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.
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 1222. 21.49 (3) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
21.49 (3) (b) 3. Contain the signatures of both the guard member claiming the grant and a representative of the school, certifying the grade awarded and that the member has satisfactorily completed 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 appropriations under s. 20.465 (2) (a) and (g) from moneys available for the fiscal year in which the course was completed or in which the academic term during which the course was taken ended, whichever is earlier. If the amount of funds applied for exceeds the amount available under s. 20.465 (2) (a) and (g), 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 1224. 23.01 of the statutes is created to read:
23.01 Definitions. In this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Department" means the department of natural resources.
(2) "Southern state forest" means a state forest that is located within the region specified in s. 25.29 (7) (a).
SECTION 1225. 23.09 (2) (b) 1. of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 1226. 23.09 (2) (d) 2. of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 1227. 23.09 (2) (d) 7. of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
23.09 (2) (d) 7. For state natural resources management areas.