Wisconsin Legislature: Legislature -- Committees

LTSB software development team congratulated for the Legislative Staff Achievement Award from the National Association of Legislative Information Technology - SJR48

Bay View labor strike and tragedy in 1886: anniversary commemorated every May 2nd and Assembly Chief Clerk to remove portrait of Governor Jeremiah Rusk from public display and hang historic photo of the iron puddlers in Bay View for set number of days - AR11

Convention under Article V of the United States Constitution: appointing delegates modified; legislature required to create a joint committee of correspondence re communication between delegates and the legislature - AB635

Early childhood brain development: policy decisions enacted by the legislature will acknowledge and take into account the principles of - SJR59

Federal moneys accepted by the state may not be returned to the federal government without the approval of the legislature by law if the expenditure may increase employment in this state - AB588

Federal moneys accepted by the state may not be returned to the federal government without the approval of the legislature by law if the expenditure may increase employment in this state - SB323

Meetings of governmental bodies including the legislature: enactment of laws requiring reasonable notice and public access, two-thirds majority vote provision. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - SJR35

NRB nominates DNR Secretary with advice and consent of the Senate, term of office provisions; filling an NRB member vacancy modified - AB517

NRB nominates DNR Secretary with advice and consent of the Senate, term of office provisions; filling an NRB member vacancy modified - SB388

Partisan caucus of Senate or Assembly: exception to open meetings - AB104

Recall of incumbent congressional, judicial, or legislative elective officer or county elective officer specified in the Wisconsin Constitution: grounds limited and filing officer duties; legislature required to establish a code of ethics for government officials and a board to administer it. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - AJR25

Recall of incumbent congressional, judicial, or legislative elective officer or county elective officer specified in the Wisconsin Constitution: grounds limited and filing officer duties; legislature required to establish a code of ethics for government officials and a board to administer it. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - SJR24

DOT engineering consultants: LAB analysis requested [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9127 (2q)] - AB40

Fees charged to students: UW Board of Regents annual report to JCF and JLAC required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 609m] - AB40

GAB performance evaluation audit required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9115 (1d)] - AB40

LAB financial auditing duties revised including eliminating certain audits; confidentiality of reports to the state fraud, waste, and mismanagement hotline; and access to tax records maintained by DOR; JLAC provision - AB36

LAB financial auditing duties revised including eliminating certain audits; confidentiality of reports to the state fraud, waste, and mismanagement hotline; and access to tax records maintained by DOR; JLAC provision - SB27

UW Board of Regents: proposed methodology for calculating program revenue balances and reserves submitted to JLAC; PR account balance limits and policies on distribution and expenditure of tuition, fee, and GPR proposals to JCF; tuition and segregated fees cannot increase for 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9148 (4L)-(4n)] - AB40

WEDC annual financial audit required, report to JLAC - AB220

WEDC annual financial audit required, report to JLAC - SB186

WEDC law revisions re report to JLAC, board member terms, lead director position, governance committee, LAB financial audit, power to establish a nonprofit organization, and state procurement - AB228

WEDC law revisions re report to JLAC, board member terms, lead director position, governance committee, LAB financial audit, power to establish a nonprofit organization, and state procurement - SB205

WEDC operation requirements re procurement, code of ethics applies to employees, annual reports, and independent audit [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 193o, q, 2055m-x, 9150 (1q)] - AB40

AG opinion request by the Assembly Committee on Organization re acquisition or holding of land under Chapter 710 of the statutes is rescinded - AR24

Assembly committee structure and names for the 2013-14 legislative session established [Assembly rule 9 (1)] - AR2

Assembly Organization, Committee on, required to appoint a joint task force on clean and renewable energy, report required - AR27

Assembly rule revisions re conducting Committee on Assembly Organization meetings by ballot, behavior in gallery, and dress code [Assembly rules 23 (1m), 26 (8), (9), 56 (4)] - AR4

Assembly rules revised and created re votes in committee, meeting on unintroduced proposals, provision of calendar to members, questions of assembly or personal privilege, temporary committee appointments, 24-hour notice rule for committee meetings, Assembly chief clerk duties, reconsideration of proposals and amendments, proposed administrative rules notices and reports, and special, extraordinary, and extended sessions [Assembly rules 3 (1)(r), 5 (2), (4), 9 (2)(cd), 11 (4), (5)(a), (10), 17d (2), 29 (3), 53 (4), 61 (5), 73 (2)(a), (3), (4)(c), (9), 93 (2), (3), 95 (38), (50), (54), (58), (63)] - AR3

Clean and renewable energy joint task force: committees on Assembly and Senate organization required to immediately appoint, findings deadline set - AJR122

Clean energy: Speaker of the Assembly required to appoint a special committee on, report required - AR26

Convention under Article V of the United States Constitution: appointing delegates modified; legislature required to create a joint committee of correspondence re communication between delegates and the legislature - AB635

LifeSkills Academy in City of Milwaukee that closed: DPI to contact Florida agency about LifeSkills Academy that opened there and report to the Assembly about any other parental choice program schools that abruptly closed; Committee on Assembly Organization to contact state agencies re proceedings to recover state funds - AR23

Lobbyists required to file expense statements with GAB re influencing or disseminating uniform, model, suggested, or recommended legislation; reporting scholarships or any thing of pecuniary value for attending a meeting or conference by state public officials or person providing the scholarship required; written statement to organizing committees required for reimbursement of legislator travel expenses; prohibiting payment of certain membership fees from moneys allocated to operation of legislators' offices; penalty provisions; JRCCP report - AB866

Meetings of governmental bodies, including legislative committees: laws requiring reasonable notice of and public access to; legislative members subject to citations and civil penalties for violations. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - AJR61

Meetings of governmental bodies, including legislative committees: laws requiring reasonable notice of and public access to; legislative members subject to citations and civil penalties for violations. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - SJR58

Public notice of Assembly committee meetings revisions [Assembly rules 11 (9), (12), 93 (9)] - AR17

Public notice of Senate, Assembly, and joint committee meetings revisions [Joint rule 27] - AJR62

Public notice of Senate committee meetings revisions [Senate rules 25 (1)(b), (c), 93 (2)] - SR4

Senate rules revised and created re admittance to Senate spaces, order and decorum, Senate chamber definition, display of signs and objects, electronic devices, points of order, Assembly messages, Committee on Senate Organization chairperson, individuals in Senate meeting rooms, referral of proposals and appointments, and Senate rules [Senate rules 4 (6), 7 (title) to (5), 13m (4), (8), 13r, 17 (6), 18 (1b), 20 (1)(b) 2., 25 (1)(a), (5), (6), 42 (2)(c), 56m (title), (1), (2m), 69, 99 (77)] - SR2

Senate rules revised and created re admittance to Senate spaces, order and decorum, Senate chamber definition, display of signs and objects, electronic devices, points of order, Assembly messages, Committee on Senate Organization chairperson, individuals in Senate meeting rooms, and Senate rules [Senate rules 4 (6), 7 (title) to (5), 13m (4), (8), 13r, 17 (6), 18 (1b), 20 (1)(b) 2., 25 (1)(a), (5), (6), 56m (title), (1), (2m), 69, 99 (77)] - SR3

Speaker of the Assembly required to appoint a special committee to devise ways to ensure WEDC follows state law; hearings and deadline for findings provisions - AR8

State Affairs and Government Operations, Committee on, created; eliminates committees on State Affairs, Rural Affairs, and Government Operations and State Licensing [Assembly rules 9 (1)(h), (n), (p)] - AR19

State Mandates, Joint Committee on, created; legislature may not enact bills with state-imposed mandates unless they either receive a hearing or are funded; state agency rules provision; LFB report requirement - AB395

Supreme Court justices appointed by the governor with advice and consent of the Senate, judicial selection committee provision: constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - SJR86

Assault weapons: ban on transportation, purchase, possession, or transfer of created; exceptions and penalty provisions; JRCCP report - AB222

Badger Health Benefit Authority created and must establish and operate a Wisconsin Health Benefit Exchange in this state; JRCCP report - SB12

Battery to family member of a public officer and harassing, threatening, or intimidating a legislator or his or her family: crimes and penalties created; JRCCP report - AB213

Biological specimen for DNA analysis: individuals who must submit samples expanded; immunity from liability for certain law enforcement and DHS personnel; conditions for purging records; DNA surcharge; JRCCP report [Sec. 388, 390, 818, 1234, 1906-1935, 1937, 2150, 2155, 2156, 2291, 2292, 2324, 2325, 2327-2329, 2343, 2344, 2353-2358, 2361, 2362, 9126 (1), 9326 (1), 9426 (1); A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, JLC study required, 1914d, 2328c, 2344c, 2360w, deletes 1927; A.Amdt.3: further revisions] - AB40

Campaign finance law: scope of regulated activity expanded to include organizations or individuals who use communications media which includes references to candidates for certain offices within 60 days of an election; Clean Election Fund established to provide grants to qualifying candidates for campaign expenses, penalty provisions; JRCCP report and emergency rule provisions - AB353

Child death review program established in DHS; Child Death Review Council created, reports and recommendations required; local child death review teams recognized; access to records, confidentiality, and immunity provisions; JRCCP report - AB554

Child death review program established in DHS; Child Death Review Council created, reports and recommendations required; local child death review teams recognized; access to records, confidentiality, and immunity provisions; JRCCP report - SB436

Child neglect crime and penalties revised, repeated acts of neglect of the same child crime created, and definition provisions; JRCCP report - AB626

Child neglect crime and penalties revised, repeated acts of neglect of the same child crime created, and definition provisions; JRCCP report - SB471

Computerized communication that invites a person to harass a third person or contact a third person with obscene, lewd, or profane language or suggestive acts prohibited; JRCCP report - AB156

Controlled substances: description of the chemical structure of a prohibited or restricted substance re synthetic cannabinoid specified; Salvinorin A listed as a controlled substance; new hallucinogenic and stimulant substances added to Schedule I and other schedules modified; JRCCP report - AB406

Controlled substances: description of the chemical structure of a prohibited or restricted substance synthetic cannabinoid specified; Salvinorin A listed as a controlled substance; new hallucinogenic and stimulant substances added to Schedule I and other schedules modified; JRCCP report - SB325

Coroner, medical examiner, and medicolegal investigation staff members licensure by the Medicolegal Investigation Examining Board (MIEB) required, exceptions and license requirements; MIEB created in DSPS; reporting deaths revisions and failure to report penalty increased; jurisdiction to investigate death and notifications, autopsies and other diagnostic procedures; investigation records and handling of personal property; disposition of bodies; access to deceased's mental health treatment records; JRCCP report - AB530

Correctional employee's or health services employee's personal identifying information: possession by person in custody or supervised by Corr.Dept or a patient or resident of a mental health facility prohibited, security freeze of credit report provision; JRCCP report - AB628

Correctional employee's or health services employee's personal identifying information: possession by person in custody or supervised by Corr.Dept or a patient or resident of a mental health facility prohibited, security freeze of credit report provision; JRCCP report - SB472

Cosleeping while intoxicated: criminal penalties for harm to child under 12 months; CANPB to prepare and make available materials relating to; providing the information to parents of newborns and other specified individuals and entities; immunity from liability provision; JRCCP report - AB465

Cosleeping while intoxicated: criminal penalties for harm to child under 12 months; CANPB to prepare and make available materials relating to; providing the information to parents of newborns and other specified individuals and entities; immunity from liability provision; JRCCP report - SB357

Dementia: provisions for the care and treatment of individuals with created; dementia care units, commitment, county duties, involuntary administration of psychotropic medication, protective placement, liability, definitions, and penalty provisions; county reports to DHS required; JRCCP report - AB575

Democracy Trust Fund established for eligible candidates for office of justice of the Supreme Court; limitations, penalties, income tax checkoff, and appropriation provisions; State Treasurer duties; JRCCP report - AB543

Drones: use of by law enforcement restricted, definition and search warrant provisions; penalties for use, possession, or selling of weaponized drone and using a drone equipped with audio or video equipment, exceptions specified; JRCCP report - AB203

Drones: use of by law enforcement restricted, definition and search warrant provisions; penalties for use, possession, or selling of weaponized drone and using a drone equipped with audio or video equipment, exceptions specified; JRCCP report [S.Amdt.1: sell, transport, manufacture, and possess weaponized drone deleted, armed forces and national guard exception added, other revisions; A.Amdt.1: evidence from drones provision revised] - SB196

``Emergency detention" replaced with ``emergency stabilization" in the statutes and new procedure for initiating an emergency stabilization created, penalties for providing false information; JRCCP report - AB451

``Emergency detention" replaced with ``emergency stabilization" in the statutes and new procedure for initiating an emergency stabilization created, penalties for providing false information; JRCCP report - SB372

False information provided to firearms dealer re intent to knowingly transfer firearm to person prohibited from possessing one: penalty increased and DOJ authorized to prosecute; JRCCP report - SB69

False report of active shooter made intentionally: penalty created; JRCCP report - AB884

Fetal body parts: prohibitions created re knowingly acquiring, receiving, or transferring for valuable consideration and knowingly providing, receiving, or using for experimentation; definition provisions; JRCCP report - AB224

Fraudulent motor vehicle emission inspection report prohibitions and penalties created; registering a vehicle with a fraudulent emission inspection prohibited, penalty provision; DOT duties; JRCCP report - AB812

Fraudulent motor vehicle emission inspection report prohibitions and penalties created; registering a vehicle with a fraudulent emission inspection prohibited, penaly provision; DOT duties; JRCCP report - SB659

GPS device placed on another person's vehicle or obtaining GPS information about another person's movement or location without that person's knowledge prohibited; annulment, divorce, and legal separation provisions; exceptions for law enforcement and commercial motor vehicles used for business; JRCCP report - AB767

GPS device placed on another person's vehicle or obtaining GPS information about another person's movement or location without that person's knowledge prohibited; annulment, divorce, and legal separation provisions; exceptions for law enforcement and commercial motor vehicles used for business; JRCCP report - SB673

Harassing, intimidating, or recklessly endangering certain public employees including police, fire fighters, EMTs, and first responders: enhanced penalty provisions; JRCCP report - AB250

Harassing, intimidating, or recklessly endangering certain public employees including police, fire fighters, EMTs, and first responders: enhanced penalty provisions; JRCCP report - SB211

Harboring or aiding a felon and tampering with evidence: exemption for family members repealed; penalty for violation increased under certain conditions; JRCCP report - AB274

Harboring or aiding a felon and tampering with evidence: exemption for family members repealed; penalty for violation increased under certain conditions; JRCCP report - SB232

High-concentration alcohol beverage sale prohibited, penalty provisions; JRCCP report - AB642

Hollowpoint bullets and certain other bullets: selling, transporting, manufacturing, or possessing prohibited; exception and penalty enhancement provisions; JRCCP report - AB221

Homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle: mandatory period of confinement; JRCCP report - AB70