Wisconsin Legislature: Petitions

Protective placements and services, involuntary administration of psychotropic medication, guardianships, conservatorships, wards, and services for adults at risk and elder adults at risk: reconciliation of 2005 WisActs 264, 387, and 388 (AB-785, SB-391, and AB-539) - SB731

Residents of state centers for the developmentally disabled deemed appropriate for community care: revision re charging counties for services [Sec. 1229] - AB100

Rural health clinic in Chippewa Falls: funding re dental services for elderly or developmentally disabled [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 2031m, 9421 (11k)] - AB100

Service animal accompanying person with a disability or animal trainer: laws re access to public accommodations modified - SB157

Service dog: theft or harassment of or recklessly injuring made a crime; penalty and restitution provisions - AB353

Service dog: theft or harassment of or recklessly injuring made a crime; penalty and restitution provisions [S.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, harassment deleted, interfering with the use of and causing death added, ``pecuniary loss" applied to law enforcement or fire department animal or service dog] - SB181

Special interest vehicle owner may, if eligible, obtain a special identification decal re disabilities in lieu of a special ID card - AB965

Special orders of business for December 13, 2005 established re partial veto of AB-100 [Item C-1] and AB-20, AB-120, AB-122, AB-397, AB-521, AB-624, AB-700, AB-763, AB-802, AB-823, AB-829, AB-840, AB-844, SB-175, SB-331, SB-402, SB-403 - AR43

Special registration plate or temporary certification re parking privileges for disabled persons: public health nurse allowed to provide certification to enable a person to obtain - AB1184

Special registration plates or special ID for persons with disabilities re parking privileges: criteria for obtaining modified; forfeiture for lending special ID to a person not authorized to use it revised; forfeiture for providing false or misleading information created; DOT provision re issuing more than one ID [A.Amdt.1: forfeiture for selling ID added; A.Amdt.2: copy of statement from certain health care providers must be kept on the person or in the vehicle] - AB715

Specialized medical vehicle: MA-certified provider requirements revised re wheelchair accommodations - AB122

Specialized Transportation Assistance Program: aid held in trust by DOT expanded to cover services; deadline to apply for county proportionate share revised - AB426

Transporting children with disabilities to school: school board requirements revised - SB383

``Treatment records" and ``registration records" re mental health, developmental disabilities, alcoholism, and drug dependence: definitions changed; confidentiality exception re release to physician in a medical emergency modified; good faith exception to liability for release of records eliminated - AB1094

``Treatment records" and ``registration records" re mental health, developmental disabilities, alcoholism, and drug dependence: definitions changed; confidentiality exception re release to physician in a medical emergency modified; good faith exception to liability for release of records eliminated [S.Amdt.1: information that may be released specified] - SB650

Tuition and fee remissions for veteran, spouse, surviving spouse, and children of certain veterans re U.W. and TCS boards: eligibility expanded re certain service-connected disability - SB427

Tuition and fee remissions for veteran, spouse, surviving spouse, and children of certain veterans re U.W. and TCS boards: eligibility expanded re certain service-connected disability; residence requirement re incurrence of disability removed - AB879

Tuition and fee remissions for veterans re U.W. and TCS boards: residence requirement re incurrence of service-connected disability removed; eligibility expanded to include unremarried spouse and children of veteran who died as a result of a service-connected disability, residency provision - AB1034

Tuition and fee remissions for veterans re U.W. and TCS boards: residence requirement re incurrence of service-connected disability removed; eligibility expanded to include unremarried spouse and children of veteran who died as a result of a service-connected disability, residency provision - SB613

U.W. and technical college fee remission extended to child or surviving spouse of an ambulance driver, correctional officer, EMT, fire fighter, or law enforcement officer who qualified for duty disability benefits and later died from the disability - AB835

U.W. and technical college fee remission extended to child or surviving spouse of an ambulance driver, correctional officer, EMT, fire fighter, or law enforcement officer who qualified for duty disability benefits and later died from the disability - SB414

Weight gain, obesity, or related health condition caused by the consumption of food: civil liability exemption from claims for food manufacturers, marketers, packers, advertisers, distributors, and sellers; attorney fee provision - AB338

Weight gain, obesity, or related health condition caused by the consumption of food: civil liability exemption from claims for food manufacturers, marketers, packers, advertisers, distributors, and sellers; attorney fee provision - SB161

Wrongful birth or wrongful life action: recovery of damages - SB71

Billing for consumer goods or services: certain practices prohibited; lawn care service contract regulations created; DATCP authority and civil action provisions [A.Amdt.1: lawn care service contracts deleted; S.Amdt.1: attorney-client relationship added to ``consumer goods or services" exceptions] - AB574

Bulk fertilizer and pesticides: rules concerning storage expanded to include persons who store; secondary containment provision - SB500

AJR-67 and SJR-53: marriage between one man and one woman only shall be valid or recognized; constitutional amendment (2nd consideration), supported - AP1

AJR-67 and SJR-53: marriage between one man and one woman only shall be valid or recognized; constitutional amendment (2nd consideration), supported - AP2

Integrated oil company excess profits tax created; individual income tax credit for cost of fuel and electricity used to heat principal dwelling created; corporations and subsidies required to file combined reports and tax returns re state income and franchise taxes - AB873

Integrated oil company excess profits tax created; individual income tax credit for cost of fuel and electricity used to heat principal dwelling created; corporations and subsidies required to file combined reports and tax returns re state income and franchise taxes - SB376

Low-income energy assistance program: eligibility expanded for fiscal year 2005-06; one-time fund transfer from the petroleum inspection fund - AB1106

Low-income energy assistance program: eligibility expanded for fiscal year 2005-06; one-time fund transfer from the petroleum inspection fund - FE6 AB1

Low-income energy assistance program: eligibility expanded for fiscal year 2005-06; one-time fund transfer from the petroleum inspection fund [S.Amdt.1: applications due by certain date] - FE6 SB1

Low-income energy assistance program: eligibility expanded for fiscal year 2005-06; one-time funding transfer from the petroleum inspection fund - SB598

Motor vehicle fuel tax annual adjustment sunsetted; petroleum inspection fee modified - SB421

Petroleum inspection fee reduced; diesel truck idling reduction grants created, sunset provided [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 156s, t, 1829p, 2094f, 2348q, 9108 (1v), (1w), 9408 (1x)] - AB100

Petroleum inspection fund transfer to general fund [Sec. 9208 (1)] - AB100

Raw forest products: exemptions from harvesting on tax delinquent land created re maintaining railroad tracks, pipelines, and utility right-of-way - AB1173

Raw forest products: exemptions from harvesting on tax delinquent land created re maintaining railroad tracks, pipelines, and utility right-of-way - SB683

Research and research facilities: tax credits modified re engine manufacturing and vehicle design [for further revisions, see entry under ``Industrial development"] - SB103

Oil pipeline terminal facility taxation: annual distribution to governments where facility is located [Sec. 454, 456, 1470-1473, 9441 (4)] - AB100

Cancer drug repository program expanded to include prescription drugs and supplies for chronic diseases; fee and DHFS provisions - AB197

Cancer drug repository program expanded to include prescription drugs and supplies for chronic diseases; fee and DHFS provisions - SB109

Cigarette tax increased; Badger Care, prescription drug assistance, and MA GPR appropriations revised; drug dispensing fee re pharmacies increased; certain MA nursing home, hospital, and trust fund appropriation provisions - AB779

Cigarette tax increased; Badger Care, prescription drug assistance, and MA GPR appropriations revised; drug dispensing fee re pharmacies increased; certain MA nursing home, hospital, and trust fund appropriation provisions - AB847

Drug product equivalent: label to include statement re substitution by pharmacist unless practitioner requests omission [A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, prescribed brand name included on bottle] - AB258

Employment discrimination based on creed expanded re pharmacist refusal to dispense drugs used for abortion, assisted suicide, or euthanasia; definition, disciplinary action, and damages provisions - AB285

Employment discrimination based on creed expanded re pharmacist refusal to dispense drugs used for abortion, assisted suicide, or euthanasia; definition, disciplinary action, and damages provisions - SB155

Employment discrimination based on creed expanded to include sterilization, abortion, experiments re in vitro human embryos, procedures re fetal tissue, assisted suicide, euthanasia, and mercy killings; health care providers and health facilities employees revisions; definitions, disciplinary actions, liability, and damages provisions [A.Amdt.1: access to patient health care records provision added] - AB207

Epilepsy drugs: pharmacist prohibited from substituting a drug product equivalent without prescribing practitioner and patient consent; certain health insurers prohibited from penalizing a participating provider, pharmacist, or enrollee for requesting specific epilepsy drugs - AB1210

Health care plan must allow any provider to participate, conditions set; 30-day period when pharmacists elect to participate for at least one year extended to certain other health care professionals - AB274

Methamphetamine: possession of certain materials with intent to manufacture prohibited; penalty for distribution or delivery to person under age 18 modified; restrictions on sale and reclassification of pseudoephedrine hydrochloride; intentionally releasing anhydrous ammonia without owner's consent prohibited and liquid nitrogen provision - AB183

Methamphetamine: possession of certain materials with intent to manufacture prohibited; penalty for distribution or delivery to person under age 18 modified; restrictions on sale and reclassification of pseudoephedrine hydrochloride; intentionally releasing anhydrous ammonia without owner's consent prohibited; penalty provisions [S.Sub.Amdt.2: further revisions, distribution to minors removed, restrictions on sale of certain products and amounts purchased added, Pharmacy Examining Board provision] - SB78

Optometrist regulation revised including certain pharmaceutical agents, license examination, and continuing education - AB828

Optometrist regulation revised including certain pharmaceutical agents, license examination, and continuing education - SB429

Out-of-state pharmacy licensure requirements created; toll-free telephone number provision [A.Amdt.1: ``toll-free" deleted] - AB722

Patient health care records: requirements created for transfer from health care provider who is deceased or ceases practice to another health care provider - AB465

Pharmacies required to have at least one pharmacist present to administer, dispense, deliver, or distribute all FDA approved contraceptive articles - AB605

Pharmacists required to dispense all FDA approved contraceptives unless it is contraindicated for a particular patient - AB795

Pharmacists required to dispense all FDA approved contraceptives unless it is contraindicated for a particular patient; abortion defined to exclude FDA approved birth control - AB532

Pharmacy Examining Board powers during a declared state of emergency re granting a variance - SB405

Prescription drug labels: practitioner must include symptom or purpose for which the drug is prescribed if the patient wants that information on the label - AB269

Pseudoephedrine product sales: weight-based prohibitions modified [S.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, law enforcement officer access to certain records of pseudophedrine sales added] - SB652

Pseudoephedrine product sales: weight-based prohibitions modified; law enforcement access to certain pharmacy records, patient health care record provision - AB1090

Public health planning, services, and functions; reporting of communicable diseases; vaccination, isolation, and quarantine during a public health emergency; DHFS required to develop a public health agenda every 10 years and other duties specified; contracts between municipalities and Indian tribes or bands in other states authorized; DATCP provision [A.Amdt.1: vaccination, isolation, and quarantine provisions removed] - AB881

Special orders of business for March 7, 2006 established re AB-19, AB-33, AB-96, AB-353, AB-588, AB-596, AB-671, AB-673, AB-675, AB-680, AB-681, AB-686, AB-751, AB-801, AB-838, AB-842, AB-856, AB-874, AB-900, AB-928, AB-934, AB-936, AB-958, AB-973, AB-974, AB-975, AB-987, AB-989, AB-990, AB-1008, AB-1015, AB-1024, AB-1028, AB-1060, AB-1077, SB-103, SB-350, SB-369, SB-405, SB-447, SB-450, SB-459, SB-501, SB-502, SB-510, SB-536, SB-537, SB-602 - AR50

State agent of DHFS status granted to health care providers who volunteer their services to a health care facility during a state of emergency re public health; restrictions specified; WC provision [S.Amdt.1: health care provider expanded to include behavioral health provider, pupil services provider, and substance abuse prevention provider] - AB385

Volunteer Health Care Provider Program and status as state agents of DHFS expanded to include licensed pharmacists and pharmacy technicians - SB544

WC law revisions re payment of benefits, maximum compensation amounts, work injury supplemental benefit fund, hearings and procedures, program administration, and general coverage; penalty and report provisions - SB474

Wholesale distribution of prescription drugs: regulations created; Pharmacy Examining Board duties specified; pedigree and felony crime provisions - AB1013

Wholesale distribution of prescription drugs: regulations created; Pharmacy Examining Board duties specified; pedigree and felony crime provisions - SB599

Advanced practice nurse prescribers and physician assistants: certain medically related actions authorized [A.Amdt.1: physician assistant references deleted] - AB683

Advanced practice nurse prescribers and physician assistants: certain medically related actions authorized - SB354

Anatomical gift as part of living will option created; provision that a specific physician carry out the procedures eliminated - SB73

Anatomical gift requests from a hospital, organ procurement organization, tissue bank, coroner, or medical examiner: consent requirements for certain uses of tissue created; civil damages, unprofessional conduct, and standards for entity receiving the donation provisions [A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, civil liability and professional conduct provisions removed, forfeiture and DHFS report added] - AB659

Anatomical gift requests from a hospital, organ procurement organization, tissue bank, coroner, or medical examiner: consent requirements for certain uses of tissue created; civil damages, unprofessional conduct, and standards for entity receiving the donation provisions - SB395