AB 676

This bill updates the names of two organizations that must be represented as

members of the Agricultural Producer Security Council in the Department of

Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. The bill updates Wisconsin

Agri-Service Association, Inc. to Wisconsin Agri-Business Association, Inc., and

updates Wisconsin Federation of Cooperatives to Cooperative Network.

The bill also makes changes to an appropriation to DATCP regarding moneys

received for the inspection and certification of grain received in or shipped from the

port of Milwaukee, the port of Superior, or other locations in the state. The bill

removes the port of Milwaukee and other locations in the state from this

appropriation.

In addition, this bill allows service of process from DATCP to be made by

registered mail to the address that the party provided to DATCP or the Department

of Financial Institutions, which is the department responsible for filing business

organization documents. Under current law, service may be made by registered mail

to the address that the party provided to DATCP or the secretary of state.

The bill also updates the name of the American Society for Testing and

Materials to ASTM International. Under current law, standards set by that

organization are used in relation to designating certain fuels as diesel-replacement

and gas-replacement renewable fuels, to offering fuel pump tax credits for certain

renewable fuels, to inspecting gasoline and other petroleum products, to advertising

fuel as biodiesel, to testing cigarettes for compliance with fire safety performance

standards, to registering laboratories to perform tests in connection with certain

programs, and to determining certain cargo tank motor vehicle that must stop before

crossing railroad tracks.

Finally, this bill eliminates the requirement under current law that a city,

village, town, or county, no later than March 1, 1994, provide DATCP with a copy of

any ordinance relating to pesticides that was enacted prior to December 29, 1993.

For further information, see the

Notes

provided by the Law Revision

Committee of the Joint Legislative Council.