2011-12 Legislative Session
Featured Wisconsin Acts
Below are featured Acts from the 2011-12 Legislative Session with a link to a .pdf of each Act’s language followed by a link to a Legislative Council summary of the Act where available.
2011 Wisconsin Act 10 (PDF: 
) - Relating to: state finances, collective bargaining for public employees, compensation and fringe benefits of public employees, the state civil service system, the Medical Assistance program, sale of certain facilities, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/lcactmemo/jr1_ab11.pdf
2011 Wisconsin Act 17 (
PDF: ) - Relating to: authorizing the City of Milwaukee to sell city-owned property used for school purposes.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/lcactmemo/sb20.pdf
2011 Wisconsin Act 21 (
PDF: ) - Relating to: the authority of a state agency to promulgate rules interpreting the provisions of a statute enforced or administered by the agency and to implement or enforce any standard, requirement, or threshold as a term or condition of a license issued by the state agency; gubernatorial approval of proposed administrative rules; economic impact analyses of proposed rules and emergency rules; and venue in a declaratory judgment action seeking judicial review of the validity of an administrative rule and in an action in which the sole defendant is the state.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/lcactmemo/jr1_ab8.pdf
2011 Wisconsin Act 23 (
PDF: ) - Relating to: 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, identification cards issued by the Department of Transportation, creating an identification certificate issued by the Department of Transportation, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/lcactmemo/ab7.pdf
2011 Wisconsin Act 27 (
PDF: ) - Relating to: changes affecting state finances in the 2010-11 fiscal year and making an appropriation.
2011 Wisconsin Act 32 (
PDF: ) - Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2011 legislature.
2011 Wisconsin Act 39 (
PDF: ) - Relating to: division of municipalities into wards and redistricting of supervisory and aldermanic districts and appointing a panel to hear challenges to the apportionment of a congressional or legislative district, and hearing certain appeals.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/lcactmemo/sb150.pdf
2011 Wisconsin Act 42 (
PDF: ) - Relating to: payment of extended unemployment insurance benefits during certain periods in this state.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/lcactmemo/sb147.pdf
2011 Wisconsin Act 43 (
PDF: ) - Relating to: legislative redistricting.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/lcactmemo/sb148.pdf
2011 Wisconsin Act 44 (
PDF: ) - Relating to: congressional redistricting.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/lcactmemo/sb149.pdf
2011 Wisconsin Act 45 (
PDF: ) - Relating to: the date of the presidential preference primary and certain other election occurrences.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/lcactmemo/sb115.pdf
2011 Wisconsin Act 47 (
PDF: ) - Relating to: preaccreditation and accreditation of private schools participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program and the choice program for eligible school districts, certificates of occupancy for participating private school buildings, verification of income eligibility for pupils to participate in the programs, fees and tuition charged to pupils attending participating private schools, and standards of conduct for administrators of participating private schools.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/lcactmemo/sb234.pdf
2011 Wisconsin Act 65 (
PDF: ) - Relating to: reductions in cost of compensation or fringe benefits to municipal employers without modifying an existing collective bargaining agreement for purposes of 2011 Wisconsin Act 10.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/lcactmemo/ab319.pdf
2011 Wisconsin Act 70 (
PDF: ) - Relating to: regulation of nursing homes, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/lcactmemo/sb212.pdf
2011 Wisconsin Act 75 (
PDF: ) - Relating to: the dates of the September primary and certain other election occurrences and absentee voting.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/lcactmemo/sb116.pdf
2011 Wisconsin Act 81 (
PDF: ) - Relating to: mandatory reporting of child abuse or neglect by school district employees; training in child abuse and neglect identification, laws, and procedures for those employees; retaliation against a person who reports child abuse or neglect in good faith, and granting rule-making.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/lcactmemo/sb42.pdf
2011 Wisconsin Act 83 (
PDF: ) - Relating to: permitting an educational agency to refuse to employ or to terminate from employment an unpardoned felon.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/lcactmemo/sb86.pdf
2011 Wisconsin Act 84 (
PDF: ) - Relating to: revocation for immoral conduct of a license issued by the Department of Public Instruction.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/lcactmemo/sb49.pdf
2011 Wisconsin Act 85 (
PDF: ) - Relating to: allowing certain pupils to possess and use an epinephrine auto-injector.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/lcactmemo/sb204.pdf 2011 Wisconsin Act 86 (PDF: ) - Relating to: administration of medication to pupils.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/lcactmemo/sb45.pdf
2011 Wisconsin Act 105 (PDF: ) - Relating to: granting high school credit for extracurricular sports; services provided by a special education program; transportation aid paid to school districts; the use of moneys received by a school district from the common school fund; using the results of standardized examinations to evaluate, discharge, suspend, or discipline a teacher or for the nonrenewal of a teacher's contract; the number of teaching days scheduled in the Milwaukee Public Schools; permitting a school district to limit the grades in which to reduce class size under the Student Achievement Guarantee in Education Program; permitting a school board to deny enrollment to a pupil who has been expelled from an out-of-state school or from an independent charter school in this state and permitting an independent charter school to expel a pupil; use of law enforcement records to take disciplinary action against a pupil under a school district's athletic code; and changing the date by which a school district must certify the amount of its property tax levy.
http://legis.wisconsin.gov/lc/publications/act/2011/act105-sb095.pdf
2011 Wisconsin Act 114 (PDF: ) - Relating to: changes to timing of application process under the open enrollment program.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/lcactmemo/sb2.pdf
2011 Wisconsin Act 124 (PDF:) - Relating to: accessible instructional materials for students with disabilities enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System or the Technical College System.
2011 Wisconsin Act 125 (PDF: ) - Relating to: the use of seclusion and physical restraint on pupils in public schools.
2011 Wisconsin Act 156 (PDF:
) - Relating to: authorizing a school board to grant a vocational high school diploma.
2011 Wisconsin Act 157 (PDF:
) - Relating to: payments to the Second Chance Partners for Education and other nonprofit corporations that operate programs in which disengaged pupils participate in work-based learning programs while earning high school diplomas.
2011 Wisconsin Act 165 (PDF: ) - Relating to: use of law enforcement or juvenile court records to take disciplinary action against a pupil under a school district's athletic code.
2011 Wisconsin Act 166 (PDF: ) - Relating to: the governor's read to lead development fund, the Read to Lead Development Council, grants in support of literacy and early childhood development programs, teacher licensure, screening kindergarten pupils for reading readiness, remedial reading services for certain pupils, evaluating teacher preparatory programs and educator effectiveness, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
2011 Wisconsin Act 168 (PDF: ) - Relating to: creating a sporting recruitment and retention council, programs to encourage recruitment of hunters and trappers, restrictions on expenditures under the Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson stewardship program, reduced fees for certain first-time hunting and trapping approvals, high school credit under and administration of the hunter and trapper education programs, waiving fishing license requirements for a weekend ice fishing event, and sturgeon spearing license age requirements.
2011 Wisconsin Act 172 (PDF: ) - Relating to: concussions and other head injuries sustained in youth athletic activities.
2011 Wisconsin Act 183 (PDF: ) - Relating to: various changes to the worker's compensation law, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
2011 Wisconsin Act 198 (PDF: ) - Relating to: various changes in the unemployment insurance law, providing a penalty, and making appropriations.
2011 Wisconsin Act 215 (PDF: ) - Relating to: closing the parental choice program for eligible school districts to additional school districts.
2011 Wisconsin Act 216 (PDF: ) - Relating to: providing instruction in human growth and development.
2011 Wisconsin Act 223 (PDF: ) - Relating to: safety mirrors on school buses
2011 Wisconsin Act 227 (PDF: ) - Relating to: return of absentee ballots and voting in person by electors who have voted by absentee ballot in the same election.
2011 Wisconsin Act 240 (PDF: ) - Relating to: voter registration at high schools and certain tribal schools.
Can’t find what you are looking for? Here is a link to the comprehensive listing of Acts from the 2011-12 Legislative Session: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/acts