Amendment AA10-SB70

SB70-AA10,491 Section 491. 48.9795 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,243,10 48.9795 (1) (b) “Party" means the person petitioning for the appointment of a guardian for a child or any interested person other than a person who is alleged to the court to be the father a parent of the child or who may, based on the statements of the mother parent who gave birth to the child or other information presented to the court, be the father parent of the child.

SB70-AA10,492 Section 492. 49.141 (1) (j) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,243,12 49.141 (1) (j) 1. A biological natural parent.

SB70-AA10,493 Section 493. 49.141 (1) (j) 2. of the statutes is repealed.

SB70-AA10,494 Section 494. 49.155 (1m) (c) 1g. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,243,22 49.155 (1m) (c) 1g. If the individual is a foster parent of the child or a subsidized guardian or interim caretaker of the child under s. 48.623, the child's biological natural or adoptive family has a gross income that is at or below 200 percent of the poverty line. In calculating the gross income of the child's biological natural or adoptive family, the department or county department or agency determining eligibility shall include court-ordered child or family support payments received by the individual, if those support payments exceed $1,250 per month, and income described under s. 49.145 (3) (b) 1. and 3.

SB70-AA10,495 Section 495. 49.155 (1m) (c) 1h. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,244,6 49.155 (1m) (c) 1h. If the individual is a relative of the child, is providing care for the child under a court order, and is receiving payments under s. 48.57 (3m) or (3n) on behalf of the child, the child's biological natural or adoptive family has a gross income that is at or below 200 percent of the poverty line. In calculating the gross income of the child's biological natural or adoptive family, the department or county department or agency determining eligibility shall include court-ordered child or family support payments received by the individual, if those support payments exceed $1,250 per month, and income described under s. 49.145 (3) (b) 1. and 3.

SB70-AA10,496 Section 496. 49.163 (2) (am) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,244,11 49.163 (2) (am) 2. If over 25 years of age, be a biological natural or adoptive parent of a child under 18 years of age whose parental rights to the child have not been terminated or be a relative and primary caregiver of a child under 18 years of age.

SB70-AA10,497 Section 497. 49.19 (1) (a) 2. a. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,244,23 49.19 (1) (a) 2. a. Is living with a parent; a blood relative, including those of half-blood, and including first cousins, nephews or nieces and persons of preceding generations as denoted by prefixes of grand, great or great-great; a stepfather, stepmother stepparent, stepbrother, or stepsister; a person who legally adopts the child or is the adoptive parent of the child's parent, a natural or legally adopted child of such person or a relative of an adoptive parent; or a spouse of any person named in this subparagraph subd. 2. a. even if the marriage is terminated by death or divorce; and is living in a residence maintained by one or more of these relatives as the child's or their own home, or living in a residence maintained by one or more of these relatives as the child's or their own home because the parents of the child have been found unfit to have care and custody of the child; or

SB70-AA10,498 Section 498. 49.19 (4) (d) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,245,3 49.19 (4) (d) (intro.) Aid may be granted to the mother or stepmother parent or stepparent of a dependent child if he or she is without a husband spouse or if he or she:

SB70-AA10,499 Section 499. 49.19 (4) (d) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,245,6 49.19 (4) (d) 1. Is the wife spouse of a husband person who is incapacitated for gainful work by mental or physical disability; or

SB70-AA10,500 Section 500. 49.19 (4) (d) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,245,11 49.19 (4) (d) 2. Is the wife spouse of a husband person who is incarcerated or who is a convicted offender permitted to live at home but precluded from earning a wage because the husband person is required by a court imposed sentence to perform unpaid public work or unpaid community service; or

SB70-AA10,501 Section 501. 49.19 (4) (d) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,245,15 49.19 (4) (d) 3. Is the wife spouse of a husband person who has been committed to the department pursuant to ch. 975, irrespective of the probable period of such commitment; or

SB70-AA10,502 Section 502. 49.19 (4) (d) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,245,19 49.19 (4) (d) 4. Is the wife spouse of a husband person who has continuously abandoned or failed to support him or her, if proceedings have been commenced against the husband person under ch. 769; or

SB70-AA10,503 Section 503. 49.19 (4) (d) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,245,24 49.19 (4) (d) 5. Has been divorced and is without a husband spouse or legally separated from his or her husband spouse and is unable through use of the provisions of law to compel his or her former husband spouse to adequately support the child for whom aid is sought; or

SB70-AA10,504 Section 504 . 49.345 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,246,21 49.345 (2) Except as provided in sub. (14) (b) and (c), any person, including a person placed under s. 48.32 (1) (am) or (b), 48.345 (3), 48.357 (1) or (2m), 938.183, 938.34 (3) or (4d), or 938.357 (1), (2m), (4), or (5) (e), receiving care, maintenance, services, and supplies provided by any institution in this state, in which the state is chargeable with all or part of the person's care, maintenance, services, and supplies, and the person's property and estate, including the homestead, and the spouse of the person, and the spouse's property and estate, including the homestead, and, in the case of a minor child, the parents of the person, and their property and estates, including their homestead, and, in the case of a foreign child described in s. 48.839 (1) who became dependent on public funds for his or her primary support before an order granting his or her adoption, the resident of this state appointed guardian of the child by a foreign court who brought the child into this state for the purpose of adoption, and his or her property and estate, including his or her homestead, shall be liable for the cost of the care, maintenance, services, and supplies in accordance with the fee schedule established by the department under s. 49.32 (1). If a spouse, widow surviving spouse, or minor, or an incapacitated person may be lawfully dependent upon the property for his or her support, the court shall release all or such part of the property and estate from the charges that may be necessary to provide for the person. The department shall make every reasonable effort to notify the liable persons as soon as possible after the beginning of the maintenance, but the notice or the receipt of the notice is not a condition of liability.

SB70-AA10,505 Section 505. 49.43 (12) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,246,25 49.43 (12) “Spouse" means the legal husband or wife of person to whom the beneficiary is legally married, whether or not the person is eligible for medical assistance.

SB70-AA10,506 Section 506. 49.471 (1) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,247,2 49.471 (1) (b) 2. A stepfather, stepmother stepparent, stepbrother, or stepsister.

SB70-AA10,507 Section 507. 49.90 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,248,5 49.90 (4) The circuit court shall in a summary way hear the allegations and proofs of the parties and by order require maintenance from these relatives, if they have sufficient ability, considering their own future maintenance and making reasonable allowance for the protection of the property and investments from which they derive their living and their care and protection in old age, in the following order: First the husband or wife spouse; then the father and the mother parents; and then the grandparents in the instances in which sub. (1) (a) 2. applies. The order shall specify a sum which that will be sufficient for the support of the dependent person under sub. (1) (a) 1. or the maintenance of a child of a dependent person under sub. (1) (a) 2., to be paid weekly or monthly, during a period fixed by the order or until the further order of the court. If the court is satisfied that any such relative is unable wholly to maintain the dependent person or the child, but is able to contribute to the person's support or the child's maintenance, the court may direct 2 or more of the relatives to maintain the person or the child and prescribe the proportion each shall contribute. If the court is satisfied that these relatives are unable together wholly to maintain the dependent person or the child, but are able to contribute to the person's support or the child's maintenance, the court shall direct a sum to be paid weekly or monthly by each relative in proportion to ability. Contributions directed by court order, if for less than full support, shall be paid to the department of health services or the department of children and families, whichever is appropriate, and distributed as required by state and federal law. An order under this subsection that relates to maintenance required under sub. (1) (a) 2. shall specifically assign responsibility for and direct the manner of payment of the child's health care expenses, subject to the limitations under subs. (1) (a) 2. and (11). Upon application of any party affected by the order and upon like notice and procedure, the court may modify such an order. Obedience to such an order may be enforced by proceedings for contempt.

SB70-AA10,508 Section 508. 54.01 (36) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,248,11 54.01 (36) (a) An individual who obtains or consents to a final decree or judgment of divorce from the decedent or an annulment of their marriage, if the decree or judgment is not recognized as valid in this state, unless the 2 subsequently participated in a marriage ceremony purporting to marry each other or they subsequently held themselves out as husband and wife married to each other.

SB70-AA10,509 Section 509. 54.960 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,248,19 54.960 (1) Beneficial interests in a custodial trust created for multiple beneficiaries are deemed to be separate custodial trusts of equal undivided interests for each beneficiary. Except in a transfer or declaration for use and benefit of husband and wife 2 individuals who are married to each other, for whom survivorship is presumed, a right of survivorship does not exist unless the instrument creating the custodial trust specifically provides for survivorship or survivorship is required as to marital property.

SB70-AA10,510 Section 510. 69.03 (15) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,248,24 69.03 (15) Periodically provide to each county child support agency under s. 59.53 (5) a list of names and, notwithstanding s. 69.20 (2) (a), addresses of registrants who reside in that county for whom no father's only one parent's name has been inserted on the registrant's birth record within 6 months of birth.

SB70-AA10,511 Section 511. 69.11 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,249,14 69.11 (4) (b) The state registrar may amend an item on a birth record that affects information about the name, sex, date of birth, place of birth, parent's name, or parent's marital status of the mother if 365 days have elapsed since the occurrence of the event that is the subject of the birth record, if the amendment is at the request of a person with a direct and tangible interest in the record and is in the manner prescribed by the state registrar, and if the amendment is accompanied by 2 items of documentary evidence from early childhood that are sufficient to prove that the item to be changed is in error and by the affidavit of the person requesting the amendment. A change in the marital status on the birth record may be made under this paragraph only if the marital status is inconsistent with information concerning the father or husband that appears on the birth record. This paragraph may not be used to add to or delete from a birth record the name of a parent, to change the identity of a parent named on the birth record, or to effect a name change prohibited under s. 301.47.

SB70-AA10,512 Section 512. 69.12 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,249,20 69.12 (5) A change in the marital status on the record of birth may be requested under this section only if the marital status is inconsistent with father or husband information appearing on the birth record. This section may not be used to add or delete the name of a parent on the record of birth or change the identity of either parent named on the birth record.

SB70-AA10,513 Section 513. 69.13 (2) (b) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,250,2 69.13 (2) (b) 4. If relevant to the correction sought, a certified copy of a marriage document, divorce or annulment record, or a final divorce decree that indicates that the mother was not married to the person listed as her husband spouse at any time during the pregnancy, a legal name change order, or any other legal document that clarifies the disputed information.

SB70-AA10,514 Section 514. 69.14 (1) (c) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,250,7 69.14 (1) (c) 4. In the absence of a person under subds. 1. to 3., the father or mother, father, or mother's spouse, or in the absence of the father or the mother's spouse and the inability of the mother, the person responsible for the premises where the birth occurs.

SB70-AA10,515 Section 515. 69.14 (1) (e) (title) and 1. of the statutes are amended to read:

SB70-AA10,250,14 69.14 (1) (e) (title) Father's Spouse's or father's name. 1. If Except as provided in par. (h), if the mother of a registrant under this section was married at any time from the conception to the birth of the registrant, the name of the husband spouse of the mother shall be entered on the birth record as the a legal father parent of the registrant. The name of the father parent entered under this subdivision may not be changed except by a proceeding under ch. 767.

SB70-AA10,516 Section 516. 69.14 (1) (f) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,250,21 69.14 (1) (f) 1. a. Except as provided under subd. 1. b., if the mother of a registrant of a birth record under this section is married to the father of the registrant at any time from the conception to the birth of the registrant, the given name and surname which that the mother and father of the registrant and her spouse enter for the registrant on the birth record shall be the given name and surname filed and registered on the birth record.

SB70-AA10,251,5 b. If the mother of a registrant of a birth record under this section is married to the father of the registrant at any time from the conception to the birth of the registrant and the mother is separated or divorced from the father of the registrant at the time of birth, the given name and surname which that the parent of the registrant with actual custody enters for the registrant on the birth record shall be the given name and surname filed and registered on the birth record, except that if a court has granted legal custody of the registrant, the given name and surname which that the person with legal custody enters for the registrant on the birth record shall be the given name and surname filed and registered on the birth record.

SB70-AA10,251,13 c. If the mother of a registrant of a birth record under this section is not married to the father of the registrant at any time from the conception to the birth of the registrant, the given name and surname which that the mother of the registrant enters for the registrant on the birth record shall be the given name and surname filed and registered on the birth record, except that if a court has granted legal custody of the registrant, the given name and surname which that the person with legal custody enters for the registrant on the birth record shall be the given name and surname filed and registered on the birth record.

SB70-AA10,517 Section 517. 69.14 (1) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,251,21 69.14 (1) (g) Birth by artificial insemination. If the registrant of a birth record under this section is born as a result of artificial insemination under the requirements of s. 891.40, the husband spouse of the woman person inseminated shall be considered the father a parent of the registrant on the birth record. If the registrant is born as a result of artificial insemination which does not satisfy the requirements of s. 891.40, the information about the father of the registrant shall be omitted from the registrant's birth record.

SB70-AA10,518 Section 518. 69.14 (2) (b) 2. d. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,252,2 69.14 (2) (b) 2. d. The full name of the father or the mother's spouse, except that if the mother was not married at the time of conception or birth or between conception and birth of the registrant, the name of the father may not be entered except as provided under s. 69.15 (3).

SB70-AA10,519 Section 519. 69.15 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,252,8 69.15 (1) Birth record information changes. The state registrar may change information on a birth record registered in this state which was correct at the time the birth record was filed under a court or administrative order issued in this state, in another state or in Canada or under the valid order of a court of any federally recognized Indian tribe, band, or nation if all of the following occur:

SB70-AA10,252,10 (a) The order provides for an adoption, name change, or name change with sex change or establishes paternity; and or parentage.

SB70-AA10,252,15 (b) A clerk of court or, for a paternity or parentage action, a clerk of court or county child support agency under s. 59.53 (5), sends the state registrar a certified report of an order of a court in this state in the method prescribed by the state registrar or, in the case of any other order, the state registrar receives a certified copy of the order and the proper fee under s. 69.22.

SB70-AA10,520 Section 520. 69.15 (3) (title) and (a) (intro.), 1., 2. and 3. of the statutes are amended to read:

SB70-AA10,252,22 69.15 (3) (title) Paternity Parentage. (a) (intro.) If the state registrar receives an order under sub. (1) that establishes paternity or determines that the man person whose name appears on a registrant's birth record is not the father parent of the registrant, or a report under s. 767.804 (1) (c) that shows a conclusive determination of paternity, the state registrar shall do the following, as appropriate:

SB70-AA10,253,2 1. Prepare under sub. (6) a new record omitting the father's parent's name if the order determines that the man person whose name appears on a registrant's birth record is not the father parent of the registrant and if there is no adjudicated father.

SB70-AA10,253,5 2. Prepare under sub. (6) a new record for the subject of a paternity action changing the name of the father parent if the name of the adjudicated father is different than the name of the man person on the birth record.

SB70-AA10,253,8 3. Except as provided under subd. 4., insert the name of the adjudicated or conclusively determined father on the original birth record if the name of the father that parent was omitted on the original record.

SB70-AA10,521 Section 521. 69.15 (3) (b) 1., 2., 3. and 4. (intro.), a. and b. of the statutes are amended to read:

SB70-AA10,253,19 69.15 (3) (b) 1. Except as provided under par. (c), if the state registrar receives a statement acknowledging paternity parentage in the manner prescribed by the state registrar and signed by both of the birth natural parents of a child determined to be a marital child under s. 767.803, a certified copy of the parents' marriage record, and the fee required under s. 69.22 (5) (b) 1., the state registrar shall insert the name of the husband spouse of the person who gave birth from the marriage record as the father parent if the name of the father that parent was omitted on the original birth record. The state registrar shall include for the acknowledgment the items in s. 767.813 (5g).

SB70-AA10,253,24 2. Except as provided under par. (c), if the parent of a child determined to be a marital child under s. 767.803 dies after his or her marriage and before the statement acknowledging paternity parentage has been signed, the state registrar shall insert the name of the father parent under subd. 1. upon receipt of a court order determining that the husband spouse was the father parent of the child.

SB70-AA10,254,11 3. Except as provided under par. (c), if the state registrar receives a statement acknowledging paternity parentage in the method prescribed by the state registrar and signed by both parents, neither of whom was under the age of 18 years when the form was signed, along with the fee under s. 69.22, the state registrar shall insert the name of the father parent under subd. 1. The state registrar shall mark the record to show that the acknowledgement is on file. The acknowledgement shall be available to the department of children and families or a county child support agency under s. 59.53 (5) pursuant to the program responsibilities under s. 49.22 or to any other person with a direct and tangible interest in the record. The state registrar shall include on the acknowledgment the information in s. 767.805 and the items in s. 767.813 (5g).

SB70-AA10,254,16 4. (intro.) If a registrant has not reached the age of 18 years and if any of the following indicate, in a statement acknowledging paternity parentage under subd. 1. or 3., that the given name or surname, or both, of the registrant should be changed on the birth record, the state registrar shall enter the name indicated on the birth record without a court order:

SB70-AA10,254,18 a. The mother of the parent who gave birth to the registrant, except as provided under subd. 4. b. and c.

SB70-AA10,254,20 b. The father of natural parent who did not give birth to the registrant if the father that parent has legal custody of the registrant.

SB70-AA10,522 Section 522. 69.15 (3) (b) 3m. of the statutes is created to read:

SB70-AA10,255,3 69.15 (3) (b) 3m. Except as provided in par. (c), if the state registrar receives an acknowledgement of parentage on a form prescribed by the state registrar and signed by both of the people presumed to be natural parents under s. 891.41 (1) (b), a certified copy of the parents' marriage certificate, and the fee required under s. 69.22 (5) (b) 1., the state registrar shall insert the name of the spouse from the marriage certificate as a parent if the name of that parent was omitted on the original birth certificate.

SB70-AA10,523 Section 523. 69.15 (3) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,255,7 69.15 (3) (d) The method prescribed by the state registrar for acknowledging paternity parentage shall require that the social security number of each of the registrant's parents be provided.

SB70-AA10,524 Section 524. 69.15 (3m) (title) and (a) (intro.) of the statutes are amended to read:

SB70-AA10,255,13 69.15 (3m) (title) Rescission of statement acknowledging paternity parentage. (a) (intro.) A statement acknowledging paternity parentage that is filed with the state registrar under sub. (3) (b) 3. may be rescinded by either person who signed the statement as a parent of the registrant if all of the following apply:

SB70-AA10,525 Section 525. 69.15 (3m) (a) 3. and (b) of the statutes are amended to read:

SB70-AA10,255,19 69.15 (3m) (a) 3. The person rescinding the statement files a rescission in the method prescribed under subd. 2. before the day on which a court or circuit court commissioner makes an order in an action affecting the family involving the man person who signed the statement and the child who is the subject of the statement or before 60 days elapse after the statement was filed, whichever occurs first.

SB70-AA10,255,23 (b) If the state registrar, within the time required under par. (a) 3., receives a rescission in the method prescribed by the state registrar, along with the proper fee under s. 69.22, the state registrar shall prepare under sub. (6) a new record omitting the father's parent's name if it was inserted under sub. (3) (b).

SB70-AA10,526 Section 526. 71.03 (2) (d) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,255,25 71.03 (2) (d) (title) Husband and wife Spouses joint filing.

SB70-AA10,527 Section 527. 71.03 (2) (d) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,256,4 71.03 (2) (d) 1. Except as provided in subds. 2. and 3. and par. (e), a husband and a wife spouses may file a joint return for income tax purposes even though one of the spouses has no gross income or no deductions.

SB70-AA10,528 Section 528. 71.03 (2) (d) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-AA10,256,9 71.03 (2) (d) 2. No joint return may be filed if either the husband or wife spouse at any time during the taxable year is a nonresident alien, unless an election is in effect for the taxable year under section 6013 (g) or (h) of the internal revenue code Internal Revenue Code.

SB70-AA10,529 Section 529. 71.03 (2) (d) 3. of the statutes is amended to read: