2007 Wisconsin Act 20

20,720 Section 720. 30.52 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

30.52 (3) (b) Fee for boats under 16 feet. The fee for the issuance or renewal of a certificate of number for a boat less than 16 feet in length is $16.50 $19.

20,721 Section 721. 30.52 (3) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

30.52 (3) (c) Fee for boats 16 feet or more but less than 26 feet. The fee for the issuance or renewal of a certificate of number for a boat 16 feet or more but less than 26 feet in length is $24 $28.

20,722 Section 722. 30.52 (3) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

30.52 (3) (d) Fee for boats 26 feet or more but less than 40 feet. The fee for the issuance or renewal of a certificate of number for a boat 26 feet or more but less than 40 feet in length is $45 $52.

20,723 Section 723. 30.52 (3) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

30.52 (3) (e) Fee for boats 40 feet or longer. The fee for the issuance or renewal of a certificate of number for a boat 40 feet or more in length is $75 $86.

20,724 Section 724. 30.52 (3) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:

30.52 (3) (f) Fee for nonmotorized sailboats. Notwithstanding pars. (b) to (e), the fee for the issuance or renewal of a certificate of number for a sailboat which is not a motorboat is $15 $17.

20,725 Section 725. 30.52 (3) (fm) of the statutes is amended to read:

30.52 (3) (fm) Fee for voluntarily registered boats. Notwithstanding pars. (b) to (f), the fee for issuance or renewal of registration for a boat registered pursuant to sub. (1) (b) 1m. is $9.75 $11.

20,726 Section 726. 30.74 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

30.74 (1) (b) The department by rule shall set the instruction fee for the course. A person conducting a course or giving instruction under this subsection shall collect the instruction fee from each person who receives instruction. The department may determine the portion of this fee, which may not exceed 50%, that the person may retain to defray expenses incurred by the person in conducting the course or giving the instruction. The person shall remit the remainder of the fee or, if nothing is retained, the entire fee to the department. The department by rule shall set the fee for the course shall issue a duplicate certificate of accomplishment to a person who is entitled to a duplicate certificate of accomplishment and who pays a fee of $2.75.

20,726b Section 726b. 35.001 (3) of the statutes is repealed.

20,726d Section 726d. 35.05 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

35.05 (4) When legislative proposals, legislative publications or other printing is required for the legislature, including revision or correction bills for the revisor of statutes legislative reference bureau, bills or reports for the joint legislative council or legislative proposals of members intended for introduction by them, such printing may be ordered by the chief clerk of either house or by other authorized persons during any session of the legislature or recess thereof, pursuant to such regulations as either house shall establish.

20,726f Section 726f. 35.15 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

35.15 (1) (b) The volume shall contain all acts enacted during such session, all important joint resolutions of the session, and an alphabetical index to the volume prepared by the legislative reference bureau in consultation with the revisor of statutes.

20,726h Section 726h. 35.17 of the statutes is amended to read:

35.17 Correcting typographical errors. In enrolling under s. 13.92 (1) (b) 3. and for publishing under ss. 35.095, 35.15 and 35.35 (1) (a) the legislative reference bureau shall correct obvious typographical errors. No such correction shall be deemed an alteration of the enrolled copy. Like corrections shall be made by the revisor legislative reference bureau in printing the Wisconsin statutes and administrative code. On questions of orthography the current edition of Webster's new international dictionary shall be taken as the standard.

20,726j Section 726j. 35.18 (1), (2) and (3) of the statutes are amended to read:

35.18 (1) Publication. Biennially the revisor legislative reference bureau shall prepare and deliver to the department printer's copy for the Wisconsin statutes, which shall contain all the general statutes in force, all important joint resolutions adopted since the last preceding general session, an alphabetical index, and such other matter as the revisor bureau deems desirable and practicable. The department shall determine how many copies shall be printed.

(2) Revisor's Legislative reference bureau certificate. After making the necessary comparison, the revisor chief of the legislative reference bureau shall annex, at the end of one copy of each newly printed statute, which shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state as a public record, the revisor's a certificate certifying that the revisor bureau has compared each printed section therein with the original section of the statutes, or, as the case may be, with the original section contained in the enrolled act from which the section was derived, together with all amendments of such original section, if any, and that all the sections appear to be correctly printed. All other copies shall contain a printed copy of such certificate.

(3) Numbers and titles of chapters and sections. All chapters and sections of Wisconsin statutes shall retain their present numbers and titles until changed by the revisor legislative reference bureau or by statute. Each section shall be designated by a mixed, decimal number, the whole number corresponding to the chapter and the decimal to the section's place in the chapter. The numbers and titles of chapters and sections shall be printed in boldface type. Each subsection shall be designated by a number, or by a number and a letter of the alphabet, enclosed in parentheses. Each paragraph shall be designated by a letter or letters enclosed in parentheses. Each subdivision shall be designated by a number or by a number and a letter. Each paragraph of a subdivision shall be designated by a letter or letters.

20,726L Section 726L. 35.20 of the statutes is amended to read:

35.20 Wisconsin Town Law Forms. With each issue of Wisconsin statutes, under the supervision of the revisor legislative reference bureau, an edition will be printed as directed by the department for distribution by the department to all town clerks, of a volume to be designated "Wisconsin Town Law Forms" containing suitable forms for use in the administration of laws relating to: common schools; the county board; the powers, duties and liabilities of towns, town officers and the assessment of taxes; highways, bridges and drainage districts; and such other forms as the revisor legislative reference bureau determines desirable and practicable.

20,726n Section 726n. 35.23 of the statutes is amended to read:

35.23 Wisconsin Annotations. The revisor legislative reference bureau shall prepare such annotations as will keep the volume known as "Wisconsin Annotations," up to date, and to print such continuations in each biennial issue of the Wisconsin statutes.

20,726p Section 726p. 35.50 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

35.50 (2) Unless otherwise required by law, each edition of the Blue Book and the reports specified in ss. 35.26 and 35.27, and reprints thereof, shall be substantially the same in printing and binding as the previous edition of the same publication. Unless otherwise determined by the chief of the legislative reference bureau, each edition of the Laws of Wisconsin shall be substantially the same in format, printing, and binding as the previous edition of the same publication. Unless otherwise determined by the revisor of statutes legislative reference bureau, each edition of the statutes and the Wisconsin administrative code and register shall be substantially the same in format, printing, and binding as the previous edition of the same publication.

20,726r Section 726r. 35.56 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

35.56 (1) (a) As a basis for printing of the statutes and the Wisconsin administrative code and register, the department shall, before advertising for bids and after consultation with the revisor legislative reference bureau, establish base prices for 2-year periods and establish specifications subject to approval by the revisor legislative reference bureau for 2-year periods.

20,726t Section 726t. 35.56 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

35.56 (5) Notwithstanding subs. (1), (3) and (4), the revisor of statutes legislative reference bureau shall approve specifications and production schedules for the printing and binding of the Wisconsin statutes.

20,727 Section 727. 35.86 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

35.86 (1) The director of the historical society may procure the exchange of public documents produced by federal, state, county, local, and other agencies as may be desirable to maintain or enlarge its historical, literary, and statistical collections, and may make such distributions of public documents, with or without exchange, as may accord with interstate or international comity. The state law librarian shall procure so many of such exchanges as the state law librarian is authorized by law to make, and the department of health and family services, department of children and families, commission of banking, department of public instruction, legislative reference bureau, and the legislative council staff, may procure by exchange such documents from other states and countries as may be needed for use in their respective offices. Any other state agency wishing to initiate a formal exchange program in accordance with this section may do so by submitting a formal application to the department and by otherwise complying with this section.

20,727c Section 727c. 35.91 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

35.91 (1) The latest edition of the Wisconsin statutes shall be sold at a reasonable price, calculated to the nearest dollar, to be fixed as determined by the department, based on cost plus 75% of the revisor's expenditures under s. 20.765 (3) (a) during the preceding biennium. The department may sell noncurrent editions of the Wisconsin statutes and Wisconsin annotations at reduced prices to be fixed by it.

20,727g Section 727g. 35.93 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

35.93 (1) The Wisconsin administrative code and register shall be published using the format and method of printing and binding determined by the revisor legislative reference bureau. The notice section of the register and new rules filed by an agency whose rules have not been compiled and printed pursuant to this section may be duplicated in some other form than printing if the department and revisor legislative reference bureau determine that it is administratively feasible to do so. The printing or other duplicating shall be performed or contracted by the department. The department may purchase and sell suitable binders for the code or parts thereof at a price not exceeding cost. The revisor legislative reference bureau shall supervise the arrangement of materials in the Wisconsin administrative code and register, including the numbering of pages and sections. No part of the Wisconsin administrative code or register may be printed until the revisor legislative reference bureau has approved the arrangement of materials and numbering of sections therein.

20,727j Section 727j. 35.93 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

35.93 (3) The revisor legislative reference bureau shall compile and deliver to the department for printing copy for a register which shall contain all the rules filed since the compilation of rules for the preceding issue of the register was made and those executive orders which are to be in effect for more than 90 days or an informative summary thereof. The complete register shall be compiled and published before the first day of each month and a notice section of the register shall be compiled and published before the 15th day of each month. Each issue of the register shall contain a title page with the name "Wisconsin administrative register", the number and date of the register, and a table of contents. Each page of the register shall also contain the date and number of the register of which it is a part in addition to the other necessary code titles and page numbers. The revisor legislative reference bureau may include in the register such instructions or information as in the revisor's bureau's judgment will help the user to correctly make insertions and deletions in the code and to keep the code current.

20,727m Section 727m. 35.93 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

35.93 (4) Each issue of the Wisconsin administrative register shall contain a notice section in which shall be printed the notices of hearings on rule making which agencies have transmitted to the revisor legislative reference bureau for that purpose, statements of scope of proposed rules under s. 227.135, notices of submittal to joint the legislative council staff under s. 227.14 (4m), notices of intent to promulgate rules without a public hearing under s. 227.16 (2) (e), notices of referrals of proposed rules to presiding officers under s. 227.19 (2), notices of emergency rules in effect, fiscal estimates for rule-making orders under s. 227.14 (4) and such other notices as may be required by law or determined by the revisor legislative reference bureau to be appropriate.

20,727p Section 727p. 35.93 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:

35.93 (6) The department shall sell the code, issues of the register or parts of either of them at a price to be determined by it, which shall include the proportionate cost per copy of preparation and manufacturing as determined by the revisor of statutes legislative reference bureau, and the cost of sale and distribution specified in s. 35.80. State employee personnel costs shall be excluded from preparation costs. The department may establish the price of the code or of the register or parts thereof on an annual basis.

20,727s Section 727s. 35.93 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:

35.93 (8) The revisor legislative reference bureau shall prepare and the department shall publish a table of contents and an index of all the rules in effect which have been compiled and printed under this section. The table of contents and index shall be recompiled and reprinted annually. They shall be printed in the same page size as the administrative code. The department shall distribute one copy of the table of contents and index free to each subscriber to the register or parts thereof.

20,730 Section 730. 36.11 (3) (d) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

36.11 (3) (d) 1. Except as provided in subd. 2., the board shall require that a $35 $44 fee accompany each application for admittance from persons seeking admittance to any school within the system as new freshmen or as transfer students from outside the system. The board may exempt from the fee under this subdivision, on the basis of financial need, a maximum of 5% of the applications in any school year. The board shall ensure that no less than $9 of the fee is used for admission application expenses.

20,731 Section 731. 36.11 (3) (d) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

36.11 (3) (d) 2. The board shall require that a $45 $56 fee accompany each application for admittance to a graduate school, law school or medical school within the system. The board shall ensure that no less than $11 of the fee is used for admission application expenses.

20,731m Section 731m. 36.11 (30) of the statutes is renumbered 36.59 (7) and amended to read:

36.59 (7) Information technology reports. The board Board of Regents shall prepare and submit reports to the joint committee on information policy and technology upon request of the committee under s. 13.58 (5) (b) 3.

20,731p Section 731p. 36.11 (32) of the statutes is renumbered 36.59 (8) and amended to read:

36.59 (8) Computer services data collection. The board Board of Regents shall collect and maintain data necessary to calculate numerical measures of the efficiency and effectiveness of the mainframe computer services provided by the board at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

20,732m Section 732m. 36.11 (54) of the statutes is created to read:

36.11 (54) Employee reports. (a) In this subsection, "backup position" means a position that the board is contractually required to provide for an employee who resigns or is terminated from his or her current position.

(b) Annually, the board shall submit a report to the appropriate standing committees of the legislature under s. 13.172 (3) and to the governor that identifies the number of employees with limited appointments under s. 36.17 and rules promulgated thereunder, the number of employees with concurrent appointments, and the number of employees with employment contracts that require backup positions but who have not yet resigned or been terminated from their current positions.

20,732p Section 732p. 36.11 (55) of the statutes is created to read:

36.11 (55) Information on instructors. The board shall ensure that each institution provides information to a student when he or she registers for a class about who will be teaching the class on a daily basis and whether the teacher has an academic staff appointment or tenure or probationary faculty appointment or is a teaching assistant.

20,732t Section 732t. 36.25 (13s) of the statutes is created to read:

36.25 (13s) Medical practice in underserved areas. Of the moneys appropriated to the board under s. 20.285 (1) (fc) of the statutes, the board shall, beginning in fiscal year 2008-09, allocate $400,000 in each fiscal year for the department of family medicine and practice in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health to support the Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine, the Academy for Center-city Medical Education, and the Wisconsin Scholars Academy programs. The board may not expend any moneys allocated under this subsection in a fiscal year unless the board receives $400,000 in gifts and grants from private sources in that fiscal year for supporting such programs.

20,732x Section 732x. 36.25 (47) of the statutes is created to read:

36.25 (47) Discovery farm grants. (a) In this subsection, "discovery farm" means an operating commercial farm that conducts on-farm research under the Wisconsin agricultural stewardship initiative.

(b) From the appropriation under s. 20.285 (1) (qr), the board shall make grants through the extension to operators of discovery farms for research and outreach activities under the Wisconsin agricultural stewardship initiative.

20,733mr Section 733mr. 36.27 (3n) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

36.27 (3n) (b) 2. An Except as provided in subd. 2m., an unremarried surviving spouse of an eligible veteran. The remission under this subdivision applies only during the first 10 years after the veteran died.

20,733mw Section 733mw. 36.27 (3n) (b) 2m. of the statutes is created to read:

36.27 (3n) (b) 2m. An unremarried surviving spouse of an eligible veteran who had a child with the eligible veteran. The remission under this subdivision applies only until 10 years after the youngest child that the spouse had with the eligible veteran reaches or would have reached 18 years of age, or during the first 10 years after the veteran died, whichever is longer.

20,734 Section 734. 36.27 (3n) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

36.27 (3n) (b) 3. A child of an eligible veteran, if the child is at least 18 17 but not yet 26 years of age and is a full-time student at an institution.

20,735 Section 735. 36.27 (3n) (c) of the statutes is created to read:

36.27 (3n) (c) The higher educational aids board shall reimburse the board of regents for all academic fees and segregated fees remitted under par. (b) as provided in s. 39.50 (1) and (3m).

20,736 Section 736. 36.27 (3p) (c) of the statutes is created to read:

36.27 (3p) (c) The higher educational aids board shall reimburse the board of regents for all nonresident tuition, academic fees, and segregated fees remitted under par. (b) as provided in s. 39.50 (1) and (3m).

20,736e Section 736e. 36.27 (5) (b) of the statutes is renumbered 36.27 (5) (b) 1.

20,736m Section 736m. 36.27 (5) (c) of the statutes is renumbered 36.27 (5) (b) 2. and amended to read:

36.27 (5) (b) 2. The board shall calculate the average subsidy for the purpose of the fee statement under par. (b) subd. 1. by dividing state funds in the appropriate fiscal year by the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled in the system in the most recent fall semester.

20,736s Section 736s. 36.27 (5) (d) of the statutes is created to read:

36.27 (5) (d) 1. The board shall ensure that the segregated fees applicable at each institution and college campus are posted on the Internet Web site of the institution or college campus. The board shall also ensure that detailed information on the organizations and activities for which allocable segregated fees are expended at each institution and college campus are posted on the Internet Web site of the institution or college campus.

2. The board shall ensure that each student's bill for academic fees or nonresident tuition for a semester or session includes each of the following:

a. The total amount of academic fees or nonresident tuition assessed on the student, which shall be listed separately from the amount specified in .subd. 2. b.

b. The total amount of segregated fees assessed on the student, which shall be listed separately from the amount specified in subd. 2. a.

c. The Internet Web site address specified in subd. 1. for the institution or college campus at which the student is enrolled.

20,736x Section 736x. 36.59 of the statutes is created to read:

36.59 Information technology. (1) Strategic plan. (a) The Board of Regents shall require the system and each institution and college campus to adopt and submit to the board, in a form specified by the board, no later than March 1 of each year, a strategic plan for the utilization of information technology to carry out the functions of the system, institution, or college campus in the succeeding fiscal year for review and approval under par. (b).

(b) 1. As a part of each proposed strategic plan submitted under par. (a), the Board of Regents shall require the system and each institution and college campus to address the business needs of the system, institution, or college campus and to identify all proposed information technology development projects that serve those business needs, the priority for undertaking such projects, and the justification for each project, including the anticipated benefits of the project. Each proposed plan shall identify any changes in the functioning of the system, institution, or college campus under the plan.