AB337,32,2420 4. (intro.) If a registrant has not reached the age of 18 years and if any of the
21following indicate, in a statement acknowledging paternity parentage under subd.
221. or 3., that the given name or surname, or both, of the registrant should be changed
23on the birth record, the state registrar shall enter the name indicated on the birth
24record without a court order:
AB337,33,2
1a. The mother of the parent who gave birth to the registrant, except as provided
2under subd. 4. b. and c.
AB337,33,43 b. The father of natural parent who did not give birth to the registrant if the
4father
that parent has legal custody of the registrant.
AB337,85 5Section 85 . 69.15 (3) (b) 3m. of the statutes is created to read:
AB337,33,126 69.15 (3) (b) 3m. Except as provided in par. (c), if the state registrar receives
7an acknowledgement of parentage on a form prescribed by the state registrar and
8signed by both of the people presumed to be natural parents under s. 891.41 (1) (b),
9a certified copy of the parents' marriage certificate, and the fee required under s.
1069.22 (5) (b) 1., the state registrar shall insert the name of the spouse from the
11marriage certificate as a parent if the name of that parent was omitted on the original
12birth certificate.
AB337,86 13Section 86 . 69.15 (3) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,33,1614 69.15 (3) (d) The method prescribed by the state registrar for acknowledging
15paternity parentage shall require that the social security number of each of the
16registrant's parents be provided.
AB337,87 17Section 87 . 69.15 (3m) (title), (a) (intro.) and 3. and (b) of the statutes are
18amended to read:
AB337,33,2219 69.15 (3m) (title) Rescission of statement acknowledging paternity
20parentage. (a) (intro.) A statement acknowledging paternity parentage that is filed
21with the state registrar under sub. (3) (b) 3. may be rescinded by either person who
22signed the statement as a parent of the registrant if all of the following apply:
AB337,34,223 3. The person rescinding the statement files a rescission in the method
24prescribed under subd. 2. before the day on which a court or circuit court
25commissioner makes an order in an action affecting the family involving the man

1person who signed the statement and the child who is the subject of the statement
2or before 60 days elapse after the statement was filed, whichever occurs first.
AB337,34,63 (b) If the state registrar, within the time required under par. (a) 3., receives a
4rescission in the method prescribed by the state registrar, along with the proper fee
5under s. 69.22, the state registrar shall prepare under sub. (6) a new record omitting
6the father's parent's name if it was inserted under sub. (3) (b).
AB337,88 7Section 88 . 71.03 (2) (d) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,34,88 71.03 (2) (d) (title) Husband and wife Spouses joint filing.
AB337,89 9Section 89 . 71.03 (2) (d) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,34,1210 71.03 (2) (d) 1. Except as provided in subds. 2. and 3. and par. (e), a husband
11and a wife
spouses may file a joint return for income tax purposes even though one
12of the spouses has no gross income or no deductions.
AB337,90 13Section 90 . 71.03 (2) (d) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,34,1714 71.03 (2) (d) 2. No joint return may be filed if either the husband or wife spouse
15at any time during the taxable year is a nonresident alien, unless an election is in
16effect for the taxable year under section 6013 (g) or (h) of the internal revenue code
17Internal Revenue Code.
AB337,91 18Section 91 . 71.03 (2) (d) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,34,2519 71.03 (2) (d) 3. No joint return may be filed if the husband and wife spouses
20have different taxable years, except that if their taxable years begin on the same day
21and end on different days because of the death of either or both the joint return may
22be filed with respect to the taxable year of each unless the surviving spouse remarries
23before the close of his or her taxable year or unless the taxable year of either spouse
24is a fractional part of a year under section 443 (a) (1) of the internal revenue code
25Internal Revenue Code.
AB337,92
1Section 92. 71.03 (2) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,35,162 71.03 (2) (g) Joint return following separate return. Except as provided in par.
3(i), if an individual has filed a separate return for a taxable year for which a joint
4return could have been filed by the individual and the individual's spouse under par.
5(d) or (e) and the time prescribed by law for timely filing the return for that taxable
6year has expired, the individual and the individual's spouse may file a joint return
7for that taxable year. A joint return filed by the husband and wife spouses under this
8paragraph is their return for that taxable year, and all payments, credits, refunds
9or other repayments made or allowed with respect to the separate return of each
10spouse for that taxable year shall be taken into account in determining the extent
11to which the tax based upon the joint return has been paid. If a joint return is filed
12under this paragraph, any election, other than the election to file a separate return,
13made by either spouse in that spouse's separate return for that taxable year with
14respect to the treatment of any income, deduction or credit of that spouse may not
15be changed in the filing of the joint return if that election would have been irrevocable
16if the joint return had not been filed.
AB337,93 17Section 93 . 71.03 (2) (m) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,35,2118 71.03 (2) (m) 2. If a husband and wife spouses change from a joint return to
19separate returns within the time prescribed in subd. 1., the tax paid on the joint
20return shall be allocated between them in proportion to the tax liability shown on
21each separate return.
AB337,94 22Section 94 . 71.03 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,36,723 71.03 (4) (a) Natural persons whose total income is not in excess of $10,000 and
24consists entirely of wages subject to withholding for Wisconsin tax purposes and not
25more than $200 total of dividends, interest and other wages not subject to Wisconsin

1withholding, and who have elected the Wisconsin standard deduction and have not
2claimed either the credit for homestead property tax relief or deductions for expenses
3incurred in earning such income, shall, at their election, not be required to record on
4their income tax returns the amount of the tax imposed on their Wisconsin taxable
5income. Married persons shall be permitted this election only if the joint income of
6the husband and wife spouses does not exceed $10,000, if both report their incomes
7on the same joint income tax return form, and if both make this election.
AB337,95 8Section 95. 71.05 (22) (a) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,36,109 71.05 (22) (a) (title) Election of deductions; husband and wife spousal
10deductions.
AB337,96 11Section 96. 71.07 (5m) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,36,1312 71.07 (5m) (a) 3. “Household" means a claimant and an individual related to
13the claimant as husband or wife his or her spouse.