Subject Index

Air quality management: DNR authority revised re emission standards for hazardous pollutants, nonattainment areas, and permit requirements, process, and approval; report required; JCRAR provision [A.Sub.Amdt.2: further revisions, JCRAR provision removed] -  AB655

Air quality management: DNR authority revised re emission standards for hazardous pollutants, nonattainment areas, and permit requirements, process, and approval; report required; JCRAR provision -  SB313

Aquatic invasive species management: grants from conservation fund; includes education and inspection at boat landings [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 406c, 804n] - SB44

Boathouse construction, repair, or maintenance: placement exemption re commercial purposes, industrially zoned land, or brownfield [A.Sub.Amdt.2: further revisions]  - AB655

Boathouse construction, repair, or maintenance: placement exemption re commercial purposes, industrially zoned land, or brownfield -  SB313

Boathouse construction, repair, or maintenance: placement exemption re commercial purposes, industrially zoned land, or brownfield; DNR permit provision - AB637

Boathouse construction, repair, or maintenance: placement exemption re commercial purposes, industrially zoned land, or brownfield; DNR permit provision - SB296

Brownfields administration funding [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 402u] - SB44

Brownfields grants and review by Comm.Dept [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9109 (1z), 9138 (1z)] -  SB44

Brownfields program and grants revised and consolidated; Comm.Dept responsibilities removed [Sec. 292, 295, 296, 409-411, 1633, 1838, 2476-2478, 2480, 2620-2622, 2625, 2626, 9138 (1), (2); original bill only]  - SB44

Brownfields revolving loan program established with funding from the EPA -  AB907

Brownfields revolving loan program established with funding from the EPA -  SB471

CDL authorization re hazardous waste endorsements [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 2512m, 2521w, 2534g-k, 2536g, 2551c, e, j, 2552g, i, 2553m, 2554g, h, 2555x, 2557g-m, 2564m, 2570m, 2579m, 9153 (2z), 9453 (2z)]  - SB44

Clean Water Fund, Safe Drinking Water Loan, and Land Recycling Loan programs: subsidies set; clean water revenue bonding authority revised [Sec. 2466-2469; S.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, 680t] -  SB44

Dredged materials that contain PCBs: solid waste disposal facility prohibited from accepting; municipal liability re materials from Great Lakes basin contaminated with PCBs provision  - AB915

Dry Cleaner Environmental Response Program revisions [S.Amdt.2: costs incurred by 3rd parties provision]  - SB324

Electric generating facilities and transmission lines: DNR and PSC requirements changed; environmental impact statement and utility aid payment provisions; state policy on siting of electric transmission facilities -  AB632

Electric generating facilities and transmission lines: DNR and PSC requirements changed; environmental impact statement and utility aid payment provisions; state policy on siting of electric transmission facilities [S.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, condemnation provision] -  SB300

Emergency response teams (regional): highest standards for hazardous materials responder required  - AB124

Environmental Improvement Program and Environmental Results Program created; provisions re audits, incentives, immunity from civil liability, and access to certain information; penalty and sunset provided -  AB228

Environmental insurance: DNR, in cooperation with DOA, to make available re cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated property -  AB914

Environmental insurance: DNR, in cooperation with DOA, to make available re cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated property -  SB472

Environmental repair bonding authority increased; interest and principal payments paid only from environmental fund [Sec. 414, 415, 682; S.Sub.Amdt.1: bonding authority increase removed, deletes 682] -  SB44

Environmental Results Program and Environmental Improvement Program created; DNR, Comm.Dept, and DOJ duties specified [S.Amdt.2: waiver of enforcement record requirements and forfeiture provisions] -  SB61

Environmental Results Program created; DNR duties specified; Comm.Dept and sunset provisions - AB700

Environmental trust bonds created to finance the cost of certain environmental control activities; PSC duties specified [A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions] - AB843

Environmental trust bonds created to finance the cost of certain environmental control activities; PSC duties specified  - SB463

Hazardous substance enforcement actions: DNR may impose fees on persons subject to [Sec. 402, 2481]  - SB44

High capacity wells regulation and approval; environmental impact statement, groundwater protection and management areas, and DNR provisions; Groundwater Quantity Committee created and report required [A.Amdt.1: further revisions, ``Quantity" changed to ``Advisory"; A.Amdt.4: deletes position authority] -  AB926

High capacity wells regulation and approval; environmental impact statement, groundwater protection and management areas, and DNR provisions; Groundwater Quantity Committee created and report required -  SB524

Invasive nonnative aquatic species: releasing, possessing, controlling, storing, selling, or transporting prohibited; DNR authority specified -  SB413

Major highway projects approval process revised; DOT and TPC duties modified; report and environmental impact statement and assessment provisions - SB447

Major highway projects: TPC may not approve without final environmental impact statement or assessment; legislature may not enumerate any project without TPC approval; certain DOT report to TPC and certain management system change; TPC membership increased [A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, southeast Wisconsin freeway and TPC membership provisions removed, TPC approval re final impact statement or assessment changed to notification, certain information made available to the public] -  AB893

Major highway projects: TPC may not approve without final environmental impact statement or assessment; legislature may not enumerate any project without TPC approval; certain DOT report to TPC and certain management system change; TPC membership increased -  SB478

Metallic minerals mining laws revised re groundwater requirements, hazardous waste regulations, certain DNR rule exemptions, and applicability of other laws; notice to transferee of interests provision -  SB157

Recreational boating aids funding for aquatic invasive species control [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 918t] - SB44

Recycling tipping fee: exemption for PCB contaminated sediments removed from navigable waters [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 2475e] -  SB44

Special order of business for March 11, 2004 established re SB-61 -  AR39

Special order of business for March 9, 2004 established re SB-324 -  AR37

Special orders of business for March 10, 2004 established re AB-907 or SB-471, AB-914 or SB-472, and SB-324  - AR38

Sustainable urban development zone grant program re brownfields repealed [Sec. 408, 2479] - SB44

TID expenditure period for certain city extended; DOR provision [S.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, original provisions removed, TID lifespan extended under certain conditions, blighted area and rehabilitation or conservation TID provisions; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions; A.Amdt.1: notification requirement] -  SB428

TIF program revisions; environmental remediation TIF program modified -  AB478

TIF program: technical and substantive changes; ``mixed-use development" defined; technical modification to the environmental remediation TIF program - AB654

TIF program: technical and substantive changes; ``mixed-use development" defined; technical modification to the environmental remediation TIF program [S.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions] -  SB305

Vehicle environmental impact fee increased; sunset removed [Sec. 2519; S.Sub.Amdt.1: fee increase removed, sunset date extended] -  SB44

Youth environmental education programs: organizations or agencies must enter into a contract with DNR and comply with conditions to receive payment; funding from surcharge re environmental law violations -  AB910

Youth environmental education programs: organizations or agencies must enter into a contract with DNR and comply with conditions to receive payment; funding from surcharge re environmental law violations -  SB496

epa EPA, see United States — Environmental protection agency

equal rights Equal rights, see Discrimination

equalized valuation Equalized valuation, see Property tax; School — State aid

escalator Escalator, see Public safety

estate tax Estate tax

Estate tax imposed on transfer of property: ``property within the jurisdiction of this state" defined [A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, definition removed, nonresident decedent's intangible personal property exception revised]  - AB793

Estate tax repealed - SB355

Special order of business for March 9, 2004 established re AB-793 -  AR37

Special order of business for March 10, 2004 established re AB-793 -  AR38

Tax revisions re DOR authority to reduce taxes, liability of spouses filing a joint income tax return, extension to file annual reconciliation report, qualified retirement fund, sales or use tax refunded to or erroneously collected by seller, interest on estate taxes, mailing tax-related document or payment, filing fee for redetermination of earned income tax credit  - AB927

estrada, miguel Estrada, Miguel

Judicial appointment of Miguel Estrada: senators from this state urged to work to allow a floor vote in the U.S. Senate  - SR6

ethanol Ethanol, see Gasoline

ethics Ethics, see also Elections — Campaign expense

Code of Ethics for Local Public Officials applied to certain members of district boards of a local professional baseball park district and a cultural arts district and definition of ``local government" clarified; statement of economic interests by candidates for joint municipal judgeship required before county clerk may certify candidate's name (remedial legislation)  - SB298

Code of ethics for state public officials and local public officials: members of Employee Trust Funds Board, Teachers Retirement Board, Wisconsin Retirement Board, and governing bodies of the Milwaukee city and county retirement systems subject to - SB412

Code of ethics for unclassified personnel of the U.W. System: requirements revised; Internet and Ethics Board provisions - AB540

Ethics and Elections Accountability and Control Board created; Ethics Board and Elections Board abolished  - SB11

Official action by state or local public official holding an elective office in return for providing or withholding political contributions prohibited; forfeiture, Ethics Board, DA, and election provisions (deletes changes made by 2001 WisAct 109)  - SB12

Official action by state or local public official holding an elective office in return for providing or withholding political contributions prohibited; forfeiture, Ethics Board, DA, and election provisions (reenacts changes made by 2001 WisAct 109)  - AB1

Official action by state or local public official holding an elective office in return for providing or withholding political contributions prohibited; forfeiture, Ethics Board, DA, and election provisions (reenacts changes made by 2001 WisAct 109)  - SB22

PSC commissioners: restrictions on employment after their terms; Ethics Board and penalty provisions  - AB958

ethics board Ethics board

Applications for specified licenses, permits, and other approvals: certain agencies required to promulgate rules establishing deadlines for approval or disapproval; failure to meet deadlines and fee refund provisions -  AB486

Code of ethics for unclassified personnel of the U.W. System: requirements revised; Internet and Ethics Board provisions - AB540

Ethics and Elections Accountability and Control Board created; Ethics Board and Elections Board abolished  - SB11

Ethics Board approval required before U.W. President, chancellor, or dean accepts compensation for serving on a corporation's board of directors -  SB342

Ethics investigations: biennial appropriation [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 632m] -  SB44

Official action by state or local public official holding an elective office in return for providing or withholding political contributions prohibited; forfeiture, Ethics Board, DA, and election provisions (deletes changes made by 2001 WisAct 109)  - SB12

Official action by state or local public official holding an elective office in return for providing or withholding political contributions prohibited; forfeiture, Ethics Board, DA, and election provisions (reenacts changes made by 2001 WisAct 109)  - AB1

Official action by state or local public official holding an elective office in return for providing or withholding political contributions prohibited; forfeiture, Ethics Board, DA, and election provisions (reenacts changes made by 2001 WisAct 109)  - SB22

PSC commissioners: restrictions on employment after their terms; Ethics Board and penalty provisions  - AB958

euthanasia Euthanasia, see Death

eviction Eviction, see Landlord and tenant

evidence Evidence, see also Lie detector

Abortion for unemancipated minor: parental consent law and evidence heard by circuit court revised  - AB635

Abortion for unemancipated minor: parental consent law and evidence heard by circuit court revised  - SB304

Digital representations re photograph, film, motion picture, audio, or video: inadmissibility as evidence; exception provided -  AB584

Lay witness and expert witness testimony or evidence modifications [S.Amdt.1: sexually violent person commitments provision] -  SB49

Protective headgear use or nonuse by operators and passengers of motorcycles, ATVs, and snowmobiles: introduction of evidence in certain civil actions prohibited, exceptions and recovery for damages provisions -  AB455

Protective headgear use or nonuse by operators and passengers of motorcycles, ATVs, and snowmobiles: introduction of evidence in certain civil actions prohibited, exceptions and recovery for damages provisions -  SB223