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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
December 8, 2023 - Introduced by Senators Cabral-Guevara, Roys and Spreitzer,
cosponsored by Representatives
Hong, Wittke, Myers, C. Anderson, Clancy,
Emerson, Gustafson, Jacobson, Joers, Madison, Palmeri, Ratcliff, Schmidt,
Shankland and Sinicki. Referred to Committee on Government Operations.
SB779,1,3
1An Act to amend 1.10 (4); and
to create 1.10 (3) (w) of the statutes;
relating
2to: designating the bacterium Lactococcus lactis as the Wisconsin state
3microbe.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law designates a variety of state symbols and requires the
Wisconsin
Blue Book to include information about them. This bill designates the bacterium
Lactococcus lactis as the Wisconsin state microbe and requires the
Wisconsin Blue
Book to include that information.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SB779,1
4Section 1
. 1.10 (3) (w) of the statutes is created to read:
SB779,1,55
1.10
(3) (w) The bacterium Lactococcus lactis is the state microbe.
SB779,2
6Section 2
. 1.10 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB779,2,27
1.10
(4) The Wisconsin Blue Book shall include the information contained in
8this section concerning the state song, ballad, waltz, dance, beverage, tree, grain,
1flower, bird, fish, animal, domestic animal, wildlife animal, dog, insect, fossil,
2mineral, rock, soil, fruit, tartan, pastry, dairy product,
and herb
, and microbe.
