Acts Index

Optometrist regulation revised including certain pharmaceutical agents, license examination, and continuing education  -  Act 297

Out-of-state pharmacy licensure requirements created; telephone number provision -  Act 242

Pharmacy Examining Board powers during a declared state of emergency re granting a variance -  Act 270

Prescription drug labels: practitioner must include symptom or purpose for which the drug is prescribed if the patient wants that information on the label -  Act 196

Pseudoephedrine product sales: weight-based prohibitions modified; law enforcement officer access to certain records of pseudophedrine sales revised -  Act 262

Public health planning, services, and functions; reporting of communicable diseases; DHFS required to develop a public health agenda every 10 years and other duties specified; contracts between municipalities and Indian tribes or bands in other states authorized; DATCP provision  -  Act 198

State agent of DHFS status granted to behavioral health providers, health care providers, pupil services providers, or substance abuse prevention providers who volunteer their services to a health care facility during a state of emergency re public health; restrictions specified; WC provision  -  Act 96

WC law revisions re payment of benefits, maximum compensation amounts, work injury supplemental benefit fund, hearings and procedures, program administration, and general coverage; penalty and report provisions -  Act 172

pheasant Pheasant, see Game bird

photo or photograph Photo or photograph, see Children — Protection and services; Identification cards

physical therapist or therapy Physical therapist or therapy, see Persons with disabilities

physically disabled Physically disabled, see Persons with disabilities

physician Physician, see also Medical education; Medical malpractice

Cancer drug repository program expanded to include prescription drugs and supplies for chronic diseases; fee and DHFS provisions -  Act 16

Drug product equivalent: label to include statement identifying the prescribed brand name unless practitioner requests omission -  Act 195

Employment discrimination based on creed expanded to include sterilization, abortion, experiments re in vitro human embryos, procedures re fetal tissue, assisted suicide, euthanasia, and mercy killings; health care providers and health facilities employees revisions; definitions, disciplinary actions, liability, damages, and patient health care records provisions [vetoed] -  AB-207

Health care provider statement of apology or condolence is inadmissible in a civil action or administrative hearing [vetoed] -  AB-1021

Mental responsibility of a defendant in a criminal action: deadline for examining physician or psychologist to report to opposing counsel or examiner specified -  Act 244

Physician information and health care information database: data procedures, DHFS study, reports, and memorandum of understanding with DRL [Sec. 313m, 2067g, 9101 (6), (7q)] [9101 (6) — partial veto; 2067g, 9101 (7q) — vetoed] -  Act 25

Prescription drug labels: practitioner must include symptom or purpose for which the drug is prescribed if the patient wants that information on the label -  Act 196

Sexually violent person commitment procedures revised; definitions modified -  Act 434

State agent of DHFS status granted to behavioral health providers, health care providers, pupil services providers, or substance abuse prevention providers who volunteer their services to a health care facility during a state of emergency re public health; restrictions specified; WC provision  -  Act 96

``Treatment records" and ``registration records" re mental health, developmental disabilities, alcoholism, and drug dependence: definitions changed; confidentiality exception re release to physician in a medical emergency modified; good faith exception to liability for release of records eliminated -  Act 449

Voluntary and informed consent for abortions: printed information and physician oral information to include data re pain awareness of unborn child at gestational age of 20 weeks [vetoed] -  SB-138

Volunteer Health Care Provider Program expanded to certain public elementary schools, charter schools, and MPCP participating schools; conditions set; definition expanded to include nurse practitioner; DOA approval required  -  Act 188

physician assistant Physician assistant, see Physician

pier Pier, see Port

pipeline Pipeline, see Petroleum; Petroleum — Taxation

planning Planning, see Land use planning and control; Municipality — Planning; Regional planning

plants Plants, see also Weeds

Tangible personal property used in the business of farming including horticulture, floriculture, and silviculture: sales and use tax exemptions created; additional sales and use tax exemptions for silviculture created -  Act 366

Vegetation obstructing view of outdoor advertising signs: DOT permit system created for maintenance and removal of vegetation by sign owners; LAB report required  -  Act 465

plats Plats

Impact fee laws revised re imposition by and payment of; publication of municipal budget summary and requirements on plat approval conditions provisions -  Act 477

Real estate documents: requirements for recording media revised -  Act 9

Register of deeds: county ordinance to revise cutoff time to file documents permitted; technical changes re recording certain real estate, tax lien, and probate documents; location of county highway register revised; plat, map, and plan forms modified -  Act 41

Transportation project plats: filing by DOT or a municipality and making corrections revised -  Act 446

plumber Plumber

Automatic fire sprinkler contractor fees and terms for credentials increased; provision re Comm.Dept plumbing supervisors [Sec. 2014-2026] -  Act 25

Comm.Dept may assess a forfeiture for violating plumber licensing requirements; interest, AG authority, and school fund provisions -  Act 182

plumbing Plumbing, see Plumber

podiatry Podiatry

``Podiatry" or ``podiatric medicine and surgery" redefined; required postgraduate training period increased  -  Act 334

State agent of DHFS status granted to behavioral health providers, health care providers, pupil services providers, or substance abuse prevention providers who volunteer their services to a health care facility during a state of emergency re public health; restrictions specified; WC provision  -  Act 96

poelman, eric Poelman, Eric

Life and military service commended [SJR-46] -  JR-52

police Police, see also Fish and game warden; Sheriff

Attorney fees for protective services officers re certain criminal proceedings: municipality, county, school district, or technical college district required to reimburse under certain conditions; definition provision -  Act 73

Children's Code and Juvenile Justice Code revisions re child abuse investigations of noncaregivers, definition of ``relative", holding a child in custody, provision of information to relative caregivers, and placement of a child for adoption  -  Act 232

Combined protective services departments: population restriction on villages removed -  Act 3

Concealed weapon licensing system created; active duty or retired law enforcement officer permitted to carry a concealed firearm, ID card provision; DOJ to consider mental health status re background checks for handgun purchases; grants for shooting ranges; reports required; DOT duties specified [vetoed] -  SB-403

Confidential voter registration for victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking: procedure modified re affidavit verifying victim's status and certain victim service providers -  Act 278

County law enforcement services and county tribal law enforcement grant programs transferred from OJA to DOJ [Sec. 87t-88b, 416g, h, 423m, 424b, 2086s, 2088m, 9101 (10r)]  -  Act 25

Custodial interrogation recordings by law enforcement officers: requirements created; juvenile and adult provisions; definitions and exceptions; OJA grant program -  Act 60

DNA evidence: retention and postconviction testing of modified  -  Act 60

Domestic abuse arrests: presumption changed from primary physical aggressor to ``predominant aggressor"; definition, law enforcement policies, and bail provisions  -  Act 104

Eyewitness identification of a suspect: law enforcement agencies required to adopt written policies  -  Act 60

Fire fighters relief association and police relief association: membership eligibility revised; initiation fee provision -  Act 321

Law enforcement services: city or village may abolish its police department and contract with county sheriff to provide; villages under certain population, city in more than one county, and 911 telephone service provisions -  Act 40

Money forfeited in a drug case: law enforcement agency may retain certain percentage -  Act 91

Motor vehicle consumer lease: revisions re voluntary surrender and actions to recover collateral; nonjudicial repossession, customer and law enforcement notices, and penalty provisions -  Act 255

Motor vehicle operator involved in an accident resulting in death or great bodily harm: law enforcement officer may request a test for controlled substance, alcohol, or other drugs; OWI arrest provision -  Act 413

Off-duty peace officers outside their territorial jurisdiction but within the state: making arrests or providing aid or assistance permitted under certain conditions; civil and criminal immunity and WC provisions -  Act 414

Patrol boats responding to an emergency or pursuing a suspect: exemption from boating laws; emergency light provisions revised -  Act 308

Penalty surcharge and amount that goes into law enforcement training fund increased [Sec. 2438-2440g]  -  Act 25

Pseudoephedrine product sales: weight-based prohibitions modified; law enforcement officer access to certain records of pseudophedrine sales revised -  Act 262

Rental unit tenancy termination re drug or criminal gang activity nuisance: notice by law enforcement agencies expanded; DA authority added -  Act 281

Service dog: theft and recklessly or intentionally interfering with use of, injury to, or death of made a crime; penalty and restitution provisions; ``pecuniary loss" includes cases involving law enforcement or fire department animals or service dogs  -  Act 353

Sex offender registry information re delinquency case or registrant who is a child: police chief and sheriff may release under certain conditions -  Act 5

Unauthorized acquisition of personal identifying information: requiring the entity that possesses the information to notify the individual; notice requirement exception; local government ordinance prohibited; definitions, civil claims, and law enforcement provisions -  Act 138

U.W. and technical college fee remission extended to child or surviving spouse of an ambulance driver, correctional officer, EMT, fire fighter, or law enforcement officer who qualified for duty disability benefits and later died from the disability -  Act 320

Wildlife violator compact; surcharge and law enforcement officer provisions -  Act 282

political contribution Political contribution, see Elections — Campaign expense

political parties Political parties

Political signs: condominium bylaws cannot prohibit but can regulate size and location -  Act 303

polling place or poll worker Polling place or poll worker, see Elections

pollution Pollution, see Air pollution; Environmental protection; Water — Pollution

poor Poor, see also Public assistance; Wisconsin Works

Father's obligation to contribute to pregnancy and birth expenses re paternity judgment revised; public assistance and poverty level income provisions -  Act 304

Low-income energy assistance program: eligibility expanded for fiscal year 2005-06; one-time fund transfer from the petroleum inspection fund; application deadline set  -  Act 124

Low-income home energy assistance program funding restriction removed [Sec. 60, 61, 80] -  Act 25

Renewable energy requirements re electric utilities and cooperatives modified; certain state agencies required to generate or purchase renewable energy; energy efficiency standards imposed in certain state contracts; energy conservation code changed; anaerobic digestor research funding; public benefits program revisions; corn-burning furnace pilot program; PSC duties; report provisions -  Act 141

pope john paul ii Pope John Paul II

Life commended and condolences on his death [AJR-27] -  JR-12

populous county Populous county, see Milwaukee County

pornography Pornography, see Obscenity

port Port

Wharves and piers: regulating and permitting revisions; DNR authority specified; riparian rights and ``solid pier" provisions [vetoed] -  AB-850

postage and postal service Postage and postal service