34.045 (4) State agencies and departments shall provide the board state treasurer with a written justification for any proposed contract award for service.
SECTION 1151. 35.24 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
35.24 (1) (a) The Blue Book shall contain the biographies and pictures of state officers, senators and representatives to the assembly and officers of each house, information pertaining to the organization of Wisconsin state government, and statistical and other information of the same general character as that heretofore published, but so selected and condensed as will limit the number of pages to 1,000 or less. In making such selection the legislative reference bureau is directed to consult freely with the secretary of education state superintendent of public instruction and the director of the historical society, and insofar as possible, make the book useful for civics classes in schools.
SECTION 1152. 35.81 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
35.81 (1) "Division" means the division for libraries and community learning in the department of education public instruction.
SECTION 1153. 35.82 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
35.82 (1) The state historical society, the legislative reference bureau and the reference and loan library of the department of education public instruction are designated as state document depository libraries and shall receive state documents delivered under s. 35.83 (3).
SECTION 1154. 35.83 (3) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
35.83 (3) (c) The reference and loan library of the department of education public instruction, one copy.
SECTION 1154m. 35.84 (figure) line 22. of the statutes is created to read:
35.84 (figure) 22. Integrated Legislative Information System Staff.
Column A Statutes, Hard Covers; s. 35.18 1
Column B Statutes, Soft Covers; s. 35.18 1
Column C Annotations; s. 35.23 1
Column D Laws of Wisconsin; s. 35.15 1
SECTION 1155. 35.86 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
35.86 (1) The director of the historical society may procure the exchange of public documents produced by federal, state, county, local and other agencies as may be desirable to maintain or enlarge its historical, literary and statistical collections, and may make such distributions of public documents, with or without exchange, as may accord with interstate or international comity. The state law librarian shall procure so many of such exchanges as the state law librarian is authorized by law to make, and the department of health and family services, commission of banking, department of education public instruction, legislative reference bureau, and the legislative council staff, may procure by exchange such documents from other states and countries as may be needed for use in their respective offices. Any other state agency wishing to initiate a formal exchange program in accordance with this section may do so by submitting a formal application to the department and by otherwise complying with this section.
SECTION 1156ad. 36.09 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
36.09 (1) (e) The board shall appoint a president of the system; a chancellor for each institution; a dean for each center; the state geologist; the director of the laboratory of hygiene; the director of the psychiatric institute; the state cartographer with the advice of the land information board; and the requisite number of officers, other than the vice presidents, associate vice presidents and assistant vice presidents of the system; faculty; academic staff and other employes and fix the salaries, subject to the limitations under par. (j) and ss. 20.923 (4), (4m) and (5) and 230.12 (3) (e), the duties and the term of office for each. The board shall fix the salaries, subject to the limitations under par. (j) and ss. 20.923 (4), (4m) and (5) and 230.12 (3) (e), and the duties for each chancellor, vice president, associate vice president and assistant vice president of the system. No sectarian or partisan tests or any tests based upon race, religion, national origin or sex shall ever be allowed or exercised in the appointment of the employes of the system.
SECTION 1160. 36.11 (3) (d) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
36.11 (3) (d) 1. Except as provided in subd. 2., the board shall require that a $28 $35 fee accompany each application for admittance from persons seeking admittance to any school within the system as new freshmen or as transfer students from outside the system. The board may exempt from the fee under this subdivision, on the basis of financial need, a maximum of 5% of the applications in any school year.
SECTION 1161. 36.11 (3) (d) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
36.11 (3) (d) 2. The board shall require that a $38 $45 fee accompany each application for admittance to a graduate school, law school or medical school within the system.
SECTION 1162. 36.11 (6) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
36.11 (6) (c) By April 10, 1996 1998, and annually thereafter, the board shall develop and submit to the education commission higher educational aids board for its review under s. 39.285 (1) a proposed formula for the awarding of grants under s. 39.435, except for grants awarded under s. 39.435 (2) or (5), for the upcoming academic year to students enrolled in the system.
SECTION 1162m. 36.11 (33) of the statutes is created to read:
36.11 (33) REPORT ON MANAGEMENT AND STAFF POSITIONS. (a) The board shall categorize each position in the system as either a management position or a staff position. The board shall define "management" and "staff" for the purposes of this paragraph.
(b) By January 1, 1998, and annually thereafter by January 1, the board shall submit a report to the joint committee on finance that includes all of the following:
1. The definitions of "management" and "staff" used by the board under par. (a).
2. A list of the position titles in each category.
3. The criteria used by the board to categorize the positions.
4. The current number of authorized positions in each category at each campus.
SECTION 1162r. 36.11 (34) of the statutes is created to read:
36.11 (34) MATHEMATICS PROGRAMS EVALUATION. From the appropriation under s. 20.285 (1) (a), annually the board shall allocate $25,000 to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for the purpose of evaluating a pilot mathematics program conducted by the school district operating under ch. 119. This subsection does not apply after June 30, 2003.
SECTION 1163. 36.25 (12) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
36.25 (12) (c) The institute shall investigate medical and social conditions which directly or indirectly result in state care; develop and promote measures to relieve and prevent the need for state care; undertake special education and training; and generally seek by research and investigation to prevent conditions which result in state care. The institute shall render, under mutual agreement, services to the state institutions under the jurisdiction of the department of health and family services and the department of education public instruction. Such state institutions are open to the institute for research and training.
SECTION 1164ad. 36.25 (12m) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
36.25 (12m) STATE CARTOGRAPHER. (intro.) In coordination and consultation with the land information board, the The state cartographer shall:
SECTION 1164g. 36.25 (20) of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 1165m. 36.25 (29m) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
36.25 (29m) (a) Assist the environmental education board in addressing statewide teacher training needs in environmental education and in administering grants under s. 36.54 (2).
SECTION 1166. 36.25 (29m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
36.25 (29m) (b) Assist the department of education public instruction to periodically assess and report to the environmental education board on the environmental literacy of this state's teachers and students.
SECTION 1167. 36.25 (29m) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
36.25 (29m) (e) Assist the department of education public instruction and cooperative educational service agencies to assist school districts in conducting environmental education needs assessments.
SECTION 1167b. 36.25 (30) (intro.) and (a) of the statutes are consolidated, renumbered 36.25 (30) and amended to read:
36.25 (30) HAZARDOUS POLLUTION PREVENTION PROGRAM. The board shall establish in the extension a hazardous pollution prevention program to promote hazardous pollution prevention, as defined in s. 299.13 (1) (c). In cooperation with the department of natural resources, and the department of commerce and the hazardous pollution prevention council, the program shall do all of the following: (a) Conduct conduct an education and technical assistance program to promote hazardous pollution prevention in this state.
SECTION 1167c. 36.25 (30) (c) of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 1167d. 36.25 (30g) of the statutes is amended to read:
36.25 (30g) RECYCLING MARKET DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. The board shall establish in the extension, in cooperation with the recycling market development board, a program of education and technical assistance related to recycling market development. The program shall serve waste generators, as defined in s. 287.40 (4); solid waste scrap brokers, dealers and processors; business entities that use or could use recovered materials or that produce or could produce products from recovered materials and persons who provide support services to those business entities; and the general public.
SECTION 1167p. 36.25 (35) of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 1168. 36.25 (38) of the statutes is created to read:
36.25 (38) EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS. (a) In this subsection, "educational technology" has the meaning given in s. 44.70 (3).
(b) The board shall use the moneys appropriated under s. 20.285 (1) (cm) for the following purposes:
1. The student information system.
2. The development of system technology infrastructure.
3. The development of curricula to train students enrolled in the schools of education in the use of educational technology in primary and secondary schools.
4. To provide professional development in the use of educational technology for primary and secondary school teachers.
5. To provide faculty with educational technology and to train faculty in its use.
6. To pay the department of administration for telecommunications services provided under s. 16.973 (1).
SECTION 1168e. 36.25 (39) of the statutes is created to read:
36.25 (39) INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN URBAN EDUCATION. There is established an Institute for Excellence in Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The institute shall engage in research, public service and educational activities pertaining to issues in urban public education.
SECTION 1168k. 36.25 (42) of the statutes is created to read:
36.25 (42) DISTINGUISHED CHAIR OF MILITARY HISTORY. The board shall establish a distinguished chair of military history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
SECTION 1168m. 36.27 (3) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
36.27 (3) (g) The board may shall remit nonresident tuition and fees, in whole or part, to resident and nonresident graduate students who are fellows or who are employed within the system as faculty, instructional academic staff or assistants with an appointment equal to at least 33% of a full-time equivalent position.
SECTION 1169. 36.27 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
36.27 (4) (a) In the 1993-94 to 1996-97 1998-99 academic years, the board may annually exempt from nonresident tuition, but not from incidental or other fees, up to 200 students enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside as juniors or seniors in programs identified by that institution as having surplus capacity and up to 150 students enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Superior in programs identified by that institution as having surplus capacity.
SECTION 1170. 36.27 (4) (c) of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 1171. 36.27 (4) (cm) of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 1172. 36.27 (4) (e) of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 1172m. 36.27 (5) of the statutes is created to read:
36.27 (5) FEE STATEMENT. (a) In this subsection, "state funds" means the total amount of general purpose revenue appropriated under s. 20.285 in any fiscal year.
(b) The board shall ensure that every student's bill for academic fees or nonresident tuition includes the following statement: "The legislature and the governor have authorized $.... in state funds for the University of Wisconsin System during the .... academic year. This amount represents an average subsidy of $.... from the taxpayers of Wisconsin for each student enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System."
(c) The board shall calculate the average subsidy for the purpose of the fee statement under par. (b) by dividing state funds in the appropriate fiscal year by the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled in the system in the most recent fall semester.
SECTION 1173e. 36.46 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 36.46 (1) (a) and amended to read:
36.46 (1) (a) The board may not accumulate any auxiliary reserve funds from student fees unless the fees and for any institution, or for the centers in aggregate, in an amount that exceeds an amount equal to 15% of the previous fiscal year's total revenues from student segregated fees and auxiliary operations funded from student fees for that institution, or for the centers in aggregate, unless the reserve funds are approved by the secretary of administration and the joint committee on finance under this section subsection. A request by the board for such approval for any academic fiscal year shall be filed by the board with the secretary of administration and the cochairpersons of the joint committee on finance no later than July 10 preceding that September 15 of that fiscal year. The request shall include a plan specifying the amount of reserve funds the board wishes to accumulate and the purposes to which the reserve funds would be applied, if approved. Within 14 working days of receipt of the request, the secretary of administration shall notify the cochairpersons of the joint committee on finance in writing of whether the secretary proposes to approve the fees or reserve fund accumulation.
SECTION 1173m. 36.46 (2) of the statutes is renumbered 36.46 (1) (b) and amended to read:
36.46 (1) (b) Notwithstanding sub. (1) par. (a), if, within 14 working days after the date of the secretary's notification, the cochairpersons of the committee do not notify the secretary that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the secretary's proposed action, the proposed fees may be levied and the proposed reserve funds may be accumulated. If, within 14 working days after the date of the secretary's notification, the cochairpersons of the committee notify the secretary that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the secretary's proposed action, the proposed fees may not be levied and the proposed reserve funds may not be accumulated unless the committee approves that action.
SECTION 1173s. 36.46 (2) of the statutes is created to read:
36.46 (2) (a) The board shall promulgate rules that do all of the following:
1. Define "one-time, fixed-duration costs" and "student-related activity" for the purpose of s. 20.285 (1) (kp).
2. Establish criteria for the board to use in determining whether to approve requests to transfer moneys under s. 20.285 (1) (h).
(b) The board may not transfer moneys from the appropriation account under s. 20.285 (1) (h) to the appropriation account under s. 20.285 (1) (kp) unless the transfer is approved by the joint committee on finance under this paragraph. The board shall submit a request for such approval to the cochairpersons of the joint committee on finance. If the cochairpersons of the committee do not notify the board that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the proposed transfer within 14 working days after the date of the board's request, the board may transfer the moneys. If, within 14 working days after the date of the board's request, the cochairpersons of the committee notify the board that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the proposed transfer, the board may not transfer the moneys until the committee approves the transfer.
(c) By September 1, 1998, and annually by September 1 thereafter, the board shall submit to the joint committee on finance a report on the requests to transfer moneys from the appropriation account under s. 20.285 (1) (h) to the appropriation account under s. 20.285 (1) (kp) that were received by the board in the previous fiscal year. For each request, the report shall identify the campus that submitted the request, the amount of the request, the revenue source of the moneys requested, the purpose for which the moneys were to be used and whether the board approved the request.
SECTION 1174. 36.51 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
36.51 (2) Any center or institution approved by the board may establish a system to provide the opportunity for authorized elderly persons to participate in its meal program. If a center or institution desires to establish such a service, it shall develop a plan for the provision of food services for elderly persons and submit the plan to the board. Annually, the board shall notify the department of education public instruction of the approved centers and institutions.
SECTION 1175. 36.51 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
36.51 (6) The center or institution may file a claim with the department of education public instruction for reimbursement for reasonable expenses incurred, excluding capital equipment costs, but not to exceed 15% of the cost of the meal or 50 cents per meal, whichever is less. Any cost in excess of the lesser amount may be charged to participants. If the department of education public instruction approves the claim, it shall certify that payment is due and the state treasurer shall pay the claim from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (cn).