Acts Index

Obstructing a law enforcement officer by providing false information or evidence: convicted person may be assessed costs of the investigation; exceptions for recanting reports of or being a victim of abusive conduct or the report did not lead to criminal charges or a conviction -  Act 269

Repeated domestic abuse offenses: penalties increased; JRCCP report -  Act 277

Voluntary and informed consent to an abortion revisions; restrictions on the use of abortion-inducing drugs; repeal of certain abortion prohibitions -  Act 217

women_owned enterprise Women-owned enterprise, see Minority enterprise

worker_s compensation Worker's compensation

WC law revisions re payment of benefits, work injury supplemental benefit fund (WISB), hearings and procedures, and program administration; study required  -  Act 183

workforce development, department of Workforce Development, Department of

Dislocated worker employment and training activities grants: appropriations revised [Sec. 683, 684, 2392]  -  Act 32

Division administrator: additional position for DWD and WERC, attorney provision; salary group for positions with information technology management responsibility changed; Division of Enterprise Technology created in DOA [Sec. 91m, 805, 809, 2754, 2755a, 2763, 2763m]  -  Act 32

Employment discrimination or unfair honesty or genetic testing cases: awarding of compensatory and punitive damages eliminated; DWD provision -  Act 219

Homecraft services for persons with severe disabilities: requirement removed [Sec. 1317-1320] -  Act 32

Hours of labor for minors under 16 years of age [Sec. 2390b, zk-zp] -  Act 32

Position transfers [Sec. 9108 (1), 9154 (1)] -  Act 32

Prevailing wage revisions including publicly funded private construction projects, inspection and submission of payroll records to DWD, enactment of statewide concern, incidental work outside a worker's usual trade, work the local government is not required to compensate, and multiple- and single-trade project of public works [Sec. 354y, 1727mb-y, 2390c-zhi, zr, 2404c, q, 2725t, 3534e-h, 9354 (1u)]  -  Act 32

Special occupational training for UI claimants: pilot program from DWD created, report required [partial veto]  -  Act 123

UI benefits: waiting period and failure of or refusal to take a test for illegal drugs required by employer or potential employer; DWD provision [Sec. 2403e-x, 9354 (1q), (2q)]  -  Act 32

UI law changes including concealment of benefit claim information, availability for work, interest on delinquent payments, and composition and authority of appeal tribunals  -  Act 236

UI law changes including test for illegal drugs, and contribution liability of successor employers; unemployment integrity fund created, sunset provision -  Act 198

WC law revisions re payment of benefits, work injury supplemental benefit fund (WISB), hearings and procedures, and program administration; study required  -  Act 183

world dairy center authority World Dairy Center Authority

World Dairy Center Authority eliminated -  Act 229

wrs WRS, see Retirement System, Wisconsin

x_y_z - X-Y-Z -

youth Youth, see also Children and its subheadings

Class B bear hunting license: revisions re shooting a bear in certain circumstances, dog training, back tags, youth under age 16, and license exemption on set day in August  -  Act 28

Community youth and family aids: daily cost assessment to counties for juvenile corrections, group home, and foster care services for fiscal years 2011-12 and 2012-13 [Sec. 3000, 3001, 3003-3005] -  Act 32

Sexually explicit conduct by a person under age 18: evidentiary recordings remain in possession of court or law enforcement agency, defense inspection provisions; attempt at specified sex crimes against children made a felony; victim in certain sex crimes against children can be an individual the perpetrator believed to be under 18; JRCCP report  -  Act 284

Tobacco and nicotine products: prohibition on providing or purchasing cigarettes for minors expanded; definition and compliance investigations of retail outlets provisions  -  Act 249

Youth aids funding [Sec. 634, 1282, 1288, 2999, 3006-3014] -  Act 32

youthful offender Youthful offender, see Juvenile delinquency; Juvenile detention facility

zoning Zoning, see Farmland preservation; Municipality — Planning; Shoreland zoning