AB898: Bill Text

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1995 - 1996 LEGISLATURE

1995 Assembly BILL 898

February 19, 1996 - Introduced by Representatives Ward, Dobyns, Zukowski, Powers, Seratti, F. Lasee, Silbaugh, Skindrud, Hoven, Gunderson, Freese, Klusman, Goetsch, La Fave, Musser, Coleman, Grothman, Porter, Hasenohrl, Handrick, Ladwig, Hahn, Lehman and Kaufert, cosponsored by Senators Fitzgerald, Darling, Schultz, Andrea and Buettner. Referred to Committee on Mandates.

AB898,1,2 An Act to amend 165.015 (1) of the statutes; relating to: allowing a sheriff to ask for an attorney general's opinion.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the attorney general is required to give his or her opinion on questions of law submitted to him or her by the legislature as a whole, by either house of the legislature, by the senate or assembly committee on organization or by the head of any department of state government. Under this bill, the attorney general is also required to give his or her opinion on questions of law submitted to him or her by a sheriff.

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:

AB898, s. 1 Section 1. 165.015 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB898,1,8 165.015 (1) Give opinion to officers. Give his or her opinion in writing, when required, without fee, upon all questions of law submitted to him or her by the legislature, by either house thereof or of the legislature, by the senate or assembly committee on organization, or by the head of any department of state government or by a sheriff.

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