State Bar of Wisconsin

Vol. 75, No. 3, March 2002

Recently Passed Legislation

Fishing with a bow and arrow near roadways
2001 Wisconsin Act 8
2001 Assembly Bill 98
Publication date*: June 26, 2001
Relating to: Fishing with a bow and arrow near a roadway.

Deputy sheriff exam residency requirements
2001 Wisconsin Act 9
2001 Assembly Bill 24
Publication date*: June 26, 2001
Relating to: Residency requirements for persons who wish to take an examination for the position of deputy sheriff.

Uniform Commercial Code revisions
2001 Wisconsin Act 10 (vetoed in part)
2001 Senate Bill 9
Publication date*: June 25, 2001
Relating to: Revising the Uniform Commercial Code - Secured Transactions and related statutes, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
Effective date: This act takes effect on July 1, 2001.

Tax incremental financing district notices
2001 Wisconsin Act 11
2001 Senate Bill 138
Publication date*: July 24, 2001
Relating to: The publication of notices relating to the creation of tax incremental financing districts.

State purchase of a Justice Center building
2001 Wisconsin Act 12
2001 Senate Bill 144
Publication date*: July 24, 2001
Relating to: State purchase of a Justice Center building and granting bonding authority.

Supplemental medical assistance payments to nursing homes
2001 Wisconsin Act 13
2001 Assembly Bill 274
Publication date*: July 24, 2001
Relating to: Supplemental medical assistance payments to reduce operating deficits of county, city, village, or town nursing homes, creating a medical assistance trust fund, and requiring payments or completion of payments to facilities for wage or salary and fringe benefits supplements.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the day after publication, except as follows:

(1) Supplemental Medical Assistance Payments to Nursing Homes. The treatment of section 49.45 (6u) (intro.) of the statutes takes effect retroactively to July 1, 2000.

Regulating snowmobile rail crossings
2001 Wisconsin Act 14
2001 Senate Bill 58
Publication date*: Aug. 31, 2001
Relating to: The regulation of snowmobile rail crossings.

Motorists approaching stopped emergency vehicles
2001 Wisconsin Act 15
2001 Senate Bill 10
Publication date*: Aug. 31, 2001
Relating to: Motorists approaching certain authorized emergency vehicles, tow trucks, or highway maintenance equipment stopped near a highway and providing a penalty.
Effective date: This act takes effect on July 1, 2001, or on the first day of the 4th month beginning after publication, whichever is later.

Temporary fishing licenses for disabled persons
2001 Wisconsin Act 17
2001 Assembly Bill 61
Publication date*: Nov. 30, 2001
Relating to: The issuance of temporary fishing licenses to disabled persons.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the first day of the 4th month beginning after publication.

Crossbow hunting by resident senior citizens
2001 Wisconsin Act 18
2001 Assembly Bill 153
Publication date*: Nov. 30, 2001
Relating to: Authorizing resident senior citizens to hunt with a crossbow.

Eliminating legislative partisan caucus staffs
2001 Wisconsin Act 19
2001 Senate Bill 279
Publication date*: Dec. 4, 2001
Relating to: Elimination of legislative partisan caucus staffs.
Effective date: This act takes effect on Jan. 1, 2002, or on the day after publication, whichever is later.

Creating Prisoners of War Remembrance Day
2001 Wisconsin Act 20
2001 Assembly Bill 238
Publication date*: Dec. 13, 2001
Relating to: Designating and observing Prisoners of War Remembrance Day.

Adding a Paralyzed Veterans of America representative to the council on veterans programs
2001 Wisconsin Act 21
2001 Assembly Bill 468
Publication date*: Dec. 13, 2001
Relating to: Adding one representative of the Wisconsin chapter of the Paralyzed Veterans of America to the council on veterans programs.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the first day of the 2nd month beginning after publication.

Veterans benefits for Operation Enduring Freedom veterans
2001 Wisconsin Act 22
2001 Assembly Bill 558
Publication date*: Dec. 13, 2001
Relating to: Eligibility for veterans benefits for those veterans who are involved in Operation Enduring Freedom; the extension or renewal of a license held by a national guard member or member of the U.S. armed forces reserve who is called into active service; college students called to serve in the armed forces; the salary paid to certain public employees called into active service; and granting rule-making authority.

Abating interest on taxes owed by Operation Enduring Freedom veterans
2001 Wisconsin Act 23
2001 Assembly Bill 560
Publication date*: Dec. 13, 2001
Relating to: Abating interest otherwise due on income tax returns filed under an extension by members of the armed forces who are participating in that operation.

Soldiers' and sailors' relief act for state service
2001 Wisconsin Act 24
2001 Assembly Bill 571
Publication date*: Dec. 13, 2001
Relating to: The rights of persons who are called into active state service and providing penalties.

National Guard tuition grants
2001 Wisconsin Act 252001 Assembly Bill 509
Publication date*: Dec. 13, 2001
Relating to: National guard tuition grants, requiring the lapse of certain program revenue moneys to the general fund, and making an appropriation.

Reemployment rights after national guard or state defense force service
2001 Wisconsin Act 26
2001 Assembly Bill 572
Publication date*: Dec. 13, 2001
Relating to: Reemployment rights after national guard or state defense force service, providing an exemption from emergency rule-making procedures, and granting rule-making authority.

Reporting traffic violations/accidents involving foreign diplomats
2001 Wisconsin Act 27
2001 Senate Bill 70
Publication date*: Dec. 13, 2001
Relating to: Requiring law enforcement officers to report traffic violations and accidents involving any foreign diplomat to the federal department of state.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the first day of the 7th month after publication.

Prohibiting installation of deployed or nonfunctional airbags
2001 Wisconsin Act 28
2001 Assembly Bill 290
Publication date*: Dec. 13, 2001
Relating to: Prohibiting the installation of a previously deployed or an otherwise nonfunctional airbag and providing a penalty.

Wisconsin Technical College System salaries
2001 Wisconsin Act 29
2001 Assembly Bill 461
Publication date*: Dec. 13, 2001
Relating to: Determination of annual salaries for the director and the executive assistant of the Wisconsin Technical College System.

Correcting errors and omissions of various statutes
2001 Wisconsin Act 30
2001 Assembly Bill 513
Publication date*: Dec. 13, 2001
Relating to: Repealing, consolidating, renumbering, amending and revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of correcting errors, supplying omissions, correcting and clarifying references, eliminating defects, anachronisms, conflicts, ambiguities and obsolete provisions, reconciling conflicts, and repelling unintended repeals (Revisor's Correction Bill).

Actions regarding motor vehicle franchises
2001 Wisconsin Act 31
2001 Senate Bill 275
Publication date*: Dec. 13, 2001
Relating to: Proposed actions regarding motor vehicle franchises.

Deadline for filing property tax exemption report in La Crosse
2001 Wisconsin Act 32
2001 Senate Bill 259
Publication date*: Dec. 17, 2001
Relating to: The deadline for filing a tax exemption report in the city of La Crosse by a church or religious association.

Unreasonable invasion of privacy, voyeurism
2001 Wisconsin Act 33
2001 Assembly Bill 60
Publication date*: Dec. 17, 2001
Relating to: The prohibition against making, possessing, distributing, or exhibiting a representation that depicts nudity; the civil cause of action for unreasonable invasion of privacy; and providing a penalty.

Distance when following snowplows
2001 Wisconsin Act 34
2001 Assembly Bill 142
Publication date*: Jan. 4, 2002
Relating to: Following snowplows and providing a penalty.

Changes in the unemployment insurance law
2001 Wisconsin Act 35
2001 Assembly Bill 553
Publication date*: Jan. 4, 2002
Relating to: Various changes in the unemployment insurance law, appointment of temporary reserve appeal tribunals, Relating to: Reconciling conflicts and repelling unintended repeals (Revisor's Correction Bill). requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.

Effective dates: This act takes effect on the first Sunday after publication, except as follows:
(1) The treatment of section 108.067(1) of the statutes takes effect on April 1, 2002.
(2) The treatment of section 108.067(2) of the statutes takes effect on Jan. 1, 2002.

Temporary emergency unemployment insurance program
2001 Wisconsin Act 36
2001 Senate Bill 303
Publication date*: Jan. 4, 2002
Relating to: A temporary emergency unemployment insurance program and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.

Changes to the worker's compensation law
2001 Wisconsin Act 37 (republished)
2001 Senate Bill 251
Publication date*: Jan. 4, 2002
Republication: Dec. 31, 2001
Relating to: Various changes to the worker's compensation law.
Effective date: This act takes effect on Jan. 1, 2002, or on the day after publication, whichever is later.

Correcting errors and omissions of various statutes
2001 Wisconsin Act 38
2001 Assembly Bill 512
Publication date*: Jan. 4, 2002
Relating to: Repealing, consolidating, renumbering, amending and revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of correcting errors, supplying omissions, correcting and clarifying references, eliminating defects, anachronisms, conflicts, ambiguities and obsolete provisions, reconciling conflicts and repelling unintended repeals (Revisor's Correction Bill).

Reconciling conflicts and repelling unintended repeals
2001 Wisconsin Act 39
2001 Assembly Bill 514
Publication date*: Jan. 4, 2002

Public warehouse keeper's license
2001 Wisconsin Act 40
2001 Assembly Bill 135
Publication date*: Jan. 4, 2002
Relating to: The requirement to obtain a public warehouse keeper's license.

Law enforcement agencies' access to driver's license and I.D. card photos
2001 Wisconsin Act 41
2001 Assembly Bill 110
Publication date*: Jan. 4, 2002
Relating to: Access by law enforcement agencies to photographs taken for driver's licenses and identification cards.

Jurisdiction in divorces
2001 Wisconsin Act 42
2001 Assembly Bill 246
Publication date*: Jan. 4, 2002
Relating to: Jurisdiction in divorces.

*Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 1999-00: Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

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