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Senate Bills of the 2007-2008 Session

To research any of these Senate Bills, or companion Assembly Bills, click on the bill number.  This will take you to the history of the bill where you can read the bill or look at other information about the bill by clicking on the highlighted portion of the history.  Remember to click on the back button on your browser to return to this page.  Click on SEN VOTE and ASSM VOTE following individual senate bills to see the votes on that  bill.  This is page 3 of 3 of listed senate bills.  Updated 5/15/08

APRIL 2008 SPECIAL SESSION SENATE BILL

SB 1
The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact, withdrawals of water from the Great Lakes
          Basin, water withdrawal and use, water supply planning, water conservation, granting rule-making authority, and
          providing a penalty 
SEN VOTE   ASSM VOTE

DECEMBER 2007 SPECIAL SESSION SENATE BILL

SB 1  Campaign financing, designations for the Wisconsin election campaign fund by individuals filing state income tax
           returns, creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for contributions to the Public Integrity Endowment,
           candidate time on public broadcasting television stations and public access channels, staffing of the Government
           Accountability Board; providing exemptions from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority;
           making appropriations; and providing penalties

2007-2008 REGULAR SESSION SENATE BILLS

SB 470 & AB 828 The definition of bicycle; lighting of bicycles, motor bicycles, and electric personal assistive mobility
              devices; and manual turn signals for bicyclists
SB 472  Age-specific restrictions on hunting and possessing a firearm; requirements for obtaining a hunting certificate of
              accomplishment; establishing a hunting mentorship program; and granting rule-making authority
SB 477  Disclosure of adoption records for purposes of determining the availability of a placement for a child with an
              adoptive parent or proposed adoptive parent of a sibling of the child
SB 479  Prohibiting an elected official, who is convicted of certain felonies, from receiving an annuity, lump sum payment,
              or death benefit under the Wisconsin Retirement System
SB 481  Fees to support water safety patrols
SB 484 & AB 807 The definition of a group health benefit plan and reports by the commissioner of insurance on the effect
              of changing the definition
SB 485 & AB 795 The production, sale, and distribution of intoxicating liquor, providing an exemption from emergency
              rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty
                     
SB 485  SEN VOTE   ASSM VOTE
SB 487 & AB 793 Treatment records and patient health care records  SB 487 SEN VOICE  ASSM VOICE WI ACT 108
SB 489  Payment of a police officer's or fire fighter's salary after being charged with a misdemeanor or felony and
              discharged, and the adjournment of a trial or investigation relating to charges brought against a first class city
              police officer or fire fighter
SB 490  Eliminating an assessment on the gross private patient revenue of hospitals, creating an assessment on the gross
              patient revenue of hospitals, creating a hospital assessment trust fund, increasing the Medical Assistance and
              Badger Care payment rate for hospitals, requiring monthly payments by health maintenance organizations to
              hospitals and reconciliation of payments with actual utilization of services, increasing supplemental Medical
              Assistance payments to rural hospitals, transferring moneys from the hospital assessment fund to the injured
              patients and families compensation fund, requiring the Department of Health and Family Services annually to
              submit a report for review by the Joint Committee on Finance, and making appropriations
SB 492 Vacancies in appointive state offices
SB 498 & AB 759  Possession of an electric weapon  SB 498 SEN VOICE  ASSM VOICE  WI ACT 128
SB 500  Creating an agricultural education and workforce development council and making an appropriation
SB 517  Mortgage bankers, mortgage brokers, and loan originators  SEN VOICE  ASSM VOICE  WI ACT 211
SB 526  Obtaining wage data from labor organizations to assist the Department of Workforce Development in determining
              prevailing wage rates
SB 528 & AB 869  Expanding an exception to local levy limits for levies for debts incurred by a joint fire department
                     
AB 869 ASSM VOICE  SEN VOTE
SB 530  The use of traffic control photographic systems to monitor intersections, imposing liability on the owners of
              vehicles involved in traffic control signal violations, and providing a penalty
SB 531  Posting information about charitable solicitation campaigns performed by professional fund-raisers on the Internet
              Web site of the Department of Regulation and Licensing
SB 532  Motor vehicle operating privileges, seizures by courts or law enforcement officers of operator's licenses, and
              reinstatement of canceled identification cards 
SEN VOTE
SB 533  Adjusting the method used to set compensation levels of certain county constitutional officers
SB 534 & AB 891 Expungement of misdemeanors
SB 537  Judicial discretion in certain John Doe proceedings  SEN VOTE
SB 540  The consumption of alcohol beverages in public places
SB 542  Public disclosure of certain information when abuse or neglect results in a child dying or being placed in serious or
              critical condition or when a child under 13 years of age has been the victim of sexual assault
SB 543  Providing the public with information on expenditures made by state agencies and state agency contracts and grants
SB 545  Creating an alcohol beverages licensing exception for certain auction sales of wine
                     
SEN VOICE  ASSM VOICE WI ACT 216
SB 546 & AB 435 & AB 911  Drunken driving and creating a penalty SB 546 SEN VOICE
SB 547 & AB 941 The sunset of local professional baseball park district sales and use taxes, restricting the use of sales and
               use tax revenue, and auditing the finances of a local professional baseball park district
SB 548  Changing the terms home health aide, hospice aide, and nurse's assistant to the term nurse aide; changing
               requirements for instructional and competency evaluation programs for nurse aides; changing certain requirements
               for review and investigation of reports of client abuse or neglect; and requiring the exercise of rule-making
               authority (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Health and Family Services)
                         
SEN VOTE   ASSM VOICE  WI ACT 153
SB 551 & AB 881 Reporting requirements for certain charitable organizations
                       
SB 551 SEN VOICE  ASSM VOICE WI ACT 213
SB 552 & AB 771 Use of a social security number as personal identifier in the administration of a state or local
              governmental program
SB 555  Public notification of the location of sexually violent persons
SB 559 & AB 960  The penalty for failing to stop at the scene of a motor vehicle accident
SB 562  The establishment of the Healthy Wisconsin Plan and the Healthy Wisconsin Authority, granting rule-making
               authority, and making an appropriation
SB 567  Requiring certain identification in order to vote at a polling place or obtain an absentee ballot, verification of the
              addresses of electors, absentee voting procedure in certain residential care apartment complexes and adult family
              homes, and the fee for an identification card issued by the Department of Transportation
SB 568  Payment of the prevailing wage rate to laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers employed on a publicly
              funded private construction project, submission of certain payroll information on a weekly basis by a contractor,
              subcontractor, or agent performing work on a project that is subject to the prevailing wage law to the local
              governmental unit, state agency, or owner or developer authorizing the work, inspection of the payroll records of
              contractors, subcontractors, and agents performing work on projects that are subject to the prevailing wage law,
              granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties
SB 571  Qualifications for prison wardens and superintendents
SB 572  Indian child welfare










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