SB637,8,52 13.093 (2) (a) Any bill making an appropriation and any bill increasing or
3decreasing existing appropriations or state or general local government fiscal
4liability or revenues shall, before any vote is taken thereon by either house of the
5legislature if the bill is not referred to a standing committee, or before any public
6hearing is held before any standing committee or, if no public hearing is held, before
7any vote is taken by the committee, incorporate a reliable estimate of the anticipated
8change in appropriation authority or state or general local government fiscal liability
9or revenues under the bill, including to the extent possible a projection of such
10changes in future biennia. For purposes of this paragraph, a bill increasing or
11decreasing the liability or revenues of the unemployment reserve fund is considered
12to increase or decrease state fiscal liability or revenues. Except as otherwise
13provided by joint rules of the legislature, such estimates shall be made by the
14department or agency administering the appropriation or fund or collecting the

1revenue. The joint survey committee on retirement systems shall prepare the fiscal
2estimate with respect to the provisions of any bill referred to it which create or modify
3any system for, or make any provision for, the retirement of or payment of pensions
4to public officers or employes. When a fiscal estimate is prepared after the bill has
5been introduced, it shall be printed reproduced and distributed as are amendments.
SB637, s. 2 6Section 2. 13.096 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,8,107 13.096 (2) (b) A bill that requires a report by the department under this section
8shall have that requirement noted displayed on its jacket when the jacket is
9prepared. When a bill that requires a report under this section is introduced, the
10legislative reference bureau shall submit a copy of the bill to the department.
SB637, s. 3 11Section 3. 13.096 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,8,1712 13.096 (2) (c) The report prepared under this section shall be printed
13reproduced as an appendix to that applicable bill and shall be distributed in the same
14manner as amendments. The report shall be distributed before any vote is taken on
15the bill by either house of the legislature if the bill is not referred to a standing
16committee, or before any public hearing is held before any standing committee or, if
17no public hearing is held, before any vote is taken by the committee.
SB637, s. 4 18Section 4. 13.097 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,8,2319 13.097 (2) (c) Legislation that requires a report by the department under this
20section shall have that requirement noted displayed on its jacket when the jacket is
21prepared. When legislation that requires a report under this section receives a jacket
22to be introduced or offered, the legislative reference bureau shall submit a copy of the
23legislation to the department.
SB637, s. 5 24Section 5. 13.097 (2) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,9,2
113.097 (2) (d) The report shall be printed reproduced as an appendix to that
2applicable bill and shall be distributed in the same manner as amendments.
SB637, s. 6 3Section 6. 13.17 of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,9,8 413.17 Journals. A journal of the senate and assembly shall be prepared under
5the direction of the chief clerks of the respective houses. When completed, each
6journal shall be printed reproduced as provided by law. The chief clerk of each house
7shall certify one copy of such journal to the secretary of state for deposit. The printed
8journals shall be the official record of each house of the legislature.
SB637, s. 7 9Section 7. 13.50 (6) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,9,1610 13.50 (6) (b) No bill or amendment thereto creating or modifying any system
11for the retirement of public employes shall be considered by either house until the
12written report required by par. (a) and the actuarial opinion ordered under par. (am),
13if any, have been submitted to the chief clerk. Each such bill or amendment shall
14then be referred to a standing committee of the house in which introduced. The
15report of the joint survey committee and actuarial opinion, if any, shall be printed
16reproduced as an appendix to the bill and attached thereto as are amendments.
SB637, s. 8 17Section 8. 13.52 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,9,2518 13.52 (6) Report. Upon the introduction in either house of the legislature of
19any proposal which affects any existing statute or creates any new statute relating
20to the exemption of any property or person from any state or local taxes or special
21assessments, such proposal shall at once be referred to the joint survey committee
22on tax exemptions by the presiding officer instead of to a standing committee, and
23such proposal shall not be considered further by either house until the joint survey
24committee on tax exemptions has submitted a report, in writing, setting forth an
25opinion on the legality of the proposal, the fiscal effect upon the state and its

1subdivisions and its desirability as a matter of public policy and such report has been
2printed reproduced as an appendix to the bill and attached thereto as are
3amendments. Such printing reproduction shall be in lieu of inclusion in the daily
4journal of the house in which the bill was introduced.
SB637, s. 9 5Section 9. 13.92 (1) (a) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,10,96 13.92 (1) (a) 5. Prepare copy for the biennial Wisconsin Blue Book under s.
735.24 and, if the Blue Book is produced in computer-readable format under s. 35.25
8(1), prepare and maintain computer data bases containing the Wisconsin Blue Book
9under s. 35.25
.
SB637, s. 10 10Section 10. 13.92 (1) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,10,1411 13.92 (1) (b) 2. Prepare in plain language an analysis of each original measure,
12to be printed reproduced with the measure when it is introduced. On the printed
13measure, the analysis shall be displayed single-spaced between the title and the
14enacting clause.
SB637, s. 11 15Section 11. 13.92 (1) (b) 3. a. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,10,2416 13.92 (1) (b) 3. a. Promptly after the passage of any bill, any joint resolution
17amending the constitution, or any other resolution determined by the chief clerks to
18require enrollment and, in the case of a bill, before it is presented to the governor for
19approval, the chief clerk of the house in which the measure originated shall deliver
20the jacket to the bureau which shall enroll the proposal and return the jacket and the
21required number of copies, including a camera-ready copy of any proposed
22constitutional amendment and each resolution requiring newspaper publication in
23a format suitable for such publication
, to the chief clerk. The camera-ready original
24copy of the each enrolled proposal shall be retained in the bureau.
SB637, s. 12 25Section 12. 13.92 (1) (b) 3. c. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,11,2
113.92 (1) (b) 3. c. Each enrolled proposal, or printed reproduced copy thereof,
2shall carry a heading "State of Wisconsin" as do bills and joint resolutions.
SB637, s. 13 3Section 13. 13.92 (1) (b) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,11,174 13.92 (1) (b) 4. Publish each act on its date of publication. Upon receipt of notice
5from the secretary of state under s. 14.38 (10) (a), the bureau shall enter the act
6number, date of enactment and date of publication of each act on the camera-ready
7a copy of the act prepared in a format suitable for publication and deliver it or
8transmit the copy
to the contract printer department of administration for
9reproduction. The copy shall identify material deleted from existing law by stricken
10type, and material inserted into existing law by underscored type. In any act
11published "vetoed in part", the material subject to the veto shall be displayed in full
12but shall be identified by distinguishing marks. The bureau shall make copies
13available on or before the date of publication of the act. The number of copies printed,
14and the
reproduced shall be as provided in the joint rules and as further determined
15by the chief clerk of the house in which the act originated. The
quality of paper used,
16shall be as provided in the joint rules and as further determined by the joint
17committee on legislative organization.
SB637, s. 14 18Section 14. 13.92 (1) (b) 5. of the statutes is renumbered 13.93 (1) (q) and
19amended to read:
SB637,11,2220 13.93 (1) (q) In cooperation with the revisor of statutes, Shall prepare a
21biennial list of numerical cross-references in the statutes to other parts of the
22statutes.
SB637, s. 15 23Section 15. 13.92 (1) (e) 1. and 2. of the statutes are amended to read:
SB637,11,2524 13.92 (1) (e) 1. Providing printing and duplicating document reproduction
25services to the legislature and its service agencies.
SB637,12,2
12. Printing Reproduction of legislative proposals or amendments and, when so
2ordered by either house, engrossed or enrolled proposals, under s. 35.05.
SB637, s. 16 3Section 16. 13.92 (1) (e) 4m. of the statutes is created to read:
SB637,12,54 13.92 (1) (e) 4m. Production of the Wisconsin Blue Book and other publications
5of the bureau in computer-readable format under s. 35.25.
SB637, s. 17 6Section 17. 13.92 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,12,77 13.92 (2) (c) Serve as editor of the biennial Wisconsin Blue Book.
SB637, s. 18 8Section 18. 13.92 (2) (i) of the statutes is created to read:
SB637,12,129 13.92 (2) (i) Approve specifications and scheduling for computer data bases
10containing the Blue Book and the materials to be provided to state agencies under
11s. 35.25 (9), and for the printing of the Blue Book as prescribed in ss. 16.971 (6) (b)
12and 35.24.
SB637, s. 19 13Section 19. 13.93 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,12,17 1413.93 (1) Duties of the bureau. (intro.) The revisor of statutes bureau shall
15prepare and maintain computer data bases and prepare copy for the biennial
16Wisconsin statutes Statutes and Annotations and the production of WisLaw under
17s. 35.185
, and for this purpose these purposes it:
SB637, s. 20 18Section 20. 13.93 (1) (a), (c) and (p) of the statutes are amended to read:
SB637,12,2319 13.93 (1) (a) Shall formulate and prepare a definite plan for the order,
20classification, arrangement, printing and binding of the statutes Wisconsin Statutes
21and Annotations
, and prepare and at each session of the legislature present bills to
22the law revision committee of the joint legislative council containing such
23consolidation, revision and other matter relating to the statutes as time permits.
SB637,13,424 (c) May, where the application or effect of a statute, by its terms, depends on
25the time when the act creating the statute took effect, substitute the actual effective

1date for the various forms of expression which mean that date, such as "when this
2act (or chapter, or section) takes effect", or "after (or before) the effective date of this
3act (or chapter, or section)", in preparing copy for the biennial printing of the
4Wisconsin statutes Statutes and Annotations.
SB637,13,75 (p) Shall include an index of statutes of limitation and statutes establishing
6procedures for assertion of claims against governmental units or their employes in
7ch. 893 of each biennial edition of the Wisconsin statutes Statutes and Annotations.
SB637, s. 21 8Section 21. 13.93 (1m) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,13,249 13.93 (1m) (title) 1970 Wisconsin annotations 1970. The revisor of statutes
10shall prepare and deliver to the department of administration, as soon as practicable
11after the end of the regular legislative session of 1969, a printer's copy for a volume
12to be designated "Wisconsin Annotations 1970" and to contain the Wisconsin
13constitution, notes of the legislative history of the sections of the statutes and
14annotations of court decisions interpreting the Wisconsin constitution and statutes,
15and such other matter as the revisor deems important. The department shall order
16printed, and the contract printer shall print and deliver, the number of copies
17ordered. This edition of the annotations shall be printed and published as
18supplement to the 1969 Wisconsin statutes Statutes; and the laws and the contract
19governing the printing and distribution of those statutes shall, as far as applicable,
20govern the printing and sale of the annotations, except that the annotations shall be
21sold at a price fixed by the department at approximately the cost thereof and there
22shall be no free distribution thereof except as provided in ss. 35.84 and 35.85 (5). The
23department shall designate the type, and shall determine the number of copies to be
24printed.
SB637, s. 22 25Section 22. 13.93 (2) (c) and (h) of the statutes are amended to read:
SB637,14,9
113.93 (2) (c) Serve as editor of the biennial Wisconsin statutes Statutes and
2Annotations
. In preparing each edition, if 2 or more acts of a legislative session affect
3the same statutory unit without taking cognizance of the effect thereon of the other
4acts and if the revisor finds that there is no mutual inconsistency in the changes
5made by each such act, the revisor shall incorporate the changes made by each act
6into the text of the statutory unit and document the incorporation in a note to the
7section. For each such incorporation, the revisor shall include in a correction bill a
8provision formally validating the incorporation. Section 990.07 is not affected by
9printing decisions made by the revisor under this paragraph.
SB637,14,1310 (h) Approve specifications and scheduling for computer data bases containing
11the Wisconsin statutes Statutes and Annotations and the materials to be provided
12to state agencies under s. 35.91 (1r),
and for the printing of the Wisconsin statutes
13Statutes and Annotations as prescribed in ss. 16.971 (6) (a) and 35.56 (5).
SB637, s. 23 14Section 23. 13.93 (2m) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,14,18 1513.93 (2m) (a) The revisor of statutes bureau shall prepare and maintain
16computer data bases and prepare
copy for publication in the Wisconsin
17administrative code Administrative Code and, if the revisor determines it is feasible,
18for inclusion in WisLaw under s. 35.185
.
SB637, s. 24 19Section 24. 13.93 (3) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,14,2020 13.93 (3) (title) Printing Reproduction and production costs.
SB637, s. 25 21Section 25. 13.93 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,14,2322 13.93 (3) (a) Printing of the Wisconsin statutes Statutes and Annotations
23under s. 35.18.
SB637, s. 26 24Section 26. 13.93 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,15,2
113.93 (3) (b) Printing Reproduction of the Wisconsin town law forms Town Law
2Forms
under s. 35.20.
SB637, s. 27 3Section 27. 13.93 (3) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,15,54 13.93 (3) (c) Printing of the Wisconsin annotations Annotations 1970 under s.
535.23.
SB637, s. 28 6Section 28. 13.93 (3) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,15,87 13.93 (3) (d) Printing Reproduction of the administrative code and register
8under s. 35.93.
SB637, s. 29 9Section 29. 13.93 (3) (e) of the statutes is created to read:
SB637,15,1010 13.93 (3) (e) Production of WisLaw under s. 35.185.
SB637, s. 30 11Section 30. 13.94 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,15,1712 13.94 (1) (c) Audit the central accounting records of the department of
13administration at least once every 2 years. A detailed report of such audit shall be
14filed as provided by par. (b), and copies shall be provided to each member or
15member-elect of the legislature and shall be available in limited number to the
16public. The bureau shall also prepare a summary of such audit report, for
17distribution in the same manner as the Wisconsin printed Blue Book under s. 35.84.
SB637, s. 31 18Section 31. 16.82 (4) (a), (d) and (g) of the statutes are amended to read:
SB637,15,2219 16.82 (4) (a) May produce or contract to have produced, printing or other
20reproduction
of classes 1, 3 and 4 materials, and excerpts from the statutes
21Wisconsin Statutes and Annotations under class 2, and all materials offered by state
22agencies for production.
SB637,16,423 (d) May, during a period when a contract for any class or subclass of public
24printing has expired and a new contract for the following biennium has not been
25entered into under ch. 35,
obtain public printing from private printers at prevailing

1commercial rates,
or other reproduction of any state document by contract under ch.
235, or by special contract if no contract is in effect for the class or subclass of which
3the document is a part, or
may produce public printing reproduce any state document
4directly
.
SB637,16,125 (g) This subsection and s. 35.015 (3) shall be liberally construed so as to
6effectuate the legislature's intent to vest broad discretion in the department to
7determine what public printing or other reproduction in the classes covered and
8what materials offered by state agencies for production shall be done by the state
9itself, and what shall be contracted. Such liberal construction shall extend to the
10department's determination to use the power conferred, to the determination of what
11work is to be included in the classes covered, and to the determination of whether a
12given process is similar to those enumerated.
SB637, s. 32 13Section 32. 16.971 (6) of the statutes, as affected by 1995 Wisconsin Act 27, is
14renumbered 16.971 (6) (a) and amended to read:
SB637,16,19 15 16.971 (6) (a) Notwithstanding subs. (1m) and (2), the revisor of statutes shall
16approve
the specifications for preparation and schedule for delivery of computer data
17bases containing the Wisconsin statutes Statutes and Annotations and the materials
18to be provided to state agencies under s. 35.91 (1r) are subject to approval of the
19revisor of statutes
.
SB637, s. 33 20Section 33. 16.971 (6) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
SB637,16,2421 16.971 (6) (b) Notwithstanding subs. (1m) and (2), the specifications for
22preparation and schedule for delivery of computer data bases containing the Blue
23Book and the materials to be provided to state agencies under s. 35.25 (9) are subject
24to approval of the chief of the legislative reference bureau.
SB637, s. 34 25Section 34. 19.35 (1) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,17,6
119.35 (1) (g) Paragraphs (a) to (c), (e) and (f) do not apply to a record which has
2been or will be promptly published with copies offered for sale or distribution. In this
3subsection, a "published" record includes a record that is or will be promptly
4distributed in electronic format and the computer data bases, and contents thereof,
5that are produced and maintained by an authority to produce such a record, and
6"sale" includes the licensing of such a record in computer-readable electronic format.
SB637, s. 35 7Section 35. 20.004 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,17,168 20.004 (1) If the legislative reference bureau, in consultation with the
9cochairpersons of the joint committee on finance, determines that any bill introduced
10into either house of the legislature is a major fiscal bill because it would have a
11significant effect upon state revenues or expenditures, the legislative reference
12bureau shall have printed reproduced, as an appendix to the bill, a revised s. 20.005
13(1), incorporating the changes in the general fund summary and in the summary of
14appropriations that would occur as a result of enactment of the bill. The department
15of administration shall provide the legislative reference bureau with the revised
16summaries.
SB637, s. 36 17Section 36. 20.908 of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,18,2 1820.908 (title) Charges for printed reproduced material. Except where
19distribution to or exchange with specified persons, officers or agencies is provided by
20law, or where the a state agency determines that distribution is to be free of charge,
21any state agency may make such charge for printed booklets and pamphlets
22prepared or compiled by it as is fixed by it. Such charge may not exceed the cost of
23printing or other reproduction
, including distribution cost as determined under s.
2435.80, unless a specific price or method of price calculation is provided by law. Such
25booklets or pamphlets may be retained by the state agency publishing preparing

1them or may be delivered to the department of administration for sale and
2distribution.
SB637, s. 37 3Section 37. Chapter 35 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB637,18,74 Chapter 35
5PUBLIC PRINTING; and other
6reproduction and DISTRIBUTION OF
7LAWS AND PUBLIC state DOCUMENTS
SB637, s. 38 8Section 38. Subchapter I (title) of chapter 35 [precedes 35.001] of the statutes
9is amended to read:
SB637,18,1010 CHAPTER 35
SB637,18,1311 SUBCHAPTER I
12STATE PRINTING And other
13Reproduction CONTRACTS
SB637, s. 39 14Section 39. 35.001 (2g) and (2r) of the statutes are created to read:
SB637,18,1515 35.001 (2g) "Judicial branch agency" has the meaning given under s. 16.70 (5).
SB637,18,16 16(2r) "Legislative service agency" has the meaning given under s. 16.70 (6).
SB637, s. 40 17Section 40. 35.001 (4) of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
SB637,18,2118 35.001 (4) "State agency" means any department or independent agency
19created or continued under ch. 15 or any body attached thereto, any office created
20under ch. 14 or body attached thereto, any state institution, the legislature, the
21courts and any legislative service agency or judicial branch agency.
SB637, s. 41 22Section 41. 35.001 (5) of the statutes is created to read:
SB637,18,2423 35.001 (5) "WisLaw" means computer readable statutes and other public
24documents produced under s. 35.185.
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