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Vol. 71, No. 7, July 1998
At Issue
Recently Passed Legislation
Rights of crime victims
Publication date*: May 11, 1998
Relating to: Rights of victims of crime, granting rule-making
authority and providing a penalty.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the first
day of the 7th month beginning after publication.
Testing for HIV and sexually transmitted diseases in criminal
defendants
Publication date*: May 11, 1998
Relating to: Testing for the presence of the human
immunodeficiency virus and sexually transmitted diseases in criminal
defendants and juveniles alleged to be delinquent or in need
of protection or services who are found not competent to proceed
or not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
Services as restitution by juveniles
Publication date*: May 11, 1998
Relating to: The performance of services for the victim
by a juvenile as restitution for the juvenile's act.
Joint local water authorities
Publication date*: May 11, 1998
Relating to: Permitting the creation of joint local
water authorities and granting rule-making authority.
Emergency rules by the joint committee for review of administrative
rules
Publication date*: May 11, 1998
Relating to: Promulgation of emergency rules and the
extension of emergency rules by the joint committee for review
of administrative rules.
Principals' reporting of certain lobbying activities to the
ethics board
Publication date*: May 11, 1998
Relating to: Reporting by principals with respect to
certain lobbying activities, voluntary registration by certain
persons with the ethics board, compilation and use of certain
information provided to the ethics board, making an appropriation
and providing penalties.
Effective dates: This act takes effect on Jan. 1, 1999,
except as follows: The repeal and recreation of section 13. 69
(2m) of the statutes takes effect on Jan. 1, 2001.
Increasing the time to serve a summons and complaint and
a responsive pleading
Publication date*:May 11, 1998
Relating to: Increasing the time to serve a summons
and complaint and a responsive pleading.
Changes to the probate code
Publication date*:May 11, 1998
Relating to: Changes to the probate code.
Fish species harvest limits
Publication date*:May 11, 1998
Relating to: Establishment of species harvest limits
and allotment of individual licensee catch quotas among holders
of commercial fishing licenses and granting rule-making authority.
Traffic regulation ordinances
Publication date*:May 11, 1998
Relating to: Enacting traffic regulation ordinances
that conform with rules of the department of transportation.
Child support obligations
Publication date*:April 30, 1998
Relating to: Suspension of licenses, permits and other
credentials for failure to pay child support or to comply with
a subpoena or warrant related to paternity or child support proceedings
and requiring social security numbers on license, permit and
other credential applications and on certain documents concerning
marriage and children; creating a record matching program to
match information about delinquent child support obligors with
financial account information of financial institutions; creating
a statutory lien for delinquent child support obligations; creating
a mechanism for enforcing child support liens; fees for the child
and spousal support, establishment of paternity and medical liability
support program and cooperation with child support efforts under
Wisconsin works; income withholding for support or maintenance,
adjudicating paternity when the mother fails to appear and other
technical changes related to child support enforcement; access
to certain agency records, nonliability for providing information
from records, issuing subpoenas, ordering genetic tests; providing
notice to new employers of a parent's obligation to provide health
care coverage for a child; providing medical and medical history
information in custody matters; hospital-based voluntary establishment
of paternity; administratively changing interstate income-withholding
orders to sum certain amounts; presumption of paternity; acknowledgment
of paternity; procedure, temporary orders, and probable cause
in paternity actions; payment for genetic tests in paternity
actions; changes in departmental responsibility for support enforcement;
intercepting delinquent support and certain other payments from
pension plan disbursements; intercepting delinquent support from
court judgments and settlements; granting rule-making authority;
making appropriations; and providing a penalty.
Effective dates; general: Except as otherwise provided
in sections 9401 to 9456 of this act, this act takes effect on
the day after publication.
Humane officers, the custody and disposition of animals
Publication date*:May 11, 1998
Relating to: Humane officers, the custody and disposition
of animals, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation
and providing a penalty.
Effective dates: This act takes effect on the first
day of the 19th month beginning after publication, except as
follows: Section 33 (1) of this act takes effect on the day after
publication.
Environmental laws regulating mining and water pollution
Publication date*:May 11, 1998
Relating to: Enforcement of certain environmental laws
regulating mining and water pollution.
Kickapoo Valley reserve, and management board
Publication date*:May 11, 1998
Relating to: The Kickapoo Valley reserve, the Kickapoo
reserve management board and providing a penalty.
Trapping approvals
Publication date*:May 11, 1998
Relating to: The waiver of requirements for trapping
approvals for certain special events or programs sponsored or
approved by the department of natural resources.
Revocation or suspension to engage in a fish or game activity
1997
Wisconsin Act 196
1997 Senate Bill 235
Publication date*:May 11, 1998
Relating to: Revocation or suspension of the privilege
to engage in a fish or game activity and providing a penalty.
Hunter education programs
Publication date*:May 11, 1998
Relating to: Hunter education programs and hunting
approvals issued to bow hunters.
Effective date: This act takes effect on July 1, 1998.
The intoxicated boating law
Publication date*:May 11, 1998
Relating to: The intoxicated boating law; capacity
plates on boats; certificate of number and registration requirements
for boats; prohibitions against falsifying boat titles and other
documentation; prohibitions against operating boats using unsafe
methods and in certain locations; boating safety course and certificates;
granting rule-making authority; and providing penalties.
Effective dates: This act takes effect on the day after
publication, except as follows:
(1) CERTIFICATE OF NUMBERS FOR NONMOTORIZED BOATS AND FOR
BOATS OWNED BY DEALERS OR MANUFACTURERS. The treatment of sections
30.505, 30.52 (3) (im), (3m) (a) and (5) (a) 3. and 30.523 (2)
(c) and (3) of the statutes takes effect on the April 1 after
publication.
(2) BOATING SAFETY PROGRAM AND CERTIFICATES. The treatment
of sections 30.74 (intro.), (1) (a), (b), (bn) and (c), (2) (a)
and (3), 30.80 (2m) and 938.343 (5) of the statutes takes effect
on the first day of the 12th month beginning after publication.
(3) OTHER. The treatment of sections 30.52 (1) (b) 1r., 30.66
(3) (b), 30.80 (6) (c) and 885.235 (1m) and (4) of the statutes,
the amendment of section 30.80 (6) (a) of the statutes, the creation
of section 30.80 (6) (a) 4. and 5. of the statutes and section
52 (2) of this act take effect on the first day of the 3rd month
beginning after publication.
Selling a motor vehicle seized for OWI-related crimes
Publication date*:May 11, 1998
Relating to: The sale of a motor vehicle subject to
a seizure for a crime related to driving while under the influence
of an intoxicant or other drug and providing a penalty.
Changes to the Minnesota-Wisconsin student reciprocity agreement
Publication date*:May 11, 1998
Relating to: Various changes to the Minnesota-Wisconsin
student reciprocity agreement.
Initial Applicability: Minnesota-Wisconsin student
reciprocity agreement. The treatment of section 39.47 (2) and
(2g) of the statutes first applies to students enrolled in and
reciprocal fees for the 1998-99 academic year.
Misrepresentations of business locations
Publication date*:May 11, 1998
Relating to: Misrepresentations of the locations of
businesses and providing a penalty.
Initial applicability: This act first applies to names
or other information that is published on the effective date
of this subsection.
Group health insurance for state employees in the Wisconsin
retirement system
Publication date*:May 11, 1998
Relating to: The eligibility for group health insurance
for state employees participating under the Wisconsin retirement
system.
Increasing the number of circuit court branches
Publication date*:May 11, 1998
Relating to: Increasing the number of circuit court
branches.
Public utilities
Publication date*:May 11, 1998
Relating to: Strategic energy assessments, certification
requirements applicable to certain projects proposed by public
utilities, certificates of public convenience and necessity for
certain electric generating facilities and high-voltage transmission
lines, independent system operator or transmission owner of electric
transmission system, certain out-of-state retail electric sales,
ownership and operation of wholesale merchant plants, service
standards for electric generation, transmission or distribution
facilities, regional transmission planning and granting rule-making
authority.
Effective dates: This act takes effect on the day after
publication, except as follows: Strategic Advance Plan. The treatment
of sections 196.491 (title), (1) (a) and (d) and (2) (title),
(a) (intro.), 1., 2., 3., 3g., 3m., 3r., 4., 5., 6., 7., 8. and
9. to 13., (ag), (am), (b) (intro.), 8., 9. and 10., (c), (d),
(e), (f), (g), (gm) and (i) to (m) and 196.795 (7) (a) 1. b.
of the statutes takes effect on Jan. 1, 1999.
Original adult court jurisdiction over a juvenile
Publication date*:May 12, 1998
Relating to: Original adult court jurisdiction over
a juvenile who is alleged to have attempted or committed a violation
of any state criminal law if that violation may be joined with
an alleged assault, battery, homicide or attempted homicide over
which the adult court has original jurisdiction, the imposition
of a juvenile adjudication and disposition by an adult court
on a juvenile who has been found to have committed a lesser offense
or a joined offense, requiring the parent of a juvenile to make
restitution for any damage or injury resulting from the juvenile's
act or to pay a forfeiture for the juvenile's act, sanctions
for a juvenile who violates a condition of his or her dispositional
order, contempt of court by a juvenile who violates a condition
of his or her dispositional order, the authority to take into
custody and hold in short-term detention a juvenile who has violated
a condition of his or her dispositional order, aftercare supervision
or participation in an intensive supervision program, the rules
of evidence at postdispositional hearings under the juvenile
justice code, access to juvenile court records, law enforcement
agency records, social services agency records and pupil records
by a fire investigator, disclosure by the victim-witness coordinator
to the victim of a juvenile's act or alleged act of the name
and address of the juvenile and the juvenile's parents, the confidential
exchange of information between a law enforcement agency, a social
welfare agency and the school attended by a child or juvenile,
the disclosure of information relating to a child or a juvenile
by a law enforcement agency, a social welfare agency or a juvenile
court to the private school attended by the child or the juvenile,
requesting the legislative audit bureau to audit the use of secure
detention facilities, referral of a juvenile to a teen court
program and the disclosure of juvenile court records for the
purposes of preparing a presentence investigation, determining
custody of a juvenile, setting bail, impeaching a witness and
determining whether a juvenile who would otherwise be an heir
has intentionally killed the decedent.
Anatomical gifts, power of attorney for health care
Publication date*:May 12, 1998
Relating to: Allowing a power of attorney for health-care
instrument to be used to make or refuse to make an anatomical
gift and allowing a health-care agent to make an anatomical gift.
Notification when a delinquent juvenile escapes or is released
from a nonsecured setting
Publication date*:May 12, 1998
Relating to: Notification of victims, witnesses, and
the public when a juvenile who has committed a delinquent act
or who is not competent to proceed escapes, is absent from, or
is released from a nonsecured child caring institution or inpatient
facility.
The filing officer for municipal judge candidates
Publication date*:May 12, 1998
Relating to: The filing officer for candidates for
the office of municipal judge in municipal courts serving two
or more municipalities.
Designating the Root River watershed as a priority for the
nonpoint source water pollution abatement program
Publication date*:May 12, 1998
Relating to: Designating the Root River watershed as
a priority watershed for the nonpoint source water pollution
abatement program.
Uncertified copies of vital records for events before Oct.
1, 1907
Publication date*:May 12, 1998
Relating to: Issuance of uncertified copies of vital
records for events occurring before Oct. 1, 1907, and providing
penalties.
A county treasurer's appointment of a deputy treasurer
Publication date*:May 12, 1998
Relating to: A county treasurer's appointment of a
deputy treasurer.
Stationery used by state agencies for outside correspondence
Publication date*:May 12, 1998
Relating to: Stationery used by state agencies for
outside correspondence.
*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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