Acts Index

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

Vocational diploma program (two-year): eligibility for higher education scholarship extended to include  -  Act 267

technical college system board Technical College System Board

AODA grant program for TCS eliminated [Sec. 217r, 713m] -  Act 25

Appropriation lapse to the general fund required [Sec. 9246 (1q)] -  Act 25

BEST grant program transferred from Comm.Dept to TCS Board and renamed Jobs Advantage Training Program [Sec. 217m, 724m, 2357m, 9108 (4k)] [217m, 724m — partial veto; 2357m — vetoed] -  Act 25

Dental grants for school-based dental sealant program and funding to TCS for oral health services; funding for programs to discourage use of smokeless tobacco [Sec. 325g, 2131, 2132, 2149g, h] -  Act 25

DVA may transfer funds from institutional operations to veterans trust fund under certain conditions; U.W. System and technical college district board may grant full remission of academic fees to certain veterans; tuition and academic fee remission for surviving spouses and children and certain disabled veterans revised re residency and death as a result of a service-connected disability; FTE positions for DVA  -  Act 468

EAB duties re taking possession of student records if school discontinues operations; adminstrative attachment changed from DVA to TCS Board [Sec. 56, 221r, 222, 385m-387m, 588m, 725g, 735b-x, 1287, 2097, 2346, 2466, 2467, 9246 (1mq), 9446 (1m)] -  Act 25

Fox Valley Technical College crime prevention center: incentive grants for [Sec. 9146 (1f)] -  Act 25

Local levy limits applied to political subdivisions and technical college districts with exceptions; debt service, first class city levies for school purposes, forestation state tax, and sunset provisions; JCF duties specified [vetoed]  -  AB-58

Local levy limits applied to political subdivisions and technical college districts with exceptions; debt service, first class city levies for school purposes, forestation state tax, referendum, and sunset provisions; JCF duties specified [Sec. 707m, 1251c, 1260r, 1260s] [1251c — partial veto; 707m — vetoed] -  Act 25

Professional development, short-term, vocational-adult seminars or workshops: restriction on additional fee eliminated; length of seminar or workshop set [Sec. 215, 216, 707, 709] -  Act 25

Public construction contracts: minimum bid amount raised re lowest responsible bidder requirement  -  Act 202

School-to-work and work-based learning programs: administration by TCS Board; Governor's Work-Based Learning Board eliminated [Sec. 42m, 53m, 156d, 221d, 350r-352p, 429m, 487b, 714d-719d, 1834v-1839t, 2109j, 9146 (1q), 9154 (1q), 9254 (1q)] -  Act 25

State agency appropriation lapses to general fund [Sec. 9255 (1)] [partial veto] -  Act 25

Tuition and fee remissions for veteran, spouse, surviving spouse and children of certain veterans: U.W. and TCS boards required to grant [Sec. 702m, n, 708d, 709m, n, 9353 (2q), (2r)]  -  Act 25

Tuition and fee remissions for veterans re U.W. and TCS boards: residence requirement re incurrence of service-connected disability removed; eligibility expanded to include unremarried spouse and children of veteran who died as a result of a service-connected disability, residency provision  -  Act 468

technology Technology, see Data processing; Industrial development; specific subject

telecommunications Telecommunications

Discharging a firearm in the direction of a transmission facility prohibited; definition and penalty provisions  -  Act 169

Educational Telecommunications Access Program: educational agencies may request expanded services; DOA to apply for aid under E-Rate Program; agencies required to pay monthly fee to cover costs [Sec. 94, 95-103, 104, 408, 409, 458]  -  Act 25

Raw forest products: exemptions from harvesting on tax delinquent land created re maintaining railroad tracks, pipelines, and utility right-of-way -  Act 423

State telecommunications services: use of [Sec. 81m, 94m, n, 695q] [94m, 695q — partial veto]  -  Act 25

Technology-enhanced high school curriculum: grants to consortia of school districts meeting certain criteria [Sec. 103m, 411g] -  Act 25

Telecommunication utility late fee charges to retail customers [Sec. 2098] -  Act 25

Universal service fund surcharges [Sec. 2097q, r] -  Act 25

telegraph Telegraph

DFI revisions re pawnbrokers, Division of Banking authority, trust services, seller of checks, securities and investments, franchises, and collection agencies (remedial legislation)  -  Act 158

telephone Telephone, see also Telecommunications

Absentee ballot revisions re requests by facsimile or email, deadline to request, military electors, witness, prepaid return postage, notice of hours, opening ballots in public, automatic mailing, observation in certain nursing homes and other facilities, alternate site, election observers, electioneering, and option to count absentee ballots at a central location  -  Act 451

Facsimile soliciter who received notice that a person does not want to receive facsimile transmissions may not disclose the facsimile transmission number; notification by telephone accepted; document must include name of person transmitting the document -  Act 61

Home care placement agency notification requirements re home care worker and consumer; complaint, liability, damages, definition, and telephone numbers for reporting abuse provisions -  Act 197

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

Mobile telephone service contracts: provisions for suspension or termination by members of the military called into active service; action for damages provision  -  Act 473

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

Telephone record pertaining to another person: obtaining, soliciting, or selling without the person's consent for fraudulent reasons prohibited; definitions, Internet, damages, and penalty provisions -  Act 261

television Television

Film production companies: income and franchise tax credits created; DOR and Comm.Dept provisions  -  Act 483

temporary assistance for needy families _tanf_ Temporary assistance for needy families (TANF), see Public assistance

temporary help agency Temporary help agency, see Employment bureau

tenant Tenant, see Landlord and tenant

termination of parental rights _tpr_ Termination of parental rights (TPR), see Children — Protection and services

terrorism Terrorism, see International relations

test for minimum competency Test for minimum competency, see School — Branches of instruction

testimony Testimony, see Court — Procedure

theater Theater

Art and arts education centers: property tax exemption created -  Act 4

``Class B" liquor license quota exception created for opera house or theater for the performing arts operated by a nonprofit organization; consumption on premises in connection with a performance specified -  Act 307

theft Theft, see Crime and criminals; Motor vehicle — Theft

theobald, dr. h. rupert Theobald, Dr. H. Rupert

Life and public service as Chief of the LRB honored [AJR-69] -  JR-28

therapist Therapist, see Trades and occupations

thompson, marian l Thompson, Marian L.

Life, public service, and dedication to women's studies commended [AJR-30] -  JR-62

tid _tax incremental district_ TID (Tax incremental district), see Property tax

tif _tax incremental financing_ TIF (Tax incremental financing), see Property tax

timber Timber, see Forestry

tipping fee Tipping fee, see Solid waste management

title certificate Title certificate, see Motor vehicle — Certificate of title

title to property Title to property, see Real property

tollefson, john oliver Tollefson, John Oliver

Life and military service commended [SJR-34] -  JR-32

tour.dept Tour.Dept, see Tourism, Department of

tourism Tourism, see Recreation; Tourism, Department of

tourism, department of Tourism, Department of

Special distinguishing registration plate supporting the WPGA Junior Foundation, Inc., created; fee, Tour.Dept, and DOT provisions -  Act 260

Tourism marketing appropriation created from transportation fund [Sec. 274k-m, 532, 740m, 741]  -  Act 25

town Town, see also name of specific town

Emergency management programs of local governments required to include Mutual Aid Box Alarm System; Adjutant General to promulgate rules -  Act 257

High-voltage transmission line construction: authorizing conveyance of property owned by county, city, village, town, or public board or commission to an electric utility if it received certain certificate from PSC; fair market value provisions -  Act 24

Highways in need of repair and accumulation of snow or ice: liability of cities, villages, towns, and counties for damages revised [vetoed] -  AB-509

Incorporation of certain towns contiguous to 2nd class cities; referendum and sunset provisions [Sec. 1242p, s]  -  Act 25

TIF approved purposes re towns: ``agricultural project" expanded to include ``farm product warehousing and storage, refrigerated" -  Act 330

Town that has entered into a cooperative boundary agreement with a village or city authorized to use TIF; cooperative plan required with application -  Act 13

town _ board Town — Board

Incorporation of certain towns contiguous to 2nd class cities; referendum and sunset provisions [Sec. 1242p, s]  -  Act 25

Perrot State Park: before altering a park entrance, DNR must obtain approval from town with jurisdiction over the road; procedure specified -  Act 94

Stewardship purchase in certain county: town board approval required [Sec. 491n] [vetoed] -  AB-100

TID creation by counties in which no cities or villages are located authorized; approval of all town boards required -  Act 357

Town board meetings: location requirements revised -  Act 312

Town plan commission appointment procedure modified re towns authorized to exercise village powers  -  Act 207

Vacancies in certain local elective offices: special election permitted under certain conditions -  Act 248

town _ elections Town — Elections

Vacancies in certain local elective offices: special election permitted under certain conditions -  Act 248

town _ finance Town — Finance

Municipal court contract with collection agency re forfeitures, assessments, and surcharges: local governments to share in cost of collection -  Act 305

Oil pipeline terminal facility taxation: annual distribution to governments where facility is located [Sec. 454, 456, 1470-1473, 9441 (4)] -  Act 25

Public construction contracts: minimum bid amount raised re lowest responsible bidder requirement  -  Act 202