LRB-1586/P8
RAC&FFK:emw/ahe/wlj
2017 - 2018 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Kraus, BB0298 - Compensation reserve lapse
For 2017-2019 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
state government
State finance
The bill provides that if the Group Insurance Board executes a contract to provide self-insured group health plans to state employees for the 2018 and 2019 calendar years, the secretary of administration must lapse to the general fund during the 2017-18 and 2018-19 fiscal years, from GPR appropriations made to fund the Compensation Reserves, an amount equal to the state agency GPR savings for state employee health insurance. The bill provides that the Board of Regents of the UW System savings are not included in the lapse.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 9101.
Nonstatutory provisions; Administration.
(1)
Compensation reserve lapse. If the group insurance board executes a contract to provide self-insured group health plans on a regional or statewide basis to state employees for the 2018 and 2019 calendar years, other than a plan under section 40.52 (1) of the statutes, the secretary of administration shall calculate the general purpose revenue savings in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 fiscal years for state agencies, other than the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, for providing these plans on a self-insured basis. The secretary shall reduce the estimated general purpose revenue expenditures for “Compensation Reserves” shown in the schedule under section 20.005 (1) of the statutes by an amount equal to the state agency savings. The secretary shall then lapse to the general fund during the 2017-18 and 2018-19 fiscal years, from general purpose revenue appropriations made to fund the estimated expenditures for “Compensation Reserves,” an amount equal to the state agency savings.
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