercial code.
1997 Wisconsin Act 298 (PDF: ) - relating to: creating a professional standards council for teachers. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 299 (PDF: ) - relating to: income tax and franchise tax credits for sales taxes paid on fuel and electricity used in manufacturing, the apportionment of income for the corporate income tax and franchise tax and requiring and permitting the promulgation of rules. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 300 (PDF: ) - 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 Wisconsin Act 301 (PDF: ) - relating to: the permit guarantee program of the department of natural resources and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 302 (PDF: ) - relating to: excluding agricultural transactions from provisions of the Wisconsin consumer act. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 303 (PDF: ) - relating to: increasing the fees charged by a register of deeds for recording certain plats. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 304 (PDF: ) - relating to: filing a certified copy of a petition and order for hearing for guardianship with the register of deeds, requiring a historical society to pay a register of deeds to record the society's articles of incorporation and requiring certain documents that are recorded with a register of deeds to be legible. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 305 (PDF: ) - relating to: changing requirements for hospitals, organ procurement organizations, coroners and medical examiners with respect to the potential donation of anatomical gifts and procurement and use of body parts by an organ procurement organization. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 306 (PDF: ) - relating to: the authorization, use and verification of digital signatures, licensure and regulation of certification authorities, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 307 (PDF: ) - relating to: various measures affecting the state civil service. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 308 (PDF: ) - relating to: adoption assistance, granting rule-making authority and making appropriations. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 309 (PDF: ) - relating to: establishing a commercial real estate broker's commission lien. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 310 (PDF: ) - relating to: a periodic study of the public schools. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 311 (PDF: ) - relating to: issuance of administrative warnings by the medical examining board, disciplinary actions against physicians, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 312 (PDF: ) - relating to: the exemption for housing for older persons from the law prohibiting discrimination in housing based on age or family status and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 313 (PDF: ) - relating to: grants to friends groups for property development on certain properties owned by the department of natural resources. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 314 (PDF: ) - relating to: sales tax and use tax late filing fees. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 315 (PDF: ) - relating to: property tax deadlines. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 316 (PDF: ) - relating to: the regulation of investment advisers and investment adviser representatives, the registration of securities and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 317 (PDF: ) - relating to: charging a tenant for a credit check, presumption that tenant caused damage, allowing plaintiffs to remove and store property under a writ of restitution and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 318 (PDF: ) - relating to: the delegation of authority by 1st class city school districts over funds held in trust for certain pension plans. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 319 (PDF: ) - relating to: the testimony at trial of child witnesses in certain cases. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 320 (PDF: ) - relating to: expanding the definition of sponsor for developing residential facilities that are eligible for financing by the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 321 (PDF: ) - relating to: distribution of seized or confiscated fish and game to food distribution services. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 322 (PDF: ) - relating to: fishing licenses for certain disabled veterans. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 323 (PDF: ) - relating to: prohibiting browsing of taxpayer information and providing a penalty. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 324 (PDF: ) - relating to: regulation of grain dealers and grain warehouse keepers. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 325 (PDF: ) - relating to: increasing forfeitures for motor vehicle speed restriction violations committed in school zones and providing penalties.
1997 Wisconsin Act 326 (PDF: ) - relating to: persistent child sex offenders and providing penalties. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 327 (PDF: ) - relating to: delivery or distribution of a controlled substance, or possession with intent to deliver or distribute a controlled substance, on or near certain places and providing a penalty.
1997 Wisconsin Act 328 (PDF: ) - relating to: violations of nonsecure custody orders by juveniles and providing a penalty.
1997 Wisconsin Act 329 (PDF: ) - relating to: authorizing the search of a pupil's locker.
1997 Wisconsin Act 330 (PDF: ) - relating to: disposal facilities on outlying waters for toilet wastes from boats and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 331 (PDF: ) - relating to: liability for worthless checks.
1997 Wisconsin Act 332 (PDF: ) - relating to: approval and recording of final plats.
1997 Wisconsin Act 333 (PDF: ) - relating to: recording requirements for condominium instruments. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 334 (PDF: ) - relating to: the designation by a parent or the appointment by a court of a standby guardian of a child whose duty and authority as standby guardian begins on the incapacity, death, or debilitation and consent, of the parent. (FE)
1997 Wisconsin Act 335 (PDF: ) - relating to: removal of disruptive pupils from the class and granting rule-making authority.
1997 Wisconsin Act 336 (PDF: ) - relating to: nitrous oxide and providing a penalty.
1997 Wisconsin Act 337 (PDF: ) - relating to: providing alcohol beverages to an underage person, offering false identification purporting to show that an underage person has attained the legal drinking age and providing a penalty.
1997 Wisconsin Act 338 (PDF: ) - relating to: homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle and providing a penalty.
