AB816: Bill Text

AB816,51 Section 51. 54.01 (36) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,20,25 54.01 (36) (a) An individual who obtains or consents to a final decree or judgment of divorce from the decedent or an annulment of their marriage, if the decree or judgment is not recognized as valid in this state, unless the 2 subsequently participated in a marriage ceremony purporting to marry each other or they subsequently held themselves out as husband and wife married to each other.

AB816,52 Section 52. 54.960 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,21,8 54.960 (1) Beneficial interests in a custodial trust created for multiple beneficiaries are deemed to be separate custodial trusts of equal undivided interests for each beneficiary. Except in a transfer or declaration for use and benefit of husband and wife 2 individuals who are married to each other, for whom survivorship is presumed, a right of survivorship does not exist unless the instrument creating the custodial trust specifically provides for survivorship or survivorship is required as to marital property.

AB816,53 Section 53. 69.03 (15) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,21,13 69.03 (15) Periodically provide to each county child support agency under s. 59.53 (5) a list of names and, notwithstanding s. 69.20 (2) (a), addresses of registrants who reside in that county for whom no father's name only one parent's name has been inserted on the registrant's birth certificate within 6 months of birth.

AB816,54 Section 54. 69.05 (3m) (intro.), (a) and (b) of the statutes are amended to read:

AB816,21,18 69.05 (3m) (intro.) If the mother a parent of a registrant of a birth certificate resides in a city and the birth certificate is not filed in such city, send a copy of the birth certificate to the local health department with jurisdiction for the city if all of the following are true:

AB816,21,20 (a) The local health department has a maternal-child visitation or information program;.

AB816,21,22 (b) The local health department has requested the copy and notified the state registrar of its request; and.

AB816,55 Section 55. 69.11 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,22,12 69.11 (4) (b) The state registrar may amend an item on a birth certificate that affects information about the name, sex, date of birth, place of birth, parent's name, or marital status of the mother if 365 days have elapsed since the occurrence of the event that is the subject of the birth certificate, if the amendment is at the request of a person with a direct and tangible interest in the record and is on a request form supplied by the state registrar, and if the amendment is accompanied by 2 items of documentary evidence from early childhood that are sufficient to prove that the item to be changed is in error and by the affidavit of the person requesting the amendment. A change in the marital status on the birth certificate may be made under this paragraph only if the marital status is inconsistent with information concerning the father or husband spouse that appears on the birth certificate. This paragraph may not be used to add to or delete from a birth certificate the name of a parent, to change the identity of a parent named on the birth certificate, or to effect a name change prohibited under s. 301.47.

AB816,56 Section 56. 69.12 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,22,18 69.12 (5) A change in the marital status on the certificate of birth may be requested under this section only if the marital status is inconsistent with father or husband spouse information appearing on the certificate of birth. This section may not be used to add or delete the name of a parent on the certificate of birth or change the identity of either parent named on the certificate of birth.

AB816,57 Section 57. 69.13 (2) (b) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,22,24 69.13 (2) (b) 4. If relevant to the correction sought, a certified copy of a marriage document, a certified copy of a certificate of divorce or annulment or a final divorce decree that indicates that the mother was not married to the person listed as her husband spouse at any time during the pregnancy, a legal name change order, or any other legal document that clarifies the disputed information.

AB816,58 Section 58. 69.14 (1) (c) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,23,4 69.14 (1) (c) 4. In the absence of a person under subds. 1. to 3., the father or mother, father, or mother's spouse, or in the absence of the father or the mother's spouse and the inability of the mother, the person responsible for the premises where the birth occurs.

AB816,59 Section 59. 69.14 (1) (e) (title) and 1. of the statutes are amended to read:

AB816,23,11 69.14 (1) (e) (title) Father's Spouse's or father's name. 1. If Except as provided in par. (h), if the mother of a registrant under this section was married at any time from the conception to the birth of the registrant, the name of the husband spouse of the mother shall be entered on the birth certificate as the a legal father parent of the registrant. The name of the father parent entered under this subdivision may not be changed except by a proceeding under ch. 767.

AB816,60 Section 60. 69.14 (1) (f) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,23,18 69.14 (1) (f) 1. a. Except as provided under subd. 1. b., if the mother of a registrant of a birth certificate under this section is married to the father of the registrant at any time from the conception to the birth of the registrant, the given name and surname which the mother and father of the registrant and her spouse enter for the registrant on the birth certificate shall be the given name and surname filed and registered on the birth certificate.

AB816,24,2 b. If the mother of a registrant of a birth certificate under this section is married to the father of the registrant at any time from the conception to the birth of the registrant and the mother is separated or divorced from the father of the registrant at the time of birth, the given name and surname which the parent of the registrant with actual custody enters for the registrant on the birth certificate shall be the given name and surname filed and registered on the birth certificate, except that if a court has granted legal custody of the registrant, the given name and surname which the person with legal custody enters for the registrant on the birth certificate shall be the given name and surname filed and registered on the birth certificate.

AB816,24,10 c. If the mother of a registrant of a birth certificate under this section is not married to the father of the registrant at any time from the conception to the birth of the registrant, the given name and surname which the mother of the registrant enters for the registrant on the birth certificate shall be the given name and surname filed and registered on the birth certificate, except that if a court has granted legal custody of the registrant, the given name and surname which the person with legal custody enters for the registrant on the birth certificate shall be the given name and surname filed and registered on the birth certificate.

AB816,61 Section 61. 69.14 (1) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,24,18 69.14 (1) (g) Birth by artificial insemination. If the registrant of a birth certificate under this section is born as a result of artificial insemination under the requirements of s. 891.40, the husband spouse of the woman shall be considered the father a parent of the registrant on the birth certificate. If the registrant is born as a result of artificial insemination which does not satisfy the requirements of s. 891.40, the information about the father of the registrant shall be omitted from the registrant's birth certificate.

AB816,62 Section 62. 69.14 (2) (b) 2. d. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,24,23 69.14 (2) (b) 2. d. The full name of the father or the mother's spouse, except that if the mother was not married at the time of conception or birth or between conception and birth of the registrant, the name of the father may not be entered except as provided under s. 69.15 (3).

AB816,63 Section 63. 69.15 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,25,5 69.15 (1) Birth certificate information changes. The state registrar may change information on a birth certificate registered in this state which was correct at the time the birth certificate was filed under a court or administrative order issued in this state, in another state or in Canada or under the valid order of a court of any federally recognized Indian tribe, band or nation if all of the following occur:

AB816,25,7 (a) The order provides for an adoption, name change or name change with sex change or establishes paternity; and or parentage.

AB816,25,12 (b) A clerk of court or, for a paternity or parentage action, a clerk of court or county child support agency under s. 59.53 (5), sends the state registrar a certified report of an order of a court in this state on a form supplied by the state registrar or, in the case of any other order, the state registrar receives a certified copy of the order and the proper fee under s. 69.22.

AB816,64 Section 64. 69.15 (3) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,25,24 69.15 (3) (b) 3. Except as provided under par. (c), if the state registrar receives a statement acknowledging paternity of a nonmarital child on a form prescribed by the state registrar and signed by both parents, neither of whom was under the age of 18 years when the form was signed, along with the fee under s. 69.22, the state registrar shall insert the name of the father under subd. 1. The state registrar shall mark the certificate to show that the form is on file. The form shall be available to the department of children and families or a county child support agency under s. 59.53 (5) pursuant to the program responsibilities under s. 49.22 or to any other person with a direct and tangible interest in the record. The state registrar shall include on the form for the acknowledgment the information in s. 767.805 and the items in s. 767.813 (5g).

AB816,65 Section 65. 69.15 (3) (b) 3m. of the statutes is created to read:

AB816,26,7 69.15 (3) (b) 3m. Except as provided in par. (c), if the state registrar receives an acknowledgement of parentage on a form prescribed by the state registrar and signed by both of the people presumed to be natural parents under s. 891.41 (1) (b), a certified copy of the parents' marriage certificate, and the fee required under s. 69.22 (5) (b) 1., the state registrar shall insert the name of the spouse from the marriage certificate as a parent if the name of that parent was omitted on the original birth certificate.

AB816,66 Section 66. 71.03 (2) (d) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,26,9 71.03 (2) (d) (title) Husband and wife Spouses joint filing.

AB816,67 Section 67. 71.03 (2) (d) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,26,13 71.03 (2) (d) 1. Except as provided in subds. 2. and 3. and par. (e), a husband and a wife spouses may file a joint return for income tax purposes even though one of the spouses has no gross income or no deductions.

AB816,68 Section 68. 71.03 (2) (d) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,26,18 71.03 (2) (d) 2. No joint return may be filed if either the husband or wife spouse at any time during the taxable year is a nonresident alien, unless an election is in effect for the taxable year under section 6013 (g) or (h) of the internal revenue code Internal Revenue Code.

AB816,69 Section 69. 71.03 (2) (d) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,27,2 71.03 (2) (d) 3. No joint return may be filed if the husband and wife spouses have different taxable years, except that if their taxable years begin on the same day and end on different days because of the death of either or both the joint return may be filed with respect to the taxable year of each unless the surviving spouse remarries before the close of his or her taxable year or unless the taxable year of either spouse is a fractional part of a year under section 443 (a) (1) of the internal revenue code Internal Revenue Code.

AB816,70 Section 70. 71.03 (2) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,27,18 71.03 (2) (g) Joint return following separate return. Except as provided in par. (i), if an individual has filed a separate return for a taxable year for which a joint return could have been filed by the individual and the individual's spouse under par. (d) or (e) and the time prescribed by law for timely filing the return for that taxable year has expired, the individual and the individual's spouse may file a joint return for that taxable year. A joint return filed by the husband and wife spouses under this paragraph is their return for that taxable year, and all payments, credits, refunds or other repayments made or allowed with respect to the separate return of each spouse for that taxable year shall be taken into account in determining the extent to which the tax based upon the joint return has been paid. If a joint return is filed under this paragraph, any election, other than the election to file a separate return, made by either spouse in that spouse's separate return for that taxable year with respect to the treatment of any income, deduction or credit of that spouse may not be changed in the filing of the joint return if that election would have been irrevocable if the joint return had not been filed.

AB816,71 Section 71. 71.03 (2) (m) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,27,23 71.03 (2) (m) 2. If a husband and wife spouses change from a joint return to separate returns within the time prescribed in subd. 1., the tax paid on the joint return shall be allocated between them in proportion to the tax liability shown on each separate return.

AB816,72 Section 72. 71.03 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,28,10 71.03 (4) (a) Natural persons whose total income is not in excess of $10,000 and consists entirely of wages subject to withholding for Wisconsin tax purposes and not more than $200 total of dividends, interest and other wages not subject to Wisconsin withholding, and who have elected the Wisconsin standard deduction and have not claimed either the credit for homestead property tax relief or deductions for expenses incurred in earning such income, shall, at their election, not be required to record on their income tax returns the amount of the tax imposed on their Wisconsin taxable income. Married persons shall be permitted this election only if the joint income of the husband and wife spouses does not exceed $10,000, if both report their incomes on the same joint income tax return form, and if both make this election.

AB816,73 Section 73. 71.05 (22) (a) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,28,13 71.05 (22) (a) (title) Election of deductions; husband and wife spousal deductions.

AB816,74 Section 74. 71.07 (5m) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,28,16 71.07 (5m) (a) 3. "Household" means a claimant and an individual related to the claimant as husband or wife his or her spouse.

AB816,75 Section 75. 71.07 (9e) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,28,21 71.07 (9e) (b) No credit may be allowed under this subsection to married persons, except married persons living apart who are treated as single under section 7703 (b) of the internal revenue code Internal Revenue Code, if the husband and wife spouses report their income on separate income tax returns for the taxable year.

AB816,76 Section 76. 71.09 (13) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,29,5 71.09 (13) (a) 2. The tax shown on the return for the preceding year. If a husband and wife spouses who filed separate returns for the preceding taxable year file a joint return, the tax shown on the return for the preceding year is the sum of the taxes shown on the separate returns of the husband and wife spouses. If a husband and wife spouses who filed a joint return for the preceding taxable year file separate returns, the tax shown on the return for the preceding year is the husband's or wife's each spouse's proportion of that tax based on what their respective tax liabilities for that year would have been had they filed separately.

AB816,77 Section 77. 71.52 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,29,8 71.52 (4) "Household" means a claimant and an individual related to the claimant as husband or wife his or her spouse.

AB816,78 Section 78. 71.83 (1) (a) 8. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,29,16 71.83 (1) (a) 8. `Joint return replacing separate returns.' If the amount shown as the tax by the husband and wife spouses on a joint return filed under s. 71.03 (2) (g) to (L) exceeds the sum of the amounts shown as the tax upon the separate return of each spouse and if any part of that excess is attributable to negligence or intentional disregard of this chapter, but without intent to defraud, at the time of the filing of that separate return, then 25% 25 percent of the total amount of that excess shall be added to the tax.

AB816,79 Section 79. 71.83 (1) (b) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,29,23 71.83 (1) (b) 5. `Joint return after separate returns.' If the amount shown as the tax by the husband and wife spouses on a joint return filed under s. 71.03 (2) (g) to (L) exceeds the sum of the amounts shown as the tax on the separate return of each spouse and if any part of that excess is attributable to fraud with intent to evade tax at the time of the filing of that separate return, then 50% 50 percent of the total amount of that excess shall be added to the tax.

AB816,80 Section 80. 77.25 (8m) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,29,25 77.25 (8m) Between husband and wife spouses.

AB816,81 Section 81. 77.54 (7) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,30,5 77.54 (7) (b) 1. The item is transferred to a child, spouse, parent, father-in-law, mother-in-law parent-in-law, daughter-in-law, or son-in-law of the transferor or, if the item is a motor vehicle, from the transferor to a corporation owned solely by the transferor or by the transferor's spouse.

AB816,82 Section 82. 101.91 (5m) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,30,12 101.91 (5m) "Manufactured home community" means any plot or plots of ground upon which 3 or more manufactured homes that are occupied for dwelling or sleeping purposes are located. "Manufactured home community" does not include a farm where the occupants of the manufactured homes are the father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister parents, children, or siblings of the farm owner or operator or where the occupants of the manufactured homes work on the farm.

AB816,83 Section 83. 102.07 (5) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,30,16 102.07 (5) (b) The parents, spouse, child, brother, sister, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, father-in-law, mother-in-law parent-in-law, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law of a farmer shall not be deemed the farmer's employees.

AB816,84 Section 84. 102.07 (5) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,30,24 102.07 (5) (c) A shareholder-employee of a family farm corporation shall be deemed a "farmer" for purposes of this chapter and shall not be deemed an employee of a farmer. A "family farm corporation" means a corporation engaged in farming all of whose shareholders are related as lineal ancestors or lineal descendants, whether by blood or by adoption, or as spouses, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, fathers-in-law, mothers-in-law parents-in-law, brothers-in-law, or sisters-in-law of such lineal ancestors or lineal descendants.

AB816,85 Section 85. 102.51 (1) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,31,2 102.51 (1) (a) 1. A wife married person upon a husband his or her spouse with whom he or she is living at the time of his the spouse's death.

AB816,86 Section 86. 102.51 (1) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed.

AB816,87 Section 87. 103.10 (1) (h) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,31,6 103.10 (1) (h) "Spouse" means an employee's legal husband or wife the person to whom an employee is legally married.

AB816,88 Section 88. 103.165 (3) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,31,9 103.165 (3) (a) 3. The decedent's father or mother parent or parents if the decedent leaves no surviving spouse, domestic partner under ch. 770, or children.

AB816,89 Section 89. 111.32 (12) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,31,12 111.32 (12) "Marital status" means the status of being married, single, divorced, separated, or widowed a surviving spouse.

AB816,90 Section 90. 115.76 (12) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,31,14 115.76 (12) (a) 1. A biological natural parent.

AB816,91 Section 91. 115.76 (12) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed.

AB816,92 Section 92. 115.76 (12) (a) 3. of the statutes is repealed.

AB816,93 Section 93. 115.76 (13) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB816,31,24 115.76 (13) "Person acting as a parent of a child" means a relative of the child or a private individual allowed to act as a parent of a child by the child's biological natural or adoptive parents or guardian, and includes the child's grandparent, neighbor, friend or private individual caring for the child with the explicit or tacit approval of the child's biological natural or adoptive parents or guardian. "Person acting as a parent of a child" does not include any person that receives public funds to care for the child if such funds exceed the cost of such care.