Wisconsin Legislature: Legislature -- Finance, Joint Committee on

Fund of funds investment program created; WEDC and SWIB duties; investment manager, venture capital funds, and report provisions - SB169

GIB to offer a high-deductible health insurance plan and health savings account; OSER duties [Sec. 462, 491, 705, 706, 711, 716, 719, 730, 753; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, OSER and GIB to design program specifying key actuarial parameters, DETF and OSER to study offering health reimbursement accounts instead of savings accounts, report required, 9112 (4L), (4m)] - AB40

GIB to offer a high-deductible health insurance plan with health savings account and study of health reimbursement accounts instead of savings account requirements repealed - AB364

Governor required to prepare a bill incorporating all proposed expenditure reductions resulting from the sequester of federal spending under the federal Budget Control Act of 2011 - SB92

Grain inspection program funding; DATCP and JCF duties [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9102 (1e)] - AB40

HEAB to study viability of students with high school diploma, or equivalent, from this state to attend a technical college or UW System campus for two years without paying tuition or fees; report required - AB926

Highway projects of certain size and including replacing left-side ramp with a right-side ramp: DOT study and report required and JCF passive review provision - SB666

Information technology infrastructure services: DOA may assess and transfer staff and equipment from another executive branch agency to DOA; exception provision [Sec. 188, 426; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, DOA and another agency jointly submit request to JCF, 188m, 426m, deletes 188, 426] - AB40

Inspector General, Office of, created in DCF [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 40m, 9106 (1e)] - AB40

Interest rate on child support arrears: reduced rate pilot program [Sec. 2276-2279; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, extension of lower interest rate after the pilot program requires JCF approval] - AB40

JCF meeting and hearing rooms [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 1t] - AB40

Land information program and register of deeds fees revised, SSN redaction provisions; DOA to establish an implementation plan for statewide digital parcel map [Sec. 186, 1241-1243, 1248-1250; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, county board duties, report required, land information fund established, SSN provision deleted, 185g, r, 186b-y, 420d, f, 514u, 530m, 1242e, g, 1247d-t, 1250g, 9429 (1i), deletes 1243, 1250] - AB40

MA program changes and finances: quarterly reports to JCF required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 1043s, t] - AB40

MacKenzie Environmental Education Center: DOA report on status and condition of buildings required; DNR appropriation [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9101 (2i), 9132 (3i)] - AB40

Medical College of Wisconsin and UW--Madison Medical School: biennial reports combined into one biennial report; new annual report on rural or underserved urban medicine programs required [Sec. 2-6] - AB40

Municipal services provided to state facilities: DOA not required to submit negotiating guidelines for payment of to JCF [Sec. 1284-1287; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, negotiating guidelines provision removed, deletes 1284, 1285] - AB40

Nonfiscal policy items should not be included in the substitute amendment to the biennial budget bill, nor any amendments offered during floor consideration - AR14

Out-of-home care for child with an individualized education program (IEP) and who is a full-time student: extending care to age 21 or until the child is granted a high school diploma; conditions and exemptions to emergency rules and rule-making procedures provisions [S.Amdt.1: appropriations added; S.Amdt.2 to S.Amdt.1: appropriations to Corr.Dept, DCF, and JCF modified] - SB451

Out-of-home care for youths with individualized education programs (IEP): funding provisions [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9124 (1L)] - AB40

Position elimination in DNR: DOA report to JCF required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9101 (3u)] - AB40

Production plant requirements: DOR and PSC required to study re aid payments [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9137 (1i)] - AB40

Public assistance benefits recovery programs in DHS revisions; property subject to recovery defined; recovery of nonprobate property expanded; real property and living trust provisions [Sec. 353, 354, 361, 821-831, 833, 834, 1179-1197, 1199-1210, 1221-1226, 1240, 2266, 2268-2271, 2275, 2294-2318, 9318 (3)-(6), 9418 (2); A.Amdt.3 to A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, JCF approval required, 9118 (6i)] - AB40

Public school financing law changes re general school aids formula, counting low-income pupils, per pupil adjustment, school aid factors, high-poverty aid, delayed school aid payments, per pupil aid, and revenue limits; eliminates school levy property tax credit and the first dollar property tax credit; DPI, DOA, LFB, and JCF duties - AB650

Qualified rehabilitation expenses for certified historic structures and qualified rehabilitated buildings: income and franchise tax credits; DOR and WHS report to JCF required [A.Amdt.1: dates revised, WEDC certification and report requirements added] - Oc3 AB4

Qualified rehabilitation expenses for certified historic structures and qualified rehabilitated buildings: income and franchise tax credits; DOR and WHS report to JCF required; sunset provision - AB147

Qualified rehabilitation expenses for certified historic structures and qualified rehabilitated buildings: income and franchise tax credits; DOR and WHS report to JCF required - Oc3 SB4

Qualified rehabilitation expenses for certified historic structures and qualified rehabilitated buildings: income and franchise tax credits; DOR and WHS report to JCF required; sunset provision - SB132

Rural schools task force: JLC requested to establish, report required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9127 (1i)] - AB40

Sale of city-owned property used for school purposes by the Milwaukee Common Council: eligible school buildings defined; sale to education operator only, conditions specified; inventory of school buildings required and Web site and attorney provisions - AB417

Sale of city-owned property used for school purposes by the Milwaukee Common Council: eligible school buildings defined; sale to education operator only, conditions specified; inventory of school buildings required and Web site and attorney provisions - SB318

Sale or lease of state-owned real property, contractual operation of state facilities, and management of state-owned heating, cooling, and power plants; DOA and Building Commission duties; state agencies to inventory real property under their jurisdiction and report to DOA [Sec. 7-20, 22-27, 65, 123-137, 290, 515, 531, 578-580, 585, 602-604, 759, 760, 762, 766, 814, 815, 817, 1233, 1516, 1547-1554, 1557, 1565-1568, 1719, 1720, 1728, 1729, 2132-2134, 2154; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, budget stabilization fund provision, JCF approval required, ``contractual operation" deleted, 10m, 125m, 129m, 131m, deletes 515; A.Amdt.3: further revisions] - AB40

Sale or lease of state-owned real property permitted; reports required re state-owned surplus land - AB317

State employee health insurance coverage: actuarial study of options re employees who elect not to receive coverage and spouse or domestic partner of employee with coverage from their employers; report required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 461pg, pr, 9112 (3q), 9412 (1q)] - AB40

State employee health insurance coverage: repealing actuarial study of options re employees who elect not to receive coverage and spouse or domestic partner of employee with coverage from their employers - AB331

Stewardship program: moneys obligated for the land acquisition subprogram and property development and local assistance subprogram modified; Kettle Moraine Springs fish hatchery provision [Sec. 501-514; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, JCF duties and report on the fish hatchery project required, 478u, 500m, p, 501m, 509c-y, 9132 (4c), deletes 501-505, 512] - AB40

Student information system: include charter schools and private schools participating in a parental choice program [Sec. 1732-1734; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, JCF approval required, 1732m, deletes 1732] - AB40

Technical college districts' facilities, properties, assets, employees, and liabilities transferred to TCS Board; technical college district boards prohibited from levying property tax; TCS Board to develop transition plan to submit to JCF; sales and use tax increase; referendum required; LRB duties - AB177

Technical college state aid formula replaced with a performance based formula, reports required [Sec. 257, 641-646, 648, 1993; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, JCF duties added] - AB40

Transaction information for management of enforcement (TIME) system: requirement that DOJ submit plan to JCF re daily message volume exceeding certain limit eliminated - SB296

Unallocated early stage seed investment credits: required fund manager reports to WEDC, JCF provision - AB761

Unclassified division administrators in the civil service system: eliminating increases authorized in 2011 WisActs 10 and 32 and 2013 WisAct 20; Secretary of DOA to submit plan to JCF re adjusting appropriations and classified and unclassified positions - AB310

UW Board of Regents may accept research involving government security classifications or restrictions on participation in, access to, or dissemination of research results; open records law exemption; annual report required [A.Amdt.1: open records provision deleted] - AB729

UW Board of Regents: proposed methodology for calculating program revenue balances and reserves submitted to JLAC; PR account balance limits and policies on distribution and expenditure of tuition, fee, and GPR proposals to JCF; tuition and segregated fees cannot increase for 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9148 (4L)-(4n)] - AB40

UW Board of Regents to award incentive grants to UW institutions for specified programs; report to DOA required [Sec. 249, 591, 9148 (1); A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, DOA provision removed, other report provisions added, JCF approval, flexible option initiative provisions added, funding plan to JCF required, 608c-x, 9148 (1e), (2c), (5e), 9148 (1) renumbered (1i), deletes 249] - AB40

UW Carbone Cancer Center transitional imaging research funding; plan to raise funds submitted to DOA required [Sec. 250, 590; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, appropriation revised and matching fund required, DOA provision removed, JCF approval added, 9148 (4i), deletes 250, 590] - AB40

Veterans unemployment tax credit: report by DOR and DWD to JCF modified [Sec. 1460, 2366; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, tax credit changed to veteran employment grants, report requirement deleted, 375v, 1348bn, c, 1398g, h, 1434g, h, 1714d, deletes 1460] - AB40

WEDC law revisions re report to JLAC, board member terms, lead director position, governance committee, LAB financial audit, power to establish a nonprofit organization, and state procurement - AB228

WEDC law revisions re report to JLAC, board member terms, lead director position, governance committee, LAB financial audit, power to establish a nonprofit organization, and state procurement - SB205

WEDC operation requirements re procurement, code of ethics applies to employees, annual reports, and independent audit [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 193o, q, 2055m-x, 9150 (1q)] - AB40

Wisconsin Shares program revisions re distribution, maximum rates, copayments, and noncustodial parents [Sec. 374, 375, 936, 951-953, 960, 962, 973, 979-981, 983-986, 990-992, 994-1020, 1217, 9406 (4); A.Sub.Admt.1: further revisions, plan to implement electronic means of delivering W-2 benefits and child care subsidies requires JCF approval, 952m, 9406 (5L)] - AB40

Wisconsin Student Loan Refinancing Authority (WSLRA) created; DFI duties re financial aid information; institutions of higher education required to provide student loan counseling; individual income tax subtraction for tuition and student fees revised; annual report from HEAB to JCF required re student loan debt; JSCTE appendix report - AB498

Wisconsin Student Loan Refinancing Authority (WSLRA) created; DFI duties re financial aid information; institutions of higher education required to provide student loan counseling; individual income tax subtraction for tuition and student fees revised; annual report from HEAB to JCF required re student loan debt; JSCTE appendix report - SB376

Wisconsin Trust Code, a modified version of the Uniform Trust Code, replaces current law related to trusts with Uniform Principal and Income Act and Uniform Prudent Investor Act provisions; estate recovery and divestment provisions not approved by JCF repealed and the approved provisions changed - AB490

Wisconsin Trust Code, a modified version of the Uniform Trust Code, replaces current law related to trusts with Uniform Principal and Income Act and Uniform Prudent Investor Act provisions; estate recovery and divestment provisions not approved by JCF repealed and the approved provisions changed - SB384

Work-share programs: DWD approval required and UI benefit provisions specified; JCF may delay implementation [A.Amdt.1: training, modification of plans, and DWD Secretary may waive compliance provisions added] - AB15

Work-share programs: DWD approval required and UI benefit provisions specified; JCF may delay implementation - SB26

Workforce training program: grant appropriation increased; DWD required to use funds for reducing waiting lists for certain technical college programs, collaborative projects among school districts, technical colleges, and businesses, and enhancing employment opportunities for persons with disabilities through public and private organizations; DWD budget request provision - Jr4 AB2

Workforce training program: grant appropriation increased; DWD required to use funds for reducing waiting lists for certain technical college programs, collaborative projects among school districts, technical colleges, and businesses, and enhancing employment opportunities for persons with disabilities through public and private organizations; DWD budget request provision - Jr4 SB2

Battery to family member of a public officer and harassing, threatening, or intimidating a legislator or his or her family: crimes and penalties created; JRCCP report - AB213

Clean energy: Speaker of the Assembly required to appoint a special committee on, report required - AR26

Cullen, Timothy F.: public service and contributions to this state and his community commended - AR15

Distribution of communication by legislators to addresses in their districts following a declared state of emergency: prohibition on use of public funds does not apply if the communication relates to the emergency - AB91

Distribution of communication by legislators to addresses in their districts following a declared state of emergency: prohibition on use of public funds does not apply if the communication relates to the emergency - AB225

Distribution of communication by legislators to addresses in their districts following a declared state of emergency: prohibition on use of public funds does not apply if the communication relates to the emergency - SB90

Duffy, William J.: life and public service of former legislator and Brown County circuit court judge commended upon his death - AJR29

Ethics training for legislators; applying code of ethics to state public officials-elect; requirements to file and contents of statements of economic interest revised - AB907

Legislative vacancy: special election to be ordered within sixty days of the date the vacancy occurs - AB268

Lobbyist service by legislators prohibited for certain period after they cease to hold office; penalty provisions and JRCCP report - AB51

Lobbyist service by legislators prohibited for certain period after they cease to hold office; penalty provisions and JRCCP report - SB33

Lobbyists required to file expense statements with GAB re influencing or disseminating uniform, model, suggested, or recommended legislation; reporting scholarships or any thing of pecuniary value for attending a meeting or conference by state public officials or person providing the scholarship required; written statement to organizing committees required for reimbursement of legislator travel expenses; prohibiting payment of certain membership fees from moneys allocated to operation of legislators' offices; penalty provisions; JRCCP report - AB866

Meetings of governmental bodies, including legislative committees: laws requiring reasonable notice of and public access to; legislative members subject to citations and civil penalties for violations. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - AJR61

Meetings of governmental bodies, including legislative committees: laws requiring reasonable notice of and public access to; legislative members subject to citations and civil penalties for violations. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - SJR58

Morrison, Kathryn: life and public service - SJR46

Munts, Mary Lou (Rogers): life and public service - AJR112

Nonfiscal policy items should not be included in the substitute amendment to the biennial budget bill, nor any amendments offered during floor consideration - AR14

Pommerening, Glen E., Jr.: life and public service - AJR75

Recall of incumbent congressional, judicial, or legislative elective officer or county elective officer specified in the Wisconsin Constitution: grounds limited and filing officer duties; legislature required to establish a code of ethics for government officials and a board to administer it. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - AJR25

Recall of incumbent congressional, judicial, or legislative elective officer or county elective officer specified in the Wisconsin Constitution: grounds limited and filing officer duties; legislature required to establish a code of ethics for government officials and a board to administer it. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - SJR24

Shabaz, John C.: life and public service of the former state legislator and U.S. district court judge commended - SJR7

Speaker of the Assembly required to appoint a special committee to devise ways to ensure WEDC follows state law; hearings and deadline for findings provisions - AR8

Swoboda, Lary J.: life and public service - AJR69

WEDC board membership: term limits for gubernatorial and legislative appointees - SB187

Regular legislative session to end March 31 and salary of legislators set: constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - AJR21

AB40, executive budget bill: time limits for debate and conduct debate during normal waking hours - AR12

Assembly rule revisions re voting on proposals, public notice of public hearing, and committee votes and hearings [Assembly rules 14 (5), (6), 17d, 17d (2), 33m, 48m] - AR22

Biennial budget bill: process for removal of nonfiscal policy items established; LFB and JCF provisions - AB148