SB21: Bill Text

SB21,233 Section 233. 16.003 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,114,4 16.003 (2) Staff. Except as provided in ss. 16.548, 16.57, 978.03 (1), (1m) and (2), 978.04 and 978.05 (8) (b), the secretary shall appoint the staff necessary for performing the duties of the department. All staff shall be appointed under the classified service except as otherwise provided by law.

SB21,234 Section 234. 16.004 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,114,11 16.004 (4) Freedom of access. The secretary and such employees of the department as the secretary designates may enter into the offices of state agencies and authorities created under subch. II of ch. 114 and under chs. 36, 231, 233, 234 235, 237, 238, and 279, and may examine their books and accounts and any other matter that in the secretary's judgment should be examined and may interrogate the agency's employees publicly or privately relative thereto.

SB21,235 Section 235. 16.004 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,114,17 16.004 (5) Agencies and employees to cooperate. All state agencies and authorities created under subch. II of ch. 114 and under chs. 36, 231, 233, 234 235, 237, 238, and 279, and their officers and employees, shall cooperate with the secretary and shall comply with every request of the secretary relating to his or her functions.

SB21,236 Section 236. 16.004 (7) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,115,6 16.004 (7) (a) The secretary shall establish and maintain a personnel management information system which shall be used to furnish the governor, the legislature and the office division of state employment relations personnel management in the department with current information pertaining to authorized positions, payroll and related items for all civil service employees, except employees of the office of the governor, the courts and judicial branch agencies, and the legislature and legislative service agencies. It is the intent of the legislature that the University of Wisconsin System provide position and other information to the department and the legislature, which includes appropriate data on each position, facilitates accountability for each authorized position and traces each position over time. Nothing in this paragraph may be interpreted as limiting the authority of the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin System to allocate and reallocate positions by funding source within the legally authorized levels.

SB21,237 Section 237 . 16.004 (7) (a) of the statutes, as affected by 2015 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is amended to read:

SB21,115,21 16.004 (7) (a) The secretary shall establish and maintain a personnel management information system which shall be used to furnish the governor, the legislature and the division of personnel management in the department with current information pertaining to authorized positions, payroll and related items for all civil service employees, except employees of the office of the governor, the courts and judicial branch agencies, and the legislature and legislative service agencies. It is the intent of the legislature that the University of Wisconsin System provide position and other information to the department and the legislature, which includes appropriate data on each position, facilitates accountability for each authorized position and traces each position over time. Nothing in this paragraph may be interpreted as limiting the authority of the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin System to allocate and reallocate positions by funding source within the legally authorized levels.

SB21,238 Section 238. 16.004 (9) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,116,3 16.004 (9) Agreements to maintain an accounting for operating notes. The secretary may enter into agreements to maintain an accounting of, forecast and administer those moneys that are in the process of collection by the state and that are pledged for the repayment of operating notes issued under subch. III of ch. 18 s. 16.526, in accordance with resolutions of the building commission certifications authorizing the issuance of the operating notes.

SB21,239 Section 239. 16.004 (12) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,116,13 16.004 (12) (a) In this subsection, "state agency" means an association, authority, board, department, commission, independent agency, institution, office, society, or other body in state government created or authorized to be created by the constitution or any law, including the legislature, the office of the governor, and the courts, but excluding the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority, the University of Wisconsin System Authority, the Wisconsin Aerospace Authority, the Lower Fox River Remediation Authority, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation Forward Wisconsin Development Authority, and the Fox River Navigational System Authority.

SB21,240 Section 240. 16.004 (16) of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,241 Section 241. 16.004 (19) of the statutes is created to read:

SB21,116,19 16.004 (19) Payments to the University of Wisconsin System Authority. (a) Subject to par. (b), the secretary shall pay quarterly to the University of Wisconsin System Authority one-quarter of the amounts appropriated under section 20.285 (1) (a).

SB21,116,24 (b) The secretary may make quarterly payments under par. (a) only if the University of Wisconsin System Authority has made the payments due under the lease agreement under s. 36.11 (27m) (a), the payments due for municipal services under s. 70.119 (7) (a), and any other payments for any obligation otherwise due to the state.

SB21,242 Section 242. 16.004 (20) of the statutes is created to read:

SB21,117,6 16.004 (20) Office services. (a) In this subsection, "shared services agency" means the department of financial institutions, the department of safety and professional services, the public service commission, the state fair park board, the educational communications board, the higher educational aids board, the state historical society, the technical college system board, the department of tourism, the board of commissioners of public lands, and the government accountability board.

SB21,117,11 (b) The department shall administer for each shared services agency its responsibilities to provide human resources services, payroll services, finance services, budget functions, and procurement functions. The department may charge agencies for services provided to them under this subsection in accordance with a methodology determined by the department.

SB21,243 Section 243. 16.004 (20) (a) of the statutes, as created by 2015 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is amended to read:

SB21,117,20 16.004 (20) (a) In this subsection, "shared services agency" means the department of financial institutions, the department of safety and professional services and professional standards, the public service commission, the state fair park board, the educational communications board, the higher educational aids board, the state historical society, the technical college system board, the department of tourism, the board of commissioners of public lands, and the government accountability board.

SB21,244 Section 244. 16.008 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,118,15 16.008 (2) The state shall pay for extraordinary police services provided directly to state facilities, as defined in s. 70.119 (3) (e), in response to a request of a state officer or agency responsible for the operation and preservation of such facilities. The University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority shall pay for extraordinary police services provided to facilities of the authority described in s. 70.11 (38). The University of Wisconsin System Authority shall pay for extraordinary police services provided to facilities of the authority described in s. 70.11 (38c). The Fox River Navigational System Authority shall pay for extraordinary police services provided to the navigational system, as defined in s. 237.01 (5). Municipalities or counties that provide extraordinary police services to state facilities may submit claims to the claims board for actual additional costs related to wage and disability payments, pensions and worker's compensation payments, damage to equipment and clothing, replacement of expendable supplies, medical and transportation expense, and other necessary expenses. The clerk of the municipality or county submitting a claim shall also transmit an itemized statement of charges and a statement that identifies the facility served and the person who requested the services. The board shall obtain a review of the claim and recommendations from the agency responsible for the facility prior to proceeding under s. 16.007 (3), (5), and (6).

SB21,245 Section 245. 16.01 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,118,22 16.01 (1) In this section, "agency" means any office, department, agency, institution of higher education, association, society, or other body in state government created or authorized to be created by the constitution or any law which is entitled to expend moneys appropriated by law, including the legislature and the courts, and any authority created under subch. II of ch. 114 or ch. 36, 231, 233, or 234 235.

SB21,246 Section 246. 16.01 (2) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,119,3 16.01 (2) (d) Work closely with all state agencies, including the University of Wisconsin System and the technical college system and the University of Wisconsin System Authority, with the private sector, and with groups concerned with women's issues to develop long-term solutions to women's economic and social inequality in this state.

SB21,247 Section 247. 16.01 (3) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,119,8 16.01 (3) (intro.) All state agencies, including the University of Wisconsin System and the technical college system, shall fully cooperate with and assist the women's council. To that end, a representative of a state agency shall, upon request by the women's council:

SB21,248 Section 248. 16.02 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,119,16 16.02 (2) The acid deposition research council shall, by July 1 of each even-numbered year, submit a report of its work summarizing its recommendations under sub. (1) (a) to (c) and the results of the research reviewed under sub. (1) (d) and shall file the report with the governor, the secretary, the chairperson of the natural resources board secretary of natural resources, and the chief clerk of each house of the legislature for distribution to the appropriate standing committees under s. 13.172 (2).

SB21,249 Section 249. 16.04 (1e) of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,250 Section 250. 16.045 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,119,24 16.045 (1) (a) "Agency" means an office, department, independent agency, institution of higher education, association, society, or other body in state government created or authorized to be created by the constitution or any law, that is entitled to expend moneys appropriated by law, including the legislature and the courts, but not including an authority created in subch. II of ch. 114 or in ch. 36, 231, 232, 233, 234 235, 237, 238, or 279.

SB21,251 Section 251. 16.08 of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,252 Section 252. 16.09 of the statutes is created to read:

SB21,120,4 16.09 Establishing efficiency programs. The office of lean government shall establish and administer programs for state agencies to increase the value of goods and services that state agencies provide with the fewest possible resources.

SB21,253 Section 253. 16.15 (1) (ab) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,120,10 16.15 (1) (ab) "Authority" has the meaning given under s. 16.70 (2), but excludes the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority, the University of Wisconsin System Authority, the Lower Fox River Remediation Authority, and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation Forward Wisconsin Development Authority.

SB21,254 Section 254. 16.20 of the statutes is created to read:

SB21,120,12 16.20 Office of continuity of government. (1) Definitions. In this section:

SB21,120,13 (a) "Disaster" has the meaning given in s. 323.02 (6).

SB21,120,15 (b) "Office" means the office of continuity of government created under s. 15.105 (34).

SB21,120,17 (c) "State agency" means any office, commission, board, department, or independent agency in the executive branch of state government.

SB21,120,21 (2) Continuity of government operations during a disaster. (a) In consultation with the administrator of the division of emergency management, the office shall establish and administer a continuity of government program to ensure the continuity of state government operations during a disaster.

SB21,121,2 (b) Except as provided in sub. (3), under the program established under par. (a), the office shall establish, and periodically update, for each state agency a continuity of operations plan for the continuity of government operations in that state agency during a disaster. The office shall cooperate with each state agency to administer that state agency's implementation of the plan established under this paragraph.

SB21,121,4 (3) Delegation to state agencies. The office may delegate to any state agency the office's authority under sub. (2) (b) with respect to that state agency.

SB21,121,8 (4) Assessments to state agencies. The department shall annually assess to each state agency an amount equal to that state agency's proportionate share of the department's annual costs incurred under this section in accordance with a method of apportionment determined by the department.

SB21,255 Section 255. 16.28 of the statutes is renumbered 203.02.

SB21,256 Section 256. 16.283 of the statutes is renumbered 203.03.

SB21,257 Section 257. 16.285 of the statutes is renumbered 203.05.

SB21,258 Section 258. 16.287 of the statutes, as affected by 2015 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is renumbered 203.07, and 203.07 (2) (a), as renumbered, is amended to read:

SB21,121,20 203.07 (2) (a) For the purposes of ss. 16.75 (3m), 16.855 (10m), 16.87 (2), 18.16, 18.64, 25.185, 119.495 (2), 200.57, and 231.27 and 234.35, the department shall establish and periodically update a list of certified minority businesses, minority financial advisers and minority investment firms. Any business, financial adviser or investment firm may apply to the department for certification. For purposes of this paragraph, unless the context otherwise requires, a "business" includes a financial adviser or investment firm.

SB21,259 Section 259. 16.287 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,122,3 16.287 (2) (a) For the purposes of ss. 16.75 (3m), 16.855 (10m), 16.87 (2), 18.16, 18.64, 18.77, 25.185, 119.495 (2), 200.57, 231.27 and 234.35, the department shall establish and periodically update a list of certified minority businesses, minority financial advisers and minority investment firms. Any business, financial adviser or investment firm may apply to the department for certification. For purposes of this paragraph, unless the context otherwise requires, a "business" includes a financial adviser or investment firm.

SB21,260 Section 260. 16.293 of the statutes is created to read:

SB21,122,8 16.293 Grants for economic development district. (1) From the appropriation under s. 20.855 (4) (d), and subject to subs. (2) and (3), the department may award grants to a city in the state for an economic development district that includes a community arts center and a mixed-use development.

SB21,122,14 (2) Before the department makes any grant under sub. (1), the city shall submit to the department a financial plan for the economic development district. The financial plan shall include matching funds, whether cash or in-kind or both, that, in total, at least equal 100 percent of all grant moneys being requested and shall include proof, to the satisfaction of the department, of other financing for the economic development district.

SB21,122,16 (3) The department may not award more than a total of $15,000,000 in grants under sub. (1).

SB21,261 Section 261. 16.40 (16) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,122,21 16.40 (16) Maintain an accounting for operating notes. Maintain an accounting of, forecast and administer those moneys pledged for the repayment of operating notes issued under subch. III of ch. 18 s. 16.526, in accordance with agreements entered into by the secretary under s. 16.004 (9).

SB21,262 Section 262. 16.40 (18) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,123,4 16.40 (18) Require agencies to provide copies. Require each state agency, at the time that the agency submits a request to the department for an increased appropriation to be provided in an executive budget bill which is necessitated by the compensation plan under s. 230.12 or a collective bargaining agreement approved under s. 111.92, to provide a copy of the request to the director of the office administrator of the division of state employment relations personnel management in the department and the joint committee on employment relations.

SB21,263 Section 263. 16.40 (23) of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,264 Section 264. 16.405 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 16.526 (1m) (a) and amended to read:

SB21,123,13 16.526 (1m) (a) At Subject to par. (b), at any time the department determines that a deficiency will occur in the funds of the state which will not permit the state to meet its operating obligations in a timely manner, it may prepare a request an authorizing certification for the issuance of operating notes under subch. III of ch. 18 and, subject to subs. (2) and (3), may submit the request to the building commission this section.

SB21,265 Section 265. 16.405 (2) of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,266 Section 266. 16.405 (3) of the statutes is renumbered 16.526 (1m) (b) and amended to read:

SB21,124,4 16.526 (1m) (b) If the department proposes to submit a request to the building commission prepare an authorizing certification under sub. (1) par. (a), the secretary shall notify the joint committee on finance in writing of the proposed action. If the cochairpersons of the committee do not notify the secretary that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the proposed submission certification within 14 working days after the date of the secretary's notification, the department may submit the request to the building commission issue operating notes pursuant to the certification as proposed. If, within 14 working days after the date of the secretary's notification, the cochairpersons of the committee notify the secretary that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the proposed submission certification, the department may submit the request to the building commission issue operating notes pursuant to the certification only upon approval of the committee.

SB21,267 Section 267. 16.41 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,124,7 16.41 (4) In this section, "authority" means a body created under subch. II of ch. 114 or under ch. 36, 231, 233, 234 235, 237, 238, or 279.

SB21,268 Section 268. 16.415 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,124,21 16.415 (1) Neither the secretary nor any other fiscal officer of this state may draw, sign, or issue, or authorize the drawing, signing, or issuing of any warrant on any disbursing officer of the state to pay any compensation to any person in the classified service of the state unless an estimate, payroll, or account for such compensation, containing the names of every person to be paid, bears the certificate of the appointing authority that each person named in the estimate, payroll, or account has been appointed, employed, or subject to any other personnel transaction in accordance with, and that the pay for the person has been established in accordance with, the law, compensation plan, or applicable collective bargaining agreement, and applicable rules of the director of the office administrator of the division of state employment relations personnel management in the department and the administrator of the division director of the bureau of merit recruitment and selection in the office of state employment relations department then in effect.

SB21,269 Section 269. 16.415 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,125,11 16.415 (3) Any sums paid contrary to this section may be recovered from any appointing authority making such appointments in contravention of law or of the rules promulgated pursuant thereto, or from any appointing authority signing or countersigning or authorizing the signing or countersigning of any warrant for the payment of the same, or from the sureties on the official bond of any such appointing authority, in an action in the circuit court for any county within the state, maintained by the director of the office administrator of the division of state employment relations personnel management in the department, or by a citizen resident therein, who is assessed for, and liable to pay, or within one year before the commencement of the action has paid, a state, city or county tax within this state. All moneys recovered in any action brought under this section when collected, shall be paid into the state treasury except that if a citizen taxpayer is plaintiff in any such action he or she shall be entitled to receive for personal use the taxable cost of such action and 5% of the amount recovered as attorney fees.

SB21,270 Section 270. 16.417 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,125,14 16.417 (1) (b) "Authority" means a body created under subch. II of ch. 114 or ch. 36, 231, 232, 233, 234 235, 237, 238, or 279.