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 1187m. 20.920 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.920 (2) (a) With the approval of the secretary and state treasurer, each state agency may establish a contingent fund. The secretary shall determine the funding source for each contingent fund, total amount of the fund and maximum payment from the fund.
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 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 1218m. 20.923 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.923 (8) DEPUTIES. Salaries for deputies appointed pursuant to ss. 13.94 (3) (b), 15.04 (2) and 551.51 (1) shall be set by the appointing authority. The salary shall not exceed the maximum of the salary range one range below the salary range of the executive salary group to which the department or agency head is assigned. The positions of assistant secretary of state, assistant state treasurer and associate director of the historical society shall be treated as unclassified deputies for pay purposes under this subsection.
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 1219h. 20.929 of the statutes is amended to read:
20.929 Agency drafts or warrants. The secretary of administration may authorize any state agency to issue drafts or warrants drawn on the state treasury. Such drafts or warrants may be issued only in connection with purchase orders authorized under subch. IV of ch. 16 and may not exceed $300 per draft or warrant. The state treasurer secretary of administration shall pay such drafts or warrants as presented. The secretary of administration and shall audit the purchase orders issued. Any purchase order that is disapproved by the secretary as unlawful or unauthorized shall be returned by the secretary to the state agency for reimbursement to the state treasurer. The secretary shall make written regulations for the implementation of this section. The secretary may require any state agency to utilize one or more separate depository accounts to implement this section. The illegal or unauthorized use of purchase orders and drafts or warrants under this section is subject to the remedies specified in s. 16.77.
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 1219r. 21.33 of the statutes is amended to read:
21.33 Pay department. The quartermaster general acting as paymaster under orders from the governor may draw from the state treasury the money necessary for paying troops in camp or on active service, and shall furnish such security for the same as the state treasurer secretary of administration may direct. The amount due on account of the field, staff or other officers, noncommissioned staff and band, company or enlistees, not herein enumerated, if any, shall be paid to the person to whom the same shall be due, on the properly signed and certified payrolls.
SECTION 1219t. 21.49 (2) (a) and (b) of the statutes are created to read:
21.49 (2) (a) An officer or warrant officer.
(b) An individual with a baccalaureate degree or its equivalent.
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 49.855 (7).
SECTION 1220. 21.49 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended 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% 45% of the actual tuition charged by the school or 50% 45% 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 1235b. 23.09 (2q) (intro.) of the statutes is renumbered 23.09 (2q) (a) (intro.).
SECTION 1235c. 23.09 (2q) (b) of the statutes is renumbered 23.09 (2q) (a) 1.
SECTION 1235d. 23.09 (2q) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
23.09 (2q) (b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to fiscal year 1995-96.
SECTION 1235e. 23.09 (2q) (c) of the statutes is renumbered 23.09 (2q) (a) 2.
SECTION 1235f. 23.09 (2q) (c) of the statutes is created to read:
23.09 (2q) (c) Except as provided in s. 23.0915 (2), the department in fiscal year 1995-96 may not expend from the appropriation under s. 20.866 (2) (tz):
1. More than $1,070,100 under sub. (2) (d) 11.
2. More than $270,600 for the ice age trail under ss. 23.17 and 23.293 and for grants for the ice age trail under s. 23.096.
****NOTE: The treatment of s. 23.09 (2q) assumes the treatment of s. 23.09 (2q) by LRB-2161 in the governor's budget bill will be deleted.
SECTION 1235g. 23.09 (2r) of the statutes is renumbered 23.09 (2r) (a).
SECTION 1235h. 23.09 (2r) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
23.09 (2r) (b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to fiscal year 1995-96.
SECTION 1235j. 23.09 (2r) (c) of the statutes is created to read:
23.09 (2r) (c) Except as provided in s. 23.0915 (2), the department in fiscal year 1995-96 may not expend from the appropriation under s. 20.866 (2) (tz) more than a total of $4,575,600 under this subsection. The purposes for which these moneys may be expended are the following:
1. Land acquisition under subs. (2dm) and (2p).
