LRB-2353/2
TD/SW/ES/EW:amn
2017 - 2018 LEGISLATURE
June 30, 2017 - Introduced by Representatives Spreitzer, Zamarripa, C. Taylor,
Anderson, Berceau, Billings, Bowen, Considine, Crowley, Genrich, Goyke,
Hesselbein, Hintz, Kolste, Mason, Ohnstad, Pope, Riemer, Sargent,
Shankland, Stuck, Subeck, Wachs, Young and Zepnick, cosponsored by
Senators Carpenter, Bewley, Johnson, Larson, Miller, Ringhand, Risser,
Shilling and Vinehout. Referred to Committee on Constitution and Ethics.
AB417,2,19
1An Act to repeal 49.141 (1) (j) 2., 102.51 (1) (a) 2., 115.76 (12) (a) 2. and 115.76
2(12) (a) 3.;
to renumber and amend 891.40 (1) and 891.41 (1) (b);
to amend
329.219 (4), 29.228 (5), 29.228 (6), 29.229 (2) (i), 29.2295 (2) (i), 29.563 (3) (a) 3.,
429.607 (3), 45.01 (6) (c), 45.51 (3) (c) 2., 45.51 (5) (a) 1. b., 45.51 (5) (a) 1. c., 45.55,
546.10 (2), 48.02 (13), 48.396 (2) (dm), 48.422 (7) (bm), 48.422 (7) (br), 48.432 (1)
6(am) 2. b., 48.63 (3) (b) 4., 48.63 (3) (b) 5., 48.82 (1) (a), 48.837 (1r) (d), 48.837
7(1r) (e), 48.837 (6) (b), 48.837 (6) (br), 48.913 (1) (a), 48.913 (1) (b), 48.913 (1) (h),
848.913 (2) (intro.), 48.913 (2) (b), 48.913 (2) (c) (intro.), 48.913 (3), 48.913 (4),
948.913 (7), 49.141 (1) (j) 1., 49.155 (1m) (c) 1g., 49.155 (1m) (c) 1h., 49.163 (2)
10(am) 2., 49.19 (1) (a) 2. a., 49.19 (4) (d) (intro.), 49.19 (4) (d) 1., 49.19 (4) (d) 2.,
1149.19 (4) (d) 3., 49.19 (4) (d) 4., 49.19 (4) (d) 5., 49.345 (2), 49.43 (12), 49.471 (1)
12(b) 2., 49.90 (4), 54.01 (36) (a), 54.960 (1), 69.03 (15), 69.05 (3m) (intro.), (a) and
13(b), 69.11 (4) (b), 69.12 (5), 69.13 (2) (b) 4., 69.14 (1) (c) 4., 69.14 (1) (e) (title) and
141., 69.14 (1) (f) 1., 69.14 (1) (g), 69.14 (2) (b) 2. d., 69.15 (1), 69.15 (3) (b) 3., 71.03
1(2) (d) (title), 71.03 (2) (d) 1., 71.03 (2) (d) 2., 71.03 (2) (d) 3., 71.03 (2) (g), 71.03
2(2) (m) 2., 71.03 (4) (a), 71.05 (22) (a) (title), 71.07 (5m) (a) 3., 71.07 (9e) (b), 71.09
3(13) (a) 2., 71.52 (4), 71.83 (1) (a) 8., 71.83 (1) (b) 5., 77.25 (8m), 77.54 (7) (b) 1.,
4101.91 (5m), 102.07 (5) (b), 102.07 (5) (c), 102.51 (1) (a) 1., 103.10 (1) (h), 103.165
5(3) (a) 3., 111.32 (12), 115.76 (12) (a) 1., 115.76 (13), 146.34 (1) (f), 157.05,
6182.004 (6), 250.04 (3) (a), 301.12 (2), 301.50 (1), 700.19 (2), 705.01 (4), 705.01
7(4m), 706.09 (1) (e), 765.001 (2), 765.01, 765.03 (1), 765.16 (1m) (intro.), 765.16
8(1m) (c), 765.23, 765.24, 765.30 (3) (a), 766.587 (7) (form) 9., 766.588 (9) (form)
913., 766.589 (10) (form) 14., 767.215 (2) (b), 767.215 (5) (a) 2., 767.323, 767.80
10(1) (intro.), 767.80 (1) (c), 767.80 (2), 767.855, 767.863 (1m), 767.87 (1m) (intro.),
11767.87 (8), 767.87 (9), 767.883 (1), 769.316 (9), 769.401 (2) (a), 769.401 (2) (g),
12815.20 (1), 822.40 (4), 851.30 (2) (a), 852.01 (1) (f) 1., 852.01 (1) (f) 2., 852.01 (1)
13(f) 3., 854.03 (3), 891.39 (title), 891.39 (1) (a), 891.39 (1) (b), 891.39 (3), 891.40
14(2), 891.41 (title), 891.41 (1) (intro.), 891.41 (1) (a), 891.41 (2), 905.05 (title),
15938.02 (13), 938.396 (2g) (g), 943.20 (2) (c), 943.201 (1) (b) 8. and 943.205 (2) (b);
16and
to create 69.15 (3) (b) 3m., 765.02 (3), 891.40 (1) (b), 891.40 (3), 891.41 (3),
17990.01 (22m), 990.01 (39) and 990.01 (40m) of the statutes;
relating to:
18marriage between persons of the same sex and extending parentage rights to
19married couples of the same sex.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Summary
This bill recognizes same-sex marriage by making references in the statutes
to spouses gender neutral, with the intent of harmonizing the Wisconsin statutes
with the holding of the U.S. Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584,
192 L.Ed.2d 609 (2015), which recognizes that same-sex couples have a fundamental
constitutional right to marriage. The bill also recognizes legal parentage for
same-sex couples under certain circumstances.
Same-sex marriage
This bill provides that marriage may be contracted between persons of the same
sex and confers the same rights and responsibilities on married persons of the same
sex that married persons of different sexes have under current law. The bill defines
“spouse" as a person who is legally married to another person of the same sex or a
different sex and replaces every reference to “husband" or “wife" in current law with
“spouse." The bill makes applicable to married persons of the same sex all provisions
under current law that apply to married persons of different sexes. These provisions
relate to such diverse areas of the law as income tax, marital property, inheritance
rights, divorce, child and spousal support, insurance coverage, family and spousal
recreational licenses, consent to conduct an autopsy, domestic abuse, and eligibility
for various types of benefits, such as retirement or death benefits and medical
assistance.
Same-sex parents
In addition to making statutory references to spouses gender neutral, the bill
specifies ways in which married couples of the same sex may be the legal parents of
a child and, with some exceptions, makes current references in the statutes to
“mother" and “father," and related terms, gender neutral.
Under current law, all of the following may adopt a child: a husband and wife
jointly, a husband or wife whose spouse is the parent of the child, and an unmarried
adult. Because the bill makes references in the statutes to spouses gender neutral,
same-sex spouses jointly may adopt a child and become the legal parents of the child,
and a same-sex spouse of a person who is the parent of a minor child may adopt the
child and become the legal parent of his or her spouse's child.
Under current law, if a woman is artificially inseminated under the supervision
of a physician with semen donated by a man who is not her husband and the husband
consents in writing to the artificial insemination of his wife, the husband is the
natural father of any child conceived. Under this bill, a same-sex spouse may also
consent to the artificial insemination of her spouse with donated semen and is the
natural parent of the child conceived. The artificial insemination is not required to
take place under the supervision of a physician, but, if it does not, the semen used
for the insemination must have been obtained from a sperm bank.
Under current law, there is a paternity presumption whereby a man is
presumed to be the father of a child if he and the child's natural mother 1) were
married to each other when the child was conceived or born or 2) married each other
after the child was born but had a relationship with each other when the child was
conceived and no other man has been adjudicated to be the father or is presumed to
be the father because the man was married to the mother when the child was
conceived or born. The paternity presumption may be rebutted in a legal action or
proceeding by the results of a genetic test showing that the statistical probability of
another man's parentage is 99.0 percent or higher. The bill expands this
presumption into a parentage presumption, so that a person is presumed to be the
natural parent of a child if he or she 1) was married to the child's mother when the
child was conceived or born or 2) married the child's mother after the child was born
but had a relationship with the mother when the child was conceived and no man has
been adjudicated to be the father and no other person is presumed to be the child's
parent because he or she was married to the mother when the child was conceived
or born. The parentage presumption may still be rebutted by the results of a genetic
test showing that the statistical probability of another person's parentage is 99.0
percent or higher.
The bill does not change the paternity statutes or the statutes relating to
statements acknowledging paternity or declarations of paternal interest with
respect to their application only to a male who may be adjudicated to be the father
of a child or who may sign a statement or declaration that he is the father of a child.
Expanding on current law, however, the bill allows for a paternity action to be
brought for the purpose of rebutting the parentage presumption, regardless of
whether that presumption applies to a male or female spouse of the mother of the
child.
The bill defines “natural parent" as a parent of a child who is not an adoptive
parent, whether the parent is biologically related to the child or not. Thus, a person
who is a biological parent, a parent by consenting to the artificial insemination of his
or her spouse, or a parent under the parentage presumption is a natural parent of
a child. The definition applies throughout the statutes wherever the term “natural
parent" is used. In addition, the bill expands some references in the statutes to
“biological parent" by changing the reference to “natural parent."
Birth certificates
Generally, the bill substitutes the term “spouse" for “husband" in the birth
certificate statutes and enters the spouse, instead of the husband, of a birth mother
on the birth certificate at times when a husband would currently be entered on a
birth certificate. A birth mother's name is entered on a birth certificate when she
gives birth to a child and current law specifies when the husband, father, or no
additional name should be entered on the birth certificate. Current law requires that
if a birth mother is married at any time from the conception to the birth of a child,
then her husband's name is entered on the birth certificate as the legal father of the
child. Under the bill, if a birth mother is married at any time from the conception
to the birth of the child, then her spouse's name is entered as a legal parent of the
child. The bill also specifies that, in the instance that a second parent's name is
initially omitted from the birth certificate, if the state registrar receives a signed
acknowledgement of parentage by people presumed to be parents because the two
people married after the birth of the child, the two people had a relationship during
the time the child was conceived, no man is adjudicated to be the father, and no other
person is presumed to be the parent, then the state registrar must enter the name
of the birth mother's spouse as a parent on the birth certificate.
This bill will be referred to the joint survey committee on tax exemptions for a
detailed analysis, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB417,1
1Section
1. 29.219 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
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29.219
(4) Husband and wife Spouses resident licenses. A combined
husband
3and wife spouses resident fishing license shall be issued subject to s. 29.024 by the
4department to residents applying for this license. This license confers upon both
5husband and wife spouses the privileges of resident fishing licenses.
AB417,2
6Section
2. 29.228 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
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29.228
(5) Annual family fishing license. The department shall issue a
8nonresident annual family fishing license, subject to s. 29.024, to any nonresident
9who applies for this license. This license entitles the
husband, wife spouses and any
10minor children to fish under this license.
AB417,3
11Section
3. 29.228 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
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29.228
(6) Fifteen-day family fishing license. The department shall issue a
13nonresident 15-day family fishing license, subject to s. 29.024, to any nonresident
14who applies for this license. This license entitles the
husband, wife spouses and any
15minor children to fish under this license.
AB417,4
16Section
4. 29.229 (2) (i) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB417,5,1717
29.229
(2) (i)
Husband and wife
Spouses fishing licenses.
AB417,5
18Section
5. 29.2295 (2) (i) of the statutes is amended to read:
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29.2295
(2) (i)
Husband and wife
Spouses fishing licenses.
AB417,6
20Section
6. 29.563 (3) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
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29.563
(3) (a) 3.
Husband and wife
Spouses: $30.25.
AB417,7
1Section
7. 29.607 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
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29.607
(3) License required; exceptions; wild rice identification card. Every
3person over the age of 16 and under the age of 65 shall obtain the appropriate wild
4rice license to harvest or deal in wild rice but no license to harvest is required of the
5members of the immediate family of a licensee or of a recipient of old-age assistance
6or members of their immediate families. The department, subject to s. 29.024 (2g)
7and (2r), shall issue a wild rice identification card to each member of a licensee's
8immediate family, to a recipient of old-age assistance and to each member of the
9recipient's family. The term “immediate family" includes
husband and wife spouses 10and minor children having their abode and domicile with the parent or legal
11guardian.
AB417,8
12Section 8
. 45.01 (6) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
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45.01
(6) (c) The
biological
natural or adoptive parent or a person who acts in
14the place of a parent and who has so acted for not less than 12 months prior to the
15veteran's entrance into active service.
AB417,9
16Section
9. 45.51 (3) (c) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
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45.51
(3) (c) 2. The department may deviate from this sequence upon order of
18the board to prevent the separation of
a husband and wife spouses.
AB417,10
19Section
10. 45.51 (5) (a) 1. b. of the statutes is amended to read:
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45.51
(5) (a) 1. b. Was married to the person under sub. (2) (a) 1. or 2. at the time
21the person entered the service and who became a
widow or widower surviving spouse 22by the death of the person while in the service or as a result of physical disability of
23the person incurred during the service.
AB417,11
24Section
11. 45.51 (5) (a) 1. c. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB417,7,4
145.51
(5) (a) 1. c. The period during which the surviving spouse was married
2to and lived with the deceased person under sub. (2) (a) 1. or 2. plus the period
of
3widowhood or widowerhood after the death of the deceased person is 6 months or
4more.
AB417,12
5Section
12. 45.55 of the statutes is amended to read:
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645.55 Notes and mortgages of minor veterans. Notwithstanding any
7provision of this chapter or any other law to the contrary, any minor who served in
8the active armed forces of the United States at any time after August 27,
1940, and
9the
husband or wife spouse of such a minor may execute, in his or her own right, notes
10or mortgages, as defined in s. 851.15, the payment of which is guaranteed or insured
11by the U.S. department of veterans affairs or the federal housing administrator
12under the servicemen's readjustment act of 1944, the national housing act, or any
13acts supplementing or amending these acts. In connection with these transactions,
14the minors may sell, release
, or convey the mortgaged property and litigate or settle
15controversies arising therefrom, including the execution of releases, deeds, and other
16necessary papers or instruments. The notes, mortgages, releases, deeds
, and other
17necessary papers or instruments when so executed are not subject to avoidance by
18the minor or the
husband or wife spouse of the minor upon either or both of them
19attaining the age of 18 because of the minority of either or both of them at the time
20of the execution thereof.
AB417,13
21Section
13. 46.10 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
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46.10
(2) Except as provided in subs. (2m) and (14) (b) and (c), any person,
23including but not limited to a person admitted, committed, protected, or placed under
24s. 975.01, 1977 stats., s. 975.02, 1977 stats., s. 975.17, 1977 stats., s. 55.05 (5), 2003
25stats., and 55.06, 2003 stats., and ss. 51.10, 51.13, 51.15, 51.20, 51.35 (3), 51.37 (5),
151.45 (10), (11), (12) and (13), 55.05, 55.055, 55.12, 55.13, 55.135, 971.14 (2) and (5),
2971.17 (1), 975.06 and 980.06, receiving care, maintenance, services
, and supplies
3provided by any institution in this state including University of Wisconsin Hospitals
4and Clinics, in which the state is chargeable with all or part of the person's care,
5maintenance, services
, and supplies, any person receiving care and services from a
6county department established under s. 51.42 or 51.437 or from a facility established
7under s. 49.73, and any person receiving treatment and services from a public or
8private agency under s. 980.06 (2) (c), 1997 stats., s. 980.08 (5), 2003 stats., or s.
9971.17 (3) (d) or (4) (e) or 980.08 (4) (g) and the person's property and estate, including
10the homestead, and the spouse of the person, and the spouse's property and estate,
11including the homestead, and, in the case of a minor child, the parents of the person,
12and their property and estates, including their homestead, and, in the case of a
13foreign child described in s. 48.839 (1) who became dependent on public funds for his
14or her primary support before an order granting his or her adoption, the resident of
15this state appointed guardian of the child by a foreign court who brought the child
16into this state for the purpose of adoption, and his or her property and estate,
17including his or her homestead, shall be liable for the cost of the care, maintenance,
18services
, and supplies in accordance with the fee schedule established by the
19department under s. 46.03 (18). If a spouse,
widow
surviving spouse, or minor, or an
20incapacitated person may be lawfully dependent upon the property for their support,
21the court shall release all or such part of the property and estate from the charges
22that may be necessary to provide for those persons. The department shall make
23every reasonable effort to notify the liable persons as soon as possible after the
24beginning of the maintenance, but the notice or the receipt thereof is not a condition
25of liability.
AB417,14
1Section
14. 48.02 (13) of the statutes is amended to read:
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48.02
(13) “Parent" means a
biological natural parent
, a husband who has
3consented to the artificial insemination of his wife under s. 891.40, or a parent by
4adoption. If the child is a nonmarital child who is not adopted or whose parents do
5not subsequently intermarry under s. 767.803, “parent" includes a person
6acknowledged under s. 767.805 or a substantially similar law of another state or
7adjudicated to be the biological father. “Parent" does not include any person whose
8parental rights have been terminated. For purposes of the application of s. 48.028
9and the federal Indian Child Welfare Act,
25 USC 1901 to
1963, “parent" means a
10biological natural parent
of an Indian child, an Indian
husband spouse who has
11consented to the artificial insemination of his
wife
or her spouse under s. 891.40, or
12an Indian person who has lawfully adopted an Indian child, including an adoption
13under tribal law or custom, and includes, in the case of a nonmarital
Indian child who
14is not adopted or whose parents do not subsequently intermarry under s. 767.803,
15a person acknowledged under s. 767.805, a substantially similar law of another state,
16or tribal law or custom to be the biological father or a person adjudicated to be the
17biological father, but does not include any person whose parental rights have been
18terminated.
AB417,15
19Section 15
. 48.396 (2) (dm) of the statutes is amended to read:
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48.396
(2) (dm) Upon request of a court having jurisdiction over actions
21affecting the family, an attorney responsible for support enforcement under s. 59.53
22(6) (a) or a party to a paternity proceeding under subch. IX of ch. 767, the party's
23attorney or the guardian ad litem for the child who is the subject of that proceeding
24to review or be provided with information from the records of the court assigned to
25exercise jurisdiction under this chapter and ch. 938 relating to the paternity of a child
1for the purpose of determining the paternity of the child or for the purpose of
2rebutting the presumption of paternity under s. 891.405 or
the presumption of
3parentage under s. 891.41 (1), the court assigned to exercise jurisdiction under this
4chapter and ch. 938 shall open for inspection by the requester its records relating to
5the paternity of the child or disclose to the requester those records.
AB417,16
6Section 16
. 48.422 (7) (bm) of the statutes is amended to read:
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48.422
(7) (bm) Establish whether a proposed adoptive parent of the child has
8been identified. If a proposed adoptive parent of the child has been identified and
9the proposed adoptive parent is not a relative of the child, the court shall order the
10petitioner to submit a report to the court containing the information specified in s.
1148.913 (7). The court shall review the report to determine whether any payments or
12agreement to make payments set forth in the report are coercive to the birth parent
13of the child or to an alleged
to or presumed father of the child or are impermissible
14under s. 48.913 (4). Making any payment to or on behalf of
the any birth parent
of
15the child, an, alleged
father, or presumed
father parent of the child or the child
16conditional in any part upon transfer or surrender of the child or the termination of
17parental rights or the finalization of the adoption creates a rebuttable presumption
18of coercion. Upon a finding of coercion, the court shall dismiss the petition or amend
19the agreement to delete any coercive conditions, if the parties agree to the
20amendment. Upon a finding that payments
which
that are impermissible under s.
2148.913 (4) have been made, the court may dismiss the petition and may refer the
22matter to the district attorney for prosecution under s. 948.24 (1). This paragraph
23does not apply if the petition was filed with a petition for adoptive placement under
24s. 48.837 (2).
AB417,17
25Section 17
. 48.422 (7) (br) of the statutes is amended to read:
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148.422
(7) (br) Establish whether any person has coerced a birth parent
or any, 2alleged
father, or presumed
father parent of the child in violation of s. 48.63 (3) (b)
35. Upon a finding of coercion, the court shall dismiss the petition.
AB417,18
4Section
18. 48.432 (1) (am) 2. b. of the statutes is amended to read:
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48.432
(1) (am) 2. b. If there is no adjudicated father, the
husband spouse of the
6mother at the time the individual or adoptee is conceived or born, or when the parents
7intermarry under s. 767.803.
AB417,19
8Section 19
. 48.63 (3) (b) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
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48.63
(3) (b) 4. Before a child may be placed under subd. 1., the department,
10county department, or child welfare agency making the placement and the proposed
11adoptive parent or parents shall enter into a written agreement that specifies who
12is financially responsible for the cost of providing care for the child prior to the
13finalization of the adoption and for the cost of returning the child to the parent who
14has custody of the child if the adoption is not finalized. Under the agreement, the
15department, county department, or child welfare agency or the proposed adoptive
16parent or parents, but not
the any birth parent
of the child or any, alleged
father, or
17presumed
father parent of the child, shall be financially responsible for those costs.
AB417,20
18Section 20
. 48.63 (3) (b) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:
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48.63
(3) (b) 5. Prior to termination of parental rights to the child, no person
20may coerce a birth parent
of the child or any, alleged
father, or presumed
father 21parent of the child into refraining from exercising his or her right to withdraw
22consent to the transfer or surrender of the child or to termination of his or her
23parental rights to the child, to have reasonable visitation or contact with the child,
24or to otherwise exercise his or her parental rights to the child.
AB417,21
25Section
21. 48.82 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
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148.82
(1) (a)
A husband and wife Spouses jointly, or
either the husband or wife
2if the
other spouse
is
of a parent of the minor.
AB417,22
3Section 22
. 48.837 (1r) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
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48.837
(1r) (d) Before a child may be placed under par. (a), the department,
5county department, or child welfare agency making the placement and the proposed
6adoptive parent or parents shall enter into a written agreement that specifies who
7is financially responsible for the cost of providing care for the child prior to the
8finalization of the adoption and for the cost of returning the child to the parent who
9has custody of the child if the adoption is not finalized. Under the agreement, the
10department, county department, or child welfare agency or the proposed adoptive
11parent or parents, but not
the any birth parent
of the child or any, alleged
father, or
12presumed
father parent of the child, shall be financially responsible for those costs.
AB417,23
13Section 23
. 48.837 (1r) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
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48.837
(1r) (e) Prior to termination of parental rights to the child, no person
15may coerce a birth parent
of the child or any, alleged
father, or presumed
father 16parent of the child into refraining from exercising his or her right to withdraw
17consent to the transfer or surrender of the child or to termination of his or her
18parental rights to the child, to have reasonable visitation or contact with the child,
19or to otherwise exercise his or her parental rights to the child.
AB417,24
20Section 24
. 48.837 (6) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
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48.837
(6) (b) At the beginning of the hearing held under sub. (2), the court shall
22review the report that is submitted under s. 48.913 (6). The court shall determine
23whether any payments or the conditions specified in any agreement to make
24payments are coercive to
the any birth parent
of the child or to an, alleged
father, or
25presumed
father parent of the child or are impermissible under s. 48.913 (4). Making
1any payment to or on behalf of
the a birth parent
of the child, an, alleged
father, or
2presumed
father parent of the child or the child conditional in any part upon transfer
3or surrender of the child or the termination of parental rights or the finalization of
4the adoption creates a rebuttable presumption of coercion. Upon a finding of
5coercion, the court shall dismiss the petitions under subs. (2) and (3) or amend the
6agreement to delete any coercive conditions, if the parties agree to the amendment.
7Upon a finding that payments
which that are impermissible under s. 48.913 (4) have
8been made, the court may dismiss the petition and may refer the matter to the
9district attorney for prosecution under s. 948.24 (1).
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10Section 25
. 48.837 (6) (br) of the statutes is amended to read:
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48.837
(6) (br) At the hearing on the petition under sub. (2), the court shall
12determine whether any person has coerced a birth parent
or any, alleged
father, or
13presumed
father parent of the child in violation of sub. (1r) (e). Upon a finding of
14coercion, the court shall dismiss the petitions under subs. (2) and (3).