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Some Family Issue Bills of Interest of the 20075-2008 Session

To research any of these 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.  Click on the SEN VOTE and ASSM VOTE following individual bills to see the vote on that particular bill.  This is page 1  Updated 4/9/08

2007-2008 REGUALR SESSION FAMILY ISSUE BILLS

AB 17  Prohibiting persons convicted of certain felonies from providing martial arts instruction to minors
AB 22  Seizure of a computer used in committing a child sex offense, the disposition of certain forfeited property, the use of
             a computer by a person convicted of a child sex offense, and providing a penalty
AB 29  Ordering modifications to legal custody or periods of physical placement contingent upon the occurrence of a
             specified future event or a specified change in conditions
AB 39  Allowing access to pending paternity proceeding information for purposes of administering the child support
             establishment program 
ASSM VOTE  SEN VOICE  WI ACT 81
AB 95  A real estate transfer fee exemption for transfers between siblings
AB 154  Allowing an individual income tax deduction for certain amounts contributed by a divorced or legally separated
               parent to his or her child's college savings account or college tuition and expenses program and limiting the
               deduction that may be claimed by a married person who files separately
AB 242  Notice for child abuse, vulnerable adult, and harassment injunctions
AB 415  Authorizing the copying of a birth certificate in order for a child to participate in an organized youth sport
AB 435  Placement of pets in a divorce
AB 453  Requiring informed consent by a child's parent or guardian for the child's ear piercing and providing a penalty
AB 462  Moving with a child
AB 489  The prohibition against making, reproducing, or possessing a nude depiction of a person without the person's
                consent and the sex offender registry
AB 539 & SB 287 Allowing a 16-year-old to donate blood with parental consent SB 287 TABLED
               AB 539 ASSM VOICE & SEN VOICE

AB 571 & SB 311  Equalizing physical placement to the highest degree, requiring the court to state the reasons for ordering
               sole legal custody or not equalizing physical placement, and standards for modifying legal custody or physical
               placement
AB 572  Notice of intent to remove a child from the home of a relative, review of decisions or orders involving the placement
               and care of a child placed in the home of a relative, and independent child abuse or neglect investigations when the
               subject of the investigation is a relative in whose home a child is placed
AB 676 & SB 384 Disclosure of juvenile court records to other courts, law enforcement agencies, district attorneys and other
               prosecutors, and agencies providing services to a juvenile court and providing a penalty
                         
AB 676 ASSM VOICE  SEN VOTE  GOV DOYLE VETOED
AB 685  Parenting plans in actions affecting the family  ASSM VOICE   SEN VOICE  WI ACT 187
AB 700  Children with severe disabilities or who are involved in multiple systems of care, or both, and their families and
               making an appropriation
AB 744  A delinquent child support payer Web site
AB 769 & SB 464 Placement of a child for adoption with a nonrelative prior to termination of parental rights, payment for
               preadoption preparation when a child is placed for adoption by a child welfare agency, and the applicability of the
               Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children
AB 809 & SB 496 The consequences for failure to act within a time period specified in the Children's Code or the Juvenile
               Justice Code, extension of certain time periods specified in the Children's Code, and informal dispositions under the
               Children's Code
AB 856  Requiring consultation with a child in determining and reviewing his or her permanency plan; requiring agencies, in
               making reasonable efforts to place a child for adoption, with a guardian, with a relative, or in some other alternative
               permanent placement, to include efforts to place the child outside this state; requiring juvenile courts to take certain
               actions to expedite the interstate placement of children; requiring juvenile courts to give a child's out-of-home care
               provider the right to be heard in proceedings involving the child; requiring health care providers to report cases of
               infants with controlled substances in their bodily fluids to the agency responsible for investigating suspected child
               abuse or neglect; authorizing circuit court commissioners to conduct permanency plan reviews and hearings;
               providing that a juvenile court order is required to change the placement of a child, regardless of whether a hearing
               is held on the change in placement; requiring a juvenile court order placing a child in the care and placement
               responsibility of an agency whenever a child is placed outside the home; and eliminating permanency plan
               determination hearings when a consent decree maintains a child's placement outside the home



SB 13  Allowing access to pending paternity proceeding information for purposes of administering the child support
            establishment program
SB 30  Permitting a mother to breast-feed in any public or private location where she is otherwise authorized to be
SB 254  Allowing an individual income tax deduction for certain amounts contributed by a divorced or legally separated
              parent to his or her child's college savings account or college tuition and expenses program and limiting the
              deduction that may be claimed by a married person who files separately
SB 350  Required judicial findings and orders when a child is placed outside the home, termination of parental rights
              warnings, mandatory child abuse or neglect reporters, the confidentiality of social services records, changing from
              child caring institution to residential care center for children and youth the term used to describe a facility operated
              by a licensed child welfare agency for the care and maintenance of children residing in that facility, changing from
              day care to child care the term used to describe care and supervision for children for less than 24 hours a day, and
              renumbering the definition of neglect (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Health and Family
              Services)
SB 362  Miscellaneous revisions to statutes relating to actions affecting the family
SB 406  Parenting plans in actions affecting the family  SEN VOICE
SB 464 
Placement of a child for adoption with a nonrelative prior to termination of parental rights, payment for preadoption
              preparation when a child is placed for adoption by a child welfare agency, and the applicability of the Interstate
              Compact on the Placement of Children 
SEN VOICE  ASSM VOICE  WI ACT 186   
SB 476  The effect of an order denying, limiting, discontinuing, or prohibiting parental visitation with a child who is adjudged
              to be in need of protection or services, who is the subject of a termination of parental rights petition, or who is in
              sustaining care following a termination of parental rights on visitation between the child and a sibling and requiring a
              child's permanency plan to include a statement as to whether visitation between the child and a sibling is in the best
              interests of the child and sibling when parental visitation is denied, limited, discontinued, or prohibited 
                 
SEN VOICE   
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 496  & AB 809 The consequences for failure to act within a time period specified in the Children's Code or the Juvenile
              Justice Code, extension of certain time periods specified in the Children's Code, and informal dispositions under the
              Children's Code 
SB 496 SEN VOICE   ASSM VOICE  WI ACT 199


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