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348                         WISCONSIN BLUE BOOK 1985-1986

   History: Wisconsin was the first state to adopt a plan for continuous
revision of its statutes
 (Chapter 546, Laws of 1909). A major function, the editing and distribution
of the Wisconsin
 Administrative Code and Register, was acquired in 1955, but the responsibility
for sale and distri-
 bution was transferred in 1963 to the Department of Administration.
   Organization: Until 1963 the revisor was appointed for a term of 2 years
by the trustees of the
 State Library. Chapter 149, Laws of 1963, put the office under civil service,
changed the name to
 Statutory Revision Bureau, and placed it under the supervision of the Joint
Committee on Legis-
 lative Organization. Chapter 659, Laws of 1965, renamed it Revisor of Statutes
Bureau.
   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 (Wis-
          consin 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 statutes sections affected.
   6. Edit the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
   7. Prepare the Wisconsin Administrative Register.
   8. Report to the Law Revision Committee of the Legislative Council those
reported opinions
          of the attorney general and those reported decisions of any federal
district court, or
          any state or federal appellate court, in which Wisconsin statutes
or session laws are
          stated to be in conflict, ambiguous, anachronistic, unconstitutional
or otherwise in
          need of revision.
   9. Present to the Law Revision Committee bills that eliminate defects,
anachronisms, con-
          flicts, ambiguities and unconstitutional or obsolete provisions
of the Wisconsin Stat-
          utes prepared as a result of a systematic examination of the statutes
and session laws.
   10. Administer the payments for the costs of certain publications.
   11. The revisor of statutes serves as a member of the Judicial Council,
a member of the Wis-
           consin Commission on Uniform State Laws and is the nonvoting secretary
of the
           Joint Committee for the Review of Administrative Rules.


                  RETIREMENT RESEARCH COMMITTEE

Members: SENATOR ANDREA, REPRESENTATIVE VOLK cochairpersons; SENATORS VAN
SISTINE,
  DAVIS; REPRESENTATIVES LOOBY, WALLING; GARY I. GATES (secretary of employe
trust funds),
  MARVIN VAN CLEAVE (designee of commissioner of insurance); WARREN M. SCHMIDT
(Attor-
  ney General's appointee), RICHARD L. OLSON (Governor's appointee) (all
members of the
  Joint Survey Committee on Retirement Systems); HOWARD FULLER (secretary
of employment
  relations); FLORENCE WHALEN (representing county or municipal employers),
WILLIAM KIEN-
  ZLE (representing Milwaukee Teachers Annuity and Retirement Fund), SALLY
WORZELLA
  (representing state, county and municipal employes), RONALD W. HICKS (representing
State
  Teachers Retirement System); DELMAR E. DELONG, JAMES J. DILLMAN, ALBERT
SKINNER (pub-
  lic members.)
Mailing Address: Room 316, 110 East Main Street, Madison 53703.
Telephone: (608) 266-3019.
Publications: Staff Report 69: Inflation vs. Post-Retirement Increases Under
the D.E.T.F.; Staff
  Report 70: 1983 Benefit Adequacy Study for General Employees and Teachers;
Staff Report
  71: Pension Investment Considerations During the 1983 Legislative Session;
Staff Report 72:

 
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