Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Natural resources
Navigable waters
Under current law, an person may not place a boat, boat trailer, or boating equipment in the Lower St. Croix River if the person has reason to believe that the boat, trailer, or equipment has zebra mussels attached. Also, under current law, a person must remove zebra mussels from a boat, boat trailer, or boating equipment before placing it the St. Croix River, if required to do so by a law enforcement officer. This bill expands the scope of these two provisions to cover any navigable water. The bill also authorizes a law enforcement officer to require a person to remove any aquatic plants or zebra mussels from a boat, boat trailer, or boating equipment before or while transporting the boat, trailer, or equipment on a highway or other thoroughfare open to the public.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 30.715 (1) (am) of the statutes is created to read:
30.715 (1) (am) "Highway" has the meaning given in s. 340.01 (22).
SECTION 2. 30.715 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
30.715 (2) No person may place or use a boat or boating equipment or place a boat trailer in a navigable water if the person has reason to believe that the boat, boat trailer, or boating equipment has any aquatic plants or zebra mussels attached.
SECTION 3. 30.715 (3) of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 4. 30.715 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
30.715 (4) (a) Remove any aquatic plants or zebra mussels from a boat, boat trailer, or boating equipment before placing it in a navigable water.
SECTION 5. 30.715 (4) (am) of the statutes is created to read:
30.715 (4) (am) Remove any aquatic plants or zebra mussels from a boat, boat trailer, or boating equipment before transporting it on a highway or while transporting it on a highway.
SECTION 6. 30.715 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
30.715 (4) (b) Remove or not place a boat, boat trailer, or boating equipment in a navigable water if the law enforcement officer has reason to believe that the boat, boat trailer, or boating equipment has any aquatic plants or zebra mussels attached.
SECTION 7. 30.715 (4) (c) of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 8. 30.715 (4) (d) of the statutes is repealed.
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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Schmiedicke - BB0227 General provisions in budget
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2005 legislature.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Introduction
This bill is the "executive budget bill" under section 16.47 (1) of the statutes. It contains the governor's recommendations for appropriations for the 2005-2007 fiscal biennium.
The bill repeals and recreates the appropriation schedule in chapter 20 of the statutes, thereby setting the appropriation levels for the 2005-2007 fiscal biennium. The descriptions that follow relate to the most significant changes in the law that are proposed in the bill. In most cases, changes in the amounts of existing spending authority and changes in the amounts of bonding authority under existing bonding programs are not discussed.
For additional information concerning this bill, see the Department of Administration's publication Budget in Brief and the executive budget books, the Legislative Fiscal Bureau's summary document, and the Legislative Reference Bureau's drafting files, which contain separate drafts on each policy item. In most cases, the policy item drafts contain a more detailed analysis than is printed with this bill.
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Guide to the bill
As is the case for all other bills, the sections of the budget bill that affect statutes are organized in ascending numerical order of the statutes affected.
Treatments of prior session laws (styled "laws of [year], chapter ...." from 1848 to 1981, and "[year] Wisconsin Act ...." beginning with 1983) are displayed next by year of original enactment and by act number.
The remaining sections of the budget bill are organized by type of provision and, within each type, alphabetically by state agency. The first two digits of the four-digit section number indicate the type of provision:
91XX Nonstatutory provisions.
92XX Appropriation changes.
93XX Initial applicability.
94XX Effective dates.
The remaining two digits indicate the state agency to which the provision relates:
XX01 Administration.
XX02 Aging and long-term care board.
XX03 Agriculture, trade and consumer protection.
XX04 Arts board.
XX05 Building commission.
XX06 Child abuse and neglect prevention board.
XX07 Circuit courts.
XX08 Commerce.
XX09 Corrections.
XX10 Court of appeals.
XX11 District attorneys.
XX12 Educational communications board.
XX13 Elections board.
XX14 Employee trust funds.
XX15 Employment relations commission.
XX16 Ethics board.
XX17 Financial institutions.
XX18 Fox River Navigational System Authority.
XX19 Governor.
XX20 Health and Educational Facilities Authority.
XX21 Health and family services.
XX22 Higher educational aids board.
XX23 Historical society.
XX24 Housing and Economic Development Authority.
XX25 Insurance.
XX26 Investment board.
XX27 Joint committee on finance.
XX28 Judicial commission.
XX29 Justice.
XX30 Legislature.
XX31 Lieutenant governor.
XX32 Lower Wisconsin state riverway board.
XX33 Medical College of Wisconsin.
XX34 Military affairs.
XX35 Natural resources.
XX36 Public defender board.
XX37 Public instruction.
XX38 Public lands, board of commissioners of.
XX39 Public service commission.
XX40 Regulation and licensing.
XX41 Revenue.
XX42 Secretary of state.
XX43 State employment relations, office of
XX44 State fair park board.
XX45 Supreme Court.
XX46 Technical college system.
XX47 Tourism.
XX48 Transportation.
XX49 Treasurer.