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Recently Passed Legislation

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Ratifying Wisconsin State Public Defenders Association agreement

1999 Wisconsin Act 1

1999 Assembly Bill 49

Publication date*: Feb. 26, 1999

Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Public Defenders Association, WFT/AFT, Local 4822, AFL-CIO, for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employees in the public defenders collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.

Contributing to a WWII Memorial

1999 Wisconsin Act 2

1999 Assembly Bill 65

Publication date*: May 10, 1999

Relating to: Contributions for a World War II memorial in Washington, D.C., and making appropriations.

Materials used to sexually exploit children

1999 Wisconsin Act 3

1999 Senate Bill 83

Publication date*: May 12, 1999

Relating to: Materials involving the sexual exploitation of a child.

Completing the capitol restoration project

1999 Wisconsin Act 4

1999 Senate Bill 179

Publication date*: July 12, 1999

Relating to: Authorizing the completion of the capitol restoration project, historically significant furnishings, granting bonding authority and making appropriations.

Changes to the property tax lottery credit

1999 Wisconsin Act 5 (vetoed in part)

1999 Senate Bill 114

Publication date*: Aug. 11, 1999

Relating to: The property tax lottery credit and making appropriations.

Validation of votes for independent candidates

1999 Wisconsin Act 6

1999 Assembly Bill 156

Publication date*: Aug. 11, 1999

Relating to: Candidacy of independent candidates for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor.

Regulating the use of semiautomatic defibrillators

1999 Wisconsin Act 7

1999 Assembly Bill 239

Publication date*: Aug. 11, 1999

Relating to: Limitations on and requirements for use of semiautomatic defibrillators by individuals other than emergency medical technicians and first responders - defibrillation, providing civil immunity for the use and requiring the department of health and family services to review training courses for the use.

*Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 1997-98: 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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