MADISON, WI (WHBL) - Governor Scott Walker has been busy the past two days, signing over 100 bills passed by the Legislature this session into law.
Ten of the bills had local legislators as lead authors.
One bill was authored by Assemblyman Tyler Vorpagel and Senator Devin LeMahieu, and allows a person denied kinship care payments - based on an arrest or conviction record - to be given the opportunity for an administrative hearing.
Another bill, authored by LeMahieu and Assemblyman Terry Katsma, confers immunity from civil and criminal liability for performing certain body cavity searches.
LeMahieu was also an author of bills signed into law that codifies several DNR shoreland zoning standards, allows employees of a collection agency to work from home while still being subject to the regulation of the Department of Financial Institutions, and several changes regarding the powers and duties of cemetery authorities.
Vorpagel was an author to a bill that will require election officials to attend at least one training session every two years.
Katsma was an author to a bill that will expand an existing exception to the prohibition in current law on using a light for shining wild animals.
The other three bills had Senator Duey Stroebel as a lead author.
One makes a technical change to the state’s Alpine Safety Act, where the operator of a ski area is immune from liability for any injury sustained by a bicyclist if the injury was from any of the risks a bicyclist accepted.
Another gives local and county health departments more flexibility if they would like to merge and combine services, specifically giving them the option of establishing a minimum participation window of up to five years and allows them to calculate their contribution toward funding the department based on equalized value or equalized value on a per capita basis.
The third increases the threshold for unclaimed funds that currently require published notice by a county treasurer’s office from ten to 20 dollars.
There could be more bills from local legislators signed into law as the State Senate still has one more session day scheduled this month before the Legislature ends its two-year session before fall elections.