SB327,44 3Section 44. 49.19 (4) (d) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,18,64 49.19 (4) (d) 3. Is the wife spouse of a husband person who has been committed
5to the department pursuant to ch. 975, irrespective of the probable period of such
6commitment; or
SB327,45 7Section 45. 49.19 (4) (d) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,18,108 49.19 (4) (d) 4. Is the wife spouse of a husband person who has continuously
9abandoned or failed to support him or her, if proceedings have been commenced
10against the husband person under ch. 769; or
SB327,46 11Section 46. 49.19 (4) (d) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,18,1512 49.19 (4) (d) 5. Has been divorced and is without a husband spouse or legally
13separated from his or her husband spouse and is unable through use of the provisions
14of law to compel his or her former husband spouse to adequately support the child
15for whom aid is sought; or
SB327,47 16Section 47 . 49.345 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,19,1217 49.345 (2) Except as provided in sub. (14) (b) and (c), any person, including a
18person placed under s. 48.32 (1) (am) or (b), 48.345 (3), 48.357 (1) or (2m), 938.183,
19938.34 (3) or (4d), or 938.357 (1), (2m), (4), or (5) (e), receiving care, maintenance,
20services, and supplies provided by any institution in this state, in which the state is
21chargeable with all or part of the person's care, maintenance, services, and supplies,
22and the person's property and estate, including the homestead, and the spouse of the
23person, and the spouse's property and estate, including the homestead, and, in the
24case of a minor child, the parents of the person, and their property and estates,
25including their homestead, and, in the case of a foreign child described in s. 48.839

1(1) who became dependent on public funds for his or her primary support before an
2order granting his or her adoption, the resident of this state appointed guardian of
3the child by a foreign court who brought the child into this state for the purpose of
4adoption, and his or her property and estate, including his or her homestead, shall
5be liable for the cost of the care, maintenance, services, and supplies in accordance
6with the fee schedule established by the department under s. 49.32 (1). If a spouse,
7widow surviving spouse, or minor, or an incapacitated person may be lawfully
8dependent upon the property for his or her support, the court shall release all or such
9part of the property and estate from the charges that may be necessary to provide for
10the person. The department shall make every reasonable effort to notify the liable
11persons as soon as possible after the beginning of the maintenance, but the notice or
12the receipt of the notice is not a condition of liability.
SB327,48 13Section 48. 49.43 (12) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,19,1614 49.43 (12) “Spouse" means the legal husband or wife of person to whom the
15beneficiary is legally married, whether or not the person is eligible for medical
16assistance.
SB327,49 17Section 49. 49.471 (1) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,19,1818 49.471 (1) (b) 2. A stepfather, stepmother stepparent, stepbrother, or stepsister.
SB327,50 19Section 50. 49.90 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,20,2120 49.90 (4) The circuit court shall in a summary way hear the allegations and
21proofs of the parties and by order require maintenance from these relatives, if they
22have sufficient ability, considering their own future maintenance and making
23reasonable allowance for the protection of the property and investments from which
24they derive their living and their care and protection in old age, in the following
25order: First the husband or wife spouse; then the father and the mother parents; and

1then the grandparents in the instances in which sub. (1) (a) 2. applies. The order
2shall specify a sum which that will be sufficient for the support of the dependent
3person under sub. (1) (a) 1. or the maintenance of a child of a dependent person under
4sub. (1) (a) 2., to be paid weekly or monthly, during a period fixed by the order or until
5the further order of the court. If the court is satisfied that any such relative is unable
6wholly to maintain the dependent person or the child, but is able to contribute to the
7person's support or the child's maintenance, the court may direct 2 or more of the
8relatives to maintain the person or the child and prescribe the proportion each shall
9contribute. If the court is satisfied that these relatives are unable together wholly
10to maintain the dependent person or the child, but are able to contribute to the
11person's support or the child's maintenance, the court shall direct a sum to be paid
12weekly or monthly by each relative in proportion to ability. Contributions directed
13by court order, if for less than full support, shall be paid to the department of health
14services or the department of children and families, whichever is appropriate, and
15distributed as required by state and federal law. An order under this subsection that
16relates to maintenance required under sub. (1) (a) 2. shall specifically assign
17responsibility for and direct the manner of payment of the child's health care
18expenses, subject to the limitations under subs. (1) (a) 2. and (11). Upon application
19of any party affected by the order and upon like notice and procedure, the court may
20modify such an order. Obedience to such an order may be enforced by proceedings
21for contempt.
SB327,51 22Section 51. 54.01 (36) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,21,223 54.01 (36) (a) An individual who obtains or consents to a final decree or
24judgment of divorce from the decedent or an annulment of their marriage, if the
25decree or judgment is not recognized as valid in this state, unless the 2 subsequently

1participated in a marriage ceremony purporting to marry each other or they
2subsequently held themselves out as husband and wife married to each other.
SB327,52 3Section 52. 54.960 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,21,104 54.960 (1) Beneficial interests in a custodial trust created for multiple
5beneficiaries are deemed to be separate custodial trusts of equal undivided interests
6for each beneficiary. Except in a transfer or declaration for use and benefit of
7husband and wife 2 individuals who are married to each other, for whom
8survivorship is presumed, a right of survivorship does not exist unless the
9instrument creating the custodial trust specifically provides for survivorship or
10survivorship is required as to marital property.
SB327,53 11Section 53. 69.03 (15) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,21,1512 69.03 (15) Periodically provide to each county child support agency under s.
1359.53 (5) a list of names and, notwithstanding s. 69.20 (2) (a), addresses of registrants
14who reside in that county for whom no father's name only one parent's name has been
15inserted on the registrant's birth certificate within 6 months of birth.
SB327,54 16Section 54. 69.05 (3m) (intro.), (a) and (b) of the statutes are amended to read:
SB327,21,2017 69.05 (3m) (intro.) If the mother a parent of a registrant of a birth certificate
18resides in a city and the birth certificate is not filed in such city, send a copy of the
19birth certificate to the local health department with jurisdiction for the city if all of
20the following are true
:
SB327,21,2221 (a) The local health department has a maternal-child visitation or information
22program;.
SB327,21,2423 (b) The local health department has requested the copy and notified the state
24registrar of its request; and.
SB327,55 25Section 55. 69.11 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,22,14
169.11 (4) (b) The state registrar may amend an item on a birth certificate that
2affects information about the name, sex, date of birth, place of birth, parent's name,
3or marital status of the mother if 365 days have elapsed since the occurrence of the
4event that is the subject of the birth certificate, if the amendment is at the request
5of a person with a direct and tangible interest in the record and is on a request form
6supplied by the state registrar, and if the amendment is accompanied by 2 items of
7documentary evidence from early childhood that are sufficient to prove that the item
8to be changed is in error and by the affidavit of the person requesting the
9amendment. A change in the marital status on the birth certificate may be made
10under this paragraph only if the marital status is inconsistent with information
11concerning the father or husband spouse that appears on the birth certificate. This
12paragraph may not be used to add to or delete from a birth certificate the name of a
13parent, to change the identity of a parent named on the birth certificate, or to effect
14a name change prohibited under s. 301.47.
SB327,56 15Section 56. 69.12 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,22,2016 69.12 (5) A change in the marital status on the certificate of birth may be
17requested under this section only if the marital status is inconsistent with father or
18husband spouse information appearing on the certificate of birth. This section may
19not be used to add or delete the name of a parent on the certificate of birth or change
20the identity of either parent named on the certificate of birth.
SB327,57 21Section 57. 69.13 (2) (b) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,23,222 69.13 (2) (b) 4. If relevant to the correction sought, a certified copy of a marriage
23document, a certified copy of a certificate of divorce or annulment or a final divorce
24decree that indicates that the mother was not married to the person listed as her

1husband spouse at any time during the pregnancy, a legal name change order, or any
2other legal document that clarifies the disputed information.
SB327,58 3Section 58. 69.14 (1) (c) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,23,74 69.14 (1) (c) 4. In the absence of a person under subds. 1. to 3., the father or
5mother, father, or mother's spouse, or in the absence of the father or the mother's
6spouse
and the inability of the mother, the person responsible for the premises where
7the birth occurs.
SB327,59 8Section 59. 69.14 (1) (e) (title) and 1. of the statutes are amended to read:
SB327,23,149 69.14 (1) (e) (title) Father's Spouse's or father's name. 1. If Except as provided
10in par. (h), if
the mother of a registrant under this section was married at any time
11from the conception to the birth of the registrant, the name of the husband spouse
12of the mother shall be entered on the birth certificate as the a legal father parent of
13the registrant. The name of the father parent entered under this subdivision may
14not be changed except by a proceeding under ch. 767.
SB327,60 15Section 60. 69.14 (1) (f) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,23,2116 69.14 (1) (f) 1. a. Except as provided under subd. 1. b., if the mother of a
17registrant of a birth certificate under this section is married to the father of the
18registrant
at any time from the conception to the birth of the registrant, the given
19name and surname which that the mother and father of the registrant and her
20spouse
enter for the registrant on the birth certificate shall be the given name and
21surname filed and registered on the birth certificate.
SB327,24,622 b. If the mother of a registrant of a birth certificate under this section is married
23to the father of the registrant at any time from the conception to the birth of the
24registrant and the mother is separated or divorced from the father of the registrant
25at the time of birth, the given name and surname which that the parent of the

1registrant with actual custody enters for the registrant on the birth certificate shall
2be the given name and surname filed and registered on the birth certificate, except
3that if a court has granted legal custody of the registrant, the given name and
4surname which that the person with legal custody enters for the registrant on the
5birth certificate shall be the given name and surname filed and registered on the
6birth certificate.
SB327,24,147 c. If the mother of a registrant of a birth certificate under this section is not
8married to the father of the registrant at any time from the conception to the birth
9of the registrant, the given name and surname which that the mother of the
10registrant enters for the registrant on the birth certificate shall be the given name
11and surname filed and registered on the birth certificate, except that if a court has
12granted legal custody of the registrant, the given name and surname which that the
13person with legal custody enters for the registrant on the birth certificate shall be the
14given name and surname filed and registered on the birth certificate.
SB327,61 15Section 61. 69.14 (1) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,24,2216 69.14 (1) (g) Birth by artificial insemination. If the registrant of a birth
17certificate under this section is born as a result of artificial insemination under the
18requirements of s. 891.40, the husband spouse of the woman shall be considered the
19father
a parent of the registrant on the birth certificate. If the registrant is born as
20a result of artificial insemination which does not satisfy the requirements of s.
21891.40, the information about the father of the registrant shall be omitted from the
22registrant's birth certificate.
SB327,62 23Section 62. 69.14 (2) (b) 2. d. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,25,224 69.14 (2) (b) 2. d. The full name of the father or the mother's spouse, except that
25if the mother was not married at the time of conception or birth or between conception

1and birth of the registrant, the name of the father may not be entered except as
2provided under s. 69.15 (3).
SB327,63 3Section 63. 69.15 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,25,84 69.15 (1) Birth certificate information changes. The state registrar may
5change information on a birth certificate registered in this state which was correct
6at the time the birth certificate was filed under a court or administrative order issued
7in this state, in another state or in Canada or under the valid order of a court of any
8federally recognized Indian tribe, band, or nation if all of the following occur:
SB327,25,109 (a) The order provides for an adoption, name change, or name change with sex
10change or establishes paternity; and or parentage.
SB327,25,1511 (b) A clerk of court or, for a paternity or parentage action, a clerk of court or
12county child support agency under s. 59.53 (5), sends the state registrar a certified
13report of an order of a court in this state on a form supplied by the state registrar or,
14in the case of any other order, the state registrar receives a certified copy of the order
15and the proper fee under s. 69.22.
SB327,64 16Section 64. 69.15 (3) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,26,217 69.15 (3) (b) 3. Except as provided under par. (c), if the state registrar receives
18a statement acknowledging paternity of a nonmarital child on a form prescribed by
19the state registrar and signed by both parents, neither of whom was under the age
20of 18 years when the form was signed, along with the fee under s. 69.22, the state
21registrar shall insert the name of the father under subd. 1. The state registrar shall
22mark the certificate to show that the form is on file. The form shall be available to
23the department of children and families or a county child support agency under s.
2459.53 (5) pursuant to the program responsibilities under s. 49.22 or to any other
25person with a direct and tangible interest in the record. The state registrar shall

1include on the form for the acknowledgment the information in s. 767.805 and the
2items in s. 767.813 (5g).
SB327,65 3Section 65. 69.15 (3) (b) 3m. of the statutes is created to read:
SB327,26,104 69.15 (3) (b) 3m. Except as provided in par. (c), if the state registrar receives
5an acknowledgement of parentage on a form prescribed by the state registrar and
6signed by both of the people presumed to be natural parents under s. 891.41 (1) (b),
7a certified copy of the parents' marriage certificate, and the fee required under s.
869.22 (5) (b) 1., the state registrar shall insert the name of the spouse from the
9marriage certificate as a parent if the name of that parent was omitted on the original
10birth certificate.
SB327,66 11Section 66. 71.03 (2) (d) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,26,1212 71.03 (2) (d) (title) Husband and wife Spouses joint filing.
SB327,67 13Section 67. 71.03 (2) (d) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,26,1614 71.03 (2) (d) 1. Except as provided in subds. 2. and 3. and par. (e), a husband
15and a wife
spouses may file a joint return for income tax purposes even though one
16of the spouses has no gross income or no deductions.
SB327,68 17Section 68. 71.03 (2) (d) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,26,2118 71.03 (2) (d) 2. No joint return may be filed if either the husband or wife spouse
19at any time during the taxable year is a nonresident alien, unless an election is in
20effect for the taxable year under section 6013 (g) or (h) of the internal revenue code
21Internal Revenue Code.
SB327,69 22Section 69. 71.03 (2) (d) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,27,423 71.03 (2) (d) 3. No joint return may be filed if the husband and wife spouses
24have different taxable years, except that if their taxable years begin on the same day
25and end on different days because of the death of either or both the joint return may

1be filed with respect to the taxable year of each unless the surviving spouse remarries
2before the close of his or her taxable year or unless the taxable year of either spouse
3is a fractional part of a year under section 443 (a) (1) of the internal revenue code
4Internal Revenue Code.
SB327,70 5Section 70. 71.03 (2) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,27,206 71.03 (2) (g) Joint return following separate return. Except as provided in par.
7(i), if an individual has filed a separate return for a taxable year for which a joint
8return could have been filed by the individual and the individual's spouse under par.
9(d) or (e) and the time prescribed by law for timely filing the return for that taxable
10year has expired, the individual and the individual's spouse may file a joint return
11for that taxable year. A joint return filed by the husband and wife spouses under this
12paragraph is their return for that taxable year, and all payments, credits, refunds
13or other repayments made or allowed with respect to the separate return of each
14spouse for that taxable year shall be taken into account in determining the extent
15to which the tax based upon the joint return has been paid. If a joint return is filed
16under this paragraph, any election, other than the election to file a separate return,
17made by either spouse in that spouse's separate return for that taxable year with
18respect to the treatment of any income, deduction or credit of that spouse may not
19be changed in the filing of the joint return if that election would have been irrevocable
20if the joint return had not been filed.
SB327,71 21Section 71. 71.03 (2) (m) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,27,2522 71.03 (2) (m) 2. If a husband and wife spouses change from a joint return to
23separate returns within the time prescribed in subd. 1., the tax paid on the joint
24return shall be allocated between them in proportion to the tax liability shown on
25each separate return.
SB327,72
1Section 72. 71.03 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,28,112 71.03 (4) (a) Natural persons whose total income is not in excess of $10,000 and
3consists entirely of wages subject to withholding for Wisconsin tax purposes and not
4more than $200 total of dividends, interest and other wages not subject to Wisconsin
5withholding, and who have elected the Wisconsin standard deduction and have not
6claimed either the credit for homestead property tax relief or deductions for expenses
7incurred in earning such income, shall, at their election, not be required to record on
8their income tax returns the amount of the tax imposed on their Wisconsin taxable
9income. Married persons shall be permitted this election only if the joint income of
10the husband and wife spouses does not exceed $10,000, if both report their incomes
11on the same joint income tax return form, and if both make this election.
SB327,73 12Section 73. 71.05 (22) (a) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,28,1413 71.05 (22) (a) (title) Election of deductions; husband and wife spousal
14deductions.
SB327,74 15Section 74. 71.07 (5m) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,28,1716 71.07 (5m) (a) 3. “Household" means a claimant and an individual related to
17the claimant as husband or wife his or her spouse.
SB327,75 18Section 75. 71.07 (9e) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,28,2219 71.07 (9e) (b) No credit may be allowed under this subsection to married
20persons, except married persons living apart who are treated as single under section
217703 (b) of the internal revenue code Internal Revenue Code, if the husband and wife
22spouses report their income on separate income tax returns for the taxable year.
SB327,76 23Section 76. 71.09 (13) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,29,624 71.09 (13) (a) 2. The tax shown on the return for the preceding year. If a
25husband and wife
spouses who filed separate returns for the preceding taxable year

1file a joint return, the tax shown on the return for the preceding year is the sum of
2the taxes shown on the separate returns of the husband and wife spouses. If a
3husband and wife
spouses who filed a joint return for the preceding taxable year file
4separate returns, the tax shown on the return for the preceding year is the husband's
5or wife's
each spouse's proportion of that tax based on what their respective tax
6liabilities for that year would have been had they filed separately.
SB327,77 7Section 77. 71.52 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,29,98 71.52 (4) “Household" means a claimant and an individual related to the
9claimant as husband or wife his or her spouse.
SB327,78 10Section 78. 71.83 (1) (a) 8. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,29,1711 71.83 (1) (a) 8. `Joint return replacing separate returns.' If the amount shown
12as the tax by the husband and wife spouses on a joint return filed under s. 71.03 (2)
13(g) to (L) exceeds the sum of the amounts shown as the tax upon the separate return
14of each spouse and if any part of that excess is attributable to negligence or
15intentional disregard of this chapter, but without intent to defraud, at the time of the
16filing of that separate return, then 25 percent of the total amount of that excess shall
17be added to the tax.
SB327,79 18Section 79. 71.83 (1) (b) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,29,2419 71.83 (1) (b) 5. `Joint return after separate returns.' If the amount shown as
20the tax by the husband and wife spouses on a joint return filed under s. 71.03 (2) (g)
21to (L) exceeds the sum of the amounts shown as the tax on the separate return of each
22spouse and if any part of that excess is attributable to fraud with intent to evade tax
23at the time of the filing of that separate return, then 50 percent of the total amount
24of that excess shall be added to the tax.
SB327,80 25Section 80. 77.25 (8m) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,30,1
177.25 (8m) Between husband and wife spouses.
SB327,81 2Section 81. 77.54 (7) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,30,63 77.54 (7) (b) 1. The item is transferred to a child, spouse, parent, father-in-law,
4mother-in-law
parent-in-law, daughter-in-law , or son-in-law of the transferor or,
5if the item is a motor vehicle, from the transferor to a corporation owned solely by the
6transferor or by the transferor's spouse.
SB327,82 7Section 82. 101.91 (5m) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,30,138 101.91 (5m) “Manufactured home community" means any plot or plots of
9ground upon which 3 or more manufactured homes that are occupied for dwelling or
10sleeping purposes are located. “Manufactured home community" does not include a
11farm where the occupants of the manufactured homes are the father, mother, son,
12daughter, brother or sister
parents, children, or siblings of the farm owner or
13operator or where the occupants of the manufactured homes work on the farm.
SB327,83 14Section 83. 102.07 (5) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,30,1715 102.07 (5) (b) The parents, spouse, child, brother, sister, son-in-law,
16daughter-in-law, father-in-law, mother-in-law parent-in-law, brother-in-law, or
17sister-in-law of a farmer shall not be deemed the farmer's employees.
SB327,84 18Section 84. 102.07 (5) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,30,2519 102.07 (5) (c) A shareholder-employee of a family farm corporation shall be
20deemed a “farmer" for purposes of this chapter and shall not be deemed an employee
21of a farmer. A “family farm corporation" means a corporation engaged in farming all
22of whose shareholders are related as lineal ancestors or lineal descendants, whether
23by blood or by adoption, or as spouses, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins,
24sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, fathers-in-law, mothers-in-law parents-in-law,
25brothers-in-law, or sisters-in-law of such lineal ancestors or lineal descendants.
SB327,85
1Section 85. 102.51 (1) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
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