Pharmacological treatment for certain child sex offenders
Publication date*: June 29, 1998
Relating to: Pharmacological treatment for persons convicted
of certain child sex offenses and certain persons found to be sexually
violent persons, affecting parole and making an appropriation.
Effective date: This act takes effect on Jan. 1, 1999.
Forfeitures of property used to commit certain crimes
Publication date*: June 29, 1998
Relating to: Forfeiture of property used to commit certain
crimes and court fees in property forfeiture proceedings.
Redrawing school district boundaries
Publication date*: June 29, 1998
Relating to: Procedures to create a school district out of
the territory of one or more existing school districts and information
provided to persons filing a petition for a referendum on the detachment
of large territory from one school district and its attachment to
another school district.
Publication of noxious weeds notice
Publication date*: June 29, 1998
Relating to: The publication of a noxious weeds notice by a
city, village, or town.
Changing rental unit energy efficiency requirements
Publication date*: June 29, 1998
Relating to: Changing rental unit energy efficiency
requirements and creating a procedure for issuing citations for failure
to comply with existing stipulations relating to rental unit energy
efficiency requirements.
Effective dates: This act takes effect on the day after
publication, except as follows:
(1) The treatment of sections 101.122 (7) (e) and 778.25 (1) (a) 7.,
(b) and (c), (2) (intro.) and (b) and (3) of the statutes takes effect
on the first day of the 6th month beginning after publication.
Remedial legislation by the department of corrections
Publication date*: June 29, 1998
Relating to: Fiscal responsibilities of the department of
corrections and the disposal of property belonging to prisoners and
inmates under the supervision of the department of corrections;
standards for delivery of health services in state correctional
institutions; and discharge of persons from probation (suggested as
remedial legislation by the department of corrections).
Remedial legislation by the director of state courts
Publication date*: June 29, 1998
Relating to: The location of refusal hearings, the citation
procedure used for certain violations, judgments regarding minors and
interference with custody of a nonmarital child (suggested as remedial
legislation by the director of state courts).
Remedial legislation by the department of revenue
Publication date*: June 29, 1998
Relating to: The forms used to claim motor vehicle fuel tax
refunds; replacing obsolete references to "special fuel" and "motor
fuel"; authorizing the department of revenue to give seized cigarettes
to law enforcement officers for use in criminal investigations; seized
alcohol beverages; unpaid installments of the estate tax; garnishment of
earnings by debtors; the place of trial for criminal violations of
certain income and franchise tax provisions; the statute of limitations
for income taxes and franchise taxes; income tax information returns;
and defining "one month" for the sales tax on certain rentals (suggested
as remedial legislation by the department of revenue).
Effective dates: This act takes effect on the day after
publication, except as follows:
(1) Income tax information returns. The treatment of sections 71.65
(2) (b) and (5), 71.70 (1) and (2), 71.72 and 71.73 (2) of the statutes
takes effect on Jan. 1, 1999.
Protecting fetus from mother's drug or alcohol abuse
- 1997 Wisconsin Act 292
- 1997 Assembly Bill 463
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: Unborn children who are at substantial risk of
serious physical injury due to the habitual lack of self-control of
their expectant mothers in the use of alcohol beverages, controlled
substances, or controlled substance analogs, exhibited to a severe
degree and priority for pregnant women for private treatment for alcohol
or other drug abuse.
Child abuse and neglect prevention program
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: Creating a child abuse and neglect prevention
program, medical assistance for certain case management services, child
abuse and neglect prevention and early childhood family education center
grants awarded by the child abuse and neglect prevention board, training
programs and training requirements for staff of county departments or
licensed child welfare agencies under contract with county departments
whose responsibilities include investigation or treatment of child abuse
and neglect and making appropriations.
Effective dates: This act takes effect on the day after
publication, except as follows:
(1) The repeal and recreation of section 25.67 (2) (a) 1. and (b) of
the statutes takes effect on Jan. 1, 1999.
Terminating parental rights over children adjudicated in need of
protection or services and placed outside the home three or more
times
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: Termination of parental rights over a child who
on three or more occasions has been adjudicated to be in need of
protection or services and placed outside his or her home by an order of
the juvenile court due to conditions caused by the parent.
Causing harm or death to a fetus
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: Causing harm or death to an unborn child and
providing penalties.
Holding juveniles in municipal lockup facilities
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: Holding juveniles in municipal lockup
facilities and granting rule-making authority.
Revising the UCC investment securities chapter
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: Revising the investment securities chapter of
the uniform commercial code.
Professional standards council for teachers
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: Creating a professional standards council for
teachers.
Income and franchise taxes
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: Income tax and franchise tax credits for sales
taxes paid on fuel and electricity used in manufacturing, the
apportionment of income for the corporate income tax and franchise tax,
and requiring and permitting the promulgation of rules.
Regulating professional geologists, hydrologists and soil
scientists
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: The regulation of professional geologists,
hydrologists, and soil scientists, creating an examining board of
professional geologists, hydrologists and soil scientists, providing an
exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority
and providing a penalty.
DNR permit guarantee program
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: The permit guarantee program of the department
of natural resources and requiring the exercise of rule-making
authority.
Excluding agricultural transactions from
Wisconsin consumer act provisions
Publication date*: June 30, 1998
Relating to: Excluding agricultural transactions from
provisions of the Wisconsin consumer act.
* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes
1995-96: 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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