SECTION 1. 560.137 (2) (f) of the statutes is created to read:
560.137 (2) (f) If the department awards a grant under this subsection, the department may contract directly with and pay grant proceeds directly to any person providing technical or management assistance to the grant recipient.
SECTION 2. 560.138 (6) of the statutes is created to read:
560.138 (6) If the department awards a grant under this section, the department may contract directly with and pay grant proceeds directly to any person providing technical or management assistance to the grant recipient.
SECTION 3. 560.155 (2) (e) of the statutes is created to read:
560.155 (2) (e) If the department awards a grant under this section, the department may contract directly with and pay grant proceeds directly to any person providing technical or management assistance to the grant recipient.
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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Fath, BB0178 - Additional funding for the work experience program for noncustodial parents
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Health and human services
Other health and human services
Under current law, DWD may contract with a county, tribal governing body, or Wisconsin Works (W-2) agency to administer a program under which noncustodial parents who fail to pay child support as a result of unemployment or underemployment are provided with various kinds of employment services. Administration and benefit costs of the program are paid with moneys received under the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant program. This bill adds another source of funding for the program: an appropriation account containing moneys assigned to the state by current or former public assistance recipients and transferred from the support collections trust fund, which contains child support paid by persons with child support obligations, delinquent child support collections, moneys received from DOR that were withheld from state income tax refunds owed to persons with delinquent child support obligations, and moneys received under judgments and orders in actions affecting the family.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 49.36 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.36 (2) The department may contract with any county, tribal governing body, or Wisconsin works Works agency to administer a work experience and job training program for parents who are not custodial parents and who fail to pay child support or to meet their children's needs for support as a result of unemployment or underemployment. The program may provide the kinds of work experience and job training services available from the program under s. 49.193, 1997 stats., or s. 49.147 (3) or (4). The program may also include job search and job orientation activities. The department shall fund the program from the appropriation appropriations under s. 20.445 (3) (dz) and (k).
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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Fath, BB0177 - Consolidation of DWS PR and PR-S position authority
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Health and human services
Other health and human services
Under current law, a DWD appropriation for the administration of programs and projects relating to economic support consists of all moneys received from other state agencies and from DWD for those programs. This bill removes the limitation in current law that the programs and projects for which DWD receives moneys to administer are related to economic support.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 20.445 (3) (kx) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.445 (3) (kx) Interagency and intra-agency programs. All moneys received from other state agencies and all moneys received by the department from the department for the administration of programs and projects relating to economic support for which received, including administration of the food stamp employment and training program under s. 49.13, and for local assistance and aids to individuals and organizations relating to economic support.
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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Fath, BB0164 - Public assistance collections
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Health and human services
Public assistance
Under current law, if DWD determines that benefits have been overpaid under the Wisconsin Works (W-2) program, the person to whom the benefits were overpaid is required to repay the amount of the overpayment. The statutes provide the collection procedure if the person does not repay the overpaid amount. This bill makes a few changes to the procedure.
Under current law, fees paid by DWD to the clerk of circuit court for filing warrants constituting liens on the real and personal property of overpaid persons are billed semiannually, but fees for filing satisfactions, releases, or withdrawals of warrants are paid when those documents are filed. The bill makes the payment of filing fees for satisfactions, releases, and withdrawals of warrants semiannual also.
Under current law, DWD is required to issue and file a notice of withdrawal of a warrant if a person who received an overpayment complies with a payment schedule arranged with DWD. The bill makes the issuing and filing of a notice of withdrawal discretionary with DWD so that DWD is not required to withdraw a warrant after just one payment is made on schedule.
Under current law, if DWD levies against the property of an overpaid person, the levy is effective until it is satisfied or released, or until one year from the date the levy was served, whichever occurs first. Also, any third party in possession of property subject to levy, such as a financial institution at which an overpaid person has an account, is entitled to a levy fee of $5 that may be deducted from the proceeds of the levy. The bill eliminates the one-year time limit so that a levy is effective until satisfied or released, and provides that, if a third party retains a levy fee, the third party must increase the amount of the levy by the fee amount before deducting the fee from the proceeds.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 49.195 (3m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.195 (3m) (b) The clerk of circuit court shall accept, file, and enter the each warrant under par. (a) and each satisfaction, release, or withdrawal under par. (d), (e), (g), or (h) in the judgment and lien docket without prepayment of any fee, but the clerk of circuit court shall submit a statement of the proper fee semiannually to the department covering the periods from January 1 to June 30 and July 1 to December 31 unless a different billing period is agreed to between the clerk of circuit court and the department. The department shall pay the fees, but shall add the fees provided by s. 814.61 (5) for entering the warrants to the amount of the warrant and shall collect the fees from the person named in the warrant when satisfaction or release is presented for entry.
SECTION 2. 49.195 (3m) (h) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.195 (3m) (h) If the department arranges a payment schedule with the debtor and the debtor complies with the payment schedule, the department shall may issue a notice of withdrawal of the warrant to the clerk of circuit court for the county in which the warrant is filed. The If the department issues a notice of withdrawal of the warrant, the clerk shall void the warrant and the resulting liens.
SECTION 3. 49.195 (3n) (p) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.195 (3n) (p) A levy is effective from the date on which the levy is first served on the 3rd party until the liability out of which the levy arose is satisfied, or until the levy is released or until one year from the date of service, whichever occurs first.
SECTION 4. 49.195 (3n) (t) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.195 (3n) (t) Any 3rd party is entitled to a levy fee of $5 for each levy in any case where in which property is secured through the levy. The If the 3rd party retains the fee, the 3rd party shall increase the levy amount by the amount of the fee and deduct the fee from the proceeds of the levy.
SECTION 9354. Initial applicability; workforce development.
(1) DURATION OF LEVY. The treatment of section 49.195 (3n) (p) of the statutes first applies to levies that are served on the effective date of this subsection.
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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Walker, BB0179 - Costs related to condemnation of animals
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Agriculture
Under current law, DATCP is generally required to make payments to the owners of livestock, including farm-raised deer, that DATCP orders to be destroyed because of exposure to or infection with disease. A disease indemnity payment for the destruction of a livestock animal generally equals two-thirds of the difference between the appraised value of the animal and any payment that the owner received from selling the slaughtered animal, but not more than $1,500 per animal.
Under this bill, if DATCP orders an animal to be destroyed because it is suspected to have a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy and the owner disposes of the animal as directed by DATCP, the amount of the disease indemnity is increased by the costs of destroying and disposing of the animal. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies include chronic wasting disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease). The bill also authorizes DATCP to expend general purpose revenues to pay an indemnity to a person whose animal is killed in order to conduct surveillance testing for chronic wasting disease, but only if funds received by DATCP from the federal government or another state agency for the payment of indemnities are insufficient to pay the indemnity.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 95.23 (1m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
95.23 (1m) (b) The department shall indemnify the owner of an animal that must be killed in order to conduct testing under par. (a), if funds are available from the appropriation under s. 20.115 (2) (m) or (8) (ks) to pay the indemnity, in an amount equal to two-thirds of the difference between the net salvage value and the appraised value of the animal but not more than $1,500 for one animal, except as provided in s. 95.31 (3m). The department may pay an indemnity under this paragraph from the appropriation account under s. 20.115 (2) (b) only if funds received by the department under s. 20.115 (2) (m) and (8) (ks) for the payment of indemnities are insufficient to pay the indemnity.
SECTION 2. 95.31 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
95.31 (3) In addition to the indemnities for specific animal diseases provided under ss. 95.25, 95.26 and 95.27 or under special emergency programs and subject to s. 95.36, the department shall pay indemnities on livestock condemned and slaughtered or destroyed because of other diseases if the department determines that the condemnation and slaughter or destruction is necessary to protect public health or the livestock industry. The indemnity under this subsection shall be two-thirds of the difference between net salvage value and appraised value, but may not exceed $1,500 for an animal, except as provided in sub (3m). As used in this subsection, "livestock" means animals of species raised primarily to produce food for human consumption, including farm-raised deer.
SECTION 3. 95.31 (3m) of the statutes is created to read:
95.31 (3m) If the department condemns an animal because the animal is suspected to have a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy and the owner disposes of the carcass as directed by the department, the department shall increase the amount of the indemnity calculated under sub. (3) or s. 95.23 (1m) (b) by the costs of the destruction of the animal and of the disposal, transportation, and any necessary storage of the animal's carcass. An indemnity paid because of the condemnation of an animal to which this subsection applies may exceed $1,500.
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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Walker, BB0180 - DATCP authority to issue loans with federal funding
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Agriculture
This bill authorizes DATCP to make loans for the development of rural business enterprises or for rural economic development and to charge fees and interest for those loans as required to obtain federal funding to make loans for those purposes.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 20.115 (3) (h) of the statutes is created to read:
