20.870 Information technology investment fund. There is appropriated to state agencies from the information technology investment fund:
(1) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT. (q) Special projects; fee revenue. The amounts in the schedule for the purpose of carrying out information technology development projects under s. 16.971 (5).
(r) Special projects; agency revenues. The amounts in the schedule for the purpose of carrying out information technology development projects under s. 16.971 (5). All moneys transferred from other appropriation accounts that are approved for expenditure under s. 16.971 (5) shall be credited to this appropriation account.
(s) Special projects; gifts and grants. The amounts in the schedule to carry out the purposes for which gifts, grants and bequests are made to carry out information technology development projects under s. 16.971 (5). All moneys received from such gifts, grants and bequests shall be credited to this appropriation account.
SECTION 1178. 20.903 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.903 (2) (b) Notwithstanding sub. (1), liabilities may be created and moneys expended from the appropriations under ss. 20.395 (4) (eq), (er) and (es) and 20.505 (1) (im), (ka), (kb), (kc), and (kd) and (kg) in an additional amount not exceeding the depreciated value of equipment for operations financed under ss. 20.395 (4) (eq), (er) and (es) and 20.505 (1) (im), (ka), (kb), (kc), and (kd) and (kg). The secretary of administration may require such statements of assets and liabilities as he or she deems necessary before approving expenditure estimates in excess of the unexpended moneys in the appropriation account.
SECTION 1184. 20.912 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.912 (4) INSOLVENT DEPOSITORIES. When the bank, savings and loan association, savings bank or credit union on which any check, share draft or other draft is drawn by the state treasurer before payment of such check, share draft or other draft becomes insolvent or is taken over by the commissioner of banking, the commissioner division of banking, division of savings and loan, the federal home loan bank board, the U.S. office of thrift supervision, the federal deposit insurance corporation, the resolution trust corporation, the commissioner office of credit unions, the administrator of federal credit unions or the U.S. comptroller of the currency, the state treasurer shall on the demand of the person in whose favor such check, share draft or other draft was drawn and upon the return to the treasurer of such check, share draft or other draft issue a replacement for the same amount.
SECTION 1185. 20.913 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.913 (1) (b) Excess tax payments. Taxes collected in excess of lawful taxation, when claims therefor have been established as provided in ss. 71.30 (4), 71.74 (13), 71.75, 71.89 (1), 72.24, 74.35, 74.37, 76.13 (3), 76.38, 76.39, 78.19, 78.20, 78.68 (10), 78.75, 78.80 (1m), 139.092, 139.25 (1), 139.36, 139.365, and 139.39 (4) and 168.12 (2), (3) and (4).
SECTION 1187. 20.916 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.916 (3) FURNISHING OF GROUP TRANSPORTATION TO PLACE OF WORK. The department of health and social services, the department of corrections and the department of natural resources may, with the approval of the governor and the department of administration, provide group transportation, in the absence of convenient and public scheduled transportation, for employes to and from the Ethan Allen school, the Mendota and Winnebago mental health institutes and the centers for the developmentally disabled in the case of employes of the department of health and social services, to the Ethan Allen school, the Taycheedah correctional institution and the Fox Lake correctional institution in the case of employes of the department of corrections, and to and from its temporary branch offices located at the Nevin fish hatchery grounds in the case of employes of the department of natural resources. Any employe, if injured while being so transported, shall be deemed to have been in the course of his or her employment.
SECTION 1188. 20.921 (1) (a) (intro.), 2m., 3. and 4. of the statutes are amended to read:
20.921 (1) (a) (intro.) Any state officer or employe or any employe of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority may request in writing through the state agency in which the officer or employe is employed or through the authority that a specified part of the officer's or employe's salary be deducted and paid by the state or by the authority to a payee designated in such request for any of the following purposes:
2m. Payment of amounts owed to state agencies or to the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority by the employe.
3. Payment of premiums for group hospital and surgical-medical insurance or plan, group life insurance, and other group insurance, where such groups consist of state officers and employes or employes of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority and where such insurance or plans are provided or approved by the group insurance board.
4. Other group or charitable purposes approved by the governor and the department of administration under the rules of the department of administration for state officers or employes, or by the board of directors of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority for authority employes.
SECTION 1189b. 20.921 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.921 (1) (b) The request under par. (a) shall be made to the state agency or to the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority in the form and manner and contain the directions and information prescribed by each state agency or by the authority. The Except as provided in s. 111.84 (1) (f), the request may be withdrawn or the amount paid to the payee may be changed by notifying the state agency or the authority to that effect, but no such withdrawal or change shall affect a payroll certification already prepared. However, time limits for withdrawal of payment of dues to labor organizations under subch. V of ch. 111 shall be as provided under s. 111.84 (1) (f).
SECTION 1189c. 20.921 (1) (b) of the statutes, as affected by 1995 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is repealed and recreated to read:
20.921 (1) (b) Except as provided in ss. 111.06 (1) (c) and 111.84 (1) (f), the request under par. (a) shall be made to the state agency or to the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority in the form and manner and contain the directions and information prescribed by each state agency or by the authority. The request may be withdrawn or the amount paid to the payee may be changed by notifying the state agency or the authority to that effect, but no such withdrawal or change shall affect a payroll certification already prepared.
SECTION 1189d. 20.921 (1) (bm) and (c) of the statutes are amended to read:
20.921 (1) (bm) Any state officer or employe or any employe of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority may request in writing that a specified part of his or her salary be deferred under a deferred compensation plan of a deferred compensation plan provider selected under s. 40.80. The request shall be made to the state agency or to the authority in the form and manner prescribed in the deferred compensation plan and may be withdrawn as prescribed in that plan.
(c) Written requests under this subsection shall be filed in with the state agency or the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority and shall constitute authority to the state agency or to the authority to make certification for each such officer or employe and for payment of the amounts so deducted or deferred.
SECTION 1190. 20.921 (1) (d) 1. and (f) of the statutes are amended to read:
20.921 (1) (d) 1. For the purpose of handling savings bond purchases, each state agency not on the central payroll system and the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority shall designate an officer or employe thereof who shall serve as trustee. The trustee shall serve without compensation as such. The state agency or the authority shall furnish the trustee the necessary files, supplies and clerical and accounting assistance. Each trustee shall file with the state agency or the authority a bond in such amount as the state agency or the authority determines, with a corporation authorized to do surety business in this state as surety, which bond shall be conditioned upon the trustee's faithful execution of his or her trust. The trustee shall file another or additional bond whenever the state agency or the authority so determines. The cost of any bond required by a state agency shall be paid out of the appropriation made to the state agency for its administration. For those state agencies on the central payroll system, the trustee shall be a person designated by the secretary of administration.
(f) The office of the governor shall prepare a statement explaining the bond purchase plan and its purpose and transmit copies of such statement to each state agency and to the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority for distribution to its their officers and employes.
SECTION 1191. 20.921 (2) (a) of the statutes, as affected by 1993 Wisconsin Act 481, section 3, is amended to read:
20.921 (2) (a) Whenever it becomes necessary in pursuance of any federal or state law or court-ordered assignment of income under s. 46.10 (14) (e), 767.23 (1) (L), 767.25 (4m) (c), 767.265 or 767.51 (3m) (c) to make deductions from the salaries of state officers or employes, each or employes of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority, the state agency or authority by which the officers or employes are employed is responsible for making such deductions and paying over the total thereof for the purposes provided by the laws or orders under which they were made.
SECTION 1192. 20.921 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.921 (2) (b) The head of each state agency or the chief executive officer of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority shall deduct from the salary of any employe the amount certified under s. 7.33 (5) which is received by the employe for service as an election official while the employe is on a paid leave of absence under s. 7.33 (3).
SECTION 1193. 20.923 (4) (a) 1. of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 1193m. 20.923 (4) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
20.923 (4) (a) 2. Arts board: executive secretary. This subdivision does not apply after June 30, 1997, unless the joint committee on finance has approved the funding report of the arts board under 1995 Wisconsin Act ... (this act), section 9105 (3g) (a).
SECTION 1195. 20.923 (4) (b) 5. of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 1196. 20.923 (4) (c) 1m. of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 1197. 20.923 (4) (c) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
20.923 (4) (c) 3. Credit Office of credit unions,commissioner: director of.
SECTION 1200. 20.923 (4) (c) 4. of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 1201. 20.923 (4) (c) 5. of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 1202. 20.923 (4) (d) 3. of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 1203. 20.923 (4) (d) 4. of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 1205. 20.923 (4) (d) 11. of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 1205d. 20.923 (4) (d) 12. of the statutes is renumbered 20.923 (4) (e) 12.
SECTION 1205m. 20.923 (4) (e) 2m. of the statutes is amended to read:
20.923 (4) (e) 2m. Gaming commission: chairperson and members board: executive director.
SECTION 1209. 20.923 (4) (f) 2m. of the statutes is amended to read:
20.923 (4) (f) 2m. Development Commerce, department of: secretary.
SECTION 1210. 20.923 (4) (f) 3f. of the statutes is created to read:
20.923 (4) (f) 3f. Financial institutions, department of: secretary.
SECTION 1211. 20.923 (4) (f) 9. of the statutes is created to read:
20.923 (4) (f) 9. Tourism, department of: secretary.
SECTION 1212. 20.923 (4) (g) 1g. of the statutes is created to read:
20.923 (4) (g) 1g. Education, department of: secretary.
SECTION 1212m. 20.923 (6) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.923 (6) SALARIES SET BY APPOINTING AUTHORITIES. (intro.) Salaries for the following positions may be set by the appointing authority, subject to restrictions otherwise set forth in the statutes and the compensation plan under s. 230.12 and subject to the pay range maximum and compensation maximum under s. 230.125, except where the salaries are a subject of bargaining with a certified representative of a collective bargaining unit under s. 111.91:
SECTION 1213. 20.923 (6) (ai) of the statutes is renumbered 20.923 (6) (L) and amended to read:
20.923 (6) (L) Administration Tourism, department of; Kickapoo valley governing board: executive secretary and staff.
SECTION 1214. 20.923 (6) (am) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.923 (6) (am) Each elective executive officer, other than the state treasurer: a stenographer.
SECTION 1217m. 20.923 (6) (bh) of the statutes is created to read:
20.923 (6) (bh) Historical society: Wisconsin sesquicentennial commission; staff.
SECTION 1218p. 20.923 (9) of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 1219g. 20.923 (14) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.923 (14) SALARY ADMINISTRATION. Except as provided in s. 36.09 (1) (j), any adjustment of salary for any incumbent in a position specified in subs. (4), (4m), (8), (9) and (12) is governed by the provisions of the compensation plan concerning executive salary groups as adopted by the joint committee on employment relations under s. 230.12 (3) (b).
SECTION 1219i. 21.19 (3) of the statutes is renumbered 21.19 (3) (a).
SECTION 1219j. 21.19 (3) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
21.19 (3) (b) Notwithstanding s. 13.48 (14) (c), the department, under the authority and procedures established in par. (a), may sell and convey the Wisconsin national guard armory located at 1225 E. Henry Clay Street, Whitefish Bay, Milwaukee County and other properties that the department determines are no longer needed for military purposes. The proceeds of a sale shall be used first to pay off all bonds, all or a part of which were used to construct or purchase the property. Any moneys remaining from the sale shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to the appropriation under s. 20.465 (2) (g).
SECTION 1219m. 21.20 of the statutes is amended to read:
21.20 Civil service status. All full-time state-paid employes of the department of military affairs shall be under the classified service, except the adjutant general, the executive assistant to the adjutant general, the deputy adjutants general for army and air and the administrator of the division of emergency government.
SECTION 1219w. 21.49 (2) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
21.49 (2) (e) Delinquent in child support or maintenance payments, as established by the receipt by the department of a certification under s. 46.255 73.255 (7).
SECTION 1220t. 21.49 (3) (a) of the statutes, as affected by 1995 Wisconsin Act .... (Assembly Bill 73), is repealed and recreated to read:
21.49 (3) (a) Any eligible guard member upon satisfactory completion of a full-time or part-time course in a qualifying school is eligible for a tuition grant equal to 50% of the actual tuition charged by the school or 50% of the maximum resident undergraduate tuition charged by the university of Wisconsin-Madison for a comparable number of credits, whichever amount is less.
SECTION 1221. 21.49 (3) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
21.49 (3) (b) 1. Be submitted to the department for approval of payment no later than 6 months 90 days after the completion date of the course;
SECTION 1223. 21.49 (3) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
21.49 (3) (d) Tuition grants under this section shall be paid out of the appropriation under s. 20.465 (2) (a). If the amount of funds applied for exceeds the amount available under s. 20.465 (2) (a), the department shall not prorate grants but may deny grants. In such cases, the department shall determine eligibility on the basis of the dates on which applications for tuition grants are received.
SECTION 1237. 23.09 (12) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
23.09 (12) (a) The county board of any county which, by resolution, indicates its desire to plan and carry out a program of coordinated fish management projects or game management projects may make application to the department for the allocation and apportionment of funds for state aids appropriated for such purposes by s. 20.370 (4) (as) (5) (ar).
SECTION 1240. 23.09 (17m) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
23.09 (17m) (title) GRANTS TO COUNTIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF WILDLIFE HABITAT ON COUNTY FORESTS.
SECTION 1241. 23.09 (17m) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
23.09 (17m) (a) The county board of any county, which by resolution indicates its desire to improve the natural environment for game and nongame species on county lands entered under s. 28.11, may make application to the department for the allocation of funds appropriated for such purposes by s. 20.370 (4) (bq) (5) (as).
SECTION 1242. 23.09 (17m) (a) of the statutes, as affected by 1995 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is amended to read:
23.09 (17m) (a) The county board of any county, which by resolution indicates its desire to improve the natural environment for game and nongame species wildlife on county lands entered under s. 28.11, may make application to the department for the allocation of funds appropriated for such purposes by s. 20.370 (5) (as).
SECTION 1243. 23.09 (17m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
23.09 (17m) (b) The annual appropriation for each county shall not exceed 5 cents for each acre entered under s. 28.11, but any funds remaining from the appropriation made by s. 20.370 (4) (bq) (5) (as) and unallocated to the counties on March 31 of each year may be allotted to any county in an amount not to exceed an additional 5 cents per acre under the procedure established in this subsection. These aids shall be used to undertake management activities provided in the comprehensive county forest land use plan and included in the annual work plan and budget.
SECTION 1244. 23.09 (17m) (b) of the statutes, as affected by 1995 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is amended to read:
