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3. Carry out loan or exchange arrangements with other states.
4. Administer the processing and printing of all legislative proposals and
amendments, plus
     all enacted laws.
 5. Engross the text of bills passed by one house (when requested by the
chief clerks), and
     enroll all measures passed by both houses of the legislature.
 6. In cooperation with the revisor of statutes, compile the bound volumes
of session laws
     (Wisconsin Acts) - including a subject index, a table of statute sections
affected, and any
     constitutional amendments passed on second consideration- for publication
by the secre-
     tary of state.
 7. Provide and maintain a data system and coordinate the use of computer
programs and
     machine time to facilitate the use of modern office technology by the
legislative branch.
 8. After each federal census of population, prepare maps of municipalities
to show congres-
     sional and legislative district boundaries. Following approval of redistricting
plans, such
     material is transferred to the Department of Administration to be kept
current.
 9. Cooperate with the revisor of statutes in systematically examining and
revising the statutes
     and session laws.
10. Participate in the Commission on Uniform State Laws.



                           REVISOR OF STATUTES BUREAU

Revisor of Statutes: ORLAN L. PRESTEGARD.
Assistant Revisors, Statutes: BRUCE E. MUNSON, DOLORES ToPP THIMKE.
Assistant Revisor, Administrative Code: GARY L. POULSON.
Mailing Address: Room 702, 30 West Mifflin Street, Madison 53703.
Telephone: (608) 266-2011.
Publications: Wisconsin Statutes; Wisconsin Annotations; Wisconsin Administrative
Code and
   Register; Wisconsin Town Law Forms.
Number of Employes: 9.00.
Total Budget 1987-89: $776,000.
Statutory Reference: Section 13.93.
   History: Wisconsin was the first state to adopt a plan for continuous
revision of its statutes
when Chapter 546, Laws of 1909, created the Revisor of Statutes, appointed
by the trustees of
the state library. The editing and distribution of the Wisconsin Administrative
Code and Register,
was added in 1955, but the responsibility for sale and distribution of these
documents was trans-
ferred in 1963, to the Department of Administration. Chapter 149, Laws of
1963, moved the
revisor to the legislative branch by housing these functions in the Statutory
Revision Bureau. A
1965 law renamed the bureau the Revisor of Statutes Bureau.
   Organization: The Revisor of Statutes Bureau is in the classified service
under the supervision
of the Joint Committee on Legislative Organization. It currently consists
of a revisor, plus 3
assistant revisors, 2 assigned to statutory revision and one to the administrative
code.
   Functions:
   1. Edit the biennial editions of the Wisconsin Statutes.
   2. Prepare revision and correction bills for introduction in the legislature.
   3. Summarize Supreme Court decisions, decisions of the Court of Appeals
and attorney gen-
      eral's opinions construing statutes and print them either in a separate
volume (Wisconsin
      Annotations) or in the current edition of the statutes.
 4. Prepare copy for a pamphlet entitled "Wisconsin Town Law Forms".
These forms are for
     the use of town officials in administering statutes relating to town
government.
 5. Assist the Legislative Reference Bureau in compiling the subject index
to session laws and
     the table of statute sections affected.
 6. Edit the Wisconsin Administrative Code.


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