Acts Index

Homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle: maximum imprisonment increased; fine eliminated -  Act 338

Hour meters of farm equipment: tampering with, altering or disconnecting prohibited -  Act 278

Invasion of privacy re surveillance device used to observe nude person without consent: crime created  -  Act 271

Investment adviser and representative regulations and registration of securities revised; transfers of trust business within bank holding company systems -  Act 316

Juvenile adjudicated delinquent or with delinquency petition pending re serious crime: day care licensure, certification, employment, contracting or residence prohibited  -  Act 281

Land information board: composition revised -  Act 247

Landfill and hazardous waste facility negotiation and arbitration law: definition of affected municipality and number of local negotiating committee members revised  -  Act 241

Locker search without consent of pupil: school board authority created -  Act 329

MEB authority re administrative warnings, disciplinary actions against physicians and verification of continuing education compliance; circuit court clerk to notify MEB of physician negligence findings; reports required; toll-free number to report physician misconduct required -  Act 311

Mental health-related service: county community programs board or director and private or public organization or affiliation may establish entity to provide  -  Act 268

Milwaukee school board investment of certain pension funds; credit assistance to W-2 participants, report required  -  Act 318

Municipal lockup facility: holding juveniles permitted under certain conditions -  Act 296

Music, art and dance therapists licensure exemption: administration transferred from Psychology examining board to DORL; sunset repealed -  Act 261

Newsprint: required postconsumer fiber content revised and recycling fee exemption created -  Act 274

Nitrous oxide possession, sale and distribution restrictions created; exceptions for medical and dental purposes  -  Act 336

Nonsecure custody order violation by juvenile: crime created -  Act 328

Noxious weeds notice: publication by municipalities revised -  Act 287

Open housing law for older persons revised to conform to federal law -  Act 312

Plan commission of cities, villages and certain towns: alderperson election procedure modified -  Act 246

Professional geologist, hydrologist and soil scientist: regulations and examining board created -  Act 300

Professional standards council for teachers created; report required -  Act 298

Property tax rolls: delivery deadlines revised -  Act 315

Property under DNR jurisdiction: grants to friends groups for property development -  Act 313

Real estate broker definition and role revised -  Act 263

Register of deeds: provisions revised re guardianship hearing petitions and legibility of certain documents  -  Act 304

Register of deeds recording of certain plats: fees increased -  Act 303

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

Residential facilities eligible for WHEDA financing: definition of sponsor expanded -  Act 320

Retail theft provisions revised -  Act 262

Sales and use tax late filing fees revised -  Act 314

School and school district annual performance reports: information included revised -  Act 244

School board and CESA report requirements revised; State superintendent duties re summer school and early admission to kindergarten and first grade modified  -  Act 240

School district created from one or more existing districts: procedures created; referendum provisions  -  Act 286

School zone speeding violations: forfeiture doubled -  Act 325

Security interest in growing crops: requirements modified -  Act 265

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

Sentences for felony offenses, parole, extended supervision, bifurcated sentence and life imprisonment revisions; Criminal penalties study committee created and report required [partial veto] -  Act 283

Serious sex offenses: lifetime supervision created and reconciliation, parole placement and supervised release provisions -  Act 275

Sheriffs' term of office changed to 4-year; restriction on holding any other office revised; vacancy and appointment provisions: constitutional amendment (2nd consideration) [SJR-43]  -  JR-18

Snowmobile right-of-way exemption created -  Act 267

Sport shooting range: noise, nuisance and zoning ordinance provisions; users accept associated risks; hours regulated; recreational activity definition modified  -  Act 242

Stalking and violation of certain restraining orders and injunctions: vehicle and property forfeiture provisions; DA exempt from certain court fees -  Act 285

Standby guardian appointment by parent: procedures created re petition to juvenile court or written designation signed before witnesses -  Act 334

State superintendent to study school capacity and physical condition, report required; Comm.Dept low-interest loan for certain adult day care services facility construction [partial veto] -  Act 310

Statutory rape prosecution pilot program created; sunset and nursing home forfeiture provisions  -  Act 280

Temporary ``Class B" licenses revised -  Act 259

Tenant property: storage and disposition upon eviction; public warehouse keeper license provision  -  Act 317

Transportation projects: procedures created re use of plats to identify necessary private lands; register of deeds provision -  Act 282

UI employer solvency contribution rates modified; UI information technology system funding provision  -  Act 235

Unborn child: crime and penalties created re causing harm, death or great bodily harm; certain exceptions provided  -  Act 295

Uniform commercial code: investment securities chapter (article 8) repealed and recreated -  Act 297

Uniform commercial code revision re ``sale or return" or consignment sales -  Act 279

Utility work area: penalty doubled for certain traffic violations committed in -  Act 277

Vehicles obstructing freeway or expressway: removal of disabled vehicle; civil liability immunity re damage from removal or storage; stopping at scene of accident  -  Act 258

Violent crime committed against an elder person: penalty enhancement provided -  Act 266

Warehouse keeper and grain dealer regulations -  Act 324

Wood harvesting slasher exempt from vehicle registration; DOT to define -  Act 269

Worthless check liability provision recreated re 1995 WisAct 449 -  Act 331

f - F -

facsimile machine Facsimile machine, see Telephone

fair Fair, see also State fair

County fair admission: sales tax eliminated [Sec. 313eg, 9442 (3b)] -  Act 237

fair employment Fair employment, see Discrimination in employment

fair housing Fair housing, see Discrimination in housing

false statement False statement, see Fraud

family Family

Adoption laws revised re birth parent expenses, advertising, informational resources on adoption instruction, school age parents programs, who may be adopted, time for filing petition for rehearing, placement with relative, application of interstate compact on the placement of children, time for hearing on TPR petition, permanency plan documentation, removal of child for adoptive placement, relative filing petition for adoption and children's code definition of relative  -  Act 104

Badger care program: family definition revised [Sec. 206b] -  Act 237

Battery to or criminal damage to property of witness: prohibitions expanded re threats and family members  -  Act 143

Child abuse and neglect: prevention program created; child abuse and neglect and early childhood family education center grants; domestic abuse training for certain staffs  -  Act 293

Child care certification and eligibility [Sec. 1409, 1653-1655, 1765-1776, 1778-1788, 1838-1845, 1853-1857, 9426 (5)]  -  Act 27

Child welfare, children in out-of-home care, TPR and adoption: laws revised; definition of abandoned infant; procedures re background checks clarified [Sec. 43, 101-103, 105-151, 157m, p, 192, 196, 680, 683-685, 691-697, 701-722, 9109 (1), 9309 (1), (2)] -  Act 237

Community AODA and HIV services programs; foster grandparent funding revision [Sec. 590m, 600m, 604, 1411, 1505, 1506, 1524, 2131, 2132, 2142, 2709m, 2733m-2738m, 2745ag, ar, 2847, 3406, 3407] -  Act 27

Family coverage under mandatory HIRSP plan: DHFS to study [Sec. 9123 (11mp)] [vetoed] -  AB-100

Intergenerational transfer of certain farming or business assets: income tax exclusion for capital gains; penalty for sale by purchaser within 2 years of transfer [Sec. 2261c, 2321m, 2332v, 9343 (1c)] [2332v — partial veto]  -  Act 27

Intergenerational transfer of farm and business assets: capital gains penalty modified [Sec. 298s]  -  Act 237

Kinship care: long-term program created -  Act 105

Kinship care under AFDC: eligibility, deadline and federal waiver revisions [Sec. 1611, 1863, 5507]  -  Act 27

Parenting classes: parties in a paternity action may be ordered to attend; responsibility for costs assigned  -  Act 45

Paternity determination proceedings: access to family and juvenile court records -  Act 80

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

Snowmobile trail or route regulatory signs: compliance required, exception re land under management or control of ``immediate family" -  Act 34

Stalking and violation of certain restraining orders and injunctions: vehicle and property forfeiture provisions; DA exempt from certain court fees -  Act 285

Women's health grant program and screening for low-income women; report re health insurance program for uninsured children and families [Sec. 592, 1944, 3482, 9123 (5), (6)] [9123 (5) — vetoed] -  Act 27

Working families tax credit created [Sec. 2262np, 2264s, 2294m, 9343 (2g)] -  Act 27

Wrongful death claims: limit increased; minor sibling provision  -  Act 89

family _ support Family — Support, see also Children — Protection and services; Juvenile delinquency

Assignment of earnings, pension, lottery winnings and other benefits for payment of certain fees: laws revised; child support made priority -  Act 148

Cable television records released to DWD re child support enforcement -  Act 191