1997-1998 Wisconsin Legislature

Senate Bill 494

Relating to: suspension of licenses, permits and other credentials for failure to pay child support or to comply with a subpoena or warrant related to paternity or child support proceedings and requiring social security numbers on license, permit and other credential applications and on certain documents concerning marriage and children; creating a record matching program to match information about delinquent child support obligors with financial account information of financial institutions; creating a statutory lien for delinquent child support obligations; creating a mechanism for enforcing child support liens; fees for the child and spousal support, establishment of paternity and medical liability support program and cooperation with child support efforts under Wisconsin works; income withholding for support or maintenance, adjudicating paternity when the mother fails to appear and other technical changes related to child support enforcement; access to certain agency records, nonliability for providing information from records, issuing subpoenas, ordering genetic tests; providing notice to new employers of a parent's obligation to provide health care coverage for a child; hospital-based voluntary establishment of paternity; administratively changing interstate income-withholding orders to sum certain amounts; presumption of paternity; access by county child support employes to tax information; acknowledgment of paternity; procedure, temporary orders and probable cause in paternity actions; payment for genetic tests in paternity actions; changes in departmental responsibility for support enforcement; intercepting delinquent support and certain other payments from pension plan disbursements; intercepting delinquent support from court judgments and settlements; granting rule-making authority; making appropriations; and providing a penalty. (FE) relating to: suspension of licenses, permits and other credentials for failure to pay child support or to comply with a subpoena or warrant related to paternity or child support proceedings and requiring social security numbers on license, permit and other credential applications and on certain documents concerning marriage and children; creating a record matching program to match information about delinquent child support obligors with financial account information of financial institutions; creating a statutory lien for delinquent child support obligations; creating a mechanism for enforcing child support liens; fees for the child and spousal support, establishment of paternity and medical liability support program and cooperation with child support efforts under Wisconsin works; income withholding for support or maintenance, adjudicating paternity when the mother fails to appear and other technical changes related to child support enforcement; access to certain agency records, nonliability for providing information from records, issuing subpoenas, ordering genetic tests; providing notice to new employers of a parent's obligation to provide health care coverage for a child; hospital-based voluntary establishment of paternity; administratively changing interstate income-withholding orders to sum certain amounts; presumption of paternity; access by county child support employes to tax information; acknowledgment of paternity; procedure, temporary orders and probable cause in paternity actions; payment for genetic tests in paternity actions; changes in departmental responsibility for support enforcement; intercepting delinquent support and certain other payments from pension plan disbursements; intercepting delinquent support from court judgments and settlements; granting rule-making authority; making appropriations; and providing a penalty. (FE)

Important Actions (newest first)

Date / House Action Journal
5/13/1998 Sen.Failed to pass pending partial veto notwithstanding the objections of the Governor pursuant to Joint Rule 82 696
3/24/1998 Asm.Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 72, Noes 22, Paired 2 737
3/19/1998 Sen.Read a third time and passed, Ayes 25, Noes 6 540

History

Date / House Action Journal
3/10/1998 Sen.Introduced by Senators Wirch, Darling and Roessler; cosponsored by Representatives Huebsch, R. Young and La Fave.  
3/10/1998 Sen.Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs 483
3/11/1998 Sen.Executive action taken.  
3/12/1998 Sen.Report introduction of Senate substitute amendment 1 recommended by committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs, Ayes 4, Noes 0 by committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs 496  
3/12/1998 Sen.Report introduction and adoption of Senate amendment 1 to Senate substitute amendment 1 recommended by committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs, Ayes 4, Noes 0 by committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs 496  
3/12/1998 Sen.Report Senate substitute amendment 1 adoption recommended by committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs, Ayes 4, Noes 0 496
3/12/1998 Sen.Report passage as amended recommended by committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs, Ayes 4, Noes 0 497
3/12/1998 Sen.Available for scheduling.  
3/19/1998 Sen.Fiscal estimate received.  
3/19/1998 Sen.Read a second time 535
3/19/1998 Sen.Referred to joint committee on Finance 535
3/19/1998 Sen.Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and taken up 535
3/19/1998 Sen.Placed at the foot of the 11th order of business on the calendar of 3-19-98 535
3/19/1998 Sen.Placed after Assembly Bill 669 on the calendar of 3-19-98 536
3/19/1998 Sen.Senator Moore added as a coauthor 536
3/19/1998 Sen.Senate amendment 1 to Senate substitute amendment 1 adopted 538
3/19/1998 Sen.Senate substitute amendment 1 laid on table 538
3/19/1998 Sen.Senate substitute amendment 2 offered by Senator Wirch 538
3/19/1998 Sen.Placed at the foot of the calendar of 3-19-98 538
3/19/1998 Sen.Refused to refer to committee on Senate Organization, Ayes 2, Noes 29 540
3/19/1998 Sen.Senate substitute amendment 2 adopted 540
3/19/1998 Sen.Ordered to a third reading 540
3/19/1998 Sen.Rules suspended 540
3/19/1998 Sen.Read a third time and passed, Ayes 25, Noes 6 540
3/19/1998 Sen.Ordered immediately messaged 540
3/20/1998 Asm.Received from Senate 702
3/20/1998 Asm.Read first time and referred to calendar 703
3/24/1998 Asm.Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from calendar and take up, Ayes 52, Noes 42 714
3/24/1998 Asm.Read a second time 736
3/24/1998 Asm.Assembly amendment 1 offered by Representative Schneider 736
3/24/1998 Asm.Assembly amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 59, Noes 36 736
3/24/1998 Asm.Assembly amendment 2 offered by Representative Schneider 736
3/24/1998 Asm.Refused to table Assembly amendment 2, Ayes 46, Noes 49 736
3/24/1998 Asm.Assembly amendment 2 rejected, Ayes 53, Noes 42 737
3/24/1998 Asm.Assembly amendment 3 offered by Representative Schneider 737
3/24/1998 Asm.Refused to table Assembly amendment 3, Ayes 45, Noes 50 737
3/24/1998 Asm.Assembly amendment 3 rejected, Ayes 52, Noes 43 737
3/24/1998 Asm.Ordered to a third reading 737
3/24/1998 Asm.Rules suspended 737
3/24/1998 Asm.Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 72, Noes 22, Paired 2 737
3/26/1998 Sen.Received from Assembly concurred in 554
3/26/1998 Sen.Fiscal estimate received.  
3/26/1998 Sen.Fiscal estimate received.  
3/26/1998 Sen.Fiscal estimate received.  
4/1/1998 Sen.Report correctly enrolled on 4-1-98 579
4/28/1998 Sen.Presented to the Governor on 4-23-98 619
4/30/1998 Sen.Report approved by the Governor with partial veto on 4-27-98. 1997 Wisconsin Act 191 649
5/1/1998 Sen.Published 4-30-98 653
5/13/1998 Sen.Failed to pass pending partial veto notwithstanding the objections of the Governor pursuant to Joint Rule 82 696
 
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