Wisconsin Legislature: Discrimination in housing

Discrimination based on person’s gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation: prohibitions created or modified re employment, housing, public accommodations, education, insurance coverage, jury duty, and receipt of mental health or vocational rehabilitation services - AB418

Discrimination based on person’s gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation: prohibitions created or modified re employment, housing, public accommodations, education, insurance coverage, jury duty, and receipt of mental health or vocational rehabilitation services - SB328

Hotline for reports of hate crimes established - AB101

Hotline for reports of hate crimes established - SB64

Increase in incidents of anti-Semitism and other forms of bias, prejudice, and discrimination condemned and commitment to an open and inclusive state reaffirmed - AR31

Lead service line replacements: water public utility may provide financial assistance to customer solely for replacing service lines and is not unjust, unfairly discriminatory, or preferential; PSC duties - AB78

Lead service line replacements: water public utility may provide financial assistance to customer solely for replacing service lines and is not unjust, unfairly discriminatory, or preferential; PSC duties [S.Sub.Amdt.2: further revisions, political subdivision authorized to make loans, ordinance provision added] - SB48

Penalty enhancers increased for crimes in which the perpetrator intentionally selects the victim based on race, religion, color, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, or ancestry - SB67

Violence that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12, 2017, condemned and honoring those who died - Au7 AR1

Break time for employees to express breast milk: requirements created, accommodations specified, and employment discrimination provision - AB193

Break time for employees to express breast milk: requirements created, accommodations specified, and employment discrimination provision - SB147

Compensation information of employees and prospective employees: employer conduct re requiring or soliciting information and discrimination prohibitions created; notice requirements - AB213

Compensation information of employees and prospective employees: employer conduct re requiring or soliciting information and discrimination prohibitions created; notice requirements - SB142

Employment discrimination on the basis of military service: action in circuit court to recover compensatory and punitive damages permitted; DWD duties and consumer price index provision - AB974

Employment discrimination re unfair honesty or genetic testing: DWD or discriminated person may bring an action in circuit court; damages, exceptions, limitations, and consumer price index provisions - AB212

Employment discrimination re unfair honesty or genetic testing: DWD or discriminated person may bring an action in circuit court; damages, exceptions, limitations, and consumer price index provisions - SB140

Fair employment law: adding gender identity to prohibited basis for discrimination - SB867

Fair employment law revisions re state and local government agencies denying a license based on arrest or conviction record [A.Amdt.1: rule-making authority and emergency rule provisions added] - AB829

Fair employment law revisions re state and local government agencies denying a license based on arrest or conviction record - SB626

Local government ordinance authority re employment discrimination, wage claims and collections, employee hours and overtime, required employee benefits, and soliciting salary history of prospective employees preempted; political subdivision minimum wage exemptions eliminated and imposing occupational license requirements prohibited; state and local governments prohibited from requiring any person to accept certain collective bargaining provisions or waive rights under federal or state labor laws, penalty provision [A.Amdt.1: employment discrimination provision removed; A.Amdt.4: certain provisions do not apply to electronics and information technology manufacturing zone and local job training and apprenticeship programs; S.Amdt.1: removes A.Amdt.4 provisions] - AB748

Local government ordinance authority re employment discrimination, wage claims and collections, employee hours and overtime, required employee benefits, and soliciting salary history of prospective employees preempted; political subdivision minimum wage exemptions eliminated and imposing occupational license requirements prohibited; state and local governments prohibited from requiring any person to accept certain collective bargaining provisions or waive rights under federal or state labor laws, penalty provision - SB634

Marijuana use, medical and recreational, permitted with restrictions and excise tax and penalty provisions; DHS duties re medical marijuana registry, licensing compassion centers, and registering certain testing laboratories; permitted THC concentration while operating a vehicle revised; fair employment law, UI, and drug testing for specific public assistance and work experience programs exemption for THC; health insurance coverage required for medical use of tetrahydrocannabinols - AB482

Patient rights to medically accurate information created; health care provider, employment retribution, civil action, injunctive relief, and compensatory damages provisions; AG duties - AB657

Patient rights to medically accurate information created; health care provider, employment retribution, civil action, injunctive relief, and compensatory damages provisions; AG duties - SB567

Record expunged of certain offenses committed before the age of 25: person may petition the court; DOJ duties and employment discrimination provision - AB331

State fair employment law, family and medical leave law, and organ and bone marrow donation law violations: offers of settlement procedures for resolving complaints [Sec. 1379-1383, 1456, 1457, 1459, 1767; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, settlement procedure removed, Division of Equal Rights hearing provision retained, deletes 1379-1383, 1456, 1457, 1459] - AB64

State fair employment law, family and medical leave law, and organ and bone marrow donation law violations: offers of settlement procedures for resolving complaints [Sec. 1379-1383, 1456, 1457, 1459, 1767] - SB30

Veterans Day (November 11): paid leave of absence for public and private employees who are veterans; collective bargaining, discrimination, and complaint provisions - SB117

Discrimination under open housing law re questioning prospective tenant or denying housing due to evictions that are more than 5 years old - AB972

Landlord and tenant regulations revised; political subdivision authority modified re historic properties, municipal dwelling inspection, levy limit reduction and garbage collection exception, and certain fees; public utility service to rental dwelling units; municipal utility arrearage collection; eviction action procedural changes; removing case management information from CCAP; open housing law re service, assistance, or emotional support animals; municipal administrative review; enforcement of rental unit energy efficiency program [A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, habitability violation and rental property inspection program added] - AB771

Landlord and tenant regulations revised; political subdivision authority modified re historic properties, municipal dwelling inspection, levy limit reduction and garbage collection exception, and certain fees; public utility service to rental dwelling units; municipal utility arrearage collection; eviction action procedural changes; removing case management information from CCAP; open housing law re service, assistance, or emotional support animals; municipal administrative review; enforcement of rental unit energy efficiency program - SB639

Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month: June 2017 recognized as - AJR54

Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month: June 2017 recognized as - SJR59

Alzheimer’s disease and dementia: DHS to award grants to increase awareness in rural and underserved urban areas for 2017-18 fiscal year - AB632

Alzheimer’s disease and dementia: DHS to award grants to increase awareness in rural and underserved urban areas for 2017-18 fiscal year - SB527

American Heart Month: February 2017 proclaimed as - AJR4

American Heart Month: February 2017 proclaimed as - SJR6

American Heart Month: February 2018 proclaimed as - AJR104

American Heart Month: February 2018 proclaimed as - SJR102

Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Awareness Month: September 2017 proclaimed as - SJR83

Communicable disease control and prevention: grants to local health departments [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 370r, 1791c] - AB64

Communicable disease control and prevention measures: DHS to distribute funds to local health departments - AB293

Communicable disease control and prevention measures: DHS to distribute funds to local health departments - SB242

Council on Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections and Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANDA and PANS), to advise DHS established and annual report required - AB638

Council on Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections and Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANDA and PANS), to advise DHS established and annual report required - SB535

CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) Awareness Day: January 30, 2018 recognized as - SJR104

Dementia specialist certification requirements created; prohibitions on use of the title - AB630

Diabetes Awareness Month: November 2017 proclaimed as - AJR67

Diabetes Awareness Month: November 2017 proclaimed as - SJR66

Dispensing, distributing, or selling dialysate, drugs, or devices necessary for providing home peritoneal kidney dialysis to patient with end-stage renal disease: exemption from pharmacist license requirement, conditions set - AB1047

Dispensing, distributing, or selling dialysate, drugs, or devices necessary for providing home peritoneal kidney dialysis to patient with end-stage renal disease: exemption from pharmacist license requirement, conditions set - SB875

Glaucoma Awareness Month: January recognized as - AJR96

Glaucoma Awareness Month: January recognized as - SJR93

Lyme Disease Awareness Month: May 2017 proclaimed as - AJR41

Lyme Disease Awareness Month: May 2017 proclaimed as - SJR45

Lyme disease laboratory test notice form creation; online availability, patient copy, and annual update requirement - AB316

Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month: June 2017 designated as - AJR19

Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month: June 2017 designated as - SJR20

Open enrollment program expired provision eliminated; 2017 WisAct 107 tuberculosis screening requirement correction; expired or outdated DPI reporting requirements eliminated (remedial legislation) [S.Sub.Amdt.2: further revisions, Office of School Safety created in DOJ, school safety plan provisions including on-site assessment by law enforcement and annual drills, mandatory reporting of threats of violence, DOJ grants for school safety, reports and penalty provisions] - AB843

Open enrollment program expired provision eliminated; 2017 WisAct 107 tuberculosis screening requirement correction; expired or outdated DPI reporting requirements eliminated (remedial legislation) - SB718

PANDAS and PANS Awareness Day: October 9, 2017 proclaimed as - AJR74

PANDAS and PANS Awareness Day: October 9, 2017 proclaimed as - SJR75

Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month: September 2017 proclaimed as - AJR73

Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month: September 2017 proclaimed as - SJR74

Shingles Awareness and Improvement Month: August recognized as - AJR113

Tuberculosis screening questionnaire required of school district employees, including MPS; practitioner duties specified - AB382

Tuberculosis screening questionnaire required of school district employees, including MPS; practitioner duties specified - SB382

Virtual dementia tour license: DHS funding authorized - AB643

World Lymphedema Day: March 6, 2017 recognized as - SJR14

Aiding a person suffering from an overdose or adverse reaction and immunity from controlled substance prosecution: revisions to 2017 WisAct 33 re initial applicability clause, bail jumping immunity, and sunset the bail jumping changes [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 2251xg-xs, 2265r, 9452 (2x)] - AB64

Assistant DA positions created and apportionment provisions - AB502

Assistant DA positions created and apportionment provisions - SB573

DA, deputy DA, and assistant DA allowed to provide pro bono publico legal services - AB117

DA, deputy DA, and assistant DA allowed to provide pro bono publico legal services - AB36

DA, deputy DA, and assistant DA allowed to provide pro bono publico legal services - SB504

Death involving a law enforcement officer: investigator to provide report to the chief judge of the judicial administrative district who must appoint a special prosecutor; DA provisions removed - AB155

DOJ to collect crime information from law enforcement agencies, DAs, and courts re firearms, marijuana, and motor vehicle thefts; quarterly compilations required - AB724

DOJ to collect crime information from law enforcement agencies, DAs, and courts re firearms, marijuana, and motor vehicle thefts; quarterly compilations required - SB611

Immigration status: prohibiting local ordinance, resolution, or policy that prohibit enforcement of federal or state law; authorizing certain elective officeholders to commence enforcement action, writ of mandamus provision; reduction of shared revenue payments; and political subdivision is liable for damage caused by an illegal alien - AB190

Immigration status: prohibiting local ordinance, resolution, or policy that prohibit enforcement of federal or state law; authorizing certain elective officeholders to commence enforcement action, writ of mandamus provision; reduction of shared revenue payments; and political subdivision is liable for damage caused by an illegal alien - SB275

Immigration status: prohibiting local ordinance, resolution, or policy that prohibits inquiries of individuals receiving public assistance or who were legally detained or arrested and reporting to or assisting other units of government re enforcement; writ of mandamus provision and reduction of shared revenue payments for failure to comply - AB127

Medicolegal Investigation Examining Board (MIEB) created in DSPS; licensure of medical examiners, medicolegal investigators, and staff members established; provisions re death notification, handling of personal property, disposition of bodies, access to deceased’s mental health treatment records, and emergency rules - AB366

Medicolegal Investigation Examining Board (MIEB) created in DSPS; licensure of medical examiners, medicolegal investigators, and staff members established; provisions re death notification, handling of personal property, disposition of bodies, access to deceased’s mental health treatment records, and emergency rules - SB297

Parental choice program: criminal penalties re false statement on application, concealing events to fraudulently participate, or unauthorized use of payments; DOJ and DA duties - AB493