Amendment AA4-ASA1-AB51

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1999 - 2000 LEGISLATURE

ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 4, TO ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1, TO 1999 ASSEMBLY BILL 51

January 26, 1999 - Offered by Representatives Schneider, Kreuser, Williams, Black, Wood, La Fave, Plouff, Hebl and Bock.

AB51-ASA1-AA4,1,1 At the locations indicated, amend the substitute amendment as follows:

AB51-ASA1-AA4,1,3 1. Page 1, line 9: after "service;" insert "restrictions on the sales of electronic computing devices that lack year 2000 processing capabilities;".

AB51-ASA1-AA4,1,4 2. Page 5, line 12: after that line insert:

AB51-ASA1-AA4,1,5 " Section 6n. 100.262 of the statutes is created to read:

AB51-ASA1-AA4,1,6 100.262 Year 2000 failures. (1) In this section:

AB51-ASA1-AA4,1,11 (a) "Electronic computing device" means any computer hardware or software, computer chip, embedded chip, process control equipment or other information system used to capture, store, manipulate or process information, or that controls, monitors or assists in the operation of physical apparatus that relies on automation or digital technology to function.

AB51-ASA1-AA4,2,2 (b) "Processing" includes calculating, comparing, sequencing, displaying or storing.

AB51-ASA1-AA4,2,4 (c) "Year 2000 problem" means a failure in year 2000 processing of an electronic computing device.

AB51-ASA1-AA4,2,7 (d) "Year 2000 processing" means the processing, transmitting or receiving of date data from, into, and between the 20th and 21st centuries and during the years 1999 and 2000, and from leap year calculations.

AB51-ASA1-AA4,2,10 (2) No person who manufactures an electronic computing device shall offer for sale in this state an electronic computing device unless it is able to do year 2000 processing.

AB51-ASA1-AA4,2,14 (3) No person who sells an electronic computing device that the person alters or modifies from its originally manufactured condition may do so unless the person provides to the buyer of the electronic computing device at the time of sale a written statement of the year 2000 processing capabilities of the electronic computing device.

AB51-ASA1-AA4,2,18 (4) The department or any district attorney may commence an action in the name of the state to recover a forfeiture to the state of not less than $50 nor more than $200 for each violation of this section. Each sale of an electronic computing device in violation of sub. (2) or (3) is a separate violation of this section.".

AB51-ASA1-AA4,2,19 3. Page 14, line 4: after that line insert:

AB51-ASA1-AA4,2,22 "(4t) Sales of electronic computing devices. The treatment of section 100.262 of the statutes first applies to electronic computing devices sold on the effective date of this subsection.".

AB51-ASA1-AA4,2,23 (End)