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Recently Passed Legislation
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Sex offender registration requirements
1999 Wis. Act 156
1999 Assembly Bill 99
Publication date*: May 26, 2000
Relating to: Sex offender registration requirements for persons who
are on probation, parole, or extended supervision, and providing a
penalty.
Laser pointer restrictions
1999 Wis. Act 157
1999 Assembly Bill 154
Publication date*: May 26, 2000
Relating to: Restrictions on the use of laser pointers, and providing
a penalty.
Peace officers' transportation of firearms in motor
vehicles
1999 Wis. Act 158
1999 Assembly Bill 174
Publication date*: May 26, 2000
Relating to: An exception for peace officers to prohibitions relating
to the transportation of firearms in motor vehicles.
Registration of nonprofit organizations' blood bank
vehicles
1999 Wis. Act 159
1999 Assembly Bill 197
Publication date*: May 26, 2000
Relating to: Registration of vehicles operated exclusively by a
nonprofit organization as a blood bank vehicle.
Implied warranties of animals' disease status
1999 Wis. Act 160
1999 Assembly Bill 314
Publication date*: May 26, 2000
Relating to: Implied warranties concerning disease status of animals,
and granting rule-making authority.
Effective date: This act takes effect on July 1, 2000.
Eligible ages for special education
1999 Wis. Act 161
1999 Assembly Bill 394
Publication date*: May 26, 2000
Relating to: The eligible ages for special education.
Amending statutes to include adoptive relatives on the same
basis as blood relatives in certain definitions
1999 Wis. Act 162 1999 Assembly Bill 610
Publication date*: May 26, 2000
Relating to: Including relatives by adoption on the same basis as
relatives by blood in certain definitions and references in the
statutes.
Number of Class "B" licenses issued to small brewers
1999 Wis. Act 163
1999 Assembly Bill 717
Publication date*: May 26, 2000
Relating to: The number of Class "B" licenses that may be issued to
certain small brewers.
Employing minors age 12-13 as athletic event officials
1999 Wis. Act 164 1999 Senate Bill 145
Publication date*: May 26, 2000
Relating to: The employment of minors 12 and 13 years of age as
officials for athletic events.
Coverage rates under the health insurance risk-sharing plan
for medicare-eligible persons
1999 Wis. Act 165
1999 Senate Bill 417
Publication date*: May 26, 2000
Relating to: Premium rates for coverage under the health insurance
risk-sharing plan for persons who are eligible for medicare.
Confidentiality of documents reviewed by notary publics
1999 Wis. Act 166
1999 Assembly Bill 431
Publication date*: May 26, 2000
Relating to: Confidentiality of documents reviewed by notary
publics.
Creating and regulating a local professional football stadium
district
1999 Wis. Act 167 (vetoed in part)
1999 Assembly Bill 892
Publication date*: May 26, 2000
Relating to: Creating a local professional football stadium district;
giving a local professional football stadium district the authority to
issue bonds and granting income tax exemptions for interest income on
bonds issued by the district; creating an individual income tax checkoff
for debt service payments for bonds related to a local professional
football stadium district; creating goals for the participation of
minority and women's business in contracts related to the construction
or renovation of football stadium facilities; making a state moral
obligation pledge with respect to bonds issued by a local professional
football stadium district; giving a local professional football stadium
district the authority to impose a sales tax and a use tax; creating an
income and franchise tax exemption for a local professional football
stadium district; the property tax exemption for a professional football
stadium; requiring a professional football team or a related party that
enters into a contract with a local professional football stadium
district that requires the team or related party to acquire and
construct or renovate football stadium facilities to comply with the
prevailing wage law; special distinguishing registration plates
associated with certain professional football teams; deposits to funds
for the operation and maintenance of a home stadium to be used by a
professional football team; the investment authority of the board of
commissioners of public lands and the investment board; the sale of
engraved tiles or bricks sold by a professional football team; and
making appropriations.
Effective dates: This act has effective dates different from those set
in Wis. Stat. section 991.11 (1997-98).
Ratifying the State Engineering Association agreement
1999 Wis. Act 168
1999 Assembly Bill 959
Publication date*: May 19, 2000
Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated between the
state of Wisconsin and the State Engineering Association for the 1999-01
biennium, covering employees in the professional engineering collective
bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Effective dates: This act provides effective dates different from those
set in Wis. Stat. section 991.11 (1997-98).
Ratifying the Wisconsin State Attorneys Association
Inc. agreement
1999 Wis. Act 169
1999 Assembly Bill 960
Publication date*: May 19, 2000
Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated between the
state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Attorneys Association Inc.
for the 1999-01 biennium, covering employees in the professional legal
collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Effective dates: This act provides effective dates different from those
set in Wis. Stat. section 991.11 (1997-98).
Ratifying the Wisconsin State Employees Union
agreement covering blue collar and
nonbuilding trades employees
1999 Wis. Act 170
1999 Assembly Bill 961
Publication date*: May 19, 2000
Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated between the
state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME
Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for the
1999-01 biennium, covering employees in the blue collar and nonbuilding
trades collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of
funds.
Effective dates: This act provides effective dates different from those
set in Wis. Stat. section 991.11 (1997-98).
Ratifying the Wisconsin State Employees Union
agreement covering administrative support employees
1999 Wis. Act 171
1999 Assembly Bill 962
Publication date*: May 19, 2000
Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated between the
state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME
Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for the
1999-01 biennium, covering employees in the administrative support
collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Effective dates: This act provides effective dates different from those
set in Wis. Stat. section 991.11 (1997-98).
Ratifying the Wisconsin State Employees Union
agreement covering technical employees
1999 Wis. Act 172
1999 Assembly Bill 963
Publication date*: May 19, 2000
Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated between the
state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME
Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for the
1999-01 biennium, covering employees in the technical collective
bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Effective dates: This act provides effective dates different from those
set in Wis. Stat. section 991.11 (1997-98).
Ratifying the Wisconsin State Employees Union agreement
covering security and public safety employees
1999 Wis. Act 173
1999 Assembly Bill 964
Publication date*: May 19, 2000
Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated between the
state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME
Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for the
1999-01 biennium, covering employees in the security and public safety
collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Effective dates: This act provides effective dates different from those
set in Wis. Stat. section 991.11 (1997-98).
Ratifying the Wisconsin State Employees Union agreement
covering professional and social service employees
1999 Wis. Act 174
1999 Assembly Bill 965
Publication date*: May 19, 2000
Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated between the
state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME
Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for the
1999-01 biennium, covering employees in the professional social services
collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Effective dates: This act provides effective dates different from those
set in Wis. Stat. section 991.11 (1997-98).
Ratifying the Wisconsin State Employees
Union agreement covering law enforcement employees
1999 Wis. Act 175
1999 Assembly Bill 966
Publication date*: May 19, 2000
Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated between the
state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME
Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for the
1999-01 biennium, covering employees in the law enforcement collective
bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Effective dates: This act provides effective dates different from those
set in Wis. Stat. section 991.11 (1997-98).
Whistle-blower protection for health care
workers
1999 Wis. Act 176
1999 Senate Bill 172
Publication date*: June 1, 2000
Relating to: Disciplinary action against an employee of a health care
facility or a health care provider who reports a violation of the law or
a violation of a clinical or ethical standard by the health care
facility or health care provider or by an employee of the health care
facility or health care provider, and providing a penalty.
Grants to small businesses for training employees
1999 Wis. Act 177 (vetoed in part)
1999 Assembly Bill 471
Publication date*: June 1, 2000
Relating to: Providing grants to small businesses for training
employees, and making an appropriation.
Effective date: This act takes effect on July 1, 2000.
Possessing barbed hooks while fishing
1999 Wis. Act 178
1999 Assembly Bill 561
Publication date*: June 1, 2000
Relating to: The possession of barbed hooks while fishing.
Older security interests in motor vehicles
1999 Wis. Act 179
1999 Assembly Bill 137
Publication date*: June 1, 2000
Relating to: Older security interests in motor vehicles.
Regulating occupational therapists and assistants
1999 Wis. Act 180
1999 Assembly Bill 751
Publication date*: June 1, 2000
Relating to: The regulation of occupational therapists and
occupational therapy assistants, creating an occupational therapists
affiliated credentialing board, requiring the exercise of rule-making,
and providing a penalty.
Effective dates: This act provides effective dates different from those
set in Wis. Stat. section 991.11 (1997-98).
Increasing employee trust funds board membership
1999 Wis. Act 181
1999 Senate Bill 97
Publication date*: June 1, 2000
Relating to: Increasing the membership of the employee trust funds
board.
Election laws changes
1999 Wis. Act 182
1999 Assembly Bill 700
Publication date*: June 1, 2000
Relating to: Various changes in the election laws; requiring a
referendum; and providing penalties.
Effective dates: This act provides effective dates different from those
set in Wis. Stat. section 991.11 (1997-98).
Attorney fees payable from a ward's estate in incompetency
and guardianship proceedings
1999 Wis. Act 183
1999 Assembly bill 742
Publication date*: June 1, 2000
Relating to: Requiring payment from a ward's estate of reasonable
attorney fees and costs for successful petitioners in incompetency and
guardianship proceedings.
Public debt limit for housing state departments and
agencies
1999 Wis. Act 184
1999 Assembly Bill 968
Publication date*: June 1, 2000
Relating to: Public debt limit for housing state departments and
agencies (Reconciliation Bill).
Revisor's correction bill of various
statutes
1999 Wis. Act 185
1999 Assembly Bill 967
Publication date*: June 1, 2000
Relating to: Repealing, consolidating, renumbering, amending, and
revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of
correcting errors, supplying omissions, correcting and clarifying
references, eliminating defects, anachronisms, conflicts, ambiguities,
and obsolete provisions, reconciling conflicts, and repelling unintended
repeals (Revisor's Correction Bill).
Effective dates: This act provides effective dates different from those
set in Wis. Stat. section 991.11 (1997-98).
Revisor's correction bill of various
statutes
1999 Wis. Act 186
1999 Assembly Bill 969
Publication date*: June 1, 2000
Relating to: Repealing, consolidating, renumbering, amending, and
revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of
correcting errors, supplying omissions, correcting and clarifying
references, eliminating defects, anachronisms, conflicts, ambiguities,
and obsolete provisions, reconciling conflicts, and repelling unintended
repeals (Revisor's Correction Bill).
Effective dates: This act provides effective dates different from those
set in Wis. Stat. section 991.11 (1997-98).
Restoring school property tax rent
credit
1999 Wis. Act 198
May 2000 Special Session: Senate Bill 1
Publication date*: June 13, 2000
Relating to: Restoring the school property tax rent credit.
*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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