SB566,108 Section 108. 102.51 (1) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed.

SB566,109 Section 109. 103.10 (1) (h) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB566,39,3 103.10 (1) (h) “Spouse" means an employee's legal husband or wife the person to whom an employee is legally married.

SB566,110 Section 110 . 103.165 (3) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB566,39,6 103.165 (3) (a) 3. The decedent's father or mother parent or parents if the decedent leaves no surviving spouse, domestic partner under ch. 770, or children.

SB566,111 Section 111. 111.32 (12) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB566,39,9 111.32 (12) “Marital status" means the status of being married, single, divorced, separated, or widowed a surviving spouse.

SB566,112 Section 112 . 115.76 (12) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB566,39,11 115.76 (12) (a) 1. A biological natural parent.

SB566,113 Section 113 . 115.76 (12) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed.

SB566,114 Section 114 . 115.76 (12) (a) 3. of the statutes is repealed.

SB566,115 Section 115 . 115.76 (13) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB566,39,21 115.76 (13) “Person acting as a parent of a child" means a relative of the child or a private individual allowed to act as a parent of a child by the child's biological natural or adoptive parents or guardian, and includes the child's grandparent, neighbor, friend or private individual caring for the child with the explicit or tacit approval of the child's biological natural or adoptive parents or guardian. “Person acting as a parent of a child" does not include any person that receives public funds to care for the child if such funds exceed the cost of such care.

SB566,116 Section 116. 146.34 (1) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB566,40,3 146.34 (1) (f) “Parent" means a biological natural parent, a husband who has consented to the artificial insemination of his wife under s. 891.40 or a parent by adoption. If the minor is a nonmarital child who is not adopted or whose parents do not subsequently intermarry under s. 767.803, “parent" includes a person adjudged in a judicial proceeding under ch. 48 to be the biological father of the minor. “Parent" does not include any person whose parental rights have been terminated.

SB566,117 Section 117. 157.05 of the statutes is amended to read:

SB566,40,11 157.05 Autopsy. Consent for a licensed physician to conduct an autopsy on the body of a deceased person shall be deemed sufficient when given by whichever one of the following assumes custody of the body for purposes of burial: Father, mother, husband, wife parent, spouse, child, guardian, next of kin, domestic partner under ch. 770, or in the absence of any of the foregoing, a friend, or a person charged by law with the responsibility for burial. If 2 or more such persons assume custody of the body, the consent of one of them shall be deemed sufficient.

SB566,118 Section 118. 182.004 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB566,40,18 182.004 (6) Stock may be issued and leases made to husband and wife spouses, and to the survivor of them, in which event title shall descend the same as in like conveyances of real property subject to ch. 766. Otherwise, title to the stock and lease shall descend to the persons to whom a homestead of the stockholder would descend except as provided in ch. 766. The interest of a tenant in the lease and stock shall be exempt from execution to the same extent as a homestead in real estate.

SB566,119 Section 119 . 250.04 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB566,40,23 250.04 (3) (a) The department shall establish and maintain surveillance activities sufficient to detect any occurrence of acute, communicable , or chronic diseases and threat of occupational or environmental hazards, injuries , or changes in the health of mothers parents and children.

SB566,120 Section 120. 301.12 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB566,41,22 301.12 (2) Except as provided in subs. (2m) and (14) (b) and (c), any person, including a person placed under s. 938.183, 938.32 (1) (bm) or (c), 938.34 (4h) or (4m), or 938.357 (1), (2m), (4), or (5) (e), receiving care, maintenance, services, and supplies provided by any institution in this state operated or contracted for by the department, 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. 301.03 (18). 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 that 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.

SB566,121 Section 121 . 301.50 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB566,42,8 301.50 (1) In this section, “substantial parental relationship" means the acceptance and exercise of significant responsibility for the daily supervision, education, protection, and care of the child. In evaluating whether an individual has had a substantial parental relationship with the child, factors that may be considered include, but are not limited to, whether the individual has expressed concern for or interest in the support, care, or well-being of the child; whether the individual has neglected or refused to provide care or support for the child; and whether, with respect to an individual who is or may be the father a parent of the child, the individual has expressed concern for or interest in the support, care, or well-being of the mother during her parent who gave birth during pregnancy.

SB566,122 Section 122. 700.19 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB566,42,17 700.19 (2) Husband and wife Spouses. If persons named as owners in a document of title, transferees in an instrument of transfer, or buyers in a bill of sale are described in the document, instrument, or bill of sale as husband and wife married to each other, or are in fact husband and wife married to each other, they are joint tenants, unless the intent to create a tenancy in common is expressed in the document, instrument, or bill of sale. This subsection applies to property acquired before January 1, 1986, and, if ch. 766 does not apply when the property is acquired, to property acquired on or after January 1, 1986.

SB566,123 Section 123. 705.01 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB566,42,24 705.01 (4) “Joint account" means an account, other than a marital account, payable on request to one or more of 2 or more parties whether or not mention is made of any right of survivorship. “Joint account" also means any account established with the right of survivorship on or after January 1, 1986, by 2 parties who claim to be husband and wife married to each other, which is payable on request to either or both of the parties.