(a) Provide consultative services to school boards and library boards to assist them in developing and implementing distance education and educational technology projects and in preparing applications for grants and loans under this section.
(b) Consult and coordinate its activities under par. (a) with the boards of control of the cooperative educational service agencies.
(c) Annually by August 15, submit a report to the joint committee on finance identifying all recipients of grants under this section in the previous fiscal year and all applicants for and recipients of loans approved by the board under this section in the previous fiscal year. The report shall indicate the purpose for which each grant was awarded and for which each loan was approved.
(9) By February 1, 2000, the secretary of administration and the board shall jointly submit to the joint committee on finance a report specifying their recommendations on whether the board and the program under this section should be continued and, if so, what changes should be made.
SECTION 437. 17.07 (3), (4), (5) and (6) of the statutes are amended to read:
17.07 (3) State officers appointed by serving in an office that is filled by appointment of the governor for a fixed term by and with the advice and consent of the senate, or appointed by serving in an office that is filled by appointment of any other officer or body for a fixed term subject to the concurrence of the governor, by the governor at any time, for cause.
(4) State officers appointed by serving in an office that is filled by appointment of the governor with the advice and consent of the senate to serve at the pleasure of the governor, or appointed by serving in an office that is filled by appointment of any other officer or body for an indefinite term subject to the concurrence of the governor, by the governor at any time.
(5) State officers appointed serving in an office that is filled by appointment of the governor alone for a fixed or indefinite term or to supply a vacancy in any office, elective or appointive, except justices of the supreme court and judges and the adjutant general, by the governor at pleasure; the adjutant general, by the governor, at any time, for cause or for withdrawal of federal recognition of his or her commission under 32 USC 323; and all officers appointed by the governor during the recess of the legislature whose appointments are required to be later confirmed by the senate shall be deemed to be appointed by the governor alone until so confirmed.
(6) Other state officers appointed by serving in an office that is filled by appointment of any officer or body without the concurrence of the governor, by the officer or body that appointed them having the authority to make appointments to that office, at pleasure, except that officers appointed according to merit and fitness under and subject to ch. 230 or officers whose removal is governed by ch. 230 who may be removed only in conformity with said that chapter.
SECTION 438. 18.06 (10) of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 439. 18.13 (4) of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 440. 19.21 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
19.21 (4) (b) The period of time any town, city or village public record is kept before destruction shall be as prescribed by ordinance unless a specific period of time is provided by statute. The period prescribed in the ordinance may not be less than 2 years with respect to water stubs, receipts of current billings and customer's ledgers of any municipal utility, and 7 years for other records unless a shorter period has been fixed by the public records and forms board under s. 16.61 (3) (e) and except as provided under sub. (7). This paragraph does not apply to school records of a 1st class city school district.
SECTION 441. 19.21 (4) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
19.21 (4) (c) Any local governmental unit or agency may provide for the keeping and preservation of public records kept by that governmental unit through the use of microfilm or another reproductive device, or optical imaging or electronic formatting. A local governmental unit or agency shall make such provision by ordinance or resolution. Any such action by a subunit of a local governmental unit or agency shall be in conformity with the action of the unit or agency of which it is a part. Any photographic reproduction of a record authorized to be reproduced under this paragraph is deemed an original record for all purposes if it meets the applicable standards established in ss. 16.61 (7) and 16.612. This paragraph does not apply to public records kept by counties electing to be governed by ch. 228.
SECTION 442. 19.21 (5) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
19.21 (5) (c) The period of time any public record shall be kept before destruction shall be determined by ordinance except that in all counties the specific period of time expressed within s. 7.23 or 59.715 or any other law requiring a specific retention period shall apply. The period of time prescribed in the ordinance for the destruction of all records not governed by s. 7.23 or 59.715 or any other law prescribing a specific retention period may not be less than 7 years, unless a shorter period is fixed by the public records and forms board under s. 16.61 (3) (e).
SECTION 443. 19.21 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
19.21 (6) A school district may provide for the destruction of obsolete school records. Prior to any such destruction, at least 60 days' notice in writing of such destruction shall be given to the historical society, which shall preserve any records it determines to be of historical interest. The historical society may, upon application, waive the notice. The period of time a school district record shall be kept before destruction shall be not less than 7 years, unless a shorter period is fixed by the public records and forms board under s. 16.61 (3) (e) and except as provided under sub. (7). This section does not apply to pupil records under s. 118.125.
SECTION 444. 19.21 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:
19.21 (8) Any metropolitan sewerage commission created under ss. 66.88 to 66.918 may provide for the destruction of obsolete commission records. No record of the metropolitan sewerage district may be destroyed except by action of the commission specifically authorizing the destruction of that record. Prior to any destruction of records under this subsection, the commission shall give at least 60 days' prior notice of the proposed destruction to the state historical society, which may preserve records it determines to be of historical interest. Upon the application of the commission, the state historical society may waive this notice. Except as provided under sub. (7), the commission may only destroy a record under this subsection after 7 years elapse from the date of the record's creation, unless a shorter period is fixed by the public records and forms board under s. 16.61 (3) (e).
SECTION 445. 19.23 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
19.23 (1) Any public records, in any state office, that are not required for current use may, in the discretion of the public records and forms board, be transferred into the custody of the historical society, as provided in s. 16.61.
SECTION 445m. 19.36 (9) of the statutes is created to read:
19.36 (9) RECORDS OF PLANS OR SPECIFICATIONS FOR STATE BUILDINGS. Records containing plans or specifications for any state-owned or state-leased building, structure or facility or any proposed state-owned or state-leased building, structure or facility are not subject to the right of inspection or copying under s. 19.35 (1) except as the department of administration otherwise provides by rule.
SECTION 446m. 19.42 (10) (L) of the statutes is amended to read:
19.42 (10) (L) The executive director, executive assistant to the executive director and investment directors of the investment board.
SECTION 447. 19.42 (10) (n) of the statutes is created to read:
19.42 (10) (n) The chief executive officer and members of the board of directors of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority.
SECTION 448m. 19.42 (13) (k) of the statutes is amended to read:
19.42 (13) (k) The executive director, executive assistant to the executive director and investment directors of the investment board.
SECTION 449. 19.42 (13) (m) of the statutes is created to read:
19.42 (13) (m) The chief executive officer and members of the board of directors of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority.
SECTION 450. 19.44 (1) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
19.44 (1) (g) The identity of each person from which the individual who is required to file received, directly or indirectly, any gift or gifts having an aggregate value of more than $50 within the taxable year preceding the time of filing, except that the source of a gift need not be identified if the donation is permitted under s. 19.56 (3) (e), (em) or (f) or if the donor is the donee's parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, brother, sister, parent-in-law, grandparent-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew, spouse, fiance or fiancee.
SECTION 451. 19.45 (11) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
19.45 (11) (intro.) The legislature recognizes that all state public officials and employes and all employes of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority should be guided by a code of ethics and thus:
SECTION 452. 19.45 (11) (d) of the statutes is created to read:
19.45 (11) (d) The board of directors of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority shall establish a code of ethics for employes of the authority who are not state public officials.
SECTION 453. 19.48 (4) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
19.48 (4) (intro.) Preserve the statements of economic interests filed with it for a period of 6 years from the date of receipt in such form, including microfilming, or optical imaging or electronic formatting, as will facilitate document retention, except that:
SECTION 454. 19.53 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
19.53 (1) In the case of a state public official in the unclassified outside the classified service, a recommendation that the state public official be censured, suspended, or removed from office or employment. Such recommendation shall be made to the appropriate appointing authority who may censure, suspend, or take action to remove the official from office or employment.
SECTION 455. 19.56 (2) (b) 6. of the statutes is amended to read:
19.56 (2) (b) 6. Is made available to the official by the department of development or the department of tourism in accordance with sub. (3) (e), (em) or (f).
SECTION 456. 19.56 (3) (em) of the statutes is created to read:
19.56 (3) (em) A state public official who is an officer or employe of the department of tourism may solicit, receive and retain on behalf of the state anything of value for the purpose of hosting individuals in order to promote tourism.
SECTION 457. 19.56 (3) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:
19.56 (3) (f) A state public official may receive and retain from the department of development anything of value which the department of development is authorized to provide under par. (e) and may receive and retain from the department of tourism anything of value which the department of tourism is authorized to provide under par. (em).
SECTION 458. 19.575 of the statutes is created to read:
19.575 Tourism activities. The department of tourism shall file a report with the board no later than April 30 annually, specifying the source and amount of anything of value received by the department of tourism during the preceding calendar year for a purpose specified in s. 19.56 (3) (em) and the program or activity in connection with which the thing is received, together with the location and date of that program or activity.
SECTION 459. 19.62 (4) of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 460. 19.625 of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 461. 19.63 of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 462. 19.69 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
19.69 (2) (title) COPY TO PUBLIC RECORDS AND FORMS BOARD. A state authority that prepares a written specification of a matching program under sub. (1) shall provide to the public records and forms board a copy of the specification and any subsequent revision of the specification within 30 days after the state authority prepares the specification or the revision.
SECTION 463. 19.75 of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 464a. 19.82 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
19.82 (1) "Governmental body" means a state or local agency, board, commission, committee, council, department or public body corporate and politic created by constitution, statute, ordinance, rule or order; a governmental or quasi-governmental corporation except for the Bradley center sports and entertainment corporation; a local exposition district under subch. II of ch. 229; any public purpose corporation, as defined in s. 181.79 (1); a nonprofit corporation operating the Olympic ice training center under s. 42.11 (3); or a formally constituted subunit of any of the foregoing, but excludes any such body or committee or subunit of such body which is formed for or meeting for the purpose of collective bargaining under subch. I, IV or V of ch. 111.
SECTION 464d. 19.85 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
19.85 (3) Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to authorize a governmental body to consider at a meeting in closed session the final ratification or approval of a collective bargaining agreement under subch. I, IV or V of ch. 111 which has been negotiated by such body or on its behalf.
SECTION 464e. 19.86 of the statutes is amended to read:
19.86 Notice of collective bargaining negotiations. Notwithstanding s. 19.82 (1), where notice has been given by either party to a collective bargaining agreement under subch. I, IV or V of ch. 111 to reopen such agreement at its expiration date, the employer shall give notice of such contract reopening as provided in s. 19.84 (1) (b). If the employer is not a governmental body, notice shall be given by the employer's chief officer or such person's designee. This section does not apply to a nonprofit corporation operating the Olympic ice training center under s. 42.11 (3).
SECTION 466g. 20.001 (6) of the statutes is renumbered 20.001 (6) (a) and amended to read:
20.001 (6) (a) Applied Except as provided in par. (b), applied receipts are program or segregated revenue the appropriation of which reduces the amounts appropriated under another appropriation. The reduction is indicated in the other appropriation by the phrase "less the amounts appropriated as applied receipts under". Applied receipts shall be expended and deposited in the same manner as other program or segregated revenue.
SECTION 466j. 20.001 (6) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
20.001 (6) (b) If the other appropriation under par. (a) is a sum sufficient appropriation, the reduction reduces the estimate under s. 20.005 of the dollar amounts that will be needed.
SECTION 467. 20.002 (11) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.002 (11) (c) The Except as provided in s. 16.971 (8) (b), the secretary may assess a special interest charge against the programs or activities utilizing surplus moneys within the same fund under this subsection in an amount not to exceed the daily interest earnings rate of the state investment fund during the period of transfer of surplus moneys to other accounts or programs. Except as provided in s. 16.465, the secretary shall assess a special interest charge against the fund utilizing surplus moneys under this subsection in an amount equal to the rate of return the state investment fund earnings would have created to the fund from which the reallocation was made. This interest shall be calculated and credited to the appropriate fund at the same time the earnings from the state investment fund are distributed and shall be considered an adjustment to those earnings.
SECTION 467m. 20.002 (11) (g) of the statutes is created to read:
20.002 (11) (g) Any reallocation of moneys under this subsection made during the 1995-97 fiscal biennium from an appropriation account under s. 20.505 derived from program revenues-service is subject to the procedures under s. 16.971 (8).
SECTION 468. 20.003 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.003 (3) (a) In the schedule of s. 20.005 and in the text in ss. 20.115 to 20.875, all state agencies shall be arranged alphabetically within functional areas. Each functional area is assigned a subchapter and each state agency shall be assigned a section within that subchapter. Each subsection constitutes a program, and each paragraph constitutes an appropriation.
SECTION 469b. 20.003 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.003 (4) REQUIRED GENERAL FUND BALANCE. No bill directly or indirectly affecting general purpose revenues as defined in s. 20.001 (2) (a) may be enacted by the legislature if the bill would cause the estimated general fund balance on June 30 of any fiscal year as projected under s. 20.005 (1) to be an amount equal to less than one percent of the total general purpose revenue appropriations for that fiscal year plus any amount from general purpose revenue designated as "Compensation Reserves" for that fiscal year in the summary under s. 20.005 (1).
SECTION 471. 20.005 (1) of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
20.005 (1) SUMMARY OF ALL FUNDS. The budget governing fiscal operations for the state of Wisconsin for all funds beginning on July 1, 1995, and ending on June 30, 1997, is summarized as follows: [See Figure 20.005 (1) following]
Figure: 20.005 (1)
GENERAL FUND SUMMARY
1995-96 1996-97
Revenues
Opening Balance, July 1 $ 339,211,000 $ 440,283,400
Estimated Taxes 8,213,260,000 8,629,495,000
Less Federal Retirees -32,379,900 -15,388,900
Refunds
Departmental Revenues 174,583,600 145,197,500
Total Available $ 8,694,674,700 $ 9,199,587,000
Appropriations, Transfers
and Reserves
Gross Appropriations $ 8,270,797,400 $ 9,123,792,600
Compensation Reserves 19,391,200 46,763,300
1995 Wisconsin Act 12 1,702,200 -2,762,300
Transfer to Local
Government
Property Insurance Fund 3,653,300 2,330,000
Less Lapses -41,152,800 -64,630,000
Net Appropriations $ 8,254,391,300 $ 9,105,493,600
Balances
Gross Balance $ 440,283,400 $ 94,093,400
Less Required Statutory -82,901,900 -91,705,600
Balance
Net Balance, June 30 $ 357,381,500 $ 2,387,800
SUMMARY OF APPROPRIATIONS -- ALL FUNDS
1995-96 1996-97
General Purpose Revenue $ 8,270,797,400 $ 9,123,792,600
Federal Revenue (3,867,329,400) (3,942,103,300)
Program 3,482,242,300 3,563,872,300
Segregated 385,087,100 378,231,000
Program Revenue (2,176,768,000) (1,970,518,700)
State 1,823,148,700 1,600,004,500
Service 353,619,300 370,514,200
Segregated Revenue (1,916,706,800) (1,985,280,300)
State 1,724,098,000 1,788,442,300
Service 140,901,400 145,789,800
Local 51,707,400 51,048,200
GRAND TOTAL $16,231,601,600 $17,021,694,900
SUMMARY OF COMPENSATION RESERVES -- ALL FUNDS
Fund Source 1995-96 1996-97
General Purpose Revenue $ 19,391,200 $ 46,763,300
Federal Revenue 5,978,800 14,418,400
Program Revenue 15,151,700 36,539,600
Segregated Revenue 3,963,700 9,558,600
TOTAL $ 44,485,400 $ 107,279,900
LOTTERY FUND SUMMARY
1995-96 1996-97
Gross Revenue $ 509,572,500 $ 514,564,400
Expenses
Prizes $ 293,031,900 $ 295,908,900
Administrative Expenses 62,800,300 65,373,400
$ 355,832,200 $ 361,282,300
Net Proceeds $ 153,740,300 $ 153,282,100
Total Available for Property
Tax Relief
Opening Balance $ 20,291,300 $ 10,191,500
Net Proceeds 153,740,300 153,282,100
Interest Earnings 3,300,000 3,400,000
$ 177,331,600 $ 166,873,600
Property Tax Relief $ 167,140,100 $ 156,582,300
Gross Closing Balance $ 10,191,500 $ 10,291,300
Reserve $ 10,191,500 $ 10,291,300
Net Closing Balance -0- -0-
SECTION 472. 20.005 (2) of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
20.005 (2) STATE BORROWING PROGRAM SUMMARY. The following tabulation sets forth the state borrowing program summary: [See Figures 20.005 (2) (a) and (b) following]
Figure: 20.005 (2) (a)
SUMMARY OF BONDING AUTHORITY MODIFICATIONS
1995-97 FISCAL BIENNIUM
Source and Purpose Amount
GENERAL OBLIGATIONS
Building Commission
Housing state departments $ 29,629,000
and agencies
Project contingencies 7,475,000
Capital equipment 11,461,000
acquisition
Other public purposes,
including Wisconsin
initiative for state 119,175,000
technology and applied
research
Refunding building
corporation
Self-amortizing debt (1,551,600)
Clean Water Fund
Clean water fund 40,700,000
Corrections
Correctional facilities 41,020,000
Self-amortizing facilities 4,703,000
and equipment
Educational
Communications Board
Educational 174,000
communications facilities
Health and Social Services
Mental health facilities 595,000
Juvenile correctional 29,175,000
facilities
Historical Society
Self-amortizing facilities 1,753,000
Historic records 348,000
Military Affairs
Armories and military 172,000
facilities
Natural Resources
General fund supported 869,000
administrative facilities
Nonpoint source grants (4,000,000)
Environmental repair 4,000,000
Segregated revenue 1,000,000
supported dam maintenance
Segregated revenue 3,907,000
supported facilities
Stewardship fund (19,000,000)
State Fair Park
Self-amortizing housing 11,780,000
facilities
Housing facilities 4,347,000
Transportation
Harbor Improvements 3,000,000
Freight Railroad Assistance 4,500,000
University of Wisconsin
Academic facilities 41,486,000
Self-amortizing facilities 113,879,000
Veterans Affairs
Wisconsin veterans home 762,000
Self-amortizing facilities 1,417,000
Self-amortizing wastewater (5,690,000)
treatment facilities
Self-amortizing mortgage 170,000,000
loans
TOTAL General Obligation $ 617,085,400
Bonds