2009 Legislative Session

Absentee ballot certificate revisions; military and overseas electors provisions - AB330

Academic excellence higher education scholarship eligibility revised re alternates and date school must designate a scholar - AB604

Alcohol beverages knowingly provided to 18, 19, or 20 year old on a licensed premise: penalties created if the underage person suffers great bodily harm or death; JRCCP report - AB155

Asian carp entering the Great Lakes: AG urged and authorized to pursue legal means to prevent - AR16

Automatic dialing announcing device call included in ``telephone solicitation" definition; exceptions to prohibitions re the DATCP directory - AB93

Biological specimen for DNA analysis: requirement does not expire when completing probation, sentence, or delinquency disposition, or being released from commitment; DA may petition court to compel certain persons to provide a sample; procedure specified - AB893

Bodily harm to a juror: felony crime expanded to include the juror's family and threats; judge may prohibit convicted person from contacting a juror; JRCCP report - AB71

Broadband service infrastructure costs re certain areas of the state: income and franchise tax credit created - AB871

Budget process: withholding pay and expenses from legislators and certain state elected officials if not passed by August 1 of odd-numbered year; acceptance of political contributions by partisan elective state officials prohibited between certain dates, penalty provision; deadlines for budget message from the Governor, Building Commission's long-range state building program budget, and state agencies' biennial budget requests revised; legislative consideration of biennial budget bill and identification of nonfiscal policy items, JCF and LRB duties; if not passed by certain date, any non-budget legislation may not be considered or requested until budget passes; JRCCP report - AB117

Comm.Dept prohibited from promulgating rules requiring persons engaged in construction business from holding certain registrations - AB237

Commercial mobile telephone monthly service contract: expiration of monthly access time specified - AB26

Construction contractors: registration with Comm.Dept requirements re 2009 WisAct 28 eliminated - AB451

Convicted felon ineligible for licensure as a lobbyist; GAB duties specified - AB304

County jailers classified as protective occupation participants for WRS purposes; JSCRS appendix report - AB776

Crime alert network created by DOJ to provide information on certain criminal activity, crime prevention, and missing or endangered persons to state agencies, law enforcement, and the private sector; fee and FTE provisions - AB785

Digital representation of a photo, film, motion picture, audio, or video created by law enforcement agent permitted in a criminal prosecution, conditions and penalties for falsifying the contents created; JRCCP report - AB627

Drunken driving penalties: registration plates surrendered for second and third offense, vehicle is seized and sold for fourth and subsequent offense; JRCCP report - SB130

Dry cask storage to store spent fuel from a nuclear power plant: public utility required to make annual payments to municipality or county where it is stored; PSC duties - AB309

Ferry operation after hours to transport arrested person: fee to reimburse law enforcement agency created - AB344

Hospitality business advertising outside the state: income and franchise tax credit created - AB867

Inattentive driving: current prohibitions revised; prohibition created re electronic device activated and transmitting information or entertainment by visual means, exceptions provided - AB492

Information technology unit of local government must deny requests for access to law enforcement records, definition provisions - AB489

Law enforcement investigative records: information technology unit must deny requests for access, custody remains with the local governmental unit; law enforcement agency that shares information with OJA is considered the custodian of the information - SB573

McCann, James A.: life and public service - AJR34

Mobile emergency communications equipped vehicle owned by an amateur radio organization and used exclusively for emergency communications: 5 year registration for set amount allowed - AB82

Motor vehicle accident that causes injury but not great bodily harm: leaving the scene without providing information or assistance made a felony crime; JRCCP report - AB232

Motor vehicle use on the beds of navigable waters: prohibition exception for vehicle used to destroy or prevent spread of aquatic or terrestrial invasive species - AB521

Nonprofit organization providing assistance to low-income individuals or victims of domestic violence and related crimes: county may appropriate money re capital and operational expenses - AB209

Opicka, (LCpl) Dean: life and military service commended - SJR48

OWI monetary and imprisonment penalties changed; counting number of convictions by the court revised; county can ask DOT not to reinstate operating privileges until person has reimbursed county for jail costs - AB156

Peninsula State Park centennial recognized - AJR56

Phosphorus in machine dishwashing products for household use: limit reduced - AB281

Presumption for employment-connected infectious disease established for fire fighters, EMS providers, law enforcement officers, and correctional officers; JSCRS appendix report - AB644

Psychological evaluations for full-time law enforcement officer, conservation warden, and tribal law enforcement officer positions; LESB, confidentiality, collective bargaining under SELRA, and report provisions - AB549

Railroad crossing: distance vehicle is required to stop modified - AB157

Shipbuilding: income and franchise tax credit created re employee payroll - AB868

Special Transfer Program sunsetted - AB434

State aid to school districts: formula for determining changed - AB593

State elected officials: JCOER must submit salary adjustments to Legislature in the form of a bill - AB321

State park admissions: DNR to issue annual stickers to motor buses; fee provision - AB94

State park admissions: DNR to issue annual stickers to motor buses; fee provision - SB38

State park vehicle admission fee: members of U.S. armed forces, a reserve unit, or the Wisconsin National Guard on active duty charged the same as a vehicle with Wisconsin registration plates - AB493

Stephan, Edwin C.: life and public service as a circuit court judge commended - AJR68

Stewardship expenditure prohibited if acquisition results in denying adjacent landowner access to his or her land or paying for an easement - AB774

Strip search and body cavity search restrictions: exception created for persons found, or alleged, to have violated probation - SB83

Tobacco products purchased on behalf of, or to provide to, a minor prohibited; penalty provisions; JRCCP report - AB154

Turf fertilizer containing phosphorus: application and retail sale prohibitions created; exceptions, penalty, and certain manure and finished sewage sludge product provisions - AB3

Wetland map review, wetland identification, or wetland confirmation: DNR to provide, for a fee, upon request of person who owns or leases the land; building permits or other construction approvals required to include information re construction on or near wetlands; memorandum of agreement with Army Corps of Engineers provision; DNR informational brochure on laws that apply to wetlands - AB818

WRS participating employees may purchase years of creditable service for years of active service in the U.S. armed forces; JSCRS appendix report - AB126

``Year of the Niagara Escarpment" proclaimed for 2010; May 2010 proclaimed the ``Month of the Niagara Escarpment" - AJR1

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