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    Wisconsin Lawyer
    August 01, 1998

    Wisconsin Lawyer August 1998: At Issue 3

     


    Vol. 71, No. 8, August 1998

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    At Issue


    Recently Passed Legislation

    Recently passed legislation is a feature of the At Issue column in response to your requests for more information on new laws. Summaries of 1997 Acts 61 - 83 appeared in the May 1998 Wisconsin Lawyer at page 26; summaries of 1997 Acts 84 - 136 appeared in the June 1998 issue at page 52. Due to the volume of legislation passed during the regular and special sessions, legislative summaries appear in multiple issues.

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    * - Publication date statutory note


    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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