2013 Subject Index to Legislation

Nomination paper signatures required for a city-wide office in a 2nd or 3rd class city revised [A.Amdt.1: alderpersons not elected from aldermanic districts provision added] - AB606

Nomination paper signatures required for a city-wide office in a 2nd or 3rd class city revised - SB444

Referendum: local governments may schedule only with certain primaries and elections - AB225

municipality _ employee Municipality -- Employee, see Public employee

municipality _ finance Municipality -- Finance, see also Investment, Government fund

Dry cask storage to store spent fuel from a nuclear power plant: public utility, or other person, required to make annual payments to municipality or county where it is stored; PSC duties - AB513

Dry cask storage to store spent fuel from a nuclear power plant: public utility, or other person, required to make annual payments to municipality or county where it is stored; PSC duties - SB446

Fees imposed by political subdivisions: appeal to Tax Appeals Commission provisions created [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 1277e-eg, 9329 (3u)] - AB40

Frac sand mining fee collected by DNR and portion designated as compensation to local governments; FTE positions authorized in DNR for monitoring industrial sand mining and processing operations - AB868

Legislature prohibited from passing a bill placing requirements on local governmental units unless it contains an appropriation covering all costs: constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - AJR76

Local freight bridge program created in DOT - AB41

Local freight bridge program created in DOT - SB31

Mass transit operating aid payments increased - SB671

Mortgage foreclosure action: plaintiff required to post a surety bond re costs incurred if municipality razes a building on the property during the action - AB622

Mortgage foreclosure action: plaintiff required to post a surety bond re costs incurred if municipality razes a building on the property during the action - SB495

Municipal expenditures for operations, contracts, and grants: DOA to make available on a searchable Internet Web site [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 65b-h] - AB40

Nonprofit entity payments to a political subdivision for potential services re tax-exempt property: the political subdivision is required to share with overlying taxation jurisdictions - AB522

Oil pipeline terminal tax distribution modified [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 1467g, h] - AB40

Postretirement health care benefits of local government employees: segregated account and GAAP requirements - AB23

Postretirement health care benefits of local government employees: segregated account and GAAP requirements - SB48

Purchasing preference from Wisconsin-based businesses: setting percentage goals for state agencies and local governments; DOA duties and local government annual performance evaluation - AB48

Purchasing preference from Wisconsin-based businesses: setting percentage goals for state agencies and local governments; DOA duties and local government annual performance evaluation - SB74

Razing a building: method by which a municipality may collect costs from property owner revised - AB415

Razing a building: method by which a municipality may collect costs from property owner revised - SB328

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

State payments to municipalities for municipal services revised - AB756

Survivors of a law enforcement officer, EMT, or fire fighter who dies, or has died, in the line of duty: payment of health insurance premiums and establishing a loan program provisions - AB241

Survivors of a law enforcement officer, EMT, or fire fighter who dies, or has died, in the line of duty: payment of health insurance premiums and establishing a loan program provisions - SB203

Vehicles seized by law enforcement from persons convicted of certain crimes: proceeds of sales to be credited to the unit of government that seized the vehicle. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - AJR87

municipality _ fire department Municipality -- Fire department, see Milwaukee -- Fire department

municipality _ incorporation Municipality -- Incorporation

County shoreland zoning ordinance not in effect in a county or town shoreland area annexed by or incorporated as a city or village - AB75

County shoreland zoning ordinance not in effect in a county or town shoreland area annexed by or incorporated as a city or village [S.Sub.Amdt.2: further revisions, conditions expanded re zoning of annexed or incorporated shorelands, report and appropriation provisions] - SB183

Incorporation of portions of more than one town into a village or city: approval by referendum required - AB189

Incorporations involving portions of two towns: circuit court must find that each town board has adopted a resolution approving the incorporation or dismiss the petition as part of its review process [S.Amdt.2: court shall dismiss if required resolutions are not adopted] - SB207

municipality _ officers Municipality -- Officers

Absentee ballots: hours a municipal clerk's office can be open each day to receive in-person applications limited [S.Amdt.1: appointment provision removed; S.Amdt.2 to S.Amdt.1: municipalities may hire individuals to help in statewide elections and appropriation provision, DOR duties] - SB324

Absentee ballots: hours a municipal clerk's office can be open each day to receive in-person applications limited - AB54

Absentee ballots: hours a municipal clerk's office can be open each day to receive in-person applications limited, appointment provision - AB225

Absentee voting at a CBRF, adult family home, or residential care apartment: municipal clerk or board of election commissioners shall dispatch special voting deputies under certain conditions, notice provision [A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, elector who is an occupant may vote in person at polling place or by absentee ballot at municipal clerk's office, special voting deputies to retirement home on same grounds, delivery of absentee ballot container or bag; S.Amdt.1: effective date set] - AB396

Absentee voting at a CBRF, adult family home, or residential care apartment: municipal clerk or board of election commissioners shall dispatch special voting deputies under certain conditions, notice provision - SB297

Election observers required to enter name and date in a log and chief inspector and municipal clerk to designate an observation area, confidentiality provision - AB202

Election-related statistics reported by municipal clerk to county clerk: statistics re elector address verification postcards added; GAB to publish information on the Internet [S.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, municipal clerk to report statistics to GAB, monthly updates, reporting suspected election fraud, irregularities, or violations, and report to legislature provisions added] - SB377

Election-related statistics reported by municipal clerk to county clerk: statistics re elector address verification postcards added; GAB to publish information on the Internet - AB690

Election returns reporting by municipalities of certain population modified re combined wards; municipal clerk duties - AB89

Election returns reporting by municipalities of certain population modified re combined wards; municipal clerk duties - AB225

Election returns reporting by municipalities of certain population modified re combined wards; municipal clerk duties - SB94

Elector registration form: recording type of identifying document used as proof of residence required - AB225

Electronic voter registration permitted with valid driver's license or DOT issued ID card, verification provisions; GAB, DOT, municipal clerk, and board of election commissioners duties - AB753

Identifying document submitted by elector as proof of residence: type of document recorded by municipal clerk; GAB duties [S.Amdt.2: recording the name of entity or institute that issued the document and, if included, a number that only applies to the individual; A.Amdt.2: recording the number modified] - SB267

Recall petition for local government officer, town sanitary district officer, or school district officer must include information that the official was charged with a crime or violated a code of ethics law - SB114

Recall petition for local government officer, town sanitary district officer, or school district officer must include information that the official was charged with a crime or violated a code of ethics law - AB128

Recall petition for local government officer, town sanitary district officer, or school district officer must include information that the official was charged with a crime or violated a code of ethics law - AB225

Voter registration records review and mailing Notice of Suspension of Registration forms: responsibility transferred to GAB; municipal clerk and notification date provisions; GAB required to post certain information about the mailed notices to its Internet site - AB689

Voter registration records review and mailing Notice of Suspension of Registration forms: responsibility transferred to GAB; municipal clerk and notification date provisions - SB506

Voter registration records review and mailing Notice of Suspension of Registration forms: responsibility transferred to GAB; municipal clerk and notification date provisions; GAB required to post certain information about the mailed notices to its Internet site - SB548

Voting at the entrance to an in-person absentee voting location by an elector with a disability: provisions created - SB404

municipality _ ordinance Municipality -- Ordinance, see Ordinance

municipality _ planning Municipality -- Planning

Certified survey map ordinance or resolution may divide land into more than 4 parcels without the division being a subdivision; conditions and extraterritorial plat provisions - AB663

Certified survey map ordinance or resolution may divide land into more than 4 parcels without the division being a subdivision; conditions and extraterritorial plat provisions [S.Amdt.3: DOA and DOT review required under certain conditions] - SB502

Comprehensive planning: local governments may repeal; DOA grant program to assist with planning activities eliminated - SB697

County development plan requirements repealed re city or village master plan and official map - AB122

County development plan requirements repealed re city or village master plan and official map - SB112

Development regulation authority of a political subdivision: revisions re approvals and use of existing requirements; U.S. Postal Service provision - AB386

Development regulation authority of a political subdivision: revisions re approvals and use of existing requirements; U.S. Postal Service provision [S.Amdt.2: postal service provision removed; S.Amdt.4: further revisions; S.Amdt.5: revisions and ``project" defined] - SB314

Efficiency initiatives: reimbursing businesses for assisting local governmental units in establishing [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 54m, 413s, 9101 (4q), 9401 (2q)] - AB40

Elevators and other lifts: various changes to laws governing construction, installation, alteration, operation, and inspection of - SB345

Elevators and other lifts: various changes to laws governing construction, installation, alteration, operation, and inspection of - AB433

Enterprise zone tax credit certification: requirement that a business's capital investment in property equal at least 10 percent of gross revenues replaced with a significant capital investment as defined by WEDC [Sec. 2080, 2081, 2083, 2084, 2086, 9350 (1)] - AB40

Enterprise zone tax credit: original equipment manufacturer requirement eliminated [Sec. 2082, 2085, 9350 (2)] - AB40

Frac sand mine application: notice requirements before a political subdivision meets to take action on the application; definition provision - SB138

Full-time job requirement for WEDC tax credit programs modified [Sec. 1333, 1385, 1421, 1468, 2060, 2061, 2070-2073, 2077-2079, 9350 (4)] - AB40

Jobs tax credit and enterprise zone tax credit calculation revised [Sec. 1339-1343, 1391-1395, 1427-1431, 2063, 2066, 9337 (4)] - AB40

``Land surveying" replaced with ``practice of professional land surveying" and definition revised; license replaces certificate of registration; examining board and section names changed; apprenticeship path to licensure eliminated; certain registration exemptions eliminated; other revisions re town survey to erect monuments, cemetery authority plat or map, ordinary high water mark included on certain maps or plats, subdivision plats, certified survey maps, and recording certain plats [A.Amdts.2, 3, and 4: further revisions; A.Amdt.5: exceptions and exempt persons modified] - AB506

``Land surveying" replaced with ``practice of professional land surveying" and definition revised; license replaces certificate of registration; examining board and section names changed; apprenticeship path to licensure eliminated; certain registration exemptions eliminated; other revisions re town survey to erect monuments, cemetery authority plat or map, ordinary high water mark included on certain maps or plats, subdivision plats, certified survey maps, and recording certain plats - SB394

Mobile tower siting regulations and zoning ordinance provisions [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 1269i, 9329 (1u)] - AB40

Neighborhood improvement district (NID) creation provisions - AB537

Neighborhood improvement district (NID) creation provisions - SB412

Plat approval: security requirement to ensure public improvements are made modified, substantial completion provision [A.Amdt.1: cap on security requirement added] - AB835

Plat approval: security requirement to ensure public improvements are made modified, substantial completion provision - SB636

Urban nonpoint source water pollution abatement, storm water management, and municipal flood control and riparian restoration projects: general obligation bonding authority increased [Sec. 481] - AB40

Wisconsin Downtown Development Program established and funding provision; State Main Street Program made part of and number of municipalities that can participate increased; program to provide business area revitalization services to downtown affiliates and fee provisions; Tour.Dept to promote travel to communities participating in the State Main Street Program - AB821

Zoning ordinance re agricultural or residential use: frac sand mining provisions and definition - SB141

municipality _ public works Municipality -- Public works, see Public works

municipality _ supplies Municipality -- Supplies, see Purchasing, Government

municipality _ taxation Municipality -- Taxation, see also Room tax; Shared revenue

Deadline changed for certain reports from DOR and DOT re consumer price index, computer-related equipment exempt from property tax, and general transportation aids program - AB724

Interest charged on special assessments and interest rate on claims for unlawfully assessed property taxes revised; levy limit exception re debt service on certain special assessment B bond [A.Amdt.1: determination of interest re unlawfully assessed property taxes revised; S.Amdt.2: deletes material inserted by A.Amdt.1] - AB598