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AB484,64,1612 69.15 (1) Birth record information changes. The state registrar may change
13information on a birth record registered in this state which was correct at the time
14the birth record was filed under a court or administrative order issued in this state,
15in another state or in Canada or under the valid order of a court of any federally
16recognized Indian tribe, band, or nation if all of the following occur:
AB484,64,1817 (a) The order provides for an adoption, name change, or name change with sex
18change or establishes paternity; and parentage.
AB484,64,2319 (b) A clerk of court or, for a paternity parentage action, a clerk of court or county
20child support agency under s. 59.53 (5), sends the state registrar a certified report
21of an order of a court in this state in the method prescribed by the state registrar or,
22in the case of any other order, the state registrar receives a certified copy of the order
23and the proper fee under s. 69.22.
AB484,161 24Section 161 . 69.15 (3) (title) of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
AB484,64,2525 69.15 (3) (title) Parentage.
AB484,162
1Section 162. 69.15 (3) (a) (intro.), 1., 2. and 3. and (b) 1., 2., 3. and 4. (intro.),
2a. and b. of the statutes are amended to read:
AB484,65,73 69.15 (3) (a) (intro.) If the state registrar receives an order under sub. (1) that
4establishes paternity parentage or determines that the man a person whose name
5appears on a registrant's birth record is not the father a parent of the registrant, or
6a report under s. 767.804 (1) (c) that shows a conclusive determination of paternity
7parentage, the state registrar shall do the following, as appropriate:
AB484,65,118 1. Prepare under sub. (6) a new record omitting the father's parent's name if
9the order determines that the man person whose name appears on a registrant's
10birth record is not the father a parent of the registrant and if there is no other
11adjudicated father parent.
AB484,65,1412 2. Prepare under sub. (6) a new record for the subject of a paternity parentage
13action changing the name of the father parent if the name of the adjudicated father
14is different than the name of the man parent does not appear on the birth record.
AB484,65,1715 3. Except as provided under subd. 4., insert the name of the adjudicated or
16conclusively determined father parent on the original birth record if the name of the
17father
that parent was omitted on the original record.
AB484,66,218 (b) 1. Except as provided under par. (c), if the state registrar receives a
19statement acknowledging paternity parentage in the manner prescribed by the state
20registrar and signed by both of the birth natural parents of a child determined to be
21a marital child under s. 767.803, a certified copy of the parents' marriage record, and
22the fee required under s. 69.22 (5) (b) 1., the state registrar shall insert the name of
23the husband spouse of the person who gave birth from the marriage record as the
24father other parent if the name of the father the other parent was omitted on the

1original birth record. The state registrar shall include for the acknowledgment the
2items in s. 767.813 (5g).
AB484,66,73 2. Except as provided under par. (c), if the parent of a child determined to be
4a marital child under s. 767.803 dies after his or her marriage and before the
5statement acknowledging paternity parentage has been signed, the state registrar
6shall insert the name of the father parent under subd. 1. upon receipt of a court order
7determining that the husband spouse was the father parent of the child.
AB484,66,188 3. Except as provided under par. (c), if the state registrar receives a statement
9acknowledging paternity parentage in the method prescribed by the state registrar
10and signed by both parents, neither of whom was under the age of 18 years when the
11form was signed, along with the fee under s. 69.22, the state registrar shall insert the
12name of the father parent under subd. 1. The state registrar shall mark the record
13to show that the acknowledgement is on file. The acknowledgement shall be
14available to the department of children and families or a county child support agency
15under s. 59.53 (5) pursuant to the program responsibilities under s. 49.22 or to any
16other person with a direct and tangible interest in the record. The state registrar
17shall include on the acknowledgment the information in s. 767.805 and the items in
18s. 767.813 (5g).
AB484,66,2319 4. (intro.) If a registrant has not reached the age of 18 years and if any of the
20following indicate, in a statement acknowledging paternity parentage under subd.
211. or 3., that the given name or surname, or both, of the registrant should be changed
22on the birth record, the state registrar shall enter the name indicated on the birth
23record without a court order:
AB484,66,2524 a. The mother of the parent who gave birth to the registrant, except as provided
25under subd. 4. b. and c.
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1b. The father of natural parent who did not give birth to the registrant if the
2father
that parent has legal custody of the registrant.
AB484,163 3Section 163 . 69.15 (3) (b) 3m. of the statutes is created to read:
AB484,67,104 69.15 (3) (b) 3m. Except as provided in par. (c), if the state registrar receives
5an acknowledgement of parentage on a form prescribed by the state registrar and
6signed by both of the people presumed to be natural parents under s. 891.41 (1) (b),
7a certified copy of the parents' marriage certificate, and the fee required under s.
869.22 (5) (b) 1., the state registrar shall insert the name of the spouse of the person
9who gave birth from the marriage certificate as a parent if the name of that parent
10was omitted on the original birth certificate.
AB484,164 11Section 164. 69.15 (3m) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,67,1312 69.15 (3m) (title) Rescission of statement acknowledging paternity
13parentage.
AB484,165 14Section 165 . 69.15 (3m) (a) 3. and (b) of the statutes are amended to read:
AB484,67,1915 69.15 (3m) (a) 3. The person rescinding the statement files a rescission in the
16method prescribed under subd. 2. before the day on which a court or circuit court
17commissioner makes an order in an action affecting the family involving the man
18person who signed the statement and the child who is the subject of the statement
19or before 60 days elapse after the statement was filed, whichever occurs first.
AB484,67,2320 (b) If the state registrar, within the time required under par. (a) 3., receives a
21rescission in the method prescribed by the state registrar, along with the proper fee
22under s. 69.22, the state registrar shall prepare under sub. (6) a new record omitting
23the father's parent's name if it was inserted under sub. (3) (b).
AB484,166 24Section 166 . 69.18 (1) (e) 1. (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
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169.18 (1) (e) 1. (intro.) If a death is a miscarriage and 20 weeks or more have
2elapsed between the mother's last normal menstrual period of the person who was
3pregnant
and delivery or the stillbirth weighs 350 grams or more, one of the following
4shall submit, within 5 days after delivery, a fetal death report to the state registrar:
AB484,167 5Section 167 . 69.20 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,68,126 69.20 (2) (b) Except as provided under sub. (3), the state registrar and local
7registrars may not permit inspection of or disclose information contained in any
8record of a birth which that occurred after September 30, 1907, if the mother of
9person who gave birth to the subject of the record was not married at any time from
10the conception to the birth of the subject of the record, unless the inspection is by or
11the information is disclosed to a person who has a direct and tangible interest in such
12record.
AB484,168 13Section 168 . 71.03 (2) (d) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,68,1414 71.03 (2) (d) (title) Husband and wife Spouses joint filing.
AB484,169 15Section 169 . 71.03 (2) (d) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,68,1816 71.03 (2) (d) 1. Except as provided in subds. 2. and 3. and par. (e), a husband
17and a wife
spouses may file a joint return for income tax purposes even though one
18of the spouses has no gross income or no deductions.
AB484,170 19Section 170 . 71.03 (2) (d) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,68,2320 71.03 (2) (d) 2. No joint return may be filed if either the husband or wife spouse
21at any time during the taxable year is a nonresident alien, unless an election is in
22effect for the taxable year under section 6013 (g) or (h) of the internal revenue code
23Internal Revenue Code.
AB484,171 24Section 171 . 71.03 (2) (d) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
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171.03 (2) (d) 3. No joint return may be filed if the husband and wife spouses
2have different taxable years, except that if their taxable years begin on the same day
3and end on different days because of the death of either or both the joint return may
4be filed with respect to the taxable year of each unless the surviving spouse remarries
5before the close of his or her taxable year or unless the taxable year of either spouse
6is a fractional part of a year under section 443 (a) (1) of the internal revenue code
7Internal Revenue Code.
AB484,172 8Section 172 . 71.03 (2) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,69,239 71.03 (2) (g) Joint return following separate return. Except as provided in par.
10(i), if an individual has filed a separate return for a taxable year for which a joint
11return could have been filed by the individual and the individual's spouse under par.
12(d) or (e) and the time prescribed by law for timely filing the return for that taxable
13year has expired, the individual and the individual's spouse may file a joint return
14for that taxable year. A joint return filed by the husband and wife spouses under this
15paragraph is their return for that taxable year, and all payments, credits, refunds
16or other repayments made or allowed with respect to the separate return of each
17spouse for that taxable year shall be taken into account in determining the extent
18to which the tax based upon the joint return has been paid. If a joint return is filed
19under this paragraph, any election, other than the election to file a separate return,
20made by either spouse in that spouse's separate return for that taxable year with
21respect to the treatment of any income, deduction or credit of that spouse may not
22be changed in the filing of the joint return if that election would have been irrevocable
23if the joint return had not been filed.
AB484,173 24Section 173 . 71.03 (2) (m) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
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171.03 (2) (m) 2. If a husband and wife spouses change from a joint return to
2separate returns within the time prescribed in subd. 1., the tax paid on the joint
3return shall be allocated between them in proportion to the tax liability shown on
4each separate return.
AB484,174 5Section 174 . 71.03 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,70,156 71.03 (4) (a) Natural persons whose total income is not in excess of $10,000 and
7consists entirely of wages subject to withholding for Wisconsin tax purposes and not
8more than $200 total of dividends, interest and other wages not subject to Wisconsin
9withholding, and who have elected the Wisconsin standard deduction and have not
10claimed either the credit for homestead property tax relief or deductions for expenses
11incurred in earning such income, shall, at their election, not be required to record on
12their income tax returns the amount of the tax imposed on their Wisconsin taxable
13income. Married persons shall be permitted this election only if the joint income of
14the husband and wife spouses does not exceed $10,000, if both report their incomes
15on the same joint income tax return form, and if both make this election.
AB484,175 16Section 175 . 71.05 (22) (a) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,70,1817 71.05 (22) (a) (title) Election of deductions; husband and wife spousal
18deductions.
AB484,176 19Section 176 . 71.07 (5m) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,70,2120 71.07 (5m) (a) 3. “Household" means a claimant and an individual related to
21the claimant as husband or wife his or her spouse.
AB484,177 22Section 177 . 71.07 (9e) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,71,223 71.07 (9e) (b) No credit may be allowed under this subsection to married
24persons, except married persons living apart who are treated as single under section

17703 (b) of the internal revenue code Internal Revenue Code, if the husband and wife
2spouses report their income on separate income tax returns for the taxable year.
AB484,178 3Section 178 . 71.09 (13) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,71,114 71.09 (13) (a) 2. The tax shown on the return for the preceding year. If a
5husband and wife
spouses who filed separate returns for the preceding taxable year
6file a joint return, the tax shown on the return for the preceding year is the sum of
7the taxes shown on the separate returns of the husband and wife spouses. If a
8husband and wife
spouses who filed a joint return for the preceding taxable year file
9separate returns, the tax shown on the return for the preceding year is the husband's
10or wife's
each spouse's proportion of that tax based on what their respective tax
11liabilities for that year would have been had they filed separately.
AB484,179 12Section 179 . 71.52 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,71,1413 71.52 (4) “Household" means a claimant and an individual related to the
14claimant as husband or wife his or her spouse.
AB484,180 15Section 180 . 71.83 (1) (a) 8. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,71,2216 71.83 (1) (a) 8. `Joint return replacing separate returns.' If the amount shown
17as the tax by the husband and wife spouses on a joint return filed under s. 71.03 (2)
18(g) to (L) exceeds the sum of the amounts shown as the tax upon the separate return
19of each spouse and if any part of that excess is attributable to negligence or
20intentional disregard of this chapter, but without intent to defraud, at the time of the
21filing of that separate return, then 25 percent of the total amount of that excess shall
22be added to the tax.
AB484,181 23Section 181 . 71.83 (1) (b) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,72,424 71.83 (1) (b) 5. `Joint return after separate returns.' If the amount shown as
25the tax by the husband and wife spouses on a joint return filed under s. 71.03 (2) (g)

1to (L) exceeds the sum of the amounts shown as the tax on the separate return of each
2spouse and if any part of that excess is attributable to fraud with intent to evade tax
3at the time of the filing of that separate return, then 50 percent of the total amount
4of that excess shall be added to the tax.
AB484,182 5Section 182 . 77.25 (8m) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,72,66 77.25 (8m) Between husband and wife spouses.
AB484,183 7Section 183 . 77.54 (7) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,72,118 77.54 (7) (b) 1. The item is transferred to a child, spouse, parent, father-in-law,
9mother-in-law
parent-in-law, daughter-in-law , or son-in-law of the transferor or,
10if the item is a motor vehicle, from the transferor to a corporation owned solely by the
11transferor or by the transferor's spouse.
AB484,184 12Section 184 . 101.91 (5m) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,72,1813 101.91 (5m) “Manufactured home community" means any plot or plots of
14ground upon which 3 or more manufactured homes that are occupied for dwelling or
15sleeping purposes are located. “Manufactured home community" does not include a
16farm where the occupants of the manufactured homes are the father, mother, son,
17daughter, brother or sister
parents, children, or siblings of the farm owner or
18operator or where the occupants of the manufactured homes work on the farm.
AB484,185 19Section 185 . 102.07 (5) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,72,2220 102.07 (5) (b) The parents, spouse, child, brother, sister, son-in-law,
21daughter-in-law, father-in-law, mother-in-law parent-in-law, brother-in-law, or
22sister-in-law of a farmer shall not be deemed the farmer's employees.
AB484,186 23Section 186 . 102.07 (5) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,73,524 102.07 (5) (c) A shareholder-employee of a family farm corporation shall be
25deemed a “farmer" for purposes of this chapter and shall not be deemed an employee

1of a farmer. A “family farm corporation" means a corporation engaged in farming all
2of whose shareholders are related as lineal ancestors or lineal descendants, whether
3by blood or by adoption, or as spouses, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins,
4sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, fathers-in-law, mothers-in-law parents-in-law,
5brothers-in-law, or sisters-in-law of such lineal ancestors or lineal descendants.
AB484,187 6Section 187 . 102.51 (1) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,73,87 102.51 (1) (a) 1. A wife married person upon a husband his or her spouse with
8whom he or she is living at the time of his the spouse's death.
AB484,188 9Section 188 . 102.51 (1) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed.
AB484,189 10Section 189 . 103.10 (1) (h) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,73,1211 103.10 (1) (h) “Spouse" means an employee's legal husband or wife the person
12to whom an employee is legally married
.
AB484,190 13Section 190 . 103.165 (3) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,73,1514 103.165 (3) (a) 3. The decedent's father or mother parent or parents if the
15decedent leaves no surviving spouse, domestic partner under ch. 770, or children.
AB484,191 16Section 191 . 111.32 (12) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,73,1817 111.32 (12) “Marital status" means the status of being married, single,
18divorced, separated, or widowed a surviving spouse.
AB484,192 19Section 192 . 115.76 (12) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,73,2020 115.76 (12) (a) 1. A biological natural parent.
AB484,193 21Section 193 . 115.76 (12) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed.
AB484,194 22Section 194 . 115.76 (12) (a) 3. of the statutes is repealed.
AB484,195 23Section 195. 115.76 (12) (a) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,74,224 115.76 (12) (a) 4. A male person who has been adjudicated the child's father
25parent under subch. VIII of ch. 48, under subch. IX of ch. 767, by final order or

1judgment of an Indian tribal court of competent jurisdiction or by final order or
2judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction in another state.
AB484,196 3Section 196 . 115.76 (13) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,74,104 115.76 (13) “Person acting as a parent of a child" means a relative of the child
5or a private individual allowed to act as a parent of a child by the child's biological
6natural or adoptive parents or guardian, and includes the child's grandparent,
7neighbor, friend or private individual caring for the child with the explicit or tacit
8approval of the child's biological natural or adoptive parents or guardian. “Person
9acting as a parent of a child" does not include any person that receives public funds
10to care for the child if such funds exceed the cost of such care.
AB484,197 11Section 197 . 146.0255 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,75,2512 146.0255 (2) Testing. Any hospital employee who provides health care, social
13worker, or intake worker under ch. 48 may refer an infant or an expectant mother
14of
a person pregnant with an unborn child, as defined in s. 48.02 (19), to a physician
15for testing of the bodily fluids of the infant or expectant mother pregnant person for
16controlled substances or controlled substance analogs if the hospital employee who
17provides health care, social worker, or intake worker suspects that the infant or
18expectant mother pregnant person has controlled substances or controlled substance
19analogs in the bodily fluids of the infant or expectant mother pregnant person
20because of the use of controlled substances or controlled substance analogs by the
21mother person who gave birth to the infant while she that person was pregnant with
22the infant or by the expectant mother pregnant person while she that person is
23pregnant with the unborn child. The physician may test the infant or expectant
24mother
pregnant person to ascertain whether or not the infant or expectant mother
25pregnant person has controlled substances or controlled substance analogs in the

1bodily fluids of the infant or expectant mother pregnant person, if the physician
2determines that there is a serious risk that there are controlled substances or
3controlled substance analogs in the bodily fluids of the infant or expectant mother
4pregnant person because of the use of controlled substances or controlled substance
5analogs by the mother person who gave birth to the infant while she that person was
6pregnant with the infant or by the expectant mother pregnant person while she that
7person
is pregnant with the unborn child and that the health of the infant, the
8unborn child or the child when born may be adversely affected by the controlled
9substances or controlled substance analogs. If the results of the test indicate that
10the infant does have controlled substances or controlled substance analogs in the
11infant's bodily fluids, the physician shall report the occurrence of that condition in
12the infant to the agency, as defined in s. 48.981 (1) (ag), that is responsible for
13conducting child abuse and neglect investigations under s. 48.981, and that agency
14shall offer to provide, or arrange or refer for the provision of, services and treatment
15for the child and the child's mother person who gave birth to the child as provided
16under s. 46.238. If the results of the test indicate that the expectant mother pregnant
17person
does have controlled substances or controlled substance analogs in the
18expectant mother's pregnant person's bodily fluids, the physician may report the
19occurrence of that condition in the expectant mother pregnant person to the agency,
20as defined in s. 48.981 (1) (ag), that is responsible for conducting unborn child abuse
21investigations under s. 48.981, and that agency shall offer to provide, or arrange or
22refer for the provision of, services and treatment for the unborn child and expectant
23mother
pregnant person as provided under s. 46.238. Under this subsection, no
24physician may test an expectant mother a pregnant person without first receiving
25her that person's informed consent to the testing.
AB484,198
1Section 198. 146.0255 (3) (intro.) and (b) of the statutes are amended to read:
AB484,76,42 146.0255 (3) Test results. (intro.) The physician who performs a test under
3sub. (2) shall provide the infant's parents or guardian or the expectant mother
4pregnant person with all of the following information:
AB484,76,75 (b) A statement of explanation that the test results of an infant must, and that
6the test results of an expectant mother a pregnant person may, be disclosed to an
7agency under sub. (2) if the test results are positive.
AB484,199 8Section 199 . 146.0257 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB484,76,209 146.0257 (2) Evaluation. If a hospital employee who provides health care,
10social worker, or intake worker under ch. 48 suspects that an infant has a fetal
11alcohol spectrum disorder, the hospital employee, social worker, or intake worker
12shall refer the infant to a physician for an evaluation to diagnose whether the infant
13has that disorder. If a physician determines that there is a serious risk that an infant
14has a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, the physician shall evaluate the infant to
15diagnose whether the infant has that disorder. If a physician diagnoses that an
16infant has a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, the physician shall report that diagnosis
17to the agency that is responsible for conducting child abuse and neglect
18investigations under s. 48.981, and that agency shall offer to provide, or arrange or
19refer for the provision of, services and treatment for the infant and the infant's
20mother
person who gave birth to the infant as provided under s. 46.238.
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