Chapter 35 — PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF LAWS AND PUBLIC DOCUMENTS
41 sections in this chapter.
Wis. Stat. § 35.001 Definitions
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35.001 Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) “Contract printer” is the person under contract to do public printing, other than printing of the 5th class. (2) “Department” means the department of administration. (2m) “Printing” includes all public printing by means of graphic …
Wis. Stat. § 35.01 Public printing; definition and classification
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35.01 Public printing; definition and classification. Public printing is divided into 7 classes: (1) Class 1 — All legislative printing and the Laws of Wisconsin. (2) Class 2 — Wisconsin statutes and Blue Book. (3) Class 3 — All book printing required for state agencies, not othe…
Wis. Stat. § 35.012 State printing; exception
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35.012 State printing; exception. All printing contracted for under this chapter, except statutes of the 2nd class, yearbooks, and other similar student publications not funded by student fees May 22, 2026, are designated by NOTES. (Published 5-22-26) 35.012 PRINTING AND DISTRIBU…
Wis. Stat. § 35.015 Exempt printing
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35.015 Exempt printing. (2) Any printing for a single job which the department determines may be printed at a cost less than $50, other than stationery required for the use of the state, printing authorized and required by the legislature to be done for its use, or printing autho…
Wis. Stat. § 35.03 Powers of department
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35.03 Powers of department. The department shall: (1) Let contracts for public printing and for the purchase of paper in the manner provided in this chapter. (2) Receive printer’s copy and requisitions for public printing from parties authorized by law to present them. (3) Delive…
Wis. Stat. § 35.035 Printing costs and charges
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35.035 Printing costs and charges. (1) Unless otherwise provided, the department shall charge the cost of printing, including related materials and printing services, of all publications authorized or directed by law to be published to the state agencies responsible for submittin…
Wis. Stat. § 35.04 Employees
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35.04 Employees. The department shall employ such staff, under the classified service as are necessary to perform the duties imposed by this chapter. LEGISLATIVE; CLASS 1 PRINTING
Wis. Stat. § 35.05 Printing in general, how ordered and executed
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35.05 Printing in general, how ordered and executed. (1) All printing for the legislature shall be in such form and printed in such manner and amount as may be determined by the joint rules of the legislature, or in the case of printing of a nature that is the concern of one hous…
Wis. Stat. § 35.07 Proposed constitutional amendments
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35.07 Proposed constitutional amendments. No later than the August 1 preceding a general election, the legislative reference bureau shall publish on the Internet in one or more electronic file formats each proposed constitutional amendment that was approved for the first time by …
Wis. Stat. § 35.095 Acts
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35.095 Acts. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Date of enactment” means the day on which a bill becomes an act through approval by the governor, passage over the governor’s veto or failure of the governor to act on it or the day on which a portion of a bill which has been ve…
Wis. Stat. § 35.15 Laws of Wisconsin
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35.15 Laws of Wisconsin. (1) (a) No later than the end of each session of the legislature, the legislative reference bureau shall prepare camera-ready copy for one or more volumes denominated “Laws of Wisconsin”, and identified by the year in which that session began. (b) The vol…
Wis. Stat. § 35.17 Correcting obvious errors in enrolling and publishing
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35.17 Correcting obvious errors in enrolling and publishing. (1) In enrolling under s. 13.92 (1) (b) 3. and for publishing under ss. 35.095 and 35.15, the legislative reference bureau shall correct minor clerical errors. No such correction shall be deemed an alteration of the enr…
Wis. Stat. § 35.18 Wisconsin statutes
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35.18 Wisconsin statutes. (1) PUBLICATION. (a) Biennially the legislative reference bureau shall prepare and deliver to the department printer’s copy for the Wisconsin statutes, which shall contain all the general statutes in force, all important joint resolutions adopted since t…
Wis. Stat. § 35.19 Pamphlet laws
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35.19 Pamphlet laws. Editions of parts of the statutes in pamphlet form may be produced for official use and for public sale. The department shall charge the cost of pamphlet laws produced for such use or sale to the requisitioning state agencies. History: 1973 c. 333; 1979 c. 34…
Wis. Stat. § 35.20 Wisconsin Town Law Forms
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35.20 Wisconsin Town Law Forms. With each edition of the biennial Wisconsin statutes printed under s. 35.18 (1) (a), under the supervision of the legislative reference bureau, an edition will be printed as directed by the department for distribution by the department to all town …
Wis. Stat. § 35.24 Blue Book
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35.24 Blue Book. (1) The legislative reference bureau shall compile, index, prepare and deliver to the department biennially copy for a book to be denominated “Wisconsin Blue Book” and identified by the biennium of its intended use. (a) The Blue Book shall contain the biographies…
Wis. Stat. § 35.26 Official reports
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35.26 Official reports. (1) Every report submitted under s. 15.04 (1) (d) shall set forth all receipts and disbursements in full and in detail. At the same time at which a report is submitted under s. 15.04 (1) (d), it shall be presented by its author to the department as printer…
Wis. Stat. § 35.265 State budget, copies
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35.265 State budget, copies. The governor may issue not to exceed 1,000 copies of the state budget report and as many copies of the budget report in brief as the governor determines to be necessary. The cost of these reports shall be charged to the department. After making the re…
Wis. Stat. § 35.27 Limitation of editions of official reports
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35.27 Limitation of editions of official reports. Within 60 calendar days after receiving final proof copy therefor, the department shall have printed and deliver editions of the reports mentioned in s. 35.26 and of any report required by law to be made to the governor or to the …
Wis. Stat. § 35.28 Orders by department
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35.28 Orders by department. The department may order printed in suitable form, in reasonable quantities, copies of opinions and briefs of the attorney general and the supreme court; opinions of the court of appeals; decisions of the public service commission; and special editions…
Wis. Stat. § 35.29 Books, pamphlets and magazines
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35.29 Books, pamphlets and magazines. (1) State agencies may order printed such materials as may be necessary for the proper administration of their offices, subject to distribution and sales regulations provided in this chapter and determinations of the department under s. 16.82…
Wis. Stat. § 35.34 Job printing and all printing not otherwise classified
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35.34 Job printing and all printing not otherwise classified. (1) Job printing includes such other printing not specified in this chapter as may be permitted or required by law and necessary for the use of state agencies, including binding needed in connection with such printing.…
Wis. Stat. § 35.35 Requisition procedure
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35.35 Requisition procedure. (1) The department may contract to sell, at a price equal to the cost of composition, camera-ready copy of the laws to any commercial publisher. (2) Every state agency required by law to publish legal notices in a newspaper shall furnish printer’s cop…
Wis. Stat. § 35.36 Fees; state legal notices
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35.36 Fees; state legal notices. (1) The compensation to the official state newspaper and other papers for all legal notices required to be published at the expense of the state may not exceed the rates specified in s. 985.08 (1), (2) and (3). All expenditures incidental to such …
Wis. Stat. § 35.43 Printing for out-of-Madison state agencies
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35.43 Printing for out-of-Madison state agencies. Whenever it becomes advantageous to do so, the department of administration may establish blanket printing contracts in out-ofMadison metropolitan areas. Such contracts shall whenever practical follow the basic patterns establishe…
Wis. Stat. § 35.44 Specialty printing and book printing excluded from class 3
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35.44 Specialty printing and book printing excluded from class 3. Specialty printing and book printing excluded from class 3 in s. 35.01 (3) shall be procured on individual competitive bids and by official state printing order according to specifications determined by the departm…
Wis. Stat. § 35.50 Specifications
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35.50 Specifications. (1) Specifications for state printing except class 1, including type style and size, page size, titles, paper, form, quality, quantity, binding, and method, or optical disc manufacturing specifications whenever reproduction in optical disc format is authoriz…
Wis. Stat. § 35.51 Proofs; where received
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35.51 Proofs; where received. Contract printers shall submit proof sheets of all public printing done by them and when requested, revised proof sheets thereof, to the department, regardless of the format to be used for reproduction. When requested by the chief clerk of either hou…
Wis. Stat. § 35.52 Authority for printing; increase, and diminution of editions and pages
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35.52 Authority for printing; increase, and diminution of editions and pages. The department may not order any printing not authorized by law nor any quantity in excess of the legal limitation thereof. If experience demonstrates that the number of copies specified in this chapter…
Wis. Stat. § 35.53 State printing orders
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35.53 State printing orders. (1) No printer shall be paid for any printing not authorized by an official printing order. The department shall prescribe the form, contents, number, and disposition of printing requisitions and official printing orders. (2) The governor may cause th…
Wis. Stat. § 35.54 Title pages; names of authors
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35.54 Title pages; names of authors. Every requisitioning agency shall provide the necessary printer’s copy for a suitable title page, containing the name of the author for every book and other document which requires a title page; but on no such publication shall there appear, n…
Wis. Stat. § 35.55 Editing printer’s copy
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35.55 Editing printer’s copy. Printer’s copy must accompany every requisition. The editors of all state agencies may edit for themselves the matter and form of the contents of the printer’s copy presented by them respectively to the department. All printer’s copy that does not co…
Wis. Stat. § 35.56 Base prices and specifications
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35.56 Base prices and specifications. (1) As a basis for bids for public printing in classes 1, 2, 3 and 4, the department shall, before advertising for bids and after consultation with agencies, establish base prices and specifications for 2-year periods unless otherwise determi…
Wis. Stat. § 35.57 Advertisement for bids
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35.57 Advertisement for bids. The department shall publish advertisements that sealed proposals for furnishing printing, during the next ensuing contract period, with all other material that the department requires, will be received any time prior to a specified day, when all pro…
Wis. Stat. § 35.59 Breach of printing contracts
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35.59 Breach of printing contracts. If a successful bidder or contractor enters upon the performance of a printing contract, and thereafter at any time during the term thereof refuses or neglects to comply with its terms and conditions or with the law relating to public printing,…
Wis. Stat. § 35.60 Reletting contracts
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35.60 Reletting contracts. If a successful bidder fails to execute a printing contract under the bidder’s preliminary agreement and accepted bid, the department shall let the contract to the next lowest bidder, unless in its opinion the interest of the state requires that new pro…
Wis. Stat. § 35.61 Delivery and billing
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35.61 Delivery and billing. (1) The printing specified in each order shall be performed separately and delivered to the destination specified on the order. (2) Every contract printer shall file with the department immediately upon completion of an order a detailed and itemized in…
Wis. Stat. § 35.62 Accounts
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35.62 Accounts. The department shall keep an account of all paper delivered to contract printers and prevent waste thereof and keep a record of costs of each job of public printing, grouping said records separately for each class of printing. 35.81 ered quantities to the contract…
Wis. Stat. § 35.63 Expenses of printing, how charged
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35.63 Expenses of printing, how charged. The costs of printing, plates, paper, binding, and the necessary services and materials shall be charged to the requisitioning agency unless excepted by statute. 35.80 Cost calculation. Costs for the sale and distribution of publications b…
Wis. Stat. § 35.64 Special purchases
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35.64 Special purchases. (1) Any material and labor necessarily required in doing public printing which is not provided for by this chapter and is not required of contract printers by existing contracts, may be procured by the department. (2) The department may order specialty pr…
Wis. Stat. § 35.65 Paper purchases
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35.65 Paper purchases. (1) The department shall procure by state bid and purchase procedures such paper supplies as are necessary for production of public printing and shall have deliv- 35.81 Definitions. In ss. 35.81 to 35.91: (1) “Division” means the division for libraries and …