MADISON, WI — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed 16 bills into law. The governor acted on the following bills:

Requires the Department of Public Instruction to include in the annual school report card the percentage of students participating in music, dance, drama, and visual arts for each high school and school district, and the statewide percentage of participation.

Requires the Department of Public Instruction to establish an advisory committee to develop a guidebook related to dyslexia and related conditions for parents, guardians, teachers, and school administrators.

Allows private detectives, investigators, or private security personnel licensed to carry firearms by the Department of Safety and Professional Services to carry electric weapons while on duty to provide a nonlethal alternative.

Ensures reimbursement for clinical consultations with a parent on behalf of a student under the age of 21 in the Medicaid program.

Prohibits any Department of Transportation requirements for driver school offices located in residences from applying if students and the public have no access to the office.

Act 90: Medical and End-Of-Life Considerations

Allows a physician and a physician assistant or nurse practitioner to make findings of incapacity for a health care power of attorney to become effective and for admission to a hospice; and

Allows a physician assistant or an advanced practice registered nurse to certify that a patient is afflicted with a terminal condition or is in a persistent vegetative state and would allow an attending physician assistant or an attending advanced practice registered nurse to issue do-not-resuscitate orders.

Act 91: Historic Churches

Permits a church over 100 years old to install a stairway chair lift to assist individuals and improve accessibility for congregational activities.

Act 92: Special Needs Definition

Expands the definition of children with special needs who are eligible for adoption assistance to include a child who is seven years or older, if age is the only factor in determining eligibility, or a child who is a member of a sibling group of two or more children that must be placed together; and Allows the Department of Children and Families to submit a request to the Joint Committee on Finance to transfer money from another appropriation to fund the increased assistance payments.

Act 93: Water Infrastructure Projects

Requires the Department of Natural Resources to direct up to $5.2 million in funds from the Stewardship 2000 Program to fund high-priority water infrastructure projects in state parks; and

Increases the amount appropriated to the department for state park operations by $300,000 SEG in fiscal year 2019-20.

Act 94: Certifications For Retired Professionals

Allows retired architects, landscape architects, professional engineers, designers and professional land surveyor credential holders to maintain their title by applying to renew the credential in a retired status classification and paying half of the credential application renewal fee.

Act 95: Genetic Testing in Paternity Actions

Creates a new presumption of paternity through genetic testing and generally requires the court in a paternity action to order genetic testing.

Act 96: Open Meeting Notices

Allows school board members to provide notice of special meetings by e-mail, text message, phone call, in-person, or by mail.

Act 97: Assault Cases

Makes battery to a nurse or health care professional who is working in a hospital a Class H felony.

Act 98: Hunting Weapons



Allows bows and crossbows to be possessed in or on a stationary vehicle, all-terrain vehicle or utility terrain vehicle.

Act 99: Election Rules

Creates election and recount procedures for lake protection and rehabilitation district board elections.

Act 100: Physical Therapy Licensure Compact

Ratifies and enters Wisconsin into the Physical Therapy Licensure Compact.

