Acts Index

General program operations: funding increased [Sec. 9215 (1)] -  Act 237

Judgment against the state under Retired teachers association versus Employe trust funds board: funding provided [Sec. 695g, h, 9415 (1z)] -  Act 27

Qualified domestic relations orders under WRS -  Act 125

Variable investment trust in WRS: RRC, DETF and Investment board to study feasibility of reopening [Sec. 9132 (1h)] [vetoed] -  AB-100

employment Employment, see also Child labor; Discrimination in employment; Migrant labor; Public employe; Unemployment — Relief measures; Wage — Minimum

Delinquent taxes: DOR access to new hire information [Sec. 333bm, bp] -  Act 237

Development zone job creation re 1997 WisAct 27: Wisconsin residency required for members of nontarget population  -  Act 41

Disclosure of certain records to DWD re support, paternity and medical liability support programs  -  Act 191

Health care benefits no longer provided by employer: notification requirements created [Sec. 354n, q, u-z, 677m, 9355 (1c)] -  Act 237

Health care coverage for child: notice to new employer of parent's obligation -  Act 191

Health care coverage loss by employes: OCI required to provide information and technical assistance; notification to OCI of business closing or mass layoff -  Act 51

Hiring reporting system and state directory of new hires: DWD duties set; provision re penalties and uses of information [Sec. 612m, 2631, 9426 (1h)] -  Act 27

Minority business development program revised; grants for economic development, education and training and employment opportunities [Sec. 199n, 4532b-4547m] [4532g, m — vetoed] -  Act 27

Private business employment of inmates and residents: number of projects reduced; public hearing required; provision re worker displacement and JCF approval; authority to suspend or expand manufacture of goods [Sec. 513e-r, 3909b, m, 3910ce, cf, 9111 (3g), (5c), 9411 (4g)] [513m, 3909b — partial veto; 3909m, 3910ce, cf, 9111 (3g), (5c) — vetoed]  -  Act 27

Training grant for youth apprentice: award directly to employer permitted; formula revised [Sec. 2676, 2676d]  -  Act 27

Vocational-adult professional development seminar or workshop: fees authorized [Sec. 1186-1188]  -  Act 27

Wisconsin development fund grant and loan programs revised; research and grant program eliminated; origination fee authorized; job guarantee provision; manufacturing assessment grants [Sec. 196, 4480-4482, 4483m-4488, 4490, 4492c, 4495, 4496, 4498, 4499] -  Act 27

Working recipients of SSI and SSDI: DHFS to establish pilot project; federal waiver requested [Sec. 205, 9222 (1), (2)] -  Act 237

employment _ discrimination Employment — Discrimination, see Discrimination in employment

employment relations, department of Employment relations, Department of

Civil service reform measures; evaluation required -  Act 307

Code of ethics violations re public employes [Sec. 3308m] [vetoed] -  AB-100

DER public employe training functions: LAB to audit [Sec. 9132 (1g)] [vetoed] -  AB-100

DER training services to nonstate governmental units [Sec. 48m, 452b] -  Act 237

Disaster relief services: provisions created re leave of absence for state employes affiliated with the American Red Cross -  Act 118

Disclosure of certain records to DWD re support, paternity and medical liability support programs  -  Act 191

Exceptional performance awards for nonrepresented state employes eliminated -  Act 14

Executive salary group reassigned for executive directors of Ethics board and Elections board -  Act 29

JSCRS research director salary: DER Secretary to determine -  Act 2

Personnel commission: authority to hear appeals re DMRS decisions and duty to process complaints regarding family or medical leave (remedial legislation) -  Act 216

U.W. system senior executive salaries [Sec. 19m, 54c-x, 57b, d-j, L-t, 82eg, er, fm, xn, 83xem, 452c, g-t, 678p, 9152 (1dc), (1dd), 9452 (1)] -  Act 237

employment relations commission Employment relations commission

Efficiency measures requirement for certain executive branch agencies [Sec. 9156 (6ng)] -  Act 27

endangered resource Endangered resource, see Natural resource

energy conservation Energy conservation

Electric utilities: advance plans eliminated and strategic energy assessment established; certificates of public convenience and necessity revised; electric transmission system requirements; wholesale merchant plant prohibition; renewable energy source provision; PSC study required -  Act 204

Emergency assistance for families with needy children re natural disaster or energy emergency revised [Sec. 1789]  -  Act 27

Energy conservation audits and related construction projects in state-owned buildings; energy savings performance contracting repealed [Sec. 124m, 126-130, 131, 234, 243, 244, 245, 248, 271, 508, 647, 665, 686, 759]  -  Act 27

Rental unit energy efficiency program: revisions re requirements, citations and Comm.Dept authority  -  Act 288

environmental education board Environmental education board

Administrative expense funding [Sec. 30r, 82zt] -  Act 237

EEB transferred from DPI to U.W. system; staff placed in unclassified service; grant funding provision [Sec. 75m, 257m, 263m, 277m, 757r, 1165m, 2745g, 3303p, 9140 (5n)]  -  Act 27

environmental protection Environmental protection, see also Air pollution; Mine and mining; Natural resource; Petroleum; Sanitation and sewerage management; Soil and soil conservation; Solid waste management; Water — Pollution; Wetland

Agricultural hazardous wastes exemption from environmental repair fee [Sec. 3642] -  Act 27

Brownfields and environmental problem costs and development zones based on job creation or retention; certain existing tax credits discontinued; historic rehabilitation credit provision [Sec. 2261, 2261h-p, 2261t-2262, 2262r, 2263, 2265, 2267, 2274, 2275, 2275bm-2276, 2277, 2277m, n, 2279, 2280, 2285, 2285bp-2286, 2287, 2287mn, 2288, 2358, 2401, 4500-4506, 4512-4532, 9310 (6), 9343 (10ia)] [2262r, 2277n, 2287mn, 9343 (10ia) — vetoed] -  Act 27

Brownfields grant program created; memorandum of understanding required [Sec. 186c, 202m, 4351, 9110 (2), (3), (4)] -  Act 27

Brownfields redevelopment activities: purpose of business development assistance appropriation changed [Sec. 27]  -  Act 237

Brownfields redevelopment loan guarantee program created; certain existing WHEDA loan guarantee programs combined into Small business loan guarantee program; revision re beginning farmer program; bonding revision [Sec. 666, 1474, 1475, 2573, 2574, 2609-2611, 3327-3374, 3376-3384, 3389, 3390, 3609-3611, 4340, 4794] -  Act 27

Brownfields redevelopment project promotion: Permit information and regulatory assistance bureau to act as ombudsman [Sec. 4477] -  Act 27

Brownfields redevelopment projects: stewardship program provision [Sec. 763-765, 767, 768, 1140, 1141, 9337 (4)] [767 — partial veto] -  Act 27

Brownfields study by DNR [Sec. 9137 (6g)] [partial veto] -  Act 27

Contaminated property: delinquent property taxes cancelled [Sec. 2373] -  Act 27

Contaminated property: liability limited re investigations [Sec. 3680] -  Act 27

Contaminated property: provisions re voluntary party liability for hazardous substance discharge, prospective purchaser and hydrogeologist position [Sec. 3662-3679m, 9137 (7gm), (9gx), 9337 (1), 9437 (1x)] [3663 — partial veto; 3664-3666, 3668 — vetoed] -  Act 27

Contaminated property re land recycling loan program [Sec. 294, 864, 889, 3534, 3552, 3560, 3569, 3649, 3684, 3690, 3715, 3716, 3721] [3569 — partial veto]  -  Act 27

Contaminated property re land recycling loan program: application deadlines [Sec. 481e-g] -  Act 237

Contaminated property re offsite discharge of hazardous substances: owner exemption from liability [Sec. 343, 3661] -  Act 27

Contaminated property redevelopment projects under certain programs: priority required [Sec. 4344, 4353, 4359, 4360, 4381, 4402, 4478, 4489] -  Act 27

Contaminated property remedial action changes re local governmental unit or lender liability, programs facilitating cleanup and recovery of costs for removal of abandoned hazardous substance containers [Sec. 960, 2059, 2217, 2233, 2374-2376, 2488, 2690, 3167, 3172, 3654-3656e, 3659-3660c, 3681, 3683g, 3687-3689, 3691-3714, 3718, 3723-3727, 4945, 4946, 4947, 5163, 5164, 5165, 5198] -  Act 27

Contaminated property: TIF for environmental remediation [Sec. 2216, 2446, 2447, 2864] -  Act 27

Contaminated property: voluntary party liability revision re license for period of long-term care and property acquired from a local unit of government [Sec. 484-486]  -  Act 237

Dairy plant financial statements and hazardous waste facility records or information: access to confidential documents required re child and spousal support  -  Act 191

Development zones based on job creation or retention and on costs re environmental problems or brownfields created; certain existing tax credits discontinued; historic rehabilitation credit provision [Sec. 2261, 2261h-p, 2261t-2262, 2262r, 2263, 2265, 2267, 2274, 2275, 2275bm-2276, 2277, 2277m, n, 2279, 2280, 2285, 2285bp-2286, 2287, 2287mn, 2288, 2358, 2401, 4500-4506, 4512-4532, 9310 (6), 9343 (10ia)] [2262r, 2277n, 2287mn, 9343 (10ia) — vetoed]  -  Act 27

DNR appropriations restructured; lapse of MacKenzie environmental center funds [Sec. 300, 302-322, 324-336, 338-342, 346-353, 358m, 360-365, 368-375, 380, 382-396, 399-407, 410, 415-431, 434, 435, 439-447, 449-452, 454, 455, 732, 744, 771, 773, 782, 783, 785-788, 844, 852f, 982, 996, 1057, 1065, 1143, 1147, 2474m, 3159, 3488, 3601, 3605, 3608, 3613, 3637, 4191-4193, 9237 (2q)] [346s, 400g, 9237 (2q) — vetoed] -  Act 27

Dry cleaner environmental council, program and fee created; sunset provided [Sec. 66r, 344m, 346m, 401m, 452m, 701m, 832e, 873r, 906e, 2410ts, 3721e, m, 9137 (10g)] [906e, 2410ts, 3721e — partial veto; 344m, 873r — vetoed]  -  Act 27

Dry cleaner fee revisions re 1997 WisAct 27 -  Act 41

Dry cleaning facility cleanup: delay provision eliminated [Sec. 487] -  Act 237

Environmental cleanup innovations or patented technology: waiver of competitive bidding permitted [Sec. 789, 790]  -  Act 27

Environmental cooperation pilot program created to evaluate innovative regulatory methods; LAB to monitor and report [Sec. 10r, 3789] -  Act 27

Environmental cooperation pilot program re 1997 WisAct 27: technical revision -  Act 41

Environmental law enforcement revisions re time limit on mining and water pollution violations and point source general permit withdrawal by DNR -  Act 193

Groundwater and environmental repair accounts merged [Sec. 355, 356, 872-898, 2512, 2581, 2983, 3494, 3600, 3604, 3638, 3641, 3643-3645, 3650, 3685, 3686, 3717, 3719] [873r — vetoed] -  Act 27

Hazardous materials emergency response computer and equipment: local match provisions [Sec. 3116s, 3117d-f]  -  Act 27

Hazardous substance discharge: nonprofit economic development corporation exemption from restoration and minimization requirements [Sec. 3657, 3658] -  Act 27

Hazardous substance spill cleanup: DNR enforcement authority revised; referral to DOJ permitted; DOJ study of cleanup agreements [Sec. 3651, 3652, 9131 (1t)] [9131 (1t) — vetoed] -  Act 27

Housing advisory council and Hazardous pollution prevention council: sunset of [Sec. 53r, 59e, 102apm, rs, 1167b, c, 3786f-L, 4442c-m] -  Act 27

Level A emergency response teams: DEM to report to DMA -  Act 41

Level A emergency response teams: funding for [Sec. 3117m-r] -  Act 27

New motor vehicle registration: environmental impact fee created; sunset provided [Sec. 849, 899, 4044, 9449 (7mg)] -  Act 27

Nonmetallic mining: laws revised; provisions re permit, reclamation, zoning and spills cleanup [Sec. 349g, 898m, 3731-3784] -  Act 27

Nonpoint source changes re watersheds, cost sharing grants for best management practices, bonding authority, local project funding and pilot project to evaluate trading water pollution credits [Sec. 178e, 366, 367, 397, 398, 414g, 728, 730, 730m, 731k, 735ag, 3495m, 3573-3585, 3586-3588, 3588s-3599, 3606, 9437 (3)] [3606 — partial veto]  -  Act 27

Nonpoint source pollution fee changed to ``supplemental title" fee; provisions revised [Sec. 719r, 849m, 873m, 899m, 2476g, 4044r, 9101 (1c), 9149 (1c), 9449 (3b)]  -  Act 27

Nonpoint source water pollution and environmental repair: bonding authority increased [Sec. 731]  -  Act 27

Nonpoint source water quality standards revised re agricultural facilities and livestock operations; ``erosion control planning program" name changed to ``land and water resource management planning program"; nutrient management provisions [Sec. 766wm, 2488g-i, s-u, 2489c-L, 2490g, 2491dg, dr, L, 3273r, 3487p, 3585m, 3588c, 5197s, 9104 (1h)] [3273r, 3487p — partial veto] -  Act 27

Ozone-depleting refrigerant in mobile air conditioners: recycling requirements revised -  Act 165

Pollution cleanup and determination of liability: DNR authorized to charge fee to property owners for assistance services [Sec. 3720] -  Act 27

Remediation professionals: certification requirements created; DNR, DATCP and Comm.Dept memorandum of understanding [Sec. 346s, 3727g, 9137 (7n), 9437 (2m)] [vetoed]  -  AB-100

Seized fish and game: distribution to certain food programs authorized; person liable for processing costs  -  Act 321

epidemiologist Epidemiologist, see Public health