Legislative Committees

Exempting from taxation payments from employer to employee to reimburse medical care costs for employee's adult child, JSCTE appendix report -  SE1AB6

Film production services tax credit application fee revised - SE1AB3

Health savings account: nonrefundable individual income tax credit created -  JR1AB2

Interest rate on judgments revised re civil actions in tort, rights enforced under WCA, and consumer protection actions commenced by DATCP -  SE1AB14

Length of single vehicle operating on highway without overlength permit: maximum increased - SE1AB9

Multijurisdictional TID (MJTID) creation authorized for cities and villages, conditions specified and DOR duties  - SE1AB1

Overweight vehicles or combination of vehicles with six or more axles and transporting certain agricultural products to a farm or from field to farm, storage facility, or processing facility: DOT may issue overweight permits under set conditions; exception to DOT report requirement -  SE1AB11

Overweight vehicles or vehicle combinations with six or more axles and are transporting sealed loads re international trade: DOT may issue overweight permits; exception to DOT report requirement -  SE1AB10

Public transportation pass or money to purchase a pass provided by employer: individual income tax exemption created; JSCTE appendix report -  SE1AB19

Relocated business credit created -  JR1AB3

Small business development loan guarantee program revisions - SE1AB2

Small business: income and franchise tax credits created -  JR1AB7

State finances: public employee trust fund reserve accounts, public debt refunding, executive branch agency lapses, MA funding revisions, TANF moneys for EITC, and adult correctional services funding -  JR1AB13

Steve Hilgenberg Community Development Credit: income and franchise tax credits for investments in a community development financial institution (CDFI) created; WEDC duties; sunset and expansion provisions -  SE1AB17

Tax rate increases in certain cases: two-thirds vote required; statewide advisory referendum provision  - JR1AB5

TCS Board to award training program grants to technical college district boards for advanced manufacturing skills: annual award increased, fiscal change provision  - SE1AB4

Telecommunications utility regulation revisions including alternative telecommunications utility, intrastate switched access rates, tariffs, interconnected VOIP service, universal service, basic voice service, and use of transmission equipment and property; PSC provisions -  JR1AB14

Tort reform: actions against manufacturers, distributors, sellers, and promoters of a product; strict liability; noneconomic damages limited; punitive damages; frivolous claims; health care service reviews confidentiality; use of health care reports or employee statements; hospital quality indicators reporting; expert and lay witness testimony; crimes of abuse, homicide, or negligence re health care providers and treatment or residential care facilities in specified cases  - JR1AB1

Trespassers: duty of care owed and limitations on civil liability of private property owners -  SE1AB22

Vehicle transporting poles, pipes, girders, and similar materials on highways: DOT overlength permit eliminated, conditions specified -  SE1AB8

Vehicles or combination of vehicles carrying agricultural crops: dates extended re exceeding weight limit exception  - SE1AB7

Vocational high school diploma: school board authorized to grant -  SE1AB18

Wetland in Brown County: water quality standards in compliance and exemption to certain laws administered by DNR if specified criteria are met -  JR1AB10

Wind energy system requirements revised; PSC authority modified; Wind Siting Council study required  - JR1AB9

Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) created; Comm.Dept duties and public employee and WRS provisions -  JR1AB6

Wisconsin Next Generation Reserve Board created re grants, loans, and investments in Wisconsin bioscience companies; DOR and SWIB duties; Wisconsin next generation reserve fund created -  SE1AB21

Workplace wellness programs offered by employers: income and franchise tax credits created; definition and DOR provisions -  SE1AB5

Finance, Joint Committee on (Assembly)

Budget bill  - AB40

Finance, Joint Committee on (Senate)

Budget bill  - SB27

Jobs, Economy and Small Business, Committee on — Assembly

Ferrous metallic mining regulations created, nonferrous metallic mining regulations revised -  AB426

Joint Legislative Council, (Assembly)

County and municipal levy limits and school district revenue limits exception for expenditures re consolidation or cooperation of services or consolidation of political subdivisions or school districts -  AB140

Emergency services expenditures by county or municipality may not be less than 2009 expenditures: 2009 WisAct 28 provision repealed -  AB138

Financial Aid Consolidation and Modernization, Commission on, created in HEAB; report and sunset provisions  - AB144

Forest enterprise areas created and DNR duties; Managed Forest Land Board created and program revisions re sound forestry practices, timber harvests, designation of additional land, leasing, taxation, and distribution of moneys received by DNR - AB402

Infant's race or ethnicity to be included on the birth certificate; evidence-based home visitation re poor birth outcomes or child abuse or neglect; informed consent before elective procedures to deliver a child before the gestational period of 39 weeks, MEB duties and disciplinary and penalty provisions  - AB693

Local governmental unit consolidation program created, loans and DOA provisions -  AB139

Maintenance and family support: notice of payee's remarriage revised and termination upon death of payee or payer  - AB134

Minnesota-Wisconsin student reciprocity agreement modified, Wisconsin higher education grants for U.W. System students provision -  AB141

Property tax: different rates for parts of cities, villages, towns, counties, and school districts added by attachments to school districts, consolidations, and boundary changes under cooperative agreements; exception from ``uniformity clause" requirement. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration)  - AJR41

Sum sufficient appropriations for Wisconsin higher education grants, tuition grant program, Lawton minority undergraduate grant program, and minority undergraduate retention grant program -  AB143

Talent incentive program grants modified re continuous enrollment -  AB142

Joint Legislative Council, (Senate)

Forest enterprise areas created and DNR duties; Managed Forest Land Board created and program revisions re sound forestry practices, timber harvests, designation of additional land, leasing, taxation, and distribution of moneys received by DNR - SB161

Infant's race or ethnicity to be included on the birth certificate; evidence-based home visitation re poor birth outcomes or child abuse or neglect; informed consent before elective procedures to deliver a child before the gestational period of 39 weeks, MEB duties and disciplinary and penalty provisions  - SB532

Nanotechnology information hub and Nanotechnology Council established in the U.W. System, duties specified and report required -  SB533

Public assistance and children and family services: chap. 49 reorganized; JRCCP report -  SB400

Workforce survey required for renewal of a license as a dentist, dental hygienist, physician, psychologist, physical therapist, physician assistant, pharmacist, or clinical social worker - SB450

Law Revision Committee, (Assembly)

Personalized registration plate for vehicles registered to disabled veterans with limited ability to walk: letters and numbers not to exceed 6 positions (remedial legislation)  - AB485

``Vehicle" and ``motor vehicle" definitions revised re snowmobile, ATV, and EPAMD (remedial legislation)  - AB486

Law Revision Committee, (Senate)

Clean Water Fund Program: eliminate statutory provisions re federal financial hardship grant program (remedial legislation) - SB288

Correction bill  - SB284

Correction bill  - SB285

Correction bill  - SB286

Correction bill  - SB287

DATCP revisions re confidentiality of exemptions from requirement to register livestock premises, county land conservation committee membership, vehicle scale operators, and reporting requirement for pesticide sales (remedial legislation)  - SB349

DOT revisions re issuance of certificate of title for OWI-related seized vehicle, operating privilege revocation, multijurisdictional proportional registration and motor carrier insurance, and DOT-assigned VIN (remedial legislation)  - SB330

DPI revisions re division name changes, participation in a public library system, and deleting obsolete references (remedial legislation) -  SB348

Municipal court practice and procedure revisions re filing oath and bond of a municipal judge, signatures on citations or complaints alleging violation of an ordinance, default judgment against a defendant who fails to appear at trial, and transcript fee for electronic recording of court proceedings (remedial legislation) -  SB454

Unborn child in need of protection and services (UCHIPS) guardian ad litem, investigation of child abuse or neglect when suspected abuser cannot be identified, voluntary foster care education program, seizing funds for delinquent child support, minor parent signing statement acknowledging paternity, summons to deceased respondent in a paternity action, penalty for interfering with custody of a child on a paternity action summons (remedial legislation) -  SB460

Legislative Organization, Joint Committee on (Senate)

Floorperiods for 2011-12 session established and budget deadline extended -  SJR1

Rules, Committee on — Assembly

Special order of business for April 12, 2011 established re AB-41 or SB-23 -  AR5

Special order of business for February 21, 2012 established re AB-463 or SB-368 -  AR21

Special order of business for June 21, 2011 established re SB-93  - AR10

Special orders of business for March 14, 2012 established re AB-144, AB-209, AB-232, AB-311, AB-376, AB-497, AB-664, SB-156, SB-275, SB-288, SB-297, SB-326, SB-388, SB-394, SB-399, SB-441, SB-462, SB-466, SB-472, SB-478, SB-487, SB-489, SB-499, SB-500, SB-502, SB-504, SB-517, SB-526, SB-530, SB-535, SB-536, SB-537, SB-539, SB-547, SB-550, SB-557  - AR24

Special orders of business for March 15, 2012 established re AB-612, SB-300, SB-466, SB-522 - AR25

Special orders of business for March 13, 2012 established re AB-110, AB-154/SB-92, AB-242/SB-321, AB-318, AB-337/SB-237, AB-415/SB-315, AB-421, AB-440/SB-317, AB-447/SB-335, AB-451/SB-361, AB-455/SB-353, AB-471/SB-377, AB-472/SB-374, AB-477/SB-380, AB-478/SB-476, AB-481/SB-386, AB-489/SB-396, AB-502/SB-411, AB-510/SB-308, AB-511/SB-407, AB-522, AB-526/SB-425, AB-534/SB-426, AB-535/SB-452, AB-536/SB-440, AB-542/SB-465, AB-543, AB-547/SB-453, AB-548, AB-552, AB-557/SB-475, AB-558/SB-461, AB-579, AB-582, AB-601/SB-463, AB-602/SB-497, AB-604/SB-378, AB-605/SB-498, AB-606/SB-496, AB-607/SB-459, AB-608, AB-609, AB-610/SB-458, AB-611, AB-625/SB-524, AB-626/SB-518, AB-638, SB-114, SB-127, SB-153, SB-173, SB-174, SB-219, SB-262, SB-271, SB-306, SB-348, SB-390, SB-395, SB-402, SB-409, SB-417, SB-421, SB-422, SB-429, SB-464, SB-474, SB-492 -  AR22

Special orders of business for May 11, 2011 established re AJR-21, AB-7 or SB-6, AB-24 or SB-72, AB-37 or SB-20, AB-48, AB-60, AB-92, AB-94, SB-12 - AR9

Special orders of business for November 1, 2011 established re AB-69 or SB-79, AB-147, AB-161 or SB-116, AB-301, SB-107 -  AR16

Special orders of business for November 3, 2011 established re SB-2, SB-42, SB-77, SB-85, SB-86, SB-95, SB-117, SB-151, SB-212, SB-224, SB-228, SB-234  - AR18

Senate Organization, Committee on — Senate

Administrative rule revisions re state agency authority to promulgate and implement standards, gubernatorial approval, economic impact analysis, and venue in judicial review actions and in actions against the state -  JR1SB8

Agricultural production loan guarantees administered by WHEDA: revisions re amount and term of loan  - SE1SB20

Attorney fees: factors a court must consider in determining reasonableness -  SE1SB12

Budget adjustment bill - JR1SB11

Congressional redistricting based on 2010 census; LRB duty specified -  SB149

DNR regulation of certain activities near navigable waterways and environmental laws: revisions re issuing individual and general permits, piers and wharves, placement of fill or structures within a bulkhead line, land grading and removal of materials, bridges and culverts, areas of special natural resource interest, environmental approvals, houseboat repair and maintenance, expedited procedures for certain plan approvals, and publishing notices on its Internet Web site  - SE1SB24

DOR duties re administering taxes or fees revised re assessments and audits, penalty for negligence, Tax Appeals Commission rulings, petition for declaratory ruling, petition to adopt a standard by rule, inspection of tax returns or claims, and prohibiting class action lawsuits against the state in certain cases - SE1SB23

Drug or device approved by the FDA: immunity from liability for manufacturer or seller; definition provisions  - SE1SB13

Early stage seed and angel investment tax credits: refund provision -  SE1SB15

Economic development tax credit program: credits allocated by Comm.Dept increased -  JR1SB4

Entrepreneurial tax credit access grants created, WEDC duties  - SE1SB16