13.92(2)(b)
(b) Supervise all expenditures of the legislative reference bureau.
13.92(2)(c)
(c) Serve as editor of the biennial Wisconsin Blue Book.
13.92(2)(d)
(d) Cooperate with the legislative service agencies of other states and foreign countries toward the better exchange of information.
13.92(2)(f)
(f) Attend, personally or through a professional employe under
sub. (1) (b) designated by the chief, all meetings of the commission on uniform state laws under
s. 13.55 and the midwest and national meetings in which the commission participates.
13.92(2)(g)
(g) Cooperate with the revisor of statutes in systematically examining and revising the statutes and session laws under
s. 13.93 (2) (j).
13.92(2)(h)
(h) Recommend to the joint committee on legislative organization prices for subscriptions to the legislative document distribution service under
s. 35.87, including any portion of the service provided separately.
13.92(3)
(3) Treatment of certain legislative reference bureau employes. Notwithstanding
s. 230.08 (2) (fc), those employes holding positions in the classified service at the legislative reference bureau on June 16, 1998, who have achieved permanent status in class before that date, shall retain, while serving in the unclassified service at the legislative reference bureau, those protections afforded employes in the classified service under
ss. 230.34 (1) (a) and
230.44 (1) (c) relating to demotion, suspension, discharge, layoff or reduction in base pay. Such employes shall also have reinstatement privileges to the classified service as provided under
s. 230.33 (1). Those employes of the legislative reference bureau holding positions in the classified service on June 16, 1998, who have not achieved permanent status in class in any position at the legislative reference bureau on that date are eligible to receive the protections, privileges and rights preserved under this subsection if they successfully complete service equivalent to the probationary period required in the classified service for the position which they hold on that date.
13.92 Annotation
Reports or comments of nonlegislative committees incorporated in the LRB analysis under sub. (1) (b) 2. are valid aids in interpreting statute which originated from the committee. In re Estate of Haese, 80 W (2d) 285, 259 NW (2d) 54 (1977).
13.93
13.93
Revisor of statutes bureau. There is created a bureau to be known as the "Revisor of Statutes Bureau," headed by a chief known as the "Revisor of Statutes" under the classified service. The revisor of statutes bureau shall be strictly nonpartisan.
13.93(1)
(1) Duties of the bureau. The revisor of statutes bureau shall prepare copy for the biennial Wisconsin statutes, and for this purpose it:
13.93(1)(a)
(a) Shall formulate and prepare a definite plan for the order, classification, arrangement, printing and binding of the statutes, and prepare and at each session of the legislature present bills to the law revision committee of the joint legislative council containing such consolidation, revision and other matter relating to the statutes as time permits.
13.93(1)(b)
(b) May renumber any chapter or section of the statutes for the purpose of revision, and shall change reference numbers to agree with any renumbered chapter or section. Where the term "preceding section" or similar expressions are used in the statutes the revisor of statutes may change the same by inserting the proper section or chapter reference.
13.93(1)(c)
(c) May, where the application or effect of a statute, by its terms, depends on the time when the act creating the statute took effect, substitute the actual effective date for the various forms of expression which mean that date, such as "when this act (or chapter, or section) takes effect", or "after (or before) the effective date of this act (or chapter, or section)", in preparing copy for the biennial printing of the Wisconsin statutes.
13.93(1)(d)
(d) May delete useless words such as "of the statutes", "of this section", "hereof", "immediately above", "inclusive" and the like, where such words appear immediately after a chapter, section or subsection reference.
13.93(1)(e)
(e) May delete useless words in statutory references such as "any of the provisions of" or "any of the requirements of" and the like when they appear immediately before a reference to a chapter, section, subsection or paragraph of the statutes.
13.93(1)(f)
(f) May delete the word "hereby" wherever used in connection with the verbs "consents", "grants", "gives" or "declares" or other verbs.
13.93(1)(g)
(g) May substitute the word "deems" for the words "may deem".
13.93(1)(h)
(h) May substitute the word "may" for the phrase "is hereby authorized to" or similar phrases.
13.93(1)(i)
(i) May substitute "this state" for the phrase "the state of Wisconsin".
13.93(1)(j)
(j) May change an incorrect form of a pronoun to the correct form.
13.93(1)(k)
(k) May insert the USC citations for federal acts.
13.93(1)(L)
(L) May delete surplus words and modernize language in penalty provisions to correspond to current drafting style. No such change shall have the effect of increasing or decreasing any penalty.
13.93(1)(m)
(m) Shall, whenever any statute is affected by any act of the legislature, and may, at the revisor's discretion, ensure that the statutory language does not discriminate on the basis of sex by making the following corrections, which shall have no substantive effect:
13.93(1)(m)1.
1. Delete any masculine or feminine pronoun or adjective, except where the statute clearly applies to one sex only, and replace it, if necessary, with terminology which does not discriminate on the basis of sex.
13.93(1)(m)2.
2. Replace words of male or female gender, such as man, wife and widow, with terms such as person, spouse and surviving spouse, except where the statute clearly applies to one sex only.
13.93(1)(m)3.
3. Make other corrections to remove from the statutes or to replace terminology which discriminates on the basis of sex.
13.93(1)(n)
(n) Shall prepare for introduction in the legislature legislation substituting English terms for Latin terms in the statutes.
13.93(1)(o)
(o) Shall identify for deletion by the legislature provisions that have no legal effect.