2013 Subject Index to Legislation

Renewable energy: renewable portfolio standards revisions, biofuels requirement, electric utility purchases of renewable energy orders from PSC, distributed generation facilities rules; PSC duties and reports required - SB660

``Smart meter": public utilities and cooperative associations prohibited from installing if customer objects; public utilities required to file tariffs with PSC re customer objection procedure and charges; definition provision - AB345

State 911 Council created to advise OJA and PSC - AB97

State 911 system funding re police and fire protection fee and countywide 911 telecommunications fee; PSC duties - AB99

State 911 telecommunication services: PSC to contract with a network of service providers; price schedules and PSC staff position provisions - AB101

Telecommunications provider of last-resort obligations modified, sunset eliminated - SB306

Telecommunications subscriber records; proprietary information of certain communications providers and open records law provision; updates to certain 911 telecommunications service databases required - AB102

Utility facilities that undertake construction activities affecting navigable waters: DNR permit procedures modified, deadlines and PSC duties; exemptions to DNR structure permit and removal permit requirements re certain electric utilities; shoreland zoning ordinance provisions - AB774

Utility facilities that undertake construction activities affecting navigable waters: DNR permit procedures modified, deadlines and PSC duties; exemptions to DNR structure permit and removal permit requirements re certain electric utilities; shoreland zoning ordinance provisions - SB625

Value of solar tariff: PSC to require retail electric utilities to file, requirements specified - AB899

Wind energy system: political subdivision may impose a restriction more restrictive than PSC rules - AB83

Wind energy system: political subdivision may impose a restriction more restrictive than PSC rules - SB71

public service commission _ administrative rules Public Service Commission -- Administrative rules

Rule-making procedure revised; cable television telecommunications service provider considered certified as an alternative telecommunications utility and rules repealed [Admin.Code PSC 171] - AB595

Rule-making procedure revised; cable television telecommunications service provider considered certified as an alternative telecommunications utility and rules repealed [Admin.Code PSC 171] - SB470

public transportation Public transportation, see Metropolitan transportation

public utility Public utility, see also Electric utility; Energy conservation; Sanitation and sewerage management; Telecommunications; Waterworks

Delinquent ad valorem taxes owed by telephone companies and public utilities: DOR may use same methods for collecting delinquent income taxes [Sec. 1467, 1474] - AB40

Dry cask storage to store spent fuel from a nuclear power plant: public utility, or other person, required to make annual payments to municipality or county where it is stored; PSC duties - AB513

Dry cask storage to store spent fuel from a nuclear power plant: public utility, or other person, required to make annual payments to municipality or county where it is stored; PSC duties - SB446

Electric service provider: civil liability exemption for damage to animals, individuals, or property - AB257

Energy storage devices and solar thermal devices installed at commercial and residential properties and managed by public utilities: PSC may contract for costs and benefits studies, reports required - AB901

Entry on property after mortgage foreclosure action is commenced to preserve or protect the property or public health and safety permitted and conditions specified; liability immunity, notice, and circuit court provisions - AB625

Entry on property after mortgage foreclosure action is commenced to preserve or protect the property or public health and safety permitted and conditions specified; liability immunity, notice, and circuit court provisions - SB488

Joint local water authority: eligibility in the safe drinking water loan program and utility facilities owned by to be included in municipal utility facilities subject to cost sharing when relocation or replacement is required due to freeway construction - AB64

Joint local water authority: eligibility in the safe drinking water loan program and utility facilities owned by to be included in municipal utility facilities subject to cost sharing when relocation or replacement is required due to freeway construction - SB55

Local regulation of nonmetallic mining, water quality and quantity, air quality, and the use of explosives; nonmetallic mining reclamation; damage to highways and highway use contracts; borrow sites and material disposal sites for DOT projects - AB476

Local regulation of nonmetallic mining, water quality and quantity, air quality, and the use of explosives; nonmetallic mining reclamation; damage to highways and highway use contracts; borrow sites and material disposal sites for DOT projects - SB349

Municipal services provided to state facilities: DOA not required to submit negotiating guidelines for payment of to JCF [Sec. 1284-1287; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, negotiating guidelines provision removed, deletes 1284, 1285] - AB40

Municipal utility customer information: exception to prohibition on releasing created re securities disclosure obligations - AB384

Municipal utility customer information: exception to prohibition on releasing created re securities disclosure obligations [S.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, adds real estate closing documents, foreclosure of real property, and to an owner of real property] - SB315

Municipal utility customer information: PSC to specify form to obtain customer's consent to release; new exception to release information to real estate brokers and certain appraisers [A.Amdt.1: prohibition exception for billing statements sent on postcards] - AB496

Municipal utility customer information: release restrictions imposed; public records law exception [A.Amdt.1: rental dwelling unit owners added to exceptions re past-due charges] - AB106

Municipal utility customer information: release restrictions imposed; public records law exception - SB103

Production plant requirements: DOR and PSC required to study re aid payments [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9137 (1i)] - AB40

PSC revisions re certificates for certain activities, public utility rate schedules, telecommunications regulations, legislative repeal or modification of agency rules, and tampering with telecommunications or electric wires; cable television telecommunications service provider considered certified as an alternative telecommunications utility and rules repealed [Admin.Code PSC 171] - AB595

PSC revisions re certificates for certain activities, public utility rate schedules, telecommunications regulations, legislative repeal or modification of agency rules, and tampering with telecommunications or electric wires; cable television telecommunications service provider considered certified as an alternative telecommunications utility and rules repealed [Admin.Code PSC 171] - SB470

Renewable energy credits revision; allowing a natural gas public utility to provide service in a municipality served by another natural gas utility; removal of natural gas service lateral by public utility at customer's request - AB596

Renewable energy credits revision; allowing a natural gas public utility to provide service in a municipality served by another natural gas utility; removal of natural gas service lateral by public utility at customer's request - SB473

Sale or lease of state-owned real property, contractual operation of state facilities, and management of state-owned heating, cooling, and power plants; DOA and Building Commission duties; state agencies to inventory real property under their jurisdiction and report to DOA [Sec. 7-20, 22-27, 65, 123-137, 290, 515, 531, 578-580, 585, 602-604, 759, 760, 762, 766, 814, 815, 817, 1233, 1516, 1547-1554, 1557, 1565-1568, 1719, 1720, 1728, 1729, 2132-2134, 2154; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, budget stabilization fund provision, JCF approval required, ``contractual operation" deleted, 10m, 125m, 129m, 131m, deletes 515; A.Amdt.3: further revisions] - AB40

``Smart meter": public utilities and cooperative associations prohibited from installing if customer objects; public utilities required to file tariffs with PSC re customer objection procedure and charges; definition provision - AB345

State payments to municipalities for municipal services revised - AB756

Substance abuse prevention provisions for employers and employees performing work on public utility projects in public rights-of-way; expanding ``move over or slow down" law to include public utility vehicles displaying flashing warning lights [A.Amdt.1: further revisions] - AB803

Substance abuse prevention provisions for employers and employees performing work on public utility projects in public rights-of-way; expanding ``move over or slow down" law to include public utility vehicles displaying flashing warning lights - SB629

Utility arrearages for a rental dwelling unit: collection by the municipal utility, lien, termination of electric service, and certification of debt to DOR for collection provisions - AB725

Utility arrearages for a rental dwelling unit: collection by the municipal utility, lien, termination of electric service, and certification of debt to DOR for collection provisions [S.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, DOR provisions removed, notification provisions revised] - SB517

Utility facilities that undertake construction activities affecting navigable waters: DNR permit procedures modified, deadlines and PSC duties; exemptions to DNR structure permit and removal permit requirements re certain electric utilities; shoreland zoning ordinance provisions - AB774

Utility facilities that undertake construction activities affecting navigable waters: DNR permit procedures modified, deadlines and PSC duties; exemptions to DNR structure permit and removal permit requirements re certain electric utilities; shoreland zoning ordinance provisions - SB625

Utility relocation costs to accommodate urban rail transit systems [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 290g, r, 1564e-s, 1978d-t, 1989c-x] - AB40

Vehicle or vehicle combination used by a utility or under contract to a utility transporting poles, pipes, girders, and similar materials on highways without a permit: maximum width and projection beyond the front bumper provisions - AB425

Vehicle or vehicle combination used by a utility or under contract to a utility transporting poles, pipes, girders, and similar materials on highways without a permit: maximum width and projection beyond the front bumper provisions - SB341

public utility _ taxation Public utility -- Taxation

Production plant generating electricity from wind power: utility aid payments to towns and counties modified - AB197

Production plant generating electricity from wind power: utility aid payments to towns and counties modified - SB180

public welfare Public welfare, see also Public assistance

Income maintenance administration: method for paying multicounty consortia [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 1211b] - AB40

Public safety, health, or welfare worker entering a dwelling, motor vehicle, or place of business in the performance of his or her duties: presumption that a person believed reasonable force was necessary does not apply if the worker identified him or herself, definition provision - AB820

Public safety, health, or welfare worker entering a dwelling, motor vehicle, or place of business in the performance of his or her duties: presumption that a person believed reasonable force was necessary does not apply if the worker identified him or herself, definition provision - SB600

public works Public works

Apprentices employed on state public works projects: requirements created re contractor is certified as the sponsor of an acceptable apprenticeship program; DWD duties - AB888

Construction lien: procedures to preserve and determine validity; payments to prime contractors of public works contracts revisions - AB807

Construction lien: procedures to preserve and determine validity; payments to prime contractors of public works contracts revisions - SB595

Highway improvement projects: prohibitions re county workforce working on projects in another county or municipality and local government workforce working on a construction project for which a private person is financially responsible eliminated - SB687

Local living wage ordinance preemption re work performed with state funds; residency requirements preemption re laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers of public works projects to which the prevailing wage law applies, state funds provision - SB626

Materials manufactured in the United States: preference for in state and local government public contracts and purchases - AB45

Materials manufactured in the United States: preference for in state and local government public contracts and purchases - SB88

Minimum wage ordinance prohibited re local governmental unit employees, contract employees, or employees performing work funded by local governments; public works projects residency requirement prohibited re prevailing wage law - AB750

Plat approval: security requirement to ensure public improvements are made modified, substantial completion provision [A.Amdt.1: cap on security requirement added] - AB835

Plat approval: security requirement to ensure public improvements are made modified, substantial completion provision - SB636

Prevailing wage law applied to public works projects: cost threshold increased - AB831

Prevailing wage law: exemption for public works project subject to the federal Davis-Bacon Act - AB266

Prevailing wage law exemption for public works project for a school district or CESA; referendum and resolution to raise money by bond or borrowing required if choosing to comply with prevailing wage law - AB487

Prevailing wage law: exemption for public works project subject to the federal Davis-Bacon Act - SB244

Prevailing wage law exemption for public works project for a school district or CESA; referendum and resolution to raise money by bond or borrowing required if choosing to comply with prevailing wage law - SB358

Prevailing wage law exemption for public works re the reuse of vacant or underutilized industrial facility - AB86

``Public Works Week": May 19-25, 2013 designated as - AJR35

Single prime contracting: DOA required to use for projects with construction costs over a certain amount; qualified and responsible bidder certification provisions [Sec. 21, 139-155, 9101 (2), 9301 (1), 9401 (1); A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, contract requirements modified, 149b, deletes 9101 (2)] - AB40

punitive damage Punitive damage, see Damage (personal injury)

pupil assessment Pupil assessment, see School -- Evaluation and testing

pupil discipline or rights Pupil discipline or rights, see School -- Discipline; University of Wisconsin -- Student life

purchasing, government Purchasing, Government

Disabled veteran-owned businesses: state procurement and certain construction contract requirements modified; contracts let by commissions and special purpose districts provision - AB466

Disabled veteran-owned businesses: state procurement and certain construction contract requirements modified; contracts let by commissions and special purpose districts provision - SB370

Food purchased by UW Board of Regents: exceptions to state procurement requirements - AB432

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

Materials manufactured in the United States: preference for in state and local government public contracts and purchases - AB45

Materials manufactured in the United States: preference for in state and local government public contracts and purchases - SB88

Minimum hourly wages required for certain procurement contracts entered into by an executive branch agency; DWD duties and penalty provision - AB791

Minority-owned business: governmental procurement preference percentage increased - SB621