Wisconsin Legislature: Legislature

2017 WisAct 369 provisions eliminated and prior law restored re legal counsel retained by legislature, Capitol security, advice and consent of the Senate, deference to agency interpretation of law, suspension of administrative rules, and agency rule-making authority, guidance documents, and informational materials [Sec. 15, 16, 31, 63, 351, 1826, 1830-1846, 1851, 2121; original bill only] - AB56

2017 WisAct 369 provisions eliminated and prior law restored re legal counsel retained by legislature, Capitol security, advice and consent of the Senate, deference to agency interpretation of law, suspension of administrative rules, and agency rule-making authority, guidance documents, and informational materials [Sec. 15, 16, 31, 63, 351, 1826, 1830-1846, 1851, 2121] - SB59

AG powers changed by 2017 WisAct 369 restored re compromise or discontinue actions prosecuted by DOJ; legislative intervention in certain court proceedings and served a copy of proceedings provisions repealed [Sec. 17, 29, 30, 1778, 1780-1782, 2124, 2128, 2132, 2143, 2144; original bill only] - AB56

AG powers changed by 2017 WisAct 369 restored re compromise or discontinue actions prosecuted by DOJ; legislative intervention in certain court proceedings and served a copy of proceedings provisions repealed [Sec. 17, 29, 30, 1778, 1780-1782, 2124, 2128, 2132, 2143, 2144] - SB59

Assembly and Senate may not pass any bill after the November general election that affects the legislature, constitutional officers, judges and justices, and any state agency or public entity created by law until after the next political year commences: constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - AJR12

Assembly and Senate may not pass any bill after the November general election that affects the legislature, constitutional officers, judges and justices, and any state agency or public entity created by law until after the next political year commences: constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - SJR10

Bay View labor strike and tragedy in 1886: anniversary commemorated every May 5th and Assembly Chief Clerk to remove portrait of Governor Jeremiah Rusk from public display and hang historic photo of the iron puddlers in Bay View for set number of days - AR5

Equal opportunity intern program established for Assembly and Senate offices, Governor's office, and DOJ's Milwaukee office; DWD program to place interns in Wisconsin businesses; conditions specified - AB1023

Joint annual spring fish and wildlife rule hearing of the DNR and Wisconsin Conservation Congress: rule-making process changes for administrative rules proposed at re gubernatorial approval, statements of scope, economic impact analyses and their content, independent economic impact analyses, legislative review, and bill required under set condition - AB215

Joint annual spring fish and wildlife rule hearing of the DNR and Wisconsin Conservation Congress: rule-making process changes for administrative rules proposed at re gubernatorial approval, statements of scope, economic impact analyses and their content, independent economic impact analyses, legislative review, and bill required under set condition - SB204

Legislative authorization and oversight of DHS requests to federal government for MA waiver, renewal, modification, or pilot program eliminated [Sec. 318, 2069; original bill only] - AB56

Legislative authorization and oversight of DHS requests to federal government for MA waiver, renewal, modification, or pilot program eliminated [Sec. 318, 2069] - SB59

Legislative Office of Inspector General created, JCLO to appoint each inspector general; reports required; state agencies, LAB, and DOJ duties; offices of inspector general in DCF and DHS eliminated - AB835

Legislative Office of Inspector General created, JCLO to appoint each inspector general; reports required; state agencies, LAB, and DOJ duties; offices of inspector general in DCF and DHS eliminated - SB742

Legislative oversight of DHS federal waiver requests related to the 2020 public health emergency [Sec. 105 (10)] - SB932

Legislative oversight of DHS federal waiver requests related to the 2020 public health emergency [Sec. 105 (10)] - AB1038

Organization of the 2019-2020 Assembly, list of officers, and notification to the Senate and Governor - AR1

Organization of the 2019-2020 Senate, list of officers, and notification to the Assembly and Governor - SR1

Release of person accused of a crime prior to conviction: ``presumed” eligible, allowing the legislature to authorize circuit courts to deny release, and pretrial detention law requirements changed. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - AJR107

Required general fund structural balance: does not apply to action of the legislature enacting legislation during 2019-2020 session [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9128 (1p)] - AB56

Sexually violent person on supervised release: revisions re notification requirements, public hearings, law enforcement agency duties, DHS and DOC duties, and condition of release violation re GPS - AB947

State entity allowed to waive any in-person requirement during the 2020 public health emergency, definition provision [Sec. 80] - SB932

State entity allowed to waive any in-person requirement during the 2020 public health emergency, definition provision [Sec. 80] - AB1038

State of emergency declarations: legislative approval if order exceeds 30 days and for DHS stay at home orders, report to legislature justifying ban on gatherings over 50 people and on arrests for violation of order to control an outbreak or epidemic - SB923

State of emergency declarations: legislative approval if order exceeds 30 days and for DHS stay at home orders, report to legislature justifying ban on gatherings over 50 people and on arrests for violation of order to control an outbreak or epidemic - AB1037

Statement in support of 2019 H.R. 832, known as the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2019, and efforts to increase consumption of milk - AJR60

Statement in support of efforts to increase milk consumption among America’s youth - AJR63

Transgender Equality Task Force created to study legal and societal barriers to equality for transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming individuals and make recommendations to the Governor and Legislature; report required - AB312

Accommodations at legislative committee meetings: notice, language, interpreter, alternative formats, and other accommodations requirements - SB375

Accommodations at legislative committee meetings: notice, language, interpreter, alternative formats, and other accommodations requirements - AB355

Assembly committee structure and names for the 2019-2020 legislative session established [Assembly rule 9 (1)] - AR2

Assembly rules revised and created re appearance at committee meeting by telephone or other means of telecommunication or electronic communication, time limits for debate for each proposal, dilatory motions, call of the Assembly, orders of business, withdrawing proposals from committee, motion to return a proposal to second reading state, determination of legislative day for purposes of referral of proposals to calendar, reconsideration of Assembly decisions on vetoes, and definition of Assembly chamber [Assembly rules 11 (4), (12), 13 (1)(c), 15 (2), 31 (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), 32 (3m), 42 (3)(c), 43 (2), 55m (1), 65 (2)(i), 67, 69 (1), 73 (1)(a), (b), (3m), 73m, 83 (2m), 90 (4), 95 (6), 96] - AR12

Clean and Renewable Energy, Joint Task Force on: committees on Assembly and Senate organization required to immediately appoint; findings deadline specified - AJR95

Native Pollinator Health, Task Force on, created; report required - SB617

Native Pollinator Health, Task Force on, created; report required - AB574

State Auditor to appoint an inspector general to DOT re fraud, waste, abuse, or inefficiency investigations, identify savings, and review claims; annual report required; Speaker of the Assembly, Senate Majority Leader, and certain legislative committees authority - SB279

State Auditor to appoint an inspector general to DOT re fraud, waste, abuse, or inefficiency investigations, identify savings, and review claims; annual report required; Speaker of the Assembly, Senate Majority Leader, and certain legislative committees authority - AB280

State Mandates, Joint Committee on, created; legislature may not enact bills with state-imposed mandates unless they either receive a hearing or are funded; state agency rules provision; LFB report requirement - SB216

State Mandates, Joint Committee on, created; legislature may not enact bills with state-imposed mandates unless they either receive a hearing or are funded; state agency rules provision; LFB report requirement - AB229

Water Fund for Our Future trust fund created re natural disaster or public health emergency response; Joint Committee for the Oversight of the Water Fund for Our Future joint standing committee created; JCF, DNR, DOJ, and DHS provisions - SB779

Water Fund for Our Future trust fund created re natural disaster or public health emergency response; Joint Committee for the Oversight of the Water Fund for Our Future joint standing committee created; JCF, DNR, DOJ, and DHS provisions - AB890

Absentee voting and voting procedure changes: special voting deputies dispatched to retirement home that is part of a multiple-use facility, curbside voting, provisional ballot, former qualified Wisconsin elector, list of eligible military electors, and felony for obtaining a marked absentee ballot and refusing to deliver it; JRCCP may report - AB247

Absentee voting and voting procedure changes: special voting deputies dispatched to retirement home that is part of a multiple-use facility, curbside voting, provisional ballot, former qualified Wisconsin elector, list of eligible military electors, and felony for obtaining a marked absentee ballot and refusing to deliver it; JRCCP may report - SB242

Bail jumping provisions and penalties revised; JRCCP may report - AB638

Bail jumping provisions and penalties revised; JRCCP may report - SB827

Battery by person placed in a facility while awaiting a commitment trial as a sexually violent person: felony crime provision - SB697

Battery by person placed in a facility while awaiting a commitment trial as a sexually violent person: felony crime provision - AB758

Child born alive after abortion: requirements of health care providers present and criminal penalties created, damage provisions; JRCCP may report - SB175

Child born alive after abortion: requirements of health care providers present and criminal penalties created, damage provisions; JRCCP may report - AB179

Controllers required to delete consumer’s personal data upon request of the consumer; exceptions and AG duties; JRCCP may report - AB871

Controllers that possess consumers’ personal data: restrictions established and records of processing required; DOJ and AG duties; JRCCP may report - AB872

Crime of disorderly conduct while wearing a mask: penalty increased with exceptions; JRCCP may report - AB617

Crimes against elder persons: penalties increased; sexual assault penalty revised; physical abuse crime created; freezing of assets of defendant re financial exploitation; elder person may appear in court via telephone or live audiovisual means when seeking certain restraining orders; JRCCP may report - SB427

Crimes against elder persons: penalties increased; sexual assault penalty revised; physical abuse crime created; freezing of assets of defendant re financial exploitation; elder person may appear in court via telephone or live audiovisual means when seeking certain restraining orders; JRCCP may report - AB480

Discarded or abandoned major appliances: prohibition on abandoned refrigerators and freezers expanded, definition provision; JRCCP may report - AB448

Do-not-resuscitate necklace or pendant meeting certain criteria allowed; DHS duties; JRCCP may report - AB757

Election and voting law revisions re automatic voter registration, deceptive election practices, voter intimidation and suppression, voter bill of rights, polling place posting and language requirements, election manual, and withholding of voluntarily provided elector information; report and JRCCP provisions - SB159

``Energy provider” definition expanded re trespassing on or damaging property of; JRCCP may report - AB426

``Energy provider” definition expanded re trespassing on or damaging property of; JRCCP may report - SB386

Extended supervision: cap for certain felonies changed, and early discharge and earned compliance credit created, conditions specified; DOC report required; JRCCP may report - AB832

Extreme risk protection TRO and extreme risk protection injunction created; respondent is prohibited from possessing a firearm and may be ordered to surrender all firearms, penalty provisions; JRCCP may report - SB530

Extreme risk protection TRO and extreme risk protection injunction created; respondent is prohibited from possessing a firearm and may be ordered to surrender all firearms, penalty provisions; JRCCP may report - AB573

False identity used on social media to frighten, intimidate, threaten, harass, or defraud (catfishing) made a misdemeanor; posting similar messages added to misdemeanor for unlawful use of computerized communication systems; JRCCP may report - AB68

False identity used on social media to frighten, intimidate, threaten, harass, or defraud (catfishing) made a misdemeanor; posting similar messages added to misdemeanor for unlawful use of computerized communication systems; JRCCP may report - SB66

False report of an emergency to a public safety entity knowing no emergency exists (swatting): felony provisions created; JRCCP may report - SB363

False report of an emergency to a public safety entity knowing no emergency exists (swatting): felony provisions created; JRCCP may report [A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, ``swatting" defined] - AB454

Financial exploitation of vulnerable adults with securities accounts: notice and reporting of by securities industry professionals, penalty enhancers, and violations of the Wisconsin Uniform Securities Law; JRCCP may report - SB428

Financial exploitation of vulnerable adults with securities accounts: notice and reporting of by securities industry professionals, penalty enhancers, and violations of the Wisconsin Uniform Securities Law; JRCCP may report - AB482

Firearm in a residence in which another resident is prohibited from possessing a firearm: storage requirements and penalty provisions; JRCCP may report - AB416

Firearm possession by person convicted of misdemeanor crime of domestic violence or by person who is a fugitive from justice: prohibition created; DOJ duties; JRCCP may report - AB577

Firearm possession by person convicted of misdemeanor crime of domestic violence or by person who is a fugitive from justice: prohibition created; DOJ duties; JRCCP may report - SB517

Firearm possession by person convicted of misdemeanor crime of domestic violence: prohibition created, not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect provision; JRCCP may report - SB376

Firearm possession by person convicted of misdemeanor crime of domestic violence: prohibition created, not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect provision; JRCCP may report - AB334

Firearm storage requirements if child under age 18 is present in the residence; penalty provisions; JRCCP may report - AB417

Firearms tax imposed on manufacturers and funds used by DOJ for victims of crimes involving firearms; JRCCP may report - AB446

Firearms tax imposed on manufacturers and funds used by DOJ for victims of crimes involving firearms; JRCCP may report - SB542

First OWI-related offense made a misdemeanor; vacate criminal conviction and second offense provisions; JRCCP may report - SB9

First OWI-related offense made a misdemeanor; vacate criminal conviction and second offense provisions; JRCCP may report - AB18

Genetic counseling regulations and licensing; Genetic Counselors Affiliated Credentialing Board created; JRCCP may report - AB686

Genetic counseling regulations and licensing; Genetic Counselors Affiliated Credentialing Board created; JRCCP may report - SB620

Grievous bodily harm to or death of an animal: felony penalty; definition and court order provisions; JRCCP may report - AB520

Grievous bodily harm to or death of an animal: felony penalty; definition and court order provisions; JRCCP may report - SB469

Harassment of a sports official: penalty provisions created; JRCCP may report - AB735

Harassment of a sports official: penalty provisions created; JRCCP may report - SB657

Homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle: mandatory period of confinement; JRCCP may report - SB8

Homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle: mandatory period of confinement; JRCCP may report - AB17