Acts Index

Campaign finance law revisions re 2001 WisAct 109: provisions deleted re Elections Board authority to allocate percentage of income tax returns to WECF -  Act 178

Elections Board database projects: DOA assistance re vendor selection for computer conversion project and creation of campaign finance database [Sec. 9101 (10q)]  -  Act 25

Elections Board information technology development projects: JLAC to request performance evaluation audit [Sec. 9130 (2q)] -  Act 25

Electronic voting system standards: generation of paper record; recount of votes; access to software components; minimum font size on ballot requirement removed; Elections Board authority specified; municipality and county contract provision  -  Act 92

Gifts and grants provision created [Sec. 431] -  Act 25

Post-election procedures: time for delivery of election materials, inspectors' statements, county and municipal clerk serving on board of canvassers, grounds for recall re local elective offices, retention of unused ballots, recount procedures, and post-election audits -  Act 451

Voter registration revisions re required ID, deadline, locations, prohibiting certain payment, verification of pre-election registration, same-day registration, double voting audits, out-of-state driver's license holders, and uniform forms; fee and Elections Board provisions -  Act 451

Voter registration: valid Wisconsin driver's license or ID card or uniformed service ID card required, exceptions for domestic abuse cases and surrendered licenses; use of corroborating electors discontinued; absentee ballot requirements revised; provisional ballot created; state ID card free from DOT; exemption from photo requirement re religious tenets; nursing home, CBRF, adult family homes, and residential care apartment residents provision; special voting deputy duties expanded; registration and voting procedures for convicted felons created; notification re ineligibility to vote during parole or extended supervision [vetoed] -  SB-42

electric utility Electric utility, see also Cooperative associations; Public utility

Certificates of public convenience and necessity: electric utility application approval by PSC modified  -  Act 29

Discharging a firearm in the direction of a transmission facility prohibited; definition and penalty provisions  -  Act 169

Double-decked bus restrictions re operation on highways modified; liability provisions; local authority must approve route and inspect routes annually -  Act 11

Electric generating facility purchase or construction proposal from a public utility: order for advance rate-making principles PSC will apply permitted; hearings provision  -  Act 7

High-voltage transmission line construction: authorizing conveyance of property owned by county, city, village, town, or public board or commission to an electric utility if it received certain certificate from PSC; fair market value provisions -  Act 24

Raw forest products: exemptions from harvesting on tax delinquent land created re maintaining railroad tracks, pipelines, and utility right-of-way -  Act 423

Renewable energy requirements re electric utilities and cooperatives modified; certain state agencies required to generate or purchase renewable energy; energy efficiency standards imposed in certain state contracts; energy conservation code changed; anaerobic digestor research funding; public benefits program revisions; corn-burning furnace pilot program; PSC duties; report provisions -  Act 141

State-owned heating, cooling, and power plants and wastewater treatment facilities: sale or contract for operation by private entity required, not subject to PSC review or approval; JCF duties [Sec. 16m, n, 83m, 85g, 85r-87L, 163m, 167m, 172m, 193m, 286m, 288m, 364c, 384t, 413m, 795f, 9101 (10v), 9455 (3w)] [vetoed] -  AB-100

Utility aid payments and distribution formula: revisions re production plants, mitigation payments, substations, and payments for high-transmission lines; DOR study required [Sec. 93m, 1258m, 1260b, c, p, q, t, 1473b-e, 1474p, 1705b-g, 2097m, n, 2098m, 9141 (1n)] [vetoed] -  AB-100

electric vehicle Electric vehicle, see Motor vehicle

electronic data processing Electronic data processing, see Data processing

electronic monitoring Electronic monitoring, see Sentences and penalties

electronic signature Electronic signature, see Data processing

elevator Elevator, see Public safety

elk Elk, see Game

emergency government Emergency government, see Adjutant General; Governor; Military Affairs, Department of; Natural disaster

emergency medical service or technician _ems or emt_ Emergency medical service or technician (EMS or EMT), see Medical service

emergency number system _911_ Emergency number system (911), see Telephone

emergency rule_making Emergency rule-making, see Administrative rules

emergency vehicle Emergency vehicle, see Medical service

eminent domain Eminent domain

Condemnation of property that is not blighted prohibited if condemnor intends to convey or lease the acquired property to a private entity -  Act 233

emission standards Emission standards, see Air pollution; Motor vehicle — Regulation

employee trust funds, department of Employee Trust Funds, Department of, see also Group Insurance Board; Retirement — Public; Retirement System, Wisconsin

Attorney positions: 13.0 FTE vacant positions eliminated; exception re U.W. Regents, DETF, and Investment Board; DOA Secretary to ensure required total is met and to lapse balances to general fund [Sec. 9155 (1w), (2)] [partial veto] -  Act 25

Deferred Compensation Board serves as trustee for any deferred compensation plan under its management (remedial legislation) -  Act 150

DETF office in Milwaukee: requirement eliminated [Sec. 52, 737] -  Act 25

DETF secretary executive salary group assignment revised [Sec. 487e, r] -  Act 25

Gifts, grants, and expenditure of federal moneys: appropriations created [Sec. 433-436] -  Act 25

Health care claims information: contract with a data organization for the collection, analysis, and dissemination of required and conditions set; Board on Health Care Information, Interagency Coordinating Council, and Independent Review Board eliminated; report required -  Act 228

Income continuation coverage: employee eligibility re employer error (remedial legislation) -  Act 402

Medical records disclosed by DETF: different release requirements from other personal information (remedial legislation) -  Act 152

employment Employment, see also Discrimination in employment; Occupational safety; Public employee and its subheadings; Wage — Minimum

Gaming economic development and diversification grant programs: Comm.Dept may contract directly with entity assisting the grantee [Sec. 2352, 2357] -  Act 25

Health benefit purchasing cooperative: health care benefits clarified; small employer provisions -  Act 231

Job access loan program: federal and GPR funding eliminated; loan repayments made source of funding [Sec. 341, 1061, 1093] -  Act 25

School-to-work and work-based learning programs: administration by TCS Board; Governor's Work-Based Learning Board eliminated [Sec. 42m, 53m, 156d, 221d, 350r-352p, 429m, 487b, 714d-719d, 1834v-1839t, 2109j, 9146 (1q), 9154 (1q), 9254 (1q)] -  Act 25

UI law revisions; study required -  Act 86

employment _ discrimination Employment — Discrimination, see Discrimination in employment

employment bureau Employment bureau

Home care placement agency notification requirements re home care worker and consumer; complaint, liability, damages, definition, and telephone numbers for reporting abuse provisions -  Act 197

Temporary help company: charge for services not subject to sales tax under certain conditions [Sec. 1632n, 9441 (7w)] [vetoed] -  AB-100

employment relations Employment relations, see Collective bargaining; Discrimination in employment

employment relations, joint committee on Employment Relations, Joint Committee on, see Legislature — Employment Relations, Joint Committee on

employment relations, office of state Employment Relations, Office of State, see State Employment Relations, Office of

employment relations commission Employment Relations Commission

State employee appeals to WERC: crediting of filing fees and appropriation purposes expanded [Sec. 296, 2111]  -  Act 25

ems or emt _emergency medical service or technician_ EMS or EMT (Emergency medical service or technician), see Medical service

endangered resource or species Endangered resource or species, see Natural resource

energy conservation Energy conservation

Consumer goods and services sold at unreasonably excessive prices during periods of abnormal economic disruption re emergency prohibited; penalty, DATCP, and DOJ provisions  -  Act 450

DATCP grants re agricultural products and wastes as energy sources, reduction and use of agricultural wastes, and biochemical development; biennial appropriation from segregated agrichemical management fund; grants specified re agricultural development and diversification, sustainable agriculture, and bio-industry grant program; bio-industry to include forestry waste and bio-diesel technologies; grant to Cashton Area Development Corporation [Sec. 145, 145j, 1751v, 1752, 1752d, 9103 (4d)] [1751v — partial veto]  -  Act 25

Energy costs study by U.W. System Regents and DOA: report to Building Commission [Sec. 9152 (6q)]  -  Act 25

Low-income energy assistance program: eligibility expanded for fiscal year 2005-06; one-time fund transfer from the petroleum inspection fund; application deadline set  -  Act 124

Low-income home energy assistance program funding restriction removed [Sec. 60, 61, 80] -  Act 25

Renewable energy requirements re electric utilities and cooperatives modified; certain state agencies required to generate or purchase renewable energy; energy efficiency standards imposed in certain state contracts; energy conservation code changed; anaerobic digestor research funding; public benefits program revisions; corn-burning furnace pilot program; PSC duties; report provisions -  Act 141

engineer Engineer

Engineer positions re highway delivery functions: DOT may request reallocation [Sec. 9148 (7f)] [vetoed]  -  AB-100

Regents allocation of funds re U.W. Rock County engineering initiative, U.W. Fox Valley engineering initiative, and recommendations of the Committee on Baccalaureate Expansion [Sec. 9152 (4)] -  Act 25

english language English language

English for Southeast Asian children: funding re aid to Wausau School District shifted from DWD to DPI; Head Start supplement from TANF funds eliminated [Sec. 179, 188, 1107, 1108, 1859] -  Act 25

English language proficiency assessment system: DPI authorized to assist in forming consortium to obtain funds for purchase [Sec. 1857] -  Act 25

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

Aquatic invasive species management grants [Sec. 495] -  Act 25

Brownfield definition revised to include abandoned residential property re assignment of property contaminated by hazardous substances -  Act 93

Brownfields grant program to city of Madison [Sec. 156i, 9108 (3f)] -  Act 25

Clean Water Fund, Safe Drinking Water Loan, and Land Recycling Loan programs: bonding and present value subsidy changes [Sec. 461, 462, 2157-2159] [2159 — partial veto; 461 — vetoed] -  Act 25

Conservation fund: transfers from environmental and recycling funds re management of fish and wildlife sources [Sec. 9235 (3m), (4m)] -  Act 25

Contaminated property: residual contamination after cleanup under administration of agency with authority over the site, DNR and notification provisions; ERTID revisions; local governmental exemption from solid waste management standards under certain conditions; voluntary party liability exemption modified -  Act 418

DATCP grants re agricultural products and wastes as energy sources, reduction and use of agricultural wastes, and biochemical development; biennial appropriation from segregated agrichemical management fund; grants specified re agricultural development and diversification, sustainable agriculture, and bio-industry grant program; bio-industry to include forestry waste and bio-diesel technologies; grant to Cashton Area Development Corporation [Sec. 145, 145j, 1751v, 1752, 1752d, 9103 (4d)] [1751v — partial veto]  -  Act 25

Emergency response teams (regional): highest standards for hazardous materials responder required  -  Act 33

Environmental fund transfer to general fund [Sec. 9235 (2)] -  Act 25

Environmental repair bonding authority increased [Sec. 464] -  Act 25

Hazardous substances: abusing or distributing or possessing with intent to abuse or distribute prohibited; definitions and exceptions -  Act 44

Ice holes or openings in lakes, ponds, or streams created by aerating water: alternative warning methods allowed for certain organizations; liability exemption, penalties, and owners of riparian property provisions -  Act 395

Impact fee laws revised re imposition by and payment of; publication of municipal budget summary and requirements on plat approval conditions provisions -  Act 477

Impact fees: time period in which it must be used and refund process modified -  Act 203

Invasive species classification system: terminology correction (remedial legislation) -  Act 160

Vehicle environmental impact fee: sunset date extended [Sec. 2255] -  Act 25

environmental remediation tax incremental district _ertid_ Environmental remediation tax incremental district (ERTID), see Property tax