2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
commerce and economic development
Buildings and safety
Under current law, DHFS administers a program to provide mental health services to homeless individuals with chronic mental illness. This bill transfers the program to the Department of Commerce.
health and human services
Mental illness and developmental disabilities
Under current law, DHFS may allocate up to $45,000 in general purpose revenues in each fiscal year, on a matching basis, to public or nonprofit private entities to provide mental health services specified under federal law to homeless individuals with chronic mental illness.
This bill transfers to the Department of Commerce the program under which general purpose revenues are allocated to provide mental health services to homeless individuals with chronic mental illness.
For further information see the state and local 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. 20.435 (5) (ce) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.435 (5) (ce) Services Primary health for homeless individuals. As a continuing appropriation, the amounts in the schedule for primary health services for homeless individuals under s. 46.972 (2).
****NOTE: This SECTION involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
SECTION 2. 20.435 (7) (ce) of the statutes is renumbered 20.143 (2) (fr) and amended to read:
20.143 (2) (fr) Services Mental health for homeless individuals. The amounts in the schedule for mental health services for homeless individuals under s. 46.972 (3) 560.9811.
****NOTE: This SECTION involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
SECTION 3. 46.972 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.972 (title) Services Primary health for homeless individuals.
SECTION 4. 46.972 (2) (title) of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 5. 46.972 (2) of the statutes is renumbered 46.972.
SECTION 6. 46.972 (3) of the statutes is renumbered 560.9811 and amended to read:
560.9811 Mental health services. (1) In this subsection section, "chronic mental illness" has the meaning given in s. 51.01 (3g).
(2) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (ce) 20.143 (2) (fr), the department may not allocate award more than $45,000 in each fiscal year to applying public or nonprofit private entities for the costs of providing certain mental health services to homeless individuals with chronic mental illness. Entities that receive funds allocated awarded by the department under this subsection shall provide the mental health services required under 42 USC 290cc-24. The amount that the department allocates awards to an applying entity may not exceed 50% of the amount of matching funds required under 42 USC 290cc-23.
SECTION 9121. Nonstatutory provisions; health and family services.
(1) TRANSFER OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS.
(a) Assets and liabilities. On the effective date of this paragraph, the assets and liabilities of the department of health and family services primarily related to mental health services for homeless individuals under section 46.972 (3) of the statutes, as affected by this act, as determined by the secretary of administration, shall become the assets and liabilities of the department of commerce.
(b) Position transfer.
1. On the effective date of this subdivision, the authorized FTE positions for the department of health and family services, funded from the appropriation under section 20.435 (6) (m) of the statutes, are decreased by 1.0 PR-F position having responsibility for a program to provide mental health services to homeless individuals with chronic mental illness.
2. On the effective date of this subdivision, the authorized FTE positions for the department of commerce, funded from the appropriation under section 20.143 (2) (m) of the statutes, are increased by 1.0 PR-F position having responsibility for a program to provide mental health services to homeless individuals with chronic mental illness.
3. On the effective date of this subdivision, the incumbent employee holding the position specified in subdivision 1. is transferred to the department of commerce.
(c) Employee status. The employee transferred under paragraph (b) 3. shall have all the same rights and the same status under subchapter V of chapter 111 and chapter 230 of the statutes in the department of commerce that he or she enjoyed in the department of health and family services immediately before the transfer. Notwithstanding section 230.28 (4) of the statutes, no employee so transferred who has attained permanent status in class is required to serve a probationary period.
(d) Tangible personal property. On the effective date of this paragraph, all tangible personal property, including records, of the department of health and family services that is primarily related to mental health services for homeless individuals under section 46.972 (3) of the statutes, as affected by this act, as determined by the secretary of administration, is transferred to the department of commerce.
(e) Contracts. All contracts entered into by the department of health and family services in effect on the effective date of this paragraph that are primarily related to mental health services for homeless individuals under section 46.972 (3) of the statutes, as affected by this act, as determined by the secretary of administration, remain in effect and are transferred to the department of commerce. The department of commerce shall carry out any obligations under such a contract until the contract is modified or rescinded by the department of commerce to the extent allowed under the contract.
(f) Rules and orders. All rules promulgated by the department of health and family services that are in effect on the effective date of this paragraph that are primarily related to mental health services for homeless individuals under section 46.972 (3) of the statutes, as affected by this act, remain in effect until their specified expiration date or until amended or repealed by the department of commerce. All orders issued by the department of health and family services that are in effect on the effective date of this paragraph that are primarily related to mental health services for homeless individuals under section 46.972 (3) of the statutes, as affected by this act, remain in effect until their specified expiration date or until modified or rescinded by the department of commerce.
SECTION 9421. Effective dates; health and family services.
(1) TRANSFER OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS. The treatment of sections 20.435 (5) (ce) and (7) (ce) and 46.972 (title) and (3) of the statutes, the repeal of section 46.972 (2) (title) of the statutes, the renumbering of section 46.972 (2) of the statutes, and SECTION 9121 (1) of this act take effect retroactively to July 1, 2005.
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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Walker, BB0261 - Soil surveys and mapping appropriation
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: soil surveys and mapping by the Land Information Board.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
STATE GOVERNMENT
Other state government
Under current law, the Land Information Board may conduct soil surveys and mapping activities. The board uses revenues that it receives from state agencies and from land recording fees collected by counties to finance these activities.
This bill deletes the soil surveying and mapping functions of the Land Information Board and the appropriations used by the board to finance these functions.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 20.505 (1) (ik) of the statutes is repealed.
****NOTE: This SECTION involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
SECTION 2. 20.505 (1) (kt) of the statutes is repealed.
****NOTE: This SECTION involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Walker, BB0259 - Land information program and recording fees
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: land information.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
state government
Other state government
Currently, the land information board is attached to DOA. The board serves as a state clearinghouse for access to land information and provides technical assistance to state agencies and local governmental units with land information responsibilities, reviews and approves county plans for land records modernization, and provides aids to counties, derived from recording fee revenues collected by counties, for land records modernization projects. Under current law, the board and most of its functions are abolished effective on July 1, 2005.
This bill assigns to DOA most of the functions of the land information board.
Currently, counties collect a land record fee for recording and filing most instruments that are recorded or filed with the register of deeds. The fee is $11 for the first page of an instrument and $2 for each additional page. Until July 1, 2005, counties must remit $2 of each $11 collected for recording or filing the first page of each instrument to the land information board, which the board uses to fund its general program operations and to make grants to counties for land records modernization projects. Currently, if a county does not have a land information office and uses $4 of the fee for recording or filing the first page of an instrument for land records modernization, the county must remit $7 of the fee for recording or filing the first page of an instrument to the land information board. However, if a county establishes a land information office or receives approval from the land information board for its land records modernization plan, the county may retain $5 of each $7 fee that would otherwise be payable to the state, if the county uses $1 of each $5 fee that it retains for the development and maintenance of a computerized index of the county's land information relating to housing that is accessible on the Internet. On July 1, 2005, the fee for recording or filing the first page of an instrument is reduced from $11 to $8 and no portion is remitted to the state. This bill reenacts the current fees, effective on the day the bill becomes law, but requires that the state share be remitted to DOA instead of the land information board. The bill also requires each county that is permitted to retain $5 of each fee to use $1 of each $5 fee that it retains for the provision of land information, including the county's land information records relating to housing, on the Internet.
Under current law, the Wisconsin Land Council exists in DOA. The purposes of the council include the following: 1) to identify and recommend to the governor land use goals and priorities; 2) to establish a technical working group to study the development of a computer-based land information system and make recommendations to the governor in this area; 3) to establish a state agency resource working group that is composed of representatives of DOA, DATCP, DOC, DNR, DOR, DOT, and other appropriate agencies. This state agency resource working group is required to discuss, analyze, and address land use issues and related policy issues. Currently, the Wisconsin Land Council sunsets on September 1, 2005.
Under this bill, almost all of the functions and responsibilities of the Wisconsin Land Council are transferred to DOA. The functions and responsibilities that are not transferred to DOA include the responsibility of the Wisconsin Land Council to establish a technical working group to study the development of a computer-based land information system.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 16.966 of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
16.966 Geographic information systems. The department may develop and maintain geographic information systems relating to land in this state for the use of governmental and nongovernmental units.
SECTION 2. 16.967 of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
16.967 Land information program. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section:
(a) "Agency" has the meaning given in s. 16.70 (1e).
(b) "Land information" means any physical, legal, economic, or environmental information or characteristics concerning land, water, groundwater, subsurface resources, or air in this state. "Land information" includes information relating to topography, soil, soil erosion, geology, minerals, vegetation, land cover, wildlife, associated natural resources, land ownership, land use, land use controls and restrictions, jurisdictional boundaries, tax assessment, land value, land survey records and references, geodetic control networks, aerial photographs, maps, planimetric data, remote sensing data, historic and prehistoric sites, and economic projections.
(c) "Land information system" means an orderly method of organizing and managing land information and land records.
(d) "Land records" means maps, documents, computer files, and any other information storage medium in which land information is recorded.
(e) "Systems integration" means land information that is housed in one jurisdiction or jurisdictional subunit and is available to other jurisdictions, jurisdictional subunits, public utilities, and other private sector interests.
(3) DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT. The department shall direct and supervise the land information program and serve as the state clearinghouse for access to land information. In addition, the department shall:
(a) Provide technical assistance and advice to state agencies and local governmental units with land information responsibilities.
(b) Maintain and distribute an inventory of land information available for this state, land records available for this state, and land information systems.
(c) Prepare guidelines to coordinate the modernization of land records and land information systems.
(d) Review project applications received under sub. (7) and determine which projects are approved.
(e) Review for approval a countywide plan for land records modernization prepared under s. 59.72 (3) (b).
(4) FUNDING REPORT. The department shall identify and study possible program revenue sources or other revenue sources for the purpose of funding the operations of the land information program, including grants to counties under sub. (7).
(5) FEE REVENUE. The department shall credit all fee revenue received under s. 59.72 (5) (a) to the appropriation account under s. 20.505 (1) (ij), except that the department shall credit the amounts appropriated under s. 20.505 (1) (ie) and (if) to those appropriation accounts.
(6) REPORTS. By March 31 of each year, the department of administration, the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection, the department of commerce, the department of health and family services, the department of natural resources, the department of tourism, the department of revenue, the department of transportation, the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin System, the public service commission, and the board of curators of the historical society shall each submit to the department a plan to integrate land information to enable such information to be readily translatable, retrievable, and geographically referenced for use by any state, local governmental unit, or public utility. The plans shall include the information that will be needed by local governmental units to prepare comprehensive plans containing the planning elements required under s. 66.1001 (2). Upon receipt of this information, the department shall integrate the information to enable the information to be used to meet land information data needs. The integrated information shall be readily translatable, retrievable, and geographically referenced to enable members of the public to use the information.
(7) AID TO COUNTIES. (a) A county board that has established a county land information office under s. 59.72 (3) may apply to the department on behalf of any local governmental unit, as defined in s. 59.72 (1) (c), located wholly or partially within the county for a grant for any of the following projects:
1. The design, development, and implementation of a land information system that contains and integrates, at a minimum, property and ownership records with boundary information, including a parcel identifier referenced to the U.S. public land survey; tax and assessment information; soil surveys, if available; wetlands identified by the department of natural resources; a modern geodetic reference system; current zoning restrictions; and restrictive covenants.
2. The preparation of parcel property maps that refer boundaries to the public land survey system and are suitable for use by local governmental units for accurate land title boundary line or land survey line information.
3. The preparation of maps that include a statement documenting accuracy if the maps do not refer boundaries to the public land survey system and that are suitable for use by local governmental units for planning purposes.
4. Systems integration projects.
