34. MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Governor/Legislature: Transfer $25,400 GPR and 0.5 program and planning analyst position annually from the Food Safety Division to the Management Services Division to assist the Secretary's office.
PR $2,378,800
SEG 241,400
Total $2,620,200
35. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Governor/Legislature: Combine information technology funds into one appropriation. Currently, funds are transferred from various revenue accounts to cover appropriations. Those transfers do not appear as expenditures, but instead as revenue reductions. Spending authority would replace transfer authority, thus showing up as expenditures for record-keeping purposes. Revenue transfer authority of $85,400 PR and $120,700 SEG annually would be replaced with reciprocal spending authority. Also, increase spending authority for the one remaining IT appropriation by $1,359,000 PR in 1999-00 and $849,000 PR in 2000-01 to reflect chargebacks to various agency appropriations for IT expenditures.
[Act 9 Sections: 193 and 1933]
36. ELECTRONIC PROCESSING [LFB Paper 220]
Governor: Allow the Department to electronically process applications and payments for goods and services as well as DATCP-issued licenses, permits, registrations and certificates. The Department could also charge additional fees for electronic processing to cover the processing costs. Fees would be deposited into a new, continuing PR appropriation to be used for electronic processing.
Joint Finance: Require DATCP to set fees by administrative rule for the actual cost of electronic processing, if the Department chooses to collect such fees.
Senate: Delete the Joint Finance provision to require DATCP to set fees for the actual cost of electronic processing, if the Department chooses to collect such fees. Rather, allow DATCP to electronically process applications and payments for goods and services as well as DATCP-issued licenses, permits, registrations and certificates, as recommended by the Governor, but do not allow DATCP to charge additional fees for electronic processing.
Conference Committee/Legislature: Delete Senate provision.
[Act 9 Sections: 192 and 1927]
37. MILK STANDARDS PROGRAM
Governor/Legislature: Remove obsolete language directing the PR appropriation for the milk standards program to reimburse the general fund for startup costs. The reimbursement was made.
[Act 9 Section: 191]
38. AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION
Joint Finance/Legislature: Allow an agricultural engineering practitioner who previously has been certified to review plans for, or conduct inspections of, a type of agricultural engineering practice at one job class level to certify for funding purposes that design specifications and constructed or installed practices for any agricultural engineering practice under that job class level comply with DATCP standards, without requiring the agricultural engineering practitioner to receive recertification.
[Act 9 Section: 1926yr]
GPR $640,800
39. COUNTY FAIR AIDS [LFB Paper 221]
Joint Finance/Legislature: Provide $320,400 annually to reestimate base funding for county and district fair aids at $585,000 annually. Due to a Constitutional amendment requiring all state pari-mutuel revenues be directed toward property tax relief, county and district fair aids can no longer be funded from pari-mutuel supplemental aid and instead will be funded entirely from GPR. The $585,000 provided annually was the maximum GPR available under prior law.
40. AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM
Joint Finance: Provide $100,000 SEG annually from the agrichemical management fund for grants to the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation for use in the USDA Agriculture in the Classroom program. Require DATCP to release $3 for every $2 the Farm Bureau provides in matching funds.
Senate/Legislature: Delete provision.
41. COMPREHENSIVE LOCAL PLANNING GRANT ASSESSMENTS
Joint Finance: Authorize the Secretary of DOA to annually assess the Department $250,000 to be paid from the agency's GPR general operations appropriations to fund a local planning grant program administered by the Department of Administration that is created under the bill. The assessments would be for grants to counties, cities, villages, towns or regional planning commissions to finance the local cost of planning activities and the cost of program delivery.
Conference Committee/Legislature: Delete provision.
42. MEAT PROCESSING
Governor: Require state licensed animal, poultry and carcass slaughter and processing facilities to comply with the standards that federally licensed facilities must meet, unless specified otherwise by DATCP rule. These standards generally deal with facilities for inspection, sanitation, ante-mortem inspection, post-mortem inspection, disposal of diseased or otherwise adulterated carcasses and parts, humane slaughtering, handling and disposal of condemned or other inedible products, rendering or other disposal of carcasses and parts passed for cooking, labeling, marking devices and containers, entry into official establishments, definitions and standards of identity or composition, sanitation, hazard analysis and critical control point systems and parts of poultry products inspection regulations. Under current law, the Department is required to issue various administrative rules for animal, poultry and carcass slaughter and processing facilities. The bill would allow, rather than require DATCP to issue any of those rules. These changes would take effect on January 1, 2000.
Allow DATCP to promulgate a retail food regulation or DHFS to promulgate a restaurant rule based on the model food code of the federal Food and Drug Administration under that format rather than according to the current statutory format.
Expand the definition of "potentially hazardous food" under food regulations of retail food establishments to clarify that it includes any food that requires temperature control because it is capable of supporting growth and toxin production of Clostridium botulinum (a bacteria commonly found in soil which causes the paralytic illness, botulism) or the growth of Salmonella enteritidis in raw shell eggs. DATCP currently considers these items to be potentially hazardous foods. Retail food establishment license fees depend on whether or not the establishment sells potentially hazardous food. The change would take effect on January 1, 2001.
Joint Finance: Delete provision as non-fiscal policy.
Assembly/Legislature: Restore the Governor's provision as technically corrected to make the effective date of the definition of "potentially hazardous food" the effective date of the bill rather than January 1, 2001.
[Act 9 Sections: 1946m thru 1946p, 2355mm and 9404(2g)]
43. PACKAGING SIZE RESTRICTIONS
Assembly/Legislature: Eliminate size requirements on containers in which ice cream and similar frozen deserts may be packaged, but retain the requirement that such items be sold by liquid measure unless they are less than one-half liquid pint in size or are packaged at the time of sale at retail. Currently, ice cream and similar frozen deserts generally must be packaged only in containers with capacities of one-half liquid pint, one liquid pint, one liquid quart or a multiple of one liquid quart.
Eliminate the requirements that the weight of a loaf of bread manufactured, offered for sale or sold for consumption within this state be at least one-half pound and a multiple of four ounces. Rather, require that, except for stale bread identified as such, loaves of bread manufactured, offered for sale or sold within this state be sold by weight.
[Act 9 Sections: 1952m and 1953e]
44. SELF-SERVICE STORAGE OPERATOR REQUIREMENTS
Assembly: Require self-service storage operators to include an inventory of a lessee's property on the second default notice to a client that has defaulted on payment of rent, rather than providing an inventory for both the first and second default notices. Further, require self-service storage operators to advertise at least once in a local newspaper the sale of a lessee's property to satisfy a lien rather than requiring an advertisement once per week for two consecutive weeks prior to conducting such a sale under current law. These changes would first apply to defaults occurring on the effective date of the bill.
Conference Committee/Legislature: Delete provision.
ARTS BOARD
Budget Change Items
1. STANDARD BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS
GPR - $290,100
FED - 1,000
Total - $291,100
Governor/Legislature: Adjust the base budget for: (a) the removal of noncontinuing items (-$150,000 GPR annually); (b) full funding of salaries and fringe benefits ($2,700 GPR and -$1,000 FED annually); (c) full funding of financial services charges ($200 GPR and $500 FED annually); (d) reclassification of positions ($1,100 GPR in 1999-00 and $1,200 GPR in 2000-01); and (e) fifth week of vacation as cash ($900 GPR annually).
2. HIGH POINT FUND
Joint Finance: Provide $100,000 annually in a new, annual appropriation for a grant to the Milwaukee Foundation, Inc. for deposit in the Foundation's High Point Fund. The Board would be required to annually pay the amount appropriated to the Foundation.
Assembly: Delete provision.
Conference Committee/Legislature: Modify Joint Finance provision to delete $50,000 annually.
Veto by Governor [A-1]: Delete $50,000 in 2000-01 for a grant to the Milwaukee Foundation, Inc., providing a net amount of $50,000 in 1999-00 only.
[Act 9 Sections: 226m and 947m]
[Act 9 Vetoed Section: 172 (as it relates to s. 20.215(1)(e))]
3. GRANT TO PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION
Joint Finance: Increase the Board's state aid for the arts appropriation by $50,000 in 1999-00. Require the Board to award a grant of $50,000 from the state aid for the arts appropriation in 1999-00 to a non-profit performing arts foundation located in a county with a population of less than 130,000 for use in improving handicapped accessibility in the foundation's facility. Specify that in order to receive the grant, the foundation would have to provide matching funds equal to at least $150,000.
Senate/Legislature: Provide an additional $100,000 in 1999-00 for this purpose.
Veto by Governor [A-1]: Reduce the amount that the Board is required to award to a non-profit foundation from $150,000 to $50,000. Although the appropriation is not reduced, in his veto message, the Governor requests that the Secretary of Administration place $100,000 in the state aid to the arts appropriation in unallotted reserve in 1999-00 to lapse to the general fund. The veto does not reduce the amount of matching funds that have to be raised by the foundation in order to receive the grant.
[Act 9 Sections: 226g and 9105(1c)]
[Act 9 Vetoed Section: 9105(1c)]
4. GRANT TO STEVENS POINT ARTS COUNCIL
GPR $50,000
Senate/Legislature: Provide $50,000 in 1999-00 in a new annual appropriation for a grant to the City of Stevens Point Arts Council for development of the Portage County Arts Alliance. Specify that the funds could be awarded only if a match of at least $50,000 is provided by the Council. Provide that no monies could be encumbered from this appropriation after June 30, 2000.
[Act 9 Sections: 226n and 9105(2w)]
5. REESTIMATE FEDERAL REVENUES
FED - $480,000
Governor/Legislature: Reestimate federal revenues for state operations and aids to individuals and organizations by -$240,000 annually to more accurately reflect funding received from the National Endowment for the Arts.
