Wisconsin Legislature: County

Production plant generating electricity from wind power: utility aid payments to towns and counties modified - AB270

Safe Drinking Water Loan Program: application and closing deadlines changed - AB733

Sustainable forestry grants to counties: appropriation carried over to next fiscal year [Sec. 276; Enrolled AB-75: grants made biennial appropriation, urban forestry program funding, 275L] - AB75

Unclaimed personal property: sheriff may sell at public auction or on an Internet site - AB347

Unclaimed personal property: sheriff may sell at public auction or on an Internet site - SB239

Utility aid payments to counties and municipalities: per capita limits [Sec. 1896, 1897] - AB75

Neighborhood electric vehicle: municipal ordinance may allow use of on county trunk highways within municipality's boundaries under certain conditions - AB402

Bills of rights for foster children and for foster parents created; requirements cited [Enrolled AB-75: Sec. 1051n, o, 9108 (6f), 9408 (5f)] - AB75

Caregiver or nonclient resident of a child care provider: report requirements for suspected drug activity or child abuse or neglect; sheriff duties, confidentiality, and civil and criminal liability immunity - AB695

Caregiver or nonclient resident of a child care provider: report requirements for suspected drug activity or child abuse or neglect; sheriff duties, confidentiality, and civil and criminal liability immunity - SB500

Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Program grants from DCF to counties and Indian tribes revised [A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, CANPB provision removed] - AB297

Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Program grants from DCF to counties and Indian tribes revised - SB211

Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Program revisions; expansion re home visitation program services; matching funds requirement [Sec. 1102-1127, 2547, 2549, 2550, 9108 (6); Enrolled AB-75: certain restrictions reinstated, matching requirement removed, 1106d, 1110d, 1111d; deletes 1104-1110, 1115] - AB75

Child care provider license, certification, or contract: prohibiting a person convicted or adjudicated delinquent for a drug-related felony from showing he or she has been rehabilitated; employment with a child care provider or residing where child care is provided provisions - AB694

Child care provider license, certification, or contract: prohibiting a person convicted or adjudicated delinquent for a drug-related felony from showing he or she has been rehabilitated; employment with a child care provider or residing where child care is provided provisions - SB499

Child care provider: prohibition from being licensed, certified, or contracted with re conviction or adjudicated delinquent of specified crimes; frequency of criminal history search increased, sex offender registry provision; revocation or suspension of license, certification, or contract required re conviction of or pending serious criminal charges, W-2 payment provision - AB462

Child care provider: prohibition from being licensed, certified, or contracted with re conviction or adjudicated delinquent of specified crimes; frequency of criminal history search increased, sex offender registry provision; revocation or suspension of license, certification, or contract required re conviction of or pending serious criminal charges, W-2 payment provision [S.Amdt.3: Wisconsin Shares provisions added re ineligibility for child care subsidies and use of recovered funds to detect fraud; S.Amdt.1 to S.Amdt.3: fraudulent activity in W-2 program reporting requirements] - SB331

Child care provider: prohibition from being licensed, certified, or contracted with re conviction or adjudicated delinquent of specified crimes or having certain TRO or injunction entered against the person; frequency of criminal history search increased, sex offender registry and TRO or injunction provisions; revocation or suspension of license, certification, or contract required re conviction of or pending serious criminal charges, W-2 payment and TRO or injunction provisions; certain employees required to report to DA any suspected fraud in the W-2 Program, penalty and immunity from liability - AB479

Child care provider: prohibition from being licensed, certified, or contracted with re conviction or adjudicated delinquent of specified crimes or having certain TRO or injunction entered against the person; frequency of criminal history search increased, sex offender registry and TRO or injunction provisions; revocation or suspension of license, certification, or contract required re conviction of or pending serious criminal charges, W-2 payment and TRO or injunction provisions; certain employees required to report to DA any suspected fraud in the W-2 Program, penalty and immunity from liability - SB333

Child care subsidy and assistance: local administration revisions; subsidies under W-2 restructured [for section numbers and further revisions, see entry under ``Day care''] - AB75

Child or juvenile taken into custody: notice to relatives and disclosure of information to facilitate a relationship or placement; parent to provide names of relatives re potential placement; permanency planning; exception to confidentiality requirements [Enrolled AB-75: Sec. 919p, 921h, 958p, 1086f, 1101c, 3290n, p, 3292h, 3327p, 3339j] - AB75

Child placed in the home of a relative: granting the relative the same procedural rights as a foster parent re notice of intent to remove the child and review of decisions and orders involving placement and care [A.Amdt.1: further revisions] - AB164

Child placed in the home of a relative: granting the relative the same procedural rights as a foster parent re notice of intent to remove the child and review of decisions and orders involving placement and care - SB122

Child protective services: DCF to establish pilot program under which county department may employ alternative responses; evaluation report required [Sec. 1097, 1098. 1100; Enrolled AB-75: limited to five counties (including Milwaukee County)] - AB75

Child removed from parental custody: county department or DCF required to notify adult relatives of the child; temporary custody hearing, permanency plan, and placement provisions; exception to confidentiality of child abuse and neglect records - SB212

Child welfare provider revisions re surplus revenue and rates for out-of-home care; performance-based contracting system established [A.Amdt.1: DCF to certify need for new group home or increasing capacity at an existing one, emergency rules provision; A.Amdt.2: appropriation added] - AB780

Child welfare provider revisions re surplus revenue and rates for out-of-home care; performance-based contracting system established - SB567

Children's Code and Juvenile Justice Code revisions re required judicial findings and orders when child is placed outside the home, TPR warnings, mandatory child abuse or neglect reporters, confidentiality of social services records, changing ``day care" to ``child care", and definition of ``neglect" - AB485

Children's Code and Juvenile Justice Code revisions re required judicial findings and orders when child is placed outside the home, TPR warnings, mandatory child abuse or neglect reporters, confidentiality of social services records, changing ``day care" to ``child care", and definition of ``neglect" - SB346

Financial exploitation: elder-adult-at-risk agency, responding to an investigation, may petition a court to order a financial institution to freeze an individual's accounts - AB691

Financial exploitation: elder-adult-at-risk agency, responding to an investigation, may petition a court to order a financial institution to freeze an individual's accounts - SB503

Food sold by licensed child welfare facility: sales and use tax exemptions created; JSCTE appendix report [S.Amdt.1: type of facilities expanded] - SB452

Foster care and kinship care revisions re monthly rates, payments, licensing, and levels of care - AB510

Foster care and kinship care revisions re monthly rates, payments, licensing, and levels of care [S.Amdt.1: kinship care and foster home certification provisions] - SB361

Fraud by W-2 participants: notification to DCF and DHS of date program established and amounts recovered; use of moneys set [Sec. 489, 494, 1257-1262, 1263-1265, 1266, 9308 (2); Enrolled AB-75: further revisions, 9308 (2f)] - AB75

Funeral and burial expenses for decedents who, during life, received certain public assistance: maximum amount a county department may contribute increased - AB832

Funeral and burial expenses for decedents who, during life, received certain public assistance: maximum amount a county department may contribute increased - SB338

Indian juveniles adjudicated delinquent: moneys for reimbursement for unexpected or unusually high-cost out-of-home care placements limited to adjudications by tribal courts - SB475

Indian tribe or band member placement in a mental health treatment facility: reimbursement of unexpected or unusually high-costs from Indian gaming receipts [S.Amdt.2: appropriation revisions; S.Amdt.1 to S.Amdt.2: sunset added] - SB630

Integrated service programs for children with severe disabilities expanded to cover children and their families involved in two or more systems of care, name changed to ``initiatives to provide coordinated services for children and families"; definitions, Indian tribes, and funding provisions - AB296

Integrated service programs for children with severe disabilities expanded to cover children and their families involved in two or more systems of care, name changed to ``initiatives to provide coordinated services for children and families"; definitions, Indian tribes, and funding provisions - SB210

Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children; creates an Interstate Commission for the Placement of Children - SB517

Juvenile correctional services provided by counties and nonprofit organizations: DOA and Corr.Dept to conduct comprehensive review; to include description of AODA and mental health services; youth counselors from the state's three schools to participate [Enrolled AB-75: Sec. 9111 (2k)] - AB75

Juvenile sex offender: juvenile court to order assessment on the probability of reoffending and use the results to determine services to be provided - SB666

Mandatory overtime and on-call time: health care facility prohibited from requiring of certain employees that are paid an hourly wage or are classified as nonsupervisory; exemption, discrimination, complaint, and penalty provisions - AB152

Mandatory overtime and on-call time: health care facility prohibited from requiring of certain employees that are paid an hourly wage or are classified as nonsupervisory; exemption, discrimination, complaint, and penalty provisions - SB108

Permanency planning for children in out-of-home care, right to be heard in proceedings involving children in out-of-home care, notice to relatives when child is removed from home, placement with siblings re foster home or adoption, plan for transition to independent living, reporting of infants affected by controlled substances, circuit court commissioner review of permanency plans, TPR filing requirements, reasonable efforts to achieve goals of permanency plan, informal disposition, confidentiality of records - AB486

Permanency planning for children in out-of-home care, right to be heard in proceedings involving children in out-of-home care, notice to relatives when child is removed from home, placement with siblings re foster home or adoption, plan for transition to independent living, reporting of infants affected by controlled substances, circuit court commissioner review of permanency plans, TPR filing requirements, reasonable efforts to achieve goals of permanency plan, informal disposition, confidentiality of records [S.Amdt.1: effective date changed re paying support or maintenance arrears to certain public assistance recipients] - SB347

Posttermination of parental rights contact agreement between adoptive parent or agency and a birth relative of the child: provisions created - AB214

Posttermination of parental rights contact agreement between adoptive parent or agency and a birth relative of the child: provisions created - SB140

Relief block grant program eliminated; DHS appropriation expanded re certain county health services and benefits under BadgerCare Plus Childless Adults Program [for section numbers and further revisions, see entry under ``Public assistance"] - AB75

Spiritual treatment in lieu of medical or surgical treatment for children: exemptions removed re county department determination of child abuse or neglect, felony physical abuse of a child, and administration of psychotropic medication to juveniles in correctional custody; Christian Science treatment limited to adult patients - AB590

Temporary custody hearings: notification to adult relative of the child required, definition provision; notification contents specified; exception to confidentiality of agency and child abuse and neglect records - AB298

Transporting MA recipients to obtain medical care: advance authorization requirement eliminated [Sec. 1321; Enrolled AB-75: funding revision, DHS reports to JCF re contracting with entity for MA management services and effectiveness of manager program, 9122 (4f)] - AB75

Wisconsin Shares child care program integrity, child attendance monitoring system, and payment distribution [Enrolled AB-75: Sec. 1138d, f, 1213f, 1214b-k, 1230, 1239, 9108 (9k)] - AB75

County executive granted veto power over appropriations modified: constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - SJR11

Electronic voter registration permitted with valid driver's license or state ID card, maintenance of voter registration forms provision; DOT and GAB duties - AB892

Electronic voter registration permitted with valid driver's license or state ID card, maintenance of voter registration forms provision; DOT and GAB duties - SB645

Marriage license: maximum fee for expedited issuance set [Enrolled AB-75: Sec. 3205r, 9357 (1f)] - AB75

Partial vetoes: county chief executive officer prohibited from creating new words or sentences by striking letters or combining parts of sentences in a resolution or ordinance; Governor prohibited from creating new sentences by combining parts of sentences in an enrolled bill. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - AJR129

Unclaimed money or security or case-related funds received from the circuit court clerk: county treasurer may post notice to the county's Web site - AB446

Animal-drawn vehicle: county or municipality may enact an ordinance to collect an annual registration fee - AB379

ATV operation on roadway and shoulder of highway, street, or road by person at least 16 years old for access to residence or lodging establishment authorized under certain conditions; definition, ordinance, enforcement, and DOT provisions - AB435

Burnett County temporary sales tax re upgrading radio towers authorized [Enrolled AB-75: Sec. 1856j, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 9443 (14u)] - AB75

County shoreland zoning ordinance does not apply to unincorporated areas under set conditions - SB301

Habitual parking violator: county or municipal ordinance for the immobilization or removal, impoundment, and disposal permitted; conditions and fee provisions - AB183

Habitual parking violator: county or municipal ordinance for the immobilization or removal, impoundment, and disposal permitted; conditions and fee provisions - SB297

Local elections board, local regulation of campaign contributions, enforcement, and registration and reporting: county, city, town, and village authorized to create and enact ordinances; GAB provision - AB619

Mixed-use zoning ordinance clarified; communities required to enact a traditional neighborhood development ordinance to report to DOA on status of compliance; state housing strategy plan to include a bicycle- and pedestrian-oriented design in residential developments - SB314

Partial vetoes: county chief executive officer prohibited from creating new words or sentences by striking letters or combining parts of sentences in a resolution or ordinance; Governor prohibited from creating new sentences by combining parts of sentences in an enrolled bill. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - AJR129

Sex offenders under GPS tracking requirement on parole, probation, extended supervision, conditional release, or supervised release for crimes against children prohibited from entering certain areas such as playgrounds and areas where children 16 years old and younger congregate; political subdivision prohibited from enacting or enforcing an ordinance or resolution restricting placement or residency of a sex offender; JRCCP report - AB759

Sex offenders under GPS tracking requirement on parole, probation, extended supervision, conditional release, or supervised release for crimes against children prohibited from entering certain areas such as playgrounds and areas where children 16 years old and younger congregate; political subdivision prohibited from enacting or enforcing an ordinance or resolution restricting placement or residency of a sex offender; JRCCP report - SB548

Snow, failure to remove: limiting the forfeiture a political subdivision may impose; local ordinance provision - AB147

State minimum wage revised; DWD required to make annual adjustment; eliminating prohibition on local ordinance establishing a living wage - AB41

State minimum wage revised; DWD required to make annual adjustment; eliminating prohibition on local ordinance establishing a living wage - SB1

Traffic control photographic system (TCPS) use on highways: county or municipality may enact ordinance permitting use of to detect red light violations; penalties and defense provisions - AB827

Wind energy system: PSC to establish common standards for political subdivisions to regulate construction and operation of; definition, ordinance, enforcement, and PSC review provisions; exception for certain electric generating facilities with a certificate of public convenience and necessity - AB256

Wind energy system: PSC to establish common standards for political subdivisions to regulate construction and operation of; definition, ordinance, enforcement, and PSC review provisions; exception for certain electric generating facilities with a certificate of public convenience and necessity [S.Sub.Amdt.2: further revisions, Wind Siting Council created and report required] - SB185