Subject Index

Bids for public contracts: political subdivision may post on its Web site under certain conditions - SB204

Combined protective services departments: cities and towns authorized to provide; limitations on villages removed  - AB198

Combined protective services departments: population restriction on villages removed -  AB94

Combined protective services departments: population restriction on villages removed -  SB63

Community welcoming sign permitted in highway right-of-way; DOT authority specified; study and report provisions - AB900

Comprehensive planning statutes: city or village that does not border a town is exempt -  AB1061

Comprehensive planning statutes: city or village that does not border a town is exempt -  SB607

Condemnation of real property owned by city, county, town, or village by a public utility or foreign transmission provider for the location or construction of transmission lines authorized; DOA, PSC, and environmental impact fee provisions  - AB412

Emergency management programs of local governments required to include Mutual Aid Box Alarm System; Adjutant General to promulgate rules -  AB1093

Emergency management programs of local governments required to include Mutual Aid Box Alarm System; Adjutant General to promulgate rules -  SB642

Excise tax on gasoline and diesel fuel: cities, villages, towns, counties, school districts, U.W. System, and TCS exempted - AB236

High-voltage transmission line construction: authorizing conveyance of property owned by county, city, village, town, or public board or commission to an electric utility or cooperative association if it received certain certificate from PSC  - SB234

High-voltage transmission line construction: authorizing conveyance of property owned by county, city, village, town, public board or commission, public utility, or cooperative association to a public utility if it received certain certificate from PSC; fair market value provisions [A.Amdt.2: ``public utility" changed to ``electric utility" and fair market value provisions revised] -  AB437

Highways in need of repair and accumulation of snow or ice: liability of cities, villages, towns, and counties for damages revised -  AB509

Law enforcement services: city or village may abolish its police department and contract with county sheriff to provide; provision for villages under certain population [A.Amdt.1: city in more than one county provision added; A. Amdt.2: 911 telephone service provision added] - AB79

Law enforcement services: city or village may abolish its police department and contract with county sheriff to provide; provision for villages under certain population  - SB118

Law enforcement services: city or village may abolish its police department and contract with county sheriff to provide; provision for villages under certain population [deleted by S.Sub.Amdt.1] -  SB259

Major highway projects involving a bypass: DOT must notify affected local governments; resolution opting for an active bypass and definition provisions - AB793

Major highway projects involving a bypass: DOT must notify affected local governments; resolution opting for an active bypass and definition provisions - SB379

Official town map provisions revised; county development plan and city or village master plan provisions  - AB899

Open meeting and public record access laws: governmental bodies required to prominently display general statutory provisions regarding; DOJ duty specified -  SB214

Sexually violent person placed on supervised release: if county of residence includes a 1st class city, person must be placed in city, town, or village he or she lived in at the time of the offense - AB975

Sexually violent person placed on supervised release: if county of residence includes a 1st class city, person must be placed in city, town, or village he or she lived in at the time of the offense - SB537

State building projects: laws governing revised re threshold for approval by Building Commission, threshold re bids on contracts that must be publicly solicited, threshold for which the Governor may authorize repairs or construction in emergency situations and the definition of emergency, and Governor may delegate certain approval authority to DOA Secretary; allocation of assets and liabilities and disposing of property upon dissolution of a village changed -  AB921

State building projects: laws governing revised re threshold for approval by Building Commission, threshold re bids on contracts that must be publicly solicited, threshold for which the Governor may authorize repairs or construction in emergency situations and the definition of emergency, and Governor may delegate certain approval authority to DOA Secretary; allocation of assets and liabilities and disposing of property upon dissolution of a village changed -  SB478

TID creation simultaneous with subtracting territory from an existing TID without adopting a resolution containing the 12-percent test: city or village authority granted under set conditions; DOR provisions -  AB1015

TID creation simultaneous with subtracting territory from an existing TID without adopting a resolution containing the 12-percent test: city or village authority granted under set conditions; DOR provisions -  SB596

Town that has entered into a cooperative boundary agreement with a village or city authorized to use TIF  - AB253

Town that has entered into a cooperative boundary agreement with a village or city authorized to use TIF [S.Amdt.1: cooperative plan required with application]  - SB124

village _ elections Village — Elections

Vacancies in certain local elective offices: special election permitted under certain conditions - SB34

village _ finance Village — Finance

Emergency services fees: political subdivision may assess against an intoxicated individual who causes an accident; definition provisions -  AB1109

Motor vehicle fuel tax refund for schools, technical college districts, and local governments created; provisions re DOR and persons under contract with school districts to transport pupils to and from school activities -  AB726

Municipal court contract with collection agency re forfeitures, assessments, and surcharges: local governments to share in cost of collection -  AB596

Municipal court contract with collection agency re forfeitures, assessments, and surcharges: local governments to share in cost of collection -  SB275

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

Public construction contracts: minimum bid amount raised re lowest responsible bidder requirement  - AB146

Spending limits for cities, villages, towns, counties, and technical college districts established, referendum required to exceed the limit; school district revenue modified; QEO exception eliminated from binding arbitration process; MERA revisions re limiting certain expenditures and factors arbitrators must consider; school district professional employees provisions - AB462

Spending limits for local governmental units and state required to spend certain amount on school aid and shared revenue, consumer price index provision; spending limit adjustments and costs incurred by local governmental units to comply with certain state law or administrative rule or order provisions. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration)  - AJR71

village _ health, board of Village — Health, Board of, see Public health

village _ officers Village — Officers

Immigration status re individual seeking or receiving public assistance: prohibiting enactment or enforcement of an ordinance that would prohibit an employee of a political subdivision from inquiring about -  SB715

Petition for recall of a city, village, town, or school district officer modified re required percentage of electors who must sign and latest date it may be circulated - AB1150

Petition for recall of a city, village, town, or school district officer modified re statement of cause - AB393

Vacancies in certain local elective offices: special election permitted under certain conditions - SB34

village _ ordinance Village — Ordinance

Amoritization ordinance may not be used by county or municipality to remove nonconforming building premises, structure, or fixture that may be lawfully used  - AB155

Amoritization ordinance may not be used by county or municipality to remove nonconforming building premises, structure, or fixture that may be lawfully used  - SB89

Animal-drawn vehicle: county, town, village, or city may pass an ordinance to collect an annual registration fee  - AB889

ATV operation on roadway and shoulder of highway, street, or road for access to residence, lodging establishment, or campground authorized under certain conditions; ordinance provision -  AB375

County shoreland zoning ordinance: enforcement requirement eliminated re annexing city, village, or town and incorporated territory or town incorporated as a fourth class city  - AB299

Drug paraphernalia possession, manufacture, or delivery by persons 17 years old and older: city, village, or town allowed to enact and enforce an ordinance prohibiting  - AB307

Forestry operations: nuisance declaration and certain zoning ordinances prohibited if generally accepted forestry management practices are followed -  AB59

Forestry operations: nuisance declaration and certain zoning ordinances prohibited if generally accepted forestry management practices are followed [deleted by A.Sub.Amdt.1]  - AB254

Immigration status re individual seeking or receiving public assistance: prohibiting enactment or enforcement of an ordinance that would prohibit an employee of a political subdivision from inquiring about -  SB715

Neighborhood electric vehicle: city, town, or village may, by ordinance, allow operation on certain roadways [A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, roadway speed limit provision added] -  AB851

Neighborhood electric vehicle: city, town, or village may, by ordinance, allow operation on certain roadways  - SB533

Public buildings and places of employment: city, village, or town may not enact an ordinance establishing minimum standards for construction, repair, or maintenance unless it conforms to Comm.Dept rules -  AB956

Publication of city or village ordinance in newspaper: requirements revised -  AB257

Publication of city or village ordinance in newspaper: requirements revised -  SB126

State minimum wage law required to be construed as an enactment of statewide concern; living wage ordinance permitted but must conform to state minimum wage law [A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, uniformity throughout the state, local ordinances prohibited] -  AB49

State minimum wage law required to be construed as an enactment of statewide concern; living wage ordinance permitted but must conform to state minimum wage law  - SB18

State minimum wage law required to be construed as an enactment of statewide concern; living wage ordinance permitted but must conform to state minimum wage law  - SB147

village _ police Village — Police, see Police

village _ taxation Village — Taxation

County tax levy for library services: county board approval of certain exemption for city, town, village, or school district that levies a tax for library services; capital expenditures provision - AB1022

Expenditure Restraint Program eliminated and replaced with the Municipal Levy Restraint Program [Sec. 446-448, 1699, 1701, 1703, 1707, 1708; original bill only]  - AB100

Levy limit for counties and municipalities [Sec. 1257, 1258, 9435 (4); A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, 1251c, 1254m, 1258m, 1260b, c] -  AB100

Local levy limits applied to political subdivisions and technical college districts with exceptions; debt service, annexed territory, and first class city levies for school purposes provisions; school district revenue limit per pupil adjustment set; sunset [for further revisions, see entry under ``Municipality — Taxation"] -  AB58

Local levy limits applied to political subdivisions and technical college districts with exceptions; debt service, annexed territory, and first class city levies for school purposes provisions; school district revenue limit per pupil adjustment set; sunset - SB28

Local levy limits applied to political subdivisions and technical college districts with exceptions; debt service, first class city levies for school purposes, forestation state tax, referendum, and sunset provisions; JCF duties specified [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 707m, 1251c, 1260r, 1360s; A.Amdt.40: 1360s renumbered 1260s] -  AB100

Local levy limits applied to political subdivisions: exception created re charges assessed by a joint fire department  - AB1180

Local levy limits applied to political subdivisions: exception created re charges assessed by a joint fire department  - SB680

Local levy limits applied to political subdivisions re 2005 WisAct 25 (AB-100): sunset date repealed; valuation factor provisions -  SB717

Local levy limits for property tax levies imposed in 2005 and 2006 created; sunset provided [Sec. 1251; original bill only] - AB100

Property tax: different rates for parts of cities, villages, towns, counties, and school districts added by attachments to school districts, consolidations, and boundary changes under cooperative agreements; exception from ``uniformity clause" requirement. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration)  - AJR98

village _ trustees Village — Trustees

Vacancies in certain local elective offices: special election permitted under certain conditions - SB34

village _ zoning Village — Zoning, see Land use planning and control

vin _vehicle identification number_ VIN (Vehicle identification number), see Motor vehicle — Equipment

visually impaired Visually impaired, see Blind and visually impaired

vital statistics Vital statistics

Birth certificate fees increased; clarification re deposit in CANPB appropriation [Sec. 1257, 1258]  - AB100

Birth certificate fees increased; clarification re deposit in CANPB appropriation -  AB831

Birth certificate fees increased; clarification re deposit in CANPB appropriation -  SB666

Birth defect prevention and surveillance system revisions; state registrar and DHFS duties specified  - AB1098

Election registration revisions re registration form format, public access to birth date information, and posting of polling place information -  AB542

Election registration revisions re registration form format, public access to birth date information, and posting of polling place information -  SB249