• Provides funding for the VINE System (Victim Information and Notification Everyday) to inform victims of offender location, parole eligibility date, mandatory release date and offender's date of release from prison.
• Increases from three to six the number of private business partnerships authorized to provide prison employment opportunities in Wisconsin prisons.
• Increases funding for youth aids by providing an additional $8.5 million to counties.
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• Doubles funding for youth diversion programs designed to divert youth from gang activities in Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha and Brown Counties and in the City of Racine.
• Provides the resources for the next phase in developing Wisconsin's integrated justice information system to enhance the information sharing capabilities of local law enforcement, the courts, the public defender, district attorneys and the correctional system. The budget also provides nearly $7 million to further improve the information technology infrastructure of the public defender and the district attorneys.
• Ensures the continued success and stability of the Circuit Court Automation Program (CCAP) by providing 23 positions and additional funding to the courts to continue to provide circuit courts with information technology targeted at improving the efficiency of court operations throughout the state.
State Government Operations and Efficiency
• Eliminates nearly 50 attached boards, councils and commissions that the Lieutenant Governor's study recommended be sunset.
• Funds all state obligations related to implementation of the Special Investment Performance Dividend court order and also funds benefit supplements to ensure there will be no discontinuity in the receipt of existing pension benefits by pre-1974 retirees.
• Provides improvements in programs and benefits for Wisconsin's veterans, including extending eligibility to include peacetime veterans, creating a new personal loan program which increases maximum loan limits and expanding the purposes for which loans can be made, restructuring and strengthening the primary home loan and home improvement programs, and expanding the tuition fee reimbursement program.
• Provides funds to reimburse 100% of costs in the National Guard Tuition Grant Program.
• Provides funds for the State Elections Board to convert and implement a system for electronically reporting and accessing election campaign finances, as recommended by a Governor's blue ribbon commission on campaign reform.
• Creates a small section within the Department of Administration to conduct performance audits and increase financial auditing of state agencies.
The budget I am signing today covers the last full biennium of the twentieth century. It builds on our past successes and points us toward a promising future.
Respectfully submitted,
TOMMY G. THOMPSON
Governor
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VETO MESSAGE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A. EDUCATION AND TRAINING
arts BOARD
1. Percent-for-Art Program
HIGHER EDUCATIONAL AIDS BOARD
2. Academic Excellence Scholarship Program
public instruction
3. Maximum Allowable Revenue Increase
4. Student Achievement Guarantee in Education
5. Revenue Limits--School Districts with Declining Enrollments
6. Date Requirement for Full-Time and Part-Time Open Enrollment Policies
7. Wisconsin Educational Opportunity Program
State historical society
8. Nonresident Library Fee
Technology for Educational Achievement in wisconsin board (Teach)
9. TEACH Membership
10. Emergency Rulemaking
11. Technology Grants for Public Libraries
12. Common School Fund Income Block Grants
university of wisconsin system
13. Sunset of Tuition Revenue Expenditure Authority
14. Executive Salaries
15. Auxiliary Enterprises
16. Study of University of Wisconsin Faculty Salaries
17. Institute for Excellence in Urban Education
18. Advising Initiative
19. University of Wisconsin-Extension
20. University of Wisconsin Medical School
Wisconsin Technical college system
21. Incentive Grants Appropriation
22. Youth Options--Attendance at Technical Colleges
23. Youth Options--Payment Negotiation
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B. ENVIRONMENTAL AND COMMERCIAL RESOURCES
Agriculture, trade and consumer protection
1. Stray Voltage
2. Agrichemical Cleanup Fund Fees
commerce
3. Reimbursement of Financing Fees under PECFA
4. Pedestrian Bridge
5. Wisconsin Development Finance Board Membership and Award Notification
6. Farm Enterprise Grants
7. Downtown Wisconsin Fund Study
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8. Minority Business Development Grants
9. City of Ladysmith Grant
natural resources
10. Dry Cleaner Response Fund
11. Certified Remediation Professionals
12. Voluntary Party Liability Limitation
13. Land Recycling Loans
14. Clean Water Fund Modifications
15. Remediation of Waste Tire Manufacturing Dumps
16. Recycling Financial Assistance Study
17. Water Quality Performance Standards
18. Watershed Stewardship Grant Program
19. Willow Flowage
20. Water Pollution Credit Trading Pilot
21. Southeastern Wisconsin Fox River Commission Funding
22. Commercial Harvest of Smelt and Alewife
23. New Stewardship Categories and Badger Trail Development
24. Mountain Bay State Trail
25. Group Deer Hunting
26. First Right of Refusal
27. Required Studies and Approvals
28. Vehicle Fleet Pool Expenditure Request and Revenue Lapse
State fair park
29. Racing Contract
TOURISM
30. County Tourism Aids
31. Sale of Surplus Property
