SECTION 1176. 20.870 of the statutes is created to read:
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. A sum sufficient equivalent to all moneys not appropriated under pars. (r), (s) and (t) for the purpose of carrying out information technology development projects under s. 16.971 (5).
(r) Special projects; agency revenues. All moneys transferred from other appropriation accounts that are approved for expenditure under s. 16.971 (5) for the purpose of carrying out information technology development projects under s. 16.971 (5).
(s) Special projects; gifts and grants. All moneys received from gifts, grants and bequests to carry out information technology development projects under s. 16.971 (5), to be used for that purpose.
(t) Distance education project loan subsidies. The amounts in the schedule to subsidize the payment of interest on state trust fund loans obtained by school districts or technical college districts for distance education projects under s. 16.971 (7).
****NOTE: This SECTION involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
SECTION 1177. 20.902 of the statutes is amended to read:
20.902 Fiscal year. The fiscal year of the state commences on the first day of July in each year and closes on the next succeeding June 30th. All books and accounts of the department of administration and, including those of the state treasurer, shall be kept, and all their duties shall be performed with reference to the beginning and ending of the fiscal year. All officers and persons required to render annual accounts to the department of administration and, including the treasurer, shall close such accounts on June 30 in each year, and shall render such accounts as soon thereafter as may be practicable, and the fiscal year of all departments, boards and bodies connected with the state government in any manner shall commence and close on the same dates as the fiscal year of the state. A fiscal year ending in an even-numbered calendar year may be designated as an even-numbered fiscal year, and a fiscal year ending in an odd-numbered calendar year may be designated as an odd-numbered fiscal year. For all fiscal purposes the entire summer session of any state educational institution or school under the supervision of the technical college system board shall be considered as occurring in the fiscal year in which such session terminates, and expenditures therefor and revenues thereof shall be charged or credited to the appropriation for such fiscal year. All bills for printing incurred prior to the beginning of such fiscal year for such summer sessions may be paid out of current funds and be replaced at the beginning of such fiscal year.
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 1179. 20.907 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 20.907 (1) (a) and amended to read:
20.907 (1) (a) Unless otherwise provided by law, all gifts, grants, bequests and devises to the state or whenever any gift, grant or bequest is made to any state agency for the benefit or advantage of the state, whether made to trustees or otherwise, shall be other than one that is authorized by law to receive it and to expend the proceeds for the purpose of carrying out its programs, the gift, grant or bequest is legal and valid when approved by upon submission of a report by the department of administration to the cochairpersons of the joint committee on finance and. The report shall specify the source of the gift, grant or bequest, if known; the amount; and the state agency to which it was directed. If the gift, grant or bequest is in the form of cash, the department of administration shall deposit the proceeds in the general fund and credit the proceeds to the appropriation account under s. 20.855 (6) (g).
(c) Each legal and valid gift, grant or bequest shall be executed and enforced according to the provisions of the instrument making the same, including all provisions and directions in any such instrument for accumulation of the income of any fund or rents and profits of any real estate without being subject to the limitations and restrictions provided by law in other cases; but no such accumulation shall be allowed to produce a fund more than 20 times as great as that originally given. When such gifts, grants, bequests or devises include a gift, grant or bequest includes common stocks or other investments which are not authorized by s. 881.01, such common stocks or other investments may be held and may be exchanged, invested or reinvested in similar types of investments without being subject to the limitations provided by law in other cases.
SECTION 1180. 20.907 (1) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
20.907 (1) (b) Unless otherwise provided by law, whenever any gift, grant or bequest is made to the state but is not received by a state agency for the purposes of carrying out its programs, the gift, grant or bequest is legal and valid when accepted by the joint committee on finance.
SECTION 1181. 20.907 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.907 (2) CUSTODY AND ACCOUNTING. The state treasurer shall have custody of all such gifts, grants, bequests and devises any gift, grant or bequest governed by sub. (1) in the form of cash or securities. The department of administration shall keep a separate account for each state agency receiving such gifts, grants, or bequests and devises, including therein investments, accumulations, payments and any other transaction pertaining to such moneys. If no state agency is designated by the donor to carry out the purposes of the conveyance, the joint committee on finance shall appoint a state agency to act as trustee.
SECTION 1182. 20.912 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.912 (1) CANCELLATION OF OUTSTANDING CHECKS AND SHARE DRAFTS. If any check, share draft or other draft drawn and issued by the state treasurer upon the funds of the state in any state depository is not paid within the time period designated by the state treasurer under s. 14.58 (12) 16.413 (1) (L) as shown on the check or other draft, the state treasurer shall cancel the check or other draft and credit the amount thereof to the fund on which it is drawn.
SECTION 1183. 20.912 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.912 (3) REISSUE OF CANCELED CHECKS, SHARE DRAFTS AND OTHER DRAFTS. When the payee or person entitled to any check, share draft or other draft canceled under sub. (1) by the state treasurer, or the payee or person entitled to any warrant so canceled by the department secretary of administration, demands such check, share draft, other draft or warrant or payment thereof, the department secretary of administration shall issue a new warrant therefor, to be paid out of the proper fund by the state treasurer.
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 of savings and loan department of financial institutions, 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 1186. 20.913 (1) (b) of the statutes, as affected by 1995 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is repealed and recreated 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, 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).
****NOTE: This reconciles LRB-1064 and LRB-1193. Both drafts should remain in the bill.
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 1189. 20.921 (1) (b), (bm) and (c) of the statutes are 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 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).
(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 1194. 20.923 (4) (a) 4q. of the statutes is repealed.
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 1198. 20.923 (4) (c) 3e. of the statutes is created to read:
20.923 (4) (c) 3e. Employment commission, administrator.
SECTION 1199. 20.923 (4) (c) 3s. of the statutes is created to read:
20.923 (4) (c) 3s. Financial institutions, chief legal counsel.
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 1204. 20.923 (4) (d) 7m. of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 1205. 20.923 (4) (d) 11. of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 1206. 20.923 (4) (e) 2m. of the statutes is amended to read:
20.923 (4) (e) 2m. Gaming commission: chairperson and members.
SECTION 1207. 20.923 (4) (e) 4. of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 1208. 20.923 (4) (e) 11. of the statutes is repealed.
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 and parks, 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 and parks, 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 1215. 20.923 (6) (bc) of the statutes is created to read:
20.923 (6) (bc) Gaming commission: director of a charitable gaming and crane games subunit, described in s. 561.12, and a program assistant, appointed under s. 561.02 (2).
SECTION 1216. 20.923 (6) (bd) of the statutes is created to read:
20.923 (6) (bd) Gaming commission: gaming security liaison.
SECTION 1217. 20.923 (6) (bf) of the statutes is created to read:
20.923 (6) (bf) Gaming commission: director of the Indian gaming subunit described under s. 561.14.
SECTION 1218. 20.923 (6) (hj) of the statutes is created to read:
20.923 (6) (hj) Natural resources, department of: directors of the field districts.
SECTION 1219. 20.923 (11) of the statutes is created to read:
20.923 (11) DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE. The salary range for division administrators in the department of revenue who are not enumerated in s. 230.08 (2) (e) 11. shall not equal or exceed the salary range for executive salary group 1.
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% 40% of the actual tuition charged by the school or 50% 40% of the maximum resident undergraduate tuition charged by the university of Wisconsin-Madison for a comparable number of credits, whichever amount is less. From the appropriation account under s. 20.465 (2) (g), the department may provide to any person who is eligible to receive a 40% grant a tuition grant of up to 10% of the actual tuition charged by the school or of up to 10% of the maximum resident undergraduate tuition charged by the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a comparable number of credits, whichever amount is less.
