Wisconsin Legislature: Prison

Children: laws revised re advertising related to adoption or other permanent physical placement, delegation of parental powers for the care and custody of a child for more than one year, unauthorized interstate placements of children, and penalty provisions; JLC requested to study adoption disruption and dissolution in this state - SB461

Credit report of a protected individual: allowing representatives to obtain a security freeze; definitions and removal of the security freeze provisions - SB283

Life and public service of former Revisor of Statutes and LC employee commended upon his death - SJR3

Elk introduced into specified counties; DNR duties and hunting season provision [Sec. 560, 573; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions] - AB40

Primary elections: voting for more than one political party authorized - AB629

Primary elections: voting for more than one political party authorized - SB158

Referendum: local governments may schedule only with certain primaries and elections - AB225

Referendum question authorizing exceeding the county levy limits: information necessary to prepare the question for the 2014 partisan primary may use the most recent data available, conditions specified - AB645

Referendum question authorizing exceeding the county levy limits: information necessary to prepare the question for the 2014 partisan primary may use the most recent data available, conditions specified - SB513

Printing industry: sales and use tax exemption created [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 1497d, 9437 (8e)] - AB40

Tax revisions re carry-back of net operating losses, sales and use tax exemption for commercial printing, jobs tax credit, electronic medical records credit, manufacturing and agriculture credit, and the relocated business credit - AB484

Tax revisions re carry-back of net operating losses, sales and use tax exemption for commercial printing, jobs tax credit, electronic medical records credit, manufacturing and agriculture credit, and the relocated business credit - SB378

Tax revisions re lowest individual income tax bracket, technical college district property tax relief aid and tax levy, carry-back of net operating loss, jobs tax credit, relocated business deduction or tax credit, manufacturing and agriculture credit, research credit, state historic rehabilitation credit, electronic medical records tax credit, and sales and use tax exemption for tangible personal property used in commercial printing - Jr4 AB1

Tax revisions re lowest individual income tax bracket, technical college district property tax relief aid and tax levy, carry-back of net operating loss, jobs tax credit, relocated business deduction or tax credit, manufacturing and agriculture credit, research credit, state historic rehabilitation credit, electronic medical records tax credit, and sales and use tax exemption for tangible personal property used in commercial printing [S.Amdt.1: net business loss carry-forward and depletion provisions added] - Jr4 SB1

Claims against the state by persons claiming to be innocent after release from imprisonment: Claims Board duties and maximum award revised; temporary financial assistance, transition assistance, sealed records, deceased petitioner, and judicial review provisions - AB534

Claims against the state by persons claiming to be innocent after release from imprisonment: Claims Board duties and maximum award revised; temporary financial assistance, transition assistance, sealed records, deceased petitioner, and judicial review provisions - SB587

Correctional employee's or health services employee's personal identifying information: possession by person in custody or supervised by Corr.Dept or a patient or resident of a mental health facility prohibited, security freeze of credit report provision; JRCCP report - AB628

Correctional employee's or health services employee's personal identifying information: possession by person in custody or supervised by Corr.Dept or a patient or resident of a mental health facility prohibited, security freeze of credit report provision; JRCCP report - SB472

County and municipal prisoners: provisions allowing for agreements to house prisoners in a bordering county within or outside the state; Corr.Dept duties [S.Amdt.1: Corr.Dept approval of facility removed, approval of equivalent agency or department in receiving state remains] - SB648

Crisis intervention training grants re mental health: DHS to award to law enforcement agencies and correctional officers - AB450

Crisis intervention training grants re mental health: DHS to award to law enforcement agencies and correctional officers - SB362

Prerelease pilot program for prisoners and contract with Freedom Life Skills, Inc. established; report required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 340d, r, 381d, g, 9108 (1L), 9408 (1L)] - AB40

Revocation of extended supervision or probation for violation of conditions: length of confinement modified under certain conditions - AB896

Strip search permitted if person arrested or lawfully detained will be incarcerated, imprisoned, or detained with one or more persons [A.Amdt.4: definition provisions; A.Amdt.8: ``strip search" definition revised and juvenile provisions] - AB556

Strip search permitted if person arrested or lawfully detained will be incarcerated, imprisoned, or detained with one or more persons - SB447

UI law revisions; delinquent payment of unemployment insurance contributions; penalties and report provisions; JRCCP report [S.Amdt.1: further revisions, LIRC duties and appropriation added; S.Amdt.2: definitions modified; S.Amdt.3: general provisions added re license revocation, denial, or suspension] - SB200

UI law revisions; penalties and report provisions; JRCCP report - AB219

Wrongful imprisonment claims: petitions to Claims Board referred to DHA, compensation modified, claims by certain surviving family members, health care coverage under GIB plan option and BadgerCare Plus provision, temporary financial and transition assistance provision, and income tax deduction; JRCCP report - AB519

Furniture procured through prison industries [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 114b, bd, 9301 (1e)] - AB40

Child death review program established in DHS; Child Death Review Council created, reports and recommendations required; local child death review teams recognized; access to records, confidentiality, and immunity provisions; JRCCP report - AB554

Child death review program established in DHS; Child Death Review Council created, reports and recommendations required; local child death review teams recognized; access to records, confidentiality, and immunity provisions; JRCCP report - SB436

Child welfare and health care records: confidential exchange provisions modified [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 939w, 945w, 1234q, 1900e-h, 2336f] - AB40

Drones: use of by law enforcement restricted, definition and search warrant provisions; penalties for use, possession, or selling of weaponized drone and using a drone equipped with audio or video equipment, exceptions specified; JRCCP report - AB203

Drones: use of by law enforcement restricted, definition and search warrant provisions; penalties for use, possession, or selling of weaponized drone and using a drone equipped with audio or video equipment, exceptions specified; JRCCP report [S.Amdt.1: sell, transport, manufacture, and possess weaponized drone deleted, armed forces and national guard exception added, other revisions; A.Amdt.1: evidence from drones provision revised] - SB196

Election observers required to enter name and date in a log and chief inspector and municipal clerk to designate an observation area, confidentiality provision - AB202

Emergency detention, involuntary commitment, and privileged communication revisions - AB360

Emergency detention, involuntary commitment, and privileged communication revisions - SB127

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: requirements for reporting suspected cases, physician examination of infants and diagnosis, child abuse and neglect investigation, and services and treatment for the infant and mother [A.Amdt.1: testing expectant mothers for controlled substances provisions deleted] - AB675

Juvenile court records access and admission to juvenile court hearings for person engaged in bona fide research, monitoring, or evaluation of activities conducted under a federal court improvement grant, Director of State Courts provision [S.Amdt.1: confidentiality provision added] - SB561

LAB financial auditing duties revised including eliminating certain audits; confidentiality of reports to the state fraud, waste, and mismanagement hotline; and access to tax records maintained by DOR; JLAC provision - AB36

LAB financial auditing duties revised including eliminating certain audits; confidentiality of reports to the state fraud, waste, and mismanagement hotline; and access to tax records maintained by DOR; JLAC provision - SB27

Long-term care facilities: revisions re contracts with clients, civil actions for negligence, punitive damages, certain criminal actions against health care providers, and confidentiality and use of reviews, incident reports, and evaluations of health care providers; JRCCP report - AB553

``Oral communication" definition revised to include reasonable expectation of privacy re authorizing or prohibiting an interception of - AB852

``Oral communication" definition revised to include reasonable expectation of privacy re authorizing or prohibiting an interception of - SB642

Overdose or adverse reaction to alcohol or controlled substance: immunity from criminal prosecution for person who seeks aid for another person; anonymity and confidentiality provision - AB361

Overdose or adverse reaction to alcohol or controlled substance: immunity from criminal prosecution for person who seeks aid for another person; anonymity and confidentiality provision - SB215

Protected health information: use, disclosure, or request of by a covered entity is exempt from certain confidentiality requirements if complying with federal regulations; DHS duties and definition provisions - AB453

Protected health information: use, disclosure, or request of by a covered entity is exempt from certain confidentiality requirements if complying with federal regulations; DHS duties and definition provisions - SB360

Requirements to perform abortions revised; ultrasound required before informed consent for an abortion; penalty and exception provisions - AB227

Requirements to perform abortions revised; ultrasound required before informed consent for an abortion; penalty and exception provisions [S.Amdts. 1, 13, 14, 16: revisions to performance of the ultrasound] - SB206

Sex-selective abortion prohibition and civil liability penalties created, privacy provision - AB217

Sex-selective abortion prohibition and civil liability penalties created, privacy provision - SB201

State agencies to share specified data with DOR for debt collection and state tax purposes; confidentiality provision [Sec. 733, 940, 1218, 1278, 1718, 1721, 2164, 2165] - AB40

Student information system, disclosure of personally identifiable student data, and disclosure of pupil records: collection of data and privacy provisions; DPI duties - AB618

TROs and injunctions for domestic abuse, child abuse, individuals-at-risk, and harassment revisions re stalking, contacting petitioner, essential persons at hearings, confidentiality, guardian ad litem compensation, and ex parte orders with a judge substitution - AB176

TROs and injunctions for domestic abuse, child abuse, individuals-at-risk, and harassment revisions re stalking, contacting petitioner, essential persons at hearings, confidentiality, guardian ad litem compensation, and ex parte orders with a judge substitution - SB161

Public assistance benefits recovery programs in DHS revisions; property subject to recovery defined; recovery of nonprobate property expanded; real property and living trust provisions [Sec. 353, 354, 361, 821-831, 833, 834, 1179-1197, 1199-1210, 1221-1226, 1240, 2266, 2268-2271, 2275, 2294-2318, 9318 (3)-(6), 9418 (2); A.Amdt.3 to A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, JCF approval required, 9118 (6i)] - AB40

Wisconsin Trust Code, a modified version of the Uniform Trust Code, replaces current law related to trusts with Uniform Principal and Income Act and Uniform Prudent Investor Act provisions; estate recovery and divestment provisions not approved by JCF repealed and the approved provisions changed - AB490

Wisconsin Trust Code, a modified version of the Uniform Trust Code, replaces current law related to trusts with Uniform Principal and Income Act and Uniform Prudent Investor Act provisions; estate recovery and divestment provisions not approved by JCF repealed and the approved provisions changed - SB384

Product liability law: legislative findings and intent [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 2318e-g, 9307 (4q)] - AB40

Remedies against manufacturers, distributors, sellers, and promoters of products: legislative findings and intent provisions from 2013 WisAct 20 repealed - AB335