Vol. 71, No. 5, May 1998
Recently Passed Legislation
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Bonding authority to refund and discount debt
Publication date*: Feb. 27, 1998
Relating to: Granting bonding authority for refunding
general obligation debt and for the discount sale of debt.
Defining the practice of nursing
Publication date*: March 17, 1998
Relating to: Defining the practice of nursing to include
acting under the direction of optometrists.
Effective dates: This act takes effect on the day after
publication, except as follows:
(1) The repeal and recreation of section 441.11 (3) and (4)
of the statutes takes effect on the first day of the 25th month
beginning after publication.
Nonresident individual income
tax reciprocity with Illinois
Publication date*: April 3, 1998
Relating to: Nonresident individual income tax reciprocity
with the state of Illinois and making appropriations.
Initial applicability: (1) This act first applies to
taxable years beginning on Jan. 1, 1998.
Ratifying the 1997-99 Milwaukee Graduate
Assistants Association agreement
Publication date*: April 3, 1998
Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated
between the state of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Graduate Assistants
Association, AFT, Local 2169, AFL-CIO, for the 1997-99 biennium,
covering employees in the program, project and teaching assistants
of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee collective bargaining
unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Effective date: (1) This act takes effect on the day
following publication, except that those provisions specifically
identified as having other effective dates in the agreement covering
employees in the program, project and teaching assistants of
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee collective bargaining unit
are effective on the dates provided in that agreement.
Ratifying the 1997-99 Association
of State Prosecutors agreement
Publication date*: April 3, 1998
Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated
between the state of Wisconsin and the Association of State Prosecutors
for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employees in the assistant
district attorneys collective bargaining unit, and authorizing
an expenditure of funds.
Effective date: (1) This act takes effect on the day
following publication, except that those provisions specifically
identified as having other effective dates in the agreement covering
employees in the assistant district attorneys collective bargaining
unit are effective on the dates provided in that agreement.
Ratifying the 1997-99 Wisconsin Physicians
and Dentists Association agreement
Publication date*: April 3, 1998
Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated
between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Physicians and
Dentists Association, for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employees
in the professional patient treatment collective bargaining unit,
and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Effective date: (1) This act takes effect on the day
following publication, except that those provisions specifically
identified as having other effective dates in the agreement covering
employees in the professional patient treatment collective bargaining
unit are effective on the dates provided in that agreement.
Regulating physician assistants
Publication date*: April 16, 1998
Relating to: Regulation of physician assistants, the
authority of physician assistants to prescribe drugs and devices
and granting rule-making authority.
Effective date: (1) This act takes effect on the first
day of the 10th month beginning after publication.
Regulating pharmacists
Publication date*: April 23, 1998
Relating to: The administration of drug products and
devices and vaccines by pharmacists, continuing education for
pharmacists, creating a pharmacist advisory council and granting
rule-making authority.
Effective dates: This act takes effect on the first
day of the ninth month beginning after publication, except as
follows:
(1) Section 11 of this act takes effect on the day after publication.
Annuities under the Wisconsin retirement system
Publication date*: April 23, 1998
Relating to: The five-year vesting requirement to receive
an annuity under the Wisconsin retirement system.
Initial applicability: (1) This act first applies to
participants in the Wisconsin retirement system who terminate
covered employment on the effective date of this subsection.
Lake bed areas owned by Milwaukee County
Publication date*: April 23, 1998
Relating to: Lake bed areas owned by Milwaukee County
that are used for certain recreational purposes and to Milwaukee
County having the duties and powers of a board of harbor commissioners
in regard to certain lake bed areas.
Paying commissions to an
independent sales representative
Publication date*: April 23, 1998
Relating to: The payment of commissions owed to an
independent sales representative.
Initial applicability: (1) This act first applies to
an independent sales representative, as defined in section 134.93
(1) (b) of the statutes, as created by this act, who is affected
by an agreement that contains provisions that are inconsistent
with section 134.93 (3), (4) or (5) of the statutes, as created
by this act, on the day after the agreement expires or on the
day on which the agreement is extended, modified or renewed,
whichever occurs first.
Foreclosure notices
Publication date*: April 23, 1998
Relating to: Publication of foreclosure notices; notices
to former owners of tax-deeded property; and recovery of the
costs of foreclosure of tax-deeded land.
Initial applicability: (1) The treatment of section
75.521 (5) and (6) (form) of the statutes first applies to proceedings
begun on the effective date of this subsection.
Remedial legislation
Publication date*: April 23, 1998
Relating to: Disclosure of juvenile adjudications in
criminal sentencing proceedings; requests by a district attorney
for assistance in carrying out his or her duties; annual reports
by state agencies concerning records and forms management; and
reports by the department of administration concerning distribution
and usage of gasohol and alternative fuels in this state (suggested
as remedial legislation by the department of administration).
Genetic test information
Publication date*: April 23, 1998
Relating to: Prohibiting insurers from requesting genetic
test information from health-care providers.
Dietitians' certification requirements
Publication date*: April 23, 1998
Relating to: Certification requirements for dietitians.
Purchasing used home furnishings
Publication date*: April 23, 1998
Relating to: The purchase of used home furnishings
by antique dealers and recyclers and providing a penalty.
Students' use of inhalers
Publication date*: April 27, 1998
Relating to: Allowing pupils to possess and use metered
dose and dry powder inhalers.
Effective date: (1) This act takes effect on Sept.
1, 1999.
The Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board
Publication date*: April 27, 1998
Relating to: Authorizing the child abuse and neglect
prevention board to form a nonstock, nonprofit corporation and
making an appropriation.
The Nonstock Corporation Law
Publication date*: April 27, 1998
Relating to: The nonstock corporation law and providing
penalties.
Effective date: (1) This act takes effect on Jan. 1,
1999.
Care of a child
Publication date*: April 27, 1998
Relating to: Substitute care providers of children,
termination of parental rights, the appointment of a relative
of a child as the guardian of the child, paternity determinations
and the duties of juvenile court intake workers.
Regulating home inspectors
Publication date*: April 27, 1998
Relating to: The regulation of home inspectors, providing
an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making
authority and providing penalties.
Effective dates: This act takes effect on the first
day of the seventh month beginning after publication, except
as follows:
(1) Section 3 of this act takes effect on the day after publication.
Exposing children to harmful descriptions
Publication date*: April 27, 1998
Relating to: Exposing a child to harmful descriptions
or narrations and providing a penalty.
Initial applicability: (1) This act first applies to
offenses occurring on the effective date of this subsection.
Calculating probate filing fees
Publication date*: April 27, 1998
Relating to: Calculating the probate filing fee.
*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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