15. Historical Society1 170,100 170,100 Northern Great Lakes Center operations funding.
Program Revenue
Department 1999-00 2000-01 Purpose
16. Justice3 $758,900 $758,900 County-tribal law enforcement programs: local assistance ($708,400 annually) and state operations ($50,500 annually).
17. Natural Resources4 2,500,000 2,500,000 Transfer to the fish and wildlife account of the conservation fund.
18. Natural Resources5 669,000 619,000 Snowmobile enforcement program.
19. Natural Resources1 120,000 120,000 Nonpoint grants and local assistance to the Oneida Nation.
20. Natural Resources1 109,700 109,700 Management of state fishery resources in off-reservation areas where tribes have treaty-based rights to fish.
21. Natural Resources 27,600 172,400 Management of an elk reintroduction program.
22. Natural Resources6 100,000 100,000 Payment to the Lac du Flambeau Band relating to certain fishing and sports licenses.
23. Natural Resources 81,000 131,000 Mandatory snowmobile education program.
24. Natural Resources 100,000 300,000 One-time grant to the Town of Swiss in Burnett County and the St. Croix Band for a drinking water study and for planning activities related to construction of wastewater and drinking water treatment facilities.
25. Natural Resources 92,700 103,500 Study of crop damage by cranes and a position relating to the reintroduction of whooping cranes.
26. Public Instruction7 198,000 203,000 Aid to alternative schools operating American Indian language and culture education programs.
27. Tourism 4,000,000 4,000,000 General tourism marketing, including grants to nonprofit tourism promotion organizations and specific earmarks.
28. University of Wisconsin System 0 0 Ashland full-scale aquaculture demonstration facility: debt service payments and operational costs. (No funding is provided in the 1999-01 biennium.)
29. Veterans Affairs 66,900 68,000 American Indian services coordinator project position and grants to assist American Indians in obtaining federal and state veterans benefits.
30. Workforce Development 350,000 350,000 Vocational rehabilitation services for Native American individuals and tribes or bands.
Program Revenue
Department 1999-00 2000-01 Purpose
31. Workforce Development $600,000 $600,000 Work-Based Learning Board grants for work-based learning programs.
Total Act 9 Allocations $20,191,900 $22,235,200
1 Would eliminate GPR funding and provide an identical amount of gaming revenue for the same purpose.
2 Would eliminate PR lottery and racing revenue funding and provide tribal gaming revenue in a greater amount for the same purpose.
3 Would eliminate GPR and PR penalty assessment funding and provide an identical amount of gaming revenue for the same purpose (funding provided in Act 9 reflects an increase previously approved under s. 16.515 of the statutes after the adjusted base was established).
4 Would increase revenue for fish and wildlife account, possibly holding down fee increases or preventing certain program reductions.
5 Would eliminate GPR and SEG funding and provide an identical amount of gaming revenue for the same purpose.
6 Would supplant SEG funding (fish and wildlife account) currently used for this purpose.
7 Would eliminate GPR funding and provide gaming revenue in a greater amount for the same purpose.
[Act 9 Sections: 546, 547, 3026 and 3027]
PR $1,030,700
2. TRIBAL GAMING COMPUTER SYSTEM [LFB Paper 155]
Governor: Provide $879,800 in 1999-00 and $150,900 in 2000-01 for a computer system to process gaming data provided to the state by tribal casino operations. Under the recently completed state-tribal gaming compact amendments, the tribes agree, with some variations, to provide the state with electronic access to certain slot machine accounting data (as an alternative to on-site physical access allowed under the original compacts). The proposed new computer system would be designed for processing this data. The funding would be placed in unallotted reserve, to be released by DOA, pending a final determination of cost.
Joint Finance/Legislature: Approve the provision. In addition, provide that the funding may not be expended or encumbered until a report on the costs associated with the computer system is approved by the Joint Committee on Finance under a 14-day passive review process.
Veto by Governor [F-2]: Delete the provision that the funding may not be expended or encumbered until a report on the costs associated with the computer system is approved by the Joint Committee on Finance under a 14-day passive review process.
[Act 9 Vetoed Section: 9101(17x)]
3. TRIBAL GAMING REGULATORY POSITIONS [LFB Paper 156]
Governor: Provide $242,800 in 1999-00 and $225,600 in 2000-01 and 5.0 positions annually for the Office of Indian Gaming. The Office of Indian Gaming is responsible for state regulatory activities under the state-tribal gaming compacts. The positions provided would include 1.0 financial supervisor position, 2.0 auditor positions, 1.0 regulation compliance investigator position and 1.0 program assistant position. The funding would also provide $30,000 in one-time funding in 1999-00 to contract with a private investigator to assist with a backlog of vendor background investigations. Base funding for DOA’s Indian gaming appropriation is $913,100 with 10.0 positions authorized.
Joint Finance/Legislature: Delete $84,200 in 1999-00 and $97,600 in 2000-01 and 2.0 positions annually (1.0 financial supervisor and 1.0 auditor position).
4. COMPULSIVE GAMBLING AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS [LFB Paper 164]
PR $372,000
Governor/Legislature: Provide $186,000 annually for compulsive gambling awareness campaigns, as follows: (a) provide $200,000 annually from tribal gaming revenue; and (b) delete $14,000 annually currently provided from pari-mutuel racing revenue. Under current law, the Department of Health and Family Services (DHFS) is provided $100,000 annually ($50,000 from tribal gaming, $14,000 from pari-mutuel racing and $36,000 from the state lottery) for grants to one or more individuals or organizations in the private sector to conduct compulsive gambling awareness campaigns. Under the bill, payments from pari-mutuel racing and the state lottery for this purpose would be eliminated and DHFS would receive a total $250,000 annually from tribal gaming revenue for compulsive gambling awareness campaign grants.
[Act 9 Sections: 455, 545 and 546 thru 548]
5. PARI-MUTUEL RACING POSITIONS
Funding Positions
PR - $258,800 - 3.00
Governor/Legislature: Delete $129,400 and 3.0 positions annually from the general program operations for pari-mutuel racing regulation. The positions include a program assistant, a senior accountant and a regulation compliance investigator. The program assistant and accountant positions are currently vacant. The incumbent investigator would be transferred to the general program operations appropriation for Indian gaming as one of the new positions proposed for tribal gaming regulation.
6. POSITION ALLOCATIONS
Governor/Legislature: Delete $150,500 PR and 2.75 PR positions annually from the general program operations for pari-mutuel racing and provide $87,900 PR and 1.75 PR positions annually for charitable gaming regulation and $62,600 PR and 1.0 PR position annually for Indian gaming regulation. The transfer of funding for the positions is in response to an audit recommendation by the Legislative Audit Bureau that DOA develop an equitable process for allocating administrative costs among all Division of Gaming programs and to seek expenditure authority from the Legislature to pay these allocated costs from the program operations funding for racing, charitable gaming and Indian gaming.
7. CONFORMANCE WITH 1999 ACT 5 PROVISIONS
Conference Committee/Legislature: Make the following technical changes to conform the 1999-01 biennial budget bill with the provisions of 1999 Act 5 relating to the use of certain gaming revenues for the lottery and gaming property tax credit:
a. Charitable Gaming Appropriations. Provide $247,400 PR and 4.0 PR positions annually for the bingo general program operations appropriation of the Division of Gaming in the Department of Administration. Delete $247,400 PR and 4.0 PR positions annually from the raffles and crane games general program operations appropriation of the Division. Correct the Chapter 20 schedule to reflect separate appropriations for raffles and crane games and for bingo. The modifications conform the appropriations for the regulation of charitable gaming in the 1999-01 biennium to the provisions of 1999 Act 5.
b. Pari-Mutuel Racing Revenue. Provide that any unencumbered balance in the racing general program operations appropriation of the Division of Gaming in the Department of Administration on June 30, 1999, would transfer to the lottery fund. Provide that an amount be transferred from the general fund to the lottery fund equal to any amounts transferred from the racing appropriation to the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection for agricultural aids or lapsed to the general fund on June 30, 1999. The provisions conform the bill to 1999 Act 5 and constitutional requirements that unencumbered racing revenue be used for property tax relief.
Veto by Governor [F-41]: Delete the provisions that: (a) any unencumbered balance in the racing general program operations appropriation of the Division of Gaming in the Department of Administration on June 30, 1999, would be transferred to the lottery fund; and (b) an amount be transferred from the general fund to the lottery fund equal to any amounts transferred from the racing appropriation to the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection for agricultural aids or lapsed to the general fund on June 30, 1999.
[Act 9 Section: 9101(20g)]
[Act 9 Vetoed Section: 9143(3h)]
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