SB327,63 3Section 63. 69.15 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,25,84 69.15 (1) Birth certificate information changes. The state registrar may
5change information on a birth certificate registered in this state which was correct
6at the time the birth certificate was filed under a court or administrative order issued
7in this state, in another state or in Canada or under the valid order of a court of any
8federally recognized Indian tribe, band, or nation if all of the following occur:
SB327,25,109 (a) The order provides for an adoption, name change, or name change with sex
10change or establishes paternity; and or parentage.
SB327,25,1511 (b) A clerk of court or, for a paternity or parentage action, a clerk of court or
12county child support agency under s. 59.53 (5), sends the state registrar a certified
13report of an order of a court in this state on a form supplied by the state registrar or,
14in the case of any other order, the state registrar receives a certified copy of the order
15and the proper fee under s. 69.22.
SB327,64 16Section 64. 69.15 (3) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,26,217 69.15 (3) (b) 3. Except as provided under par. (c), if the state registrar receives
18a statement acknowledging paternity of a nonmarital child on a form prescribed by
19the state registrar and signed by both parents, neither of whom was under the age
20of 18 years when the form was signed, along with the fee under s. 69.22, the state
21registrar shall insert the name of the father under subd. 1. The state registrar shall
22mark the certificate to show that the form is on file. The form shall be available to
23the department of children and families or a county child support agency under s.
2459.53 (5) pursuant to the program responsibilities under s. 49.22 or to any other
25person with a direct and tangible interest in the record. The state registrar shall

1include on the form for the acknowledgment the information in s. 767.805 and the
2items in s. 767.813 (5g).
SB327,65 3Section 65. 69.15 (3) (b) 3m. of the statutes is created to read:
SB327,26,104 69.15 (3) (b) 3m. Except as provided in par. (c), if the state registrar receives
5an acknowledgement of parentage on a form prescribed by the state registrar and
6signed by both of the people presumed to be natural parents under s. 891.41 (1) (b),
7a certified copy of the parents' marriage certificate, and the fee required under s.
869.22 (5) (b) 1., the state registrar shall insert the name of the spouse from the
9marriage certificate as a parent if the name of that parent was omitted on the original
10birth certificate.
SB327,66 11Section 66. 71.03 (2) (d) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,26,1212 71.03 (2) (d) (title) Husband and wife Spouses joint filing.
SB327,67 13Section 67. 71.03 (2) (d) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,26,1614 71.03 (2) (d) 1. Except as provided in subds. 2. and 3. and par. (e), a husband
15and a wife
spouses may file a joint return for income tax purposes even though one
16of the spouses has no gross income or no deductions.
SB327,68 17Section 68. 71.03 (2) (d) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,26,2118 71.03 (2) (d) 2. No joint return may be filed if either the husband or wife spouse
19at any time during the taxable year is a nonresident alien, unless an election is in
20effect for the taxable year under section 6013 (g) or (h) of the internal revenue code
21Internal Revenue Code.
SB327,69 22Section 69. 71.03 (2) (d) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,27,423 71.03 (2) (d) 3. No joint return may be filed if the husband and wife spouses
24have different taxable years, except that if their taxable years begin on the same day
25and end on different days because of the death of either or both the joint return may

1be filed with respect to the taxable year of each unless the surviving spouse remarries
2before the close of his or her taxable year or unless the taxable year of either spouse
3is a fractional part of a year under section 443 (a) (1) of the internal revenue code
4Internal Revenue Code.
SB327,70 5Section 70. 71.03 (2) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,27,206 71.03 (2) (g) Joint return following separate return. Except as provided in par.
7(i), if an individual has filed a separate return for a taxable year for which a joint
8return could have been filed by the individual and the individual's spouse under par.
9(d) or (e) and the time prescribed by law for timely filing the return for that taxable
10year has expired, the individual and the individual's spouse may file a joint return
11for that taxable year. A joint return filed by the husband and wife spouses under this
12paragraph is their return for that taxable year, and all payments, credits, refunds
13or other repayments made or allowed with respect to the separate return of each
14spouse for that taxable year shall be taken into account in determining the extent
15to which the tax based upon the joint return has been paid. If a joint return is filed
16under this paragraph, any election, other than the election to file a separate return,
17made by either spouse in that spouse's separate return for that taxable year with
18respect to the treatment of any income, deduction or credit of that spouse may not
19be changed in the filing of the joint return if that election would have been irrevocable
20if the joint return had not been filed.
SB327,71 21Section 71. 71.03 (2) (m) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,27,2522 71.03 (2) (m) 2. If a husband and wife spouses change from a joint return to
23separate returns within the time prescribed in subd. 1., the tax paid on the joint
24return shall be allocated between them in proportion to the tax liability shown on
25each separate return.
SB327,72
1Section 72. 71.03 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,28,112 71.03 (4) (a) Natural persons whose total income is not in excess of $10,000 and
3consists entirely of wages subject to withholding for Wisconsin tax purposes and not
4more than $200 total of dividends, interest and other wages not subject to Wisconsin
5withholding, and who have elected the Wisconsin standard deduction and have not
6claimed either the credit for homestead property tax relief or deductions for expenses
7incurred in earning such income, shall, at their election, not be required to record on
8their income tax returns the amount of the tax imposed on their Wisconsin taxable
9income. Married persons shall be permitted this election only if the joint income of
10the husband and wife spouses does not exceed $10,000, if both report their incomes
11on the same joint income tax return form, and if both make this election.
SB327,73 12Section 73. 71.05 (22) (a) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,28,1413 71.05 (22) (a) (title) Election of deductions; husband and wife spousal
14deductions.
SB327,74 15Section 74. 71.07 (5m) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,28,1716 71.07 (5m) (a) 3. “Household" means a claimant and an individual related to
17the claimant as husband or wife his or her spouse.
SB327,75 18Section 75. 71.07 (9e) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,28,2219 71.07 (9e) (b) No credit may be allowed under this subsection to married
20persons, except married persons living apart who are treated as single under section
217703 (b) of the internal revenue code Internal Revenue Code, if the husband and wife
22spouses report their income on separate income tax returns for the taxable year.
SB327,76 23Section 76. 71.09 (13) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,29,624 71.09 (13) (a) 2. The tax shown on the return for the preceding year. If a
25husband and wife
spouses who filed separate returns for the preceding taxable year

1file a joint return, the tax shown on the return for the preceding year is the sum of
2the taxes shown on the separate returns of the husband and wife spouses. If a
3husband and wife
spouses who filed a joint return for the preceding taxable year file
4separate returns, the tax shown on the return for the preceding year is the husband's
5or wife's
each spouse's proportion of that tax based on what their respective tax
6liabilities for that year would have been had they filed separately.
SB327,77 7Section 77. 71.52 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,29,98 71.52 (4) “Household" means a claimant and an individual related to the
9claimant as husband or wife his or her spouse.
SB327,78 10Section 78. 71.83 (1) (a) 8. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,29,1711 71.83 (1) (a) 8. `Joint return replacing separate returns.' If the amount shown
12as the tax by the husband and wife spouses on a joint return filed under s. 71.03 (2)
13(g) to (L) exceeds the sum of the amounts shown as the tax upon the separate return
14of each spouse and if any part of that excess is attributable to negligence or
15intentional disregard of this chapter, but without intent to defraud, at the time of the
16filing of that separate return, then 25 percent of the total amount of that excess shall
17be added to the tax.
SB327,79 18Section 79. 71.83 (1) (b) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,29,2419 71.83 (1) (b) 5. `Joint return after separate returns.' If the amount shown as
20the tax by the husband and wife spouses on a joint return filed under s. 71.03 (2) (g)
21to (L) exceeds the sum of the amounts shown as the tax on the separate return of each
22spouse and if any part of that excess is attributable to fraud with intent to evade tax
23at the time of the filing of that separate return, then 50 percent of the total amount
24of that excess shall be added to the tax.
SB327,80 25Section 80. 77.25 (8m) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,30,1
177.25 (8m) Between husband and wife spouses.
SB327,81 2Section 81. 77.54 (7) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,30,63 77.54 (7) (b) 1. The item is transferred to a child, spouse, parent, father-in-law,
4mother-in-law
parent-in-law, daughter-in-law , or son-in-law of the transferor or,
5if the item is a motor vehicle, from the transferor to a corporation owned solely by the
6transferor or by the transferor's spouse.
SB327,82 7Section 82. 101.91 (5m) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,30,138 101.91 (5m) “Manufactured home community" means any plot or plots of
9ground upon which 3 or more manufactured homes that are occupied for dwelling or
10sleeping purposes are located. “Manufactured home community" does not include a
11farm where the occupants of the manufactured homes are the father, mother, son,
12daughter, brother or sister
parents, children, or siblings of the farm owner or
13operator or where the occupants of the manufactured homes work on the farm.
SB327,83 14Section 83. 102.07 (5) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,30,1715 102.07 (5) (b) The parents, spouse, child, brother, sister, son-in-law,
16daughter-in-law, father-in-law, mother-in-law parent-in-law, brother-in-law, or
17sister-in-law of a farmer shall not be deemed the farmer's employees.
SB327,84 18Section 84. 102.07 (5) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,30,2519 102.07 (5) (c) A shareholder-employee of a family farm corporation shall be
20deemed a “farmer" for purposes of this chapter and shall not be deemed an employee
21of a farmer. A “family farm corporation" means a corporation engaged in farming all
22of whose shareholders are related as lineal ancestors or lineal descendants, whether
23by blood or by adoption, or as spouses, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins,
24sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, fathers-in-law, mothers-in-law parents-in-law,
25brothers-in-law, or sisters-in-law of such lineal ancestors or lineal descendants.
SB327,85
1Section 85. 102.51 (1) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,31,32 102.51 (1) (a) 1. A wife married person upon a husband his or her spouse with
3whom he or she is living at the time of his the spouse's death.
SB327,86 4Section 86. 102.51 (1) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed.
SB327,87 5Section 87. 103.10 (1) (h) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,31,76 103.10 (1) (h) “Spouse" means an employee's legal husband or wife the person
7to whom an employee is legally married
.
SB327,88 8Section 88. 103.165 (3) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,31,109 103.165 (3) (a) 3. The decedent's father or mother parent or parents if the
10decedent leaves no surviving spouse, domestic partner under ch. 770, or children.
SB327,89 11Section 89. 111.32 (12) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,31,1312 111.32 (12) “Marital status" means the status of being married, single,
13divorced, separated, or widowed a surviving spouse.
SB327,90 14Section 90. 115.76 (12) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,31,1515 115.76 (12) (a) 1. A biological natural parent.
SB327,91 16Section 91. 115.76 (12) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed.
SB327,92 17Section 92. 115.76 (12) (a) 3. of the statutes is repealed.
SB327,93 18Section 93. 115.76 (13) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,31,2519 115.76 (13) “Person acting as a parent of a child" means a relative of the child
20or a private individual allowed to act as a parent of a child by the child's biological
21natural or adoptive parents or guardian, and includes the child's grandparent,
22neighbor, friend or private individual caring for the child with the explicit or tacit
23approval of the child's biological natural or adoptive parents or guardian. “Person
24acting as a parent of a child" does not include any person that receives public funds
25to care for the child if such funds exceed the cost of such care.
SB327,94
1Section 94. 146.34 (1) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,32,72 146.34 (1) (f) “Parent" means a biological natural parent, a husband who has
3consented to the artificial insemination of his wife under s. 891.40
or a parent by
4adoption. If the minor is a nonmarital child who is not adopted or whose parents do
5not subsequently intermarry under s. 767.803, “parent" includes a person adjudged
6in a judicial proceeding under ch. 48 to be the biological father of the minor. “Parent"
7does not include any person whose parental rights have been terminated.
SB327,95 8Section 95. 157.05 of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,32,15 9157.05 Autopsy. Consent for a licensed physician to conduct an autopsy on
10the body of a deceased person shall be deemed sufficient when given by whichever
11one of the following assumes custody of the body for purposes of burial: Father,
12mother, husband, wife
parent, spouse, child, guardian, next of kin, domestic partner
13under ch. 770, or in the absence of any of the foregoing, a friend, or a person charged
14by law with the responsibility for burial. If 2 or more such persons assume custody
15of the body, the consent of one of them shall be deemed sufficient.
SB327,96 16Section 96. 182.004 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,32,2217 182.004 (6) Stock may be issued and leases made to husband and wife spouses,
18and to the survivor of them, in which event title shall descend the same as in like
19conveyances of real property subject to ch. 766. Otherwise, title to the stock and lease
20shall descend to the persons to whom a homestead of the stockholder would descend
21except as provided in ch. 766. The interest of a tenant in the lease and stock shall
22be exempt from execution to the same extent as a homestead in real estate.
SB327,97 23Section 97. 250.04 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,33,224 250.04 (3) (a) The department shall establish and maintain surveillance
25activities sufficient to detect any occurrence of acute, communicable , or chronic

1diseases and threat of occupational or environmental hazards, injuries, or changes
2in the health of mothers parents and children.
SB327,98 3Section 98. 301.12 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,33,254 301.12 (2) Except as provided in subs. (2m) and (14) (b) and (c), any person,
5including a person placed under s. 938.183, 938.32 (1) (bm) or (c), 938.34 (4h) or (4m),
6or 938.357 (1), (2m), (4), or (5) (e), receiving care, maintenance, services, and supplies
7provided by any institution in this state operated or contracted for by the
8department, in which the state is chargeable with all or part of the person's care,
9maintenance, services, and supplies, and the person's property and estate, including
10the homestead, and the spouse of the person, and the spouse's property and estate,
11including the homestead, and, in the case of a minor child, the parents of the person,
12and their property and estates, including their homestead, and, in the case of a
13foreign child described in s. 48.839 (1) who became dependent on public funds for his
14or her primary support before an order granting his or her adoption, the resident of
15this state appointed guardian of the child by a foreign court who brought the child
16into this state for the purpose of adoption, and his or her property and estate,
17including his or her homestead, shall be liable for the cost of the care, maintenance,
18services, and supplies in accordance with the fee schedule established by the
19department under s. 301.03 (18). If a spouse, widow surviving spouse, or minor, or
20an incapacitated person, may be lawfully dependent upon the property for his or her
21support, the court shall release all or such part of the property and estate from the
22charges that may be necessary to provide for that person. The department shall
23make every reasonable effort to notify the liable persons as soon as possible after the
24beginning of the maintenance, but the notice or the receipt of the notice is not a
25condition of liability.
SB327,99
1Section 99. 301.50 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,34,112 301.50 (1) In this section, “substantial parental relationship" means the
3acceptance and exercise of significant responsibility for the daily supervision,
4education, protection, and care of the child. In evaluating whether an individual has
5had a substantial parental relationship with the child, factors that may be
6considered include, but are not limited to, whether the individual has expressed
7concern for or interest in the support, care, or well-being of the child; whether the
8individual has neglected or refused to provide care or support for the child; and
9whether, with respect to an individual who is or may be the father a parent of the
10child, the individual has expressed concern for or interest in the support, care, or
11well-being of the mother during her pregnancy.
SB327,100 12Section 100. 700.19 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,34,2013 700.19 (2) Husband and wife Spouses. If persons named as owners in a
14document of title, transferees in an instrument of transfer, or buyers in a bill of sale
15are described in the document, instrument, or bill of sale as husband and wife
16married to each other, or are in fact husband and wife married to each other, they are
17joint tenants, unless the intent to create a tenancy in common is expressed in the
18document, instrument, or bill of sale. This subsection applies to property acquired
19before January 1, 1986, and, if ch. 766 does not apply when the property is acquired,
20to property acquired on or after January 1, 1986.
SB327,101 21Section 101. 705.01 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,35,222 705.01 (4) “Joint account" means an account, other than a marital account,
23payable on request to one or more of 2 or more parties whether or not mention is made
24of any right of survivorship. “Joint account" also means any account established with
25the right of survivorship on or after January 1, 1986, by 2 parties who claim to be

1husband and wife married to each other, which is payable on request to either or both
2of the parties.
SB327,102 3Section 102. 705.01 (4m) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,35,94 705.01 (4m) “Marital account" means an account established without the right
5of survivorship on or after January 1, 1986, by 2 parties who claim to be husband and
6wife
married to each other, which is payable on request to either or both of the parties
7and which is designated as a marital account. An account established by those
8parties with the right of survivorship under s. 766.58 (3) (f) or 766.60 is a joint
9account.
SB327,103 10Section 103. 706.09 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,35,1711 706.09 (1) (e) Marital interests. Homestead of the spouse of any transferor of
12an interest in real estate, if the recorded conveyance purporting to transfer the
13homestead states that the person executing it is single, unmarried , or widowed a
14surviving spouse
or fails to indicate the marital status of the transferor, and if the
15conveyance has, in either case, appeared of record for 5 years. This paragraph does
16not apply to the interest of a married person who is described of record as a holder
17in joint tenancy or of marital property with that transferor.
SB327,104 18Section 104. 765.001 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,36,1119 765.001 (2) Intent. It is the intent of chs. 765 to 768 to promote the stability
20and best interests of marriage and the family. It is the intent of the legislature to
21recognize the valuable contributions of both spouses during the marriage and at
22termination of the marriage by dissolution or death. Marriage is the institution that
23is the foundation of the family and of society. Its stability is basic to morality and
24civilization, and of vital interest to society and the state. The consequences of the
25marriage contract are more significant to society than those of other contracts, and

1the public interest must be taken into account always. The seriousness of marriage
2makes adequate premarital counseling and education for family living highly
3desirable and courses thereon are urged upon all persons contemplating marriage.
4The impairment or dissolution of the marriage relation generally results in injury
5to the public wholly apart from the effect upon the parties immediately concerned.
6Under the laws of this state, marriage is a legal relationship between 2 equal
7persons, a husband and wife, who owe to each other mutual responsibility and
8support. Each spouse has an equal obligation in accordance with his or her ability
9to contribute money or services or both which are necessary for the adequate support
10and maintenance of his or her minor children and of the other spouse. No spouse may
11be presumed primarily liable for support expenses under this subsection.
SB327,105 12Section 105. 765.01 of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,36,16 13765.01 A civil contract. Marriage, so far as its validity at law is concerned,
14is a civil contract, to which the consent of the parties capable in law of contracting
15is essential, and which creates the legal status of husband and wife spouse to each
16other
.
SB327,106 17Section 106. 765.02 (3) of the statutes is created to read:
SB327,36,1918 765.02 (3) Marriage may be contracted between persons of the same sex or
19different sexes.
SB327,107 20Section 107. 765.03 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB327,37,621 765.03 (1) No marriage shall be contracted while either of the parties has a
22husband or wife spouse living, nor between persons who are nearer of kin than 2nd
23cousins except that marriage may be contracted between first cousins where the if
24a
female party has attained the age of 55 years or where if either party, at the time
25of application for a marriage license, submits an affidavit signed by a physician

1stating that either party is permanently sterile or that the 2 parties are otherwise
2permanently biologically incapable of producing a child together
. Relationship
3under this section shall be computed by the rule of the civil law, whether the parties
4to the marriage are of the half or of the whole blood. A marriage may not be
5contracted if either party has such want of understanding as renders him or her
6incapable of assenting to marriage.
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