2013 Subject Index to Legislation

Political subdivisions may not limit the sale of certain food and beverages [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 1269m] - AB40

Towns authorized to exercise all the powers of a city or village to create a TID under certain conditions [S.Amdt.1: definitions and sewer service area provision added; S.Amdt.2: annexation provision added; S.Amdt.3: DOR duty re annexed territory; A.Amdt.2: town board approval of project plan conditions; A.Amdt.3: adds creating a TID in recently annexed territory, property tax exemption for biogas or synthetic gas energy systems and property subject to TIF agreement, and authorizing a TID to share tax increments with an environmental remediation tax increment district in same city of village] - SB338

village _ employee Village -- Employee, see Public employee

village _ finance Village -- Finance

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

village _ officers Village -- Officers

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

village _ ordinance Village -- Ordinance, see Ordinance

village _ taxation Village -- Taxation

Local levy limit exception re use of unused capacity upon supermajority vote made permanent [Sec. 1271-1275; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, adjustment for certain fee revenue, carry forward adjustment, and population threshold for town meeting of levy increases, 1271m, p, 1274c-e, 1275e, deletes 1271] - AB40

Local levy limit reduced by amount of fees received for providing covered services: requirement repealed - AB308

Tax incremental base of a TID: city or village may adopt a resolution asking DOR to redetermine in a decrement situation [A.Amdt.2: financial analysis and amending the project plan provisions added] - SB252

Tax incremental base of a TID: city or village may adopt a resolution asking DOR to redetermine in a decrement situation - AB289

visitation rights Visitation rights, see Children -- Adoption

visually impaired Visually impaired, see Blind and visually impaired

vital statistics Vital statistics

Birth certificate: adult adopted as a child may petition the court to have original information restored [A.Amdt.1: except for changing the adoptee's name, impound of other birth certificates required] - AB17

Birth certificate: adult adopted as a child may petition the court to have original information restored - SB272

Certified copies of birth certificates: to whom the state registrar or a local registrar may issue revised - SB400

DHS to request waiver of federal Medicaid law for services and support re women with increased risk of negative birth outcomes; expanding who can claim Wisconsin EITC; nurse-midwife governing provisions, hospital staff privileges, and Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund coverage; statewide electronic data management and information system for all public assistance programs; evidence-based home visitation program re child abuse or neglect or poor birth outcomes; informed consent before certain elective caesarean section and labor-inducing procedures; infant's race or ethnicity to be included on the birth certificate; cultural competency training for certain students at UW and TCS institutions; DHS reports re neonatal intensive care units and fetal and infant mortality and birth outcomes; DHS to promulgate rules for best practices for postpartum patients and newborns at hospitals - AB754

DHS to request waiver of federal Medicaid law for services and support re women with increased risk of negative birth outcomes; expanding who can claim Wisconsin EITC; nurse-midwife governing provisions, hospital staff privileges, and Injured Patients and Familes Compensation Fund coverage; statewide electronic data management and information system for all public assistance programs; evidence-based home visitation program re child abuse or neglect or poor birth outcomes; informed consent before certain elective caesarean section and labor-inducing procedures; infant's race or ethnicity to be included on the birth certificate; cultural competency training for certain students at UW and TCS institutions; DHS reports re neonatal intensive care units and fetal and infant mortality and birth outcomes; DHS to promulgate rules for best practices for postpartum patients and newborns at hospitals - SB546

Vital records for events occurring before October 1, 1907: prohibition against making them available in electronic format repealed and allowing for copying of uncertified copies - SB674

vitamin Vitamin, see Nutrition

vocational rehabilitation Vocational rehabilitation, see Persons with disabilities; Workforce Development, Department of

vocational, technical, and adult education Vocational, technical, and adult education, see Technical college

volunteerism Volunteerism, see Emergency government; Fire department; Medical service; Physician; Trades and occupations

voter registration Voter registration, see Elections -- Registration

voting Voting

Absentee voting in person: municipalities may designate one alternative site; notifying GAB required - AB92

Absentee voting in person: municipalities may designate one alternative site; notifying GAB required - SB91

Durational residency requirement for voting decreased; deadline for in person late registration and absentee voting extended - SB173

Elector not considered a voting elector for recount purposes if required to sign the poll list and does not do so - SB266

Knowingly providing false election-related information to induce a person from refraining to register to vote or voting prohibited; exemption from liability for publisher of the information, filing a complaint with GAB, and penalty provisions; JRCCP report - AB837

Knowingly providing false election-related information to induce a person from refraining to register to vote or voting prohibited; exemption from liability for publisher of the information, filing a complaint with GAB, and penalty provisions; JRCCP report - SB616

Proof of identification when voting: ID card issued by the Veterans Health Administration of the U.S. DVA is permitted; exemption for elector who swears or affirms indigency, religious objection to being photographed, or cannot obtain documentation to get proof of identification, challenged ballot provision - AB493

Right to vote for every qualified elector in this state: constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - AJR121

Right to vote for every qualified elector in this state: constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - SJR83

Voter registration and proof of residence for voting changes re facilitating the registration of all eligible electors and maintaining registrations made the responsibility of the GAB; electronic voter registration via secure Internet site provisions; report required - AB869

Votes for write-in candidates: counting provisions modified - AB419

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

voting machine Voting machine

Recounting votes with automatic tabulating equipment: board of canvassers may conduct recount by hand unless court orders another method - AB24

Recounting votes with automatic tabulating equipment: board of canvassers may conduct recount by hand unless court orders another method - AB225

Recounting votes with automatic tabulating equipment: board of canvassers may conduct recount by hand unless court orders another method - SB14

vulnerable adult Vulnerable adult, see Intellectual disabilities; Senior citizen

W W

w_2 W-2, see Wisconsin Works

wage Wage, see also Legislature -- Member -- Compensation; Public employee -- Salary; Public officers -- Salary

Wage claim lien cap increased and time limit eliminated; wage claim lien review committee appointed by Secretary of DWD; precedence over the rights of a bona fide purchaser of the employer's property; collective bargaining representative may file a wage claim or bring an action in court on behalf of an employee - AB721

Wage claim revisions re filing and investigation, statute of limitations, increased wages a circuit court may order, interest, surcharges, costs, and attorney fees; written statement disclosing terms of employment required, damages provision; unpaid wage claim judgment disclosure by occupational or professional license applicant - SB398

wage _ minimum Wage -- Minimum

Local living wage ordinance preemption re work performed with state funds; residency requirements preemption re laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers of public works projects to which the prevailing wage law applies, state funds provision - SB626

Minimum hourly wages required for certain procurement contracts entered into by an executive branch agency; DWD duties and penalty provision - AB791

Minimum wage: administrative and civil penalties for failure to pay modified - AB578

Minimum wage law revisions; DWD duties and consumer price index provision - AB686

Minimum wage law revisions; DWD duties and consumer price index provision - SB505

Minimum wage ordinance prohibited re local governmental unit employees, contract employees, or employees performing work funded by local governments; public works projects residency requirement prohibited re prevailing wage law - AB750

Outside salespersons exempt from state minimum wage law - AB412

Outside salespersons exempt from state minimum wage law - SB320

State minimum wage revisions and prohibition on local living wage ordinance eliminated; emergency rule provisions - AB542

State minimum wage revisions and prohibition on local living wage ordinance eliminated; emergency rule provisions - SB4

Summer employment of persons from ages 15 to 19: income and franchise tax credits for businesses, conditions specified - AB758

Wage Council created in DWD to study and make recommendations re living wage - AB531

Wage Council created in DWD to study and make recommendations re living wage; minimum wage increased - AB720

wage _ payment Wage -- Payment

Local living wage ordinance preemption re work performed with state funds; residency requirements preemption re laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers of public works projects to which the prevailing wage law applies, state funds provision - SB626

Minimum wage ordinance prohibited re local governmental unit employees, contract employees, or employees performing work funded by local governments; public works projects residency requirement prohibited re prevailing wage law - AB750

Prevailing wage law applied to public works projects: cost threshold increased - AB831

Prevailing wage law: exemption for public works project subject to the federal Davis-Bacon Act - AB266

Prevailing wage law exemption for public works project for a school district or CESA; referendum and resolution to raise money by bond or borrowing required if choosing to comply with prevailing wage law - AB487

Prevailing wage law: exemption for public works project subject to the federal Davis-Bacon Act - SB244

Prevailing wage law exemption for public works project for a school district or CESA; referendum and resolution to raise money by bond or borrowing required if choosing to comply with prevailing wage law - SB358

Prevailing wage law exemption for public works re the reuse of vacant or underutilized industrial facility - AB86

Wages or other compensation paid by electronic fund transfer to a payroll card account permitted, conditions specified - AB687

Wages or other compensation paid by electronic fund transfer to a payroll card account permitted, conditions specified - SB415

wales, village of Wales, Village of, see Waukesha County

walters, steve Walters, Steve

Congratulations on being named Wisconsin Journalist of the Year by the Milwaukee Press Club - AJR54

walworth county Walworth County

USH 12 highway project from City of Elkhorn to City of Whitewater: environmental impact statement required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 1534h] - AB40

war War, see International relations

warch, richard Warch, Richard

Life and service of the retired Lawrence University president commended upon his death - AJR66

ward Ward, see Guardian and ward

warehouse Warehouse

New dairy plant, food warehouse, food processing plant, retail food establishment, or meat establishment license: uniform expiration date modified - AB744

New dairy plant, food warehouse, food processing plant, retail food establishment, or meat establishment license: uniform expiration date modified - SB603