2013 - 2014 LEGISLATURE
ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1,
TO ASSEMBLY BILL 288
January 15, 2014 - Offered by Representative Murphy.
AB288-ASA1,1,4 1An Act to renumber and amend 43.12 (1); to amend 43.12 (2); and to create
243.12 (1) (a) 1., 43.12 (1) (a) 2., 43.12 (1) (a) 3., 43.12 (1m) and 43.12 (2) (b) of
3the statutes; relating to: county payments to public libraries in adjacent
4counties.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, a county that does not maintain a consolidated public
library for the county and that contains residents who are not residents of a
municipality that maintains a public library must pay to each public library in the
county, and to each public library in an adjacent county, an amount that is equal to
at least 70 percent of the amount computed by multiplying the number of loans of
material made by that library to residents of the county who are not residents of a
municipality that maintains a public library by the library's average operational cost
per loan (library service payment).
Under this substitute amendment, before a county that maintains a
consolidated public library (consolidated county) may bill an adjacent county for a
library service payment, the consolidated county must provide a notice of its intent
to bill. Also under this substitute amendment, a consolidated county that bills an
adjacent county for a library service payment may be billed by any county that is
adjacent to the consolidated county for a modified library service payment. The

amount of the modified library service payment is equal to at least 70 percent of the
amount computed by multiplying the number of loans of material made by the billing
library to residents of the consolidated county who are not residents of a municipality
that contains a branch of the consolidated library by the library's average operational
cost per loan.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB288-ASA1,1 1Section 1. 43.12 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 43.12 (1) (a) (intro.) and
2amended to read:
AB288-ASA1,2,93 43.12 (1) (a) (intro.) By March 1 of each year, a county that does not maintain
4a consolidated public library for the county under s. 43.57 and that contains residents
5who are not residents of a municipality that maintains a public library under s. 43.52
6or 43.53 shall pay to each public library in the county and to each public library in
7an adjacent county, other than a county with a population of at least 500,000, an
each
8of the following payments of not less than the minimum amount calculated under
9par. (b) shall be made:
AB288-ASA1,3,2 10(b) The minimum amount that is under par. (a) shall be calculated to equal to
11at least 70%
70 percent of the amount computed by multiplying the number of loans
12of material made by the library during the prior calendar year, for par. (a) 1. or 3.,
13to residents of the county who are not residents of a municipality that maintains a
14public library under s. 43.52 or 43.53, or, for par. (a) 2., to residents of the county who
15are not residents of a municipality that contains a branch of the consolidated library,
16as
reported under sub. (2), by the amount that results from dividing the total
17operational expenditures of the library during the calendar year for which the
18number of loans are reported, not including capital expenditures or expenditures of

1federal funds, by the total number of loans of material made by the public library
2during the calendar year for which the loans are reported.
AB288-ASA1,3,5 3(c) The library board of the public library entitled to a payment under this
4subsection may direct the county to credit all or a portion of the payment to a county
5library service or library system for shared services.
AB288-ASA1,2 6Section 2. 43.12 (1) (a) 1. of the statutes is created to read:
AB288-ASA1,3,127 43.12 (1) (a) 1. Except as provided in subd. 2., by a county that does not
8maintain a consolidated public library for the county under s. 43.57 and that contains
9residents who are not residents of a municipality that maintains a public library
10under s. 43.52 or 43.53, to each public library in the county and to each public library
11in an adjacent county, other than a county with a population of at least 500,000 or
12a county that maintains a consolidated public library for the county.
AB288-ASA1,3 13Section 3. 43.12 (1) (a) 2. of the statutes is created to read:
AB288-ASA1,3,1914 43.12 (1) (a) 2. If the adjacent county maintains a consolidated public library
15and provides the notice under sub. (1m), by a county that does not maintain a
16consolidated public library for the county under s. 43.57 and that contains residents
17who are not residents of a municipality that maintains a public library under s. 43.52
18or 43.53, to the consolidated public library for the adjacent county providing the
19notice under sub. (1m).
AB288-ASA1,4 20Section 4. 43.12 (1) (a) 3. of the statutes is created to read:
AB288-ASA1,3,2421 43.12 (1) (a) 3. If a county maintains a consolidated public library and provides
22a notice under sub. (1m), by that county to each public library in an adjacent county,
23other than a county with a population of at least 500,000, that provides a statement
24to the county under sub. (2).
AB288-ASA1,5 25Section 5. 43.12 (1m) of the statutes is created to read:
AB288-ASA1,4,3
143.12 (1m) If a county maintains a consolidated public library, the library shall
2provide a notice not later than April 1 to any public library from which it requests
3payment under sub. (1).
AB288-ASA1,6 4Section 6. 43.12 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB288-ASA1,4,85 43.12 (2) By July 1 of each year, each public library lying in whole or in part
6in a county shall provide a statement to the county clerk of that county and to the
7county clerk of each adjacent county, other than a county with a population of at least
8500,000, that reports the all of the following:
AB288-ASA1,4,11 9(a) The number of loans of material made by that library during the prior
10calendar year to residents of the county, or adjacent county, who are not residents of
11a municipality that maintains a public library under s. 43.52 or 43.53 and the.
AB288-ASA1,4,13 12(c) The total number of loans of material made by that library during the
13previous calendar year.
AB288-ASA1,7 14Section 7. 43.12 (2) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
AB288-ASA1,4,1815 43.12 (2) (b) If the library is in a county that is adjacent to a county with a
16consolidated library system, the number of loans of material made by that library
17during the prior calendar year to residents of the adjacent county who are not
18residents of a municipality that contains a branch of the consolidated library.
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