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Vol. 71, No. 8, August 1998
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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