40.515 Health care coverage for employees of the Wisconsin Historical Foundation, Inc. If the historical society has entered into a contract with the Wisconsin Historical Foundation, Inc., for any of the purposes specified in s. 44.015 (7), any employee of the Wisconsin Historical Foundation, Inc., who was previously employed by the historical society is eligible to receive health care coverage under a plan offered to state employees under s. 40.51 (6), subject to enrolling in the plan during any applicable enrollment period and to any conditions established by contract or by rule under s. 40.51 (1).
SECTION 4. 44.015 (7) of the statutes is amended to read:
44.015 (7) Contract with the Wisconsin Historical Foundation, Inc., or any other nonstock, nonprofit corporation under ch. 181 for the purposes of administering the historical society's membership program, soliciting and accepting contributions, gifts, grants, and bequests for the historical society, marketing the historical society's goods and services, providing support for the operation, management, and development of the historical society's programs, and performing other functions approved by the board of curators. If the Wisconsin Historical Foundation, Inc., enters into a contract with the historical society for any purpose under this subsection, the Wisconsin Historical Foundation, Inc. shall provide health care coverage under s. 40.515 to its employees who were previously employed by the historical society.
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LRB-1272LRB-1272/P1
CTS:wlj&cs:jf
2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Percy, BB0323 - Super employment and economic development zone grant program
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
commerce and economic development
Economic development
This bill requires the Department of Commerce (department) to designate certain areas of the state as extremely depressed areas and authorizes the department to award a grant to a business that locates in an area designated as an extremely depressed area, if the business will create at least 100 qualifying jobs in the area. A business may use grant proceeds to pay eligible costs. Under the bill, the department may award a grant only if the business agrees to pay at least 90 percent of the new employees a family-supporting wage and to make every reasonable effort to fill at least 75 percent of the new jobs with individuals who reside in the extremely depressed area. The department may make grant payments to an eligible business for up to five years.
The bill requires the department to promulgate rules defining "extremely depressed area," which must be an area with an unemployment rate equal to or exceeding 150 percent of the statewide average unemployment rate. The bill requires the department also to define by rule "eligible costs," "family-supporting wage," and "qualifying jobs."
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. 20.143 (1) (cm) of the statutes is created to read:
20.143 (1) (cm) Super employment and economic development zone grants. Biennially, the amounts in the schedule for employment and economic development zone grants under s. 560.799.
****NOTE: This SECTION involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
SECTION 2. 560.799 of the statutes is created to read:
560.799 Super employment and economic development zone grant program. (1) Beginning on July 1, 2006, from the appropriation under s. 20.143 (1) (cm), the department may award a grant to an eligible business that locates in an extremely depressed area designated under sub. (3) (a), for reimbursing the business's eligible costs, if all of the following apply:
(a) The department determines that the business will create not fewer than 100 qualifying jobs in the extremely depressed area.
(b) The business enters into a written agreement with the department that specifies the conditions for use of the grant proceeds and in which the business agrees to do all of the following:
1. Compensate at a family-supporting wage not less than 90 percent of the employees in the qualifying jobs created under par. (a).
2. Make every reasonable effort to hire individuals who reside in the extremely depressed area to fill at least 75 percent of the qualifying jobs created under par. (a).
3. Submit the report required under sub. (2) by the time the report is required under sub. (2).
(2) A business that is awarded a grant under this section shall, by March 31 of the year following a year in which the department disburses grant moneys to the business, submit to the department a report detailing how the grant moneys received in that year were used.
(3) The department shall do all of the following:
(a) Designate areas in this state as extremely depressed areas. The department may not designate an area under this paragraph unless the department determines that the unemployment rate for the area equals or exceeds 150 percent of the average unemployment rate for this state.
(b) Promulgate rules defining all of the following terms:
1. "Eligible costs," which may include property taxes, utilities, job training, employee transportation, a portion of wages paid by the business to employees who reside in the extremely depressed area, and a portion of the costs incurred by the business to provide child care at the business for employees.
2. "Extremely depressed area."
3. "Family-supporting wage."
4. "Qualifying jobs."
(4) The department may pay grant proceeds to an eligible business that is awarded a grant under this section for up to 5 years.
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LRB-1300LRB-1300/1
RAC:wlj:rs
2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Hummert, BB0317 - Equal Rights Division duties
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
State government
State employment
The bill makes technical changes to provisions in the state's civil service law relating to the equal rights division in DWD.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 230.85 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
230.85 (3) (b) If, after hearing, the division of equal rights finds that the respondent did not engage in or threaten a retaliatory action it shall order the complaint dismissed. The division of equal rights shall order the employee's appointing authority to insert a copy of the findings and orders into the employee's personnel file and, if the respondent is a natural person, order the respondent's appointing authority to insert such a copy into the respondent's personnel file. If the division of equal rights finds by unanimous vote that the employee filed a frivolous complaint it may order payment of the respondent's reasonable actual attorney fees and actual costs. Payment may be assessed against either the employee or the employee's attorney, or assessed so that the employee and the employee's attorney each pay a portion. To find a complaint frivolous the division of equal rights must find that either s. 814.025 (3) (a) or (b) applies or that both s. 814.025 (3) (a) and (b) apply.
SECTION 2. 230.89 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 230.89.
SECTION 3. 230.89 (2) of the statutes is repealed.
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LRB-1302LRB-1302/3
DAK:kjf:rs
2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Milioto, BB0329 - Acuity-based direct care reimbursement for nursing homes
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
Health
Under current law, DHFS provides Medical Assistance (MA) payment to nursing homes and some community-based residential facilities (facilities) under a detailed formula that assigns cost-based payment for certain items and flat-rate payment for others. Currently, support services (dietary services, environmental services, fuel and utilities, administrative, and general costs) and direct care costs (personal comfort supplies, medical supplies, over-the-counter drugs, and nonbillable services for ancillary nursing home personnel) are paid on a flat-rate basis. Beginning July 1, 2006, this bill changes payment from cost based to flat rate for nonbillable direct care costs for registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and nurse's assistants.
Currently, in calculating amounts payable for direct care costs, DHFS must establish standards for facilities that do not primarily serve the developmentally disabled separately from standards for facilities that primarily serve the developmentally disabled and must, for each type of facility, take into account direct care costs for a sample of all such facilities in Wisconsin. Further, DHFS must establish the direct care component of the facility payment rate for each facility by comparing actual allowable direct care cost information for that facility, as adjusted for inflation, to the standard. If a facility has an approved program to provide services to developmentally disabled residents, residents dependent on ventilators, or residents requiring supplemental skilled care because of complex medical conditions, DHFS may provide the facility with a supplement to the direct care component. Beginning July 1, 2006, this bill eliminates differences in standards for payment of direct care costs between facilities that primarily serve the developmentally disabled and those that do not, and eliminates the requirement that DHFS establish a direct care component of the payment rate for each facility by comparing the facility's actual allowable direct care costs to the standard.
Lastly, the bill requires DHFS to issue inquiries, before July 1, 2006, concerning the existence of managed care organizations that are capable of developing the provision of primary, acute, and long-term managed care, on a regional basis, to elderly and disabled MA recipients.
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. 49.45 (6m) (ag) 3m. of the statutes is amended to read:
49.45 (6m) (ag) 3m. For each state fiscal year, rates that shall be set by the department based on information from cost reports for costs specified under par. (am) 1. bm., 4., 5m., and 6. for the most recently completed fiscal year of the facility.
SECTION 2. 49.45 (6m) (ag) 3r. of the statutes is amended to read:
49.45 (6m) (ag) 3r. Flat-rate payment for all costs specified under par. (am) 1. a. and 2.
SECTION 3. 49.45 (6m) (ar) 1. a. of the statutes is amended to read:
49.45 (6m) (ar) 1. a. The department shall establish standards for payment of allowable direct care costs under par. (am) 1. bm., for facilities that do not primarily serve the developmentally disabled, that take into account direct care costs for a sample of all of those facilities in this state and separate standards for payment of allowable direct care costs, for facilities that primarily serve the developmentally disabled, that take into account direct care costs for a sample of all of those facilities in this state. The standards shall be adjusted by the department for regional labor cost variations. For facilities in Douglas, Pierce, and St. Croix counties, the department shall perform the adjustment by use of the wage index that is used by the federal department of health and human services for hospital reimbursement under 42 USC 1395 to 1395ggg.
SECTION 4. 49.45 (6m) (ar) 1. b. of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 5. 49.45 (6m) (ar) 1. c. of the statutes is amended to read:
49.45 (6m) (ar) 1. c. If a facility has an approved program for provision of service to mentally retarded residents, residents dependent upon ventilators, or residents requiring supplemental skilled care due to complex medical conditions, a supplement to the direct care component of the facility rate under subd. 1. b. may be made to that facility according to a method developed by the department.
SECTION 9121. Nonstatutory provisions; health and family services.
(1) INQUIRIES CONCERNING MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS. Before July 1, 2006, the department of health and family services shall issue inquiries concerning the existence of managed care organizations that have capability to develop the provision of primary, acute, and long-term managed care, on a regional basis, to elderly and disabled Medical Assistance recipients. The department of health and family services shall consult with the department of administration in connection with the inquiries issued under this subsection and the responses received.
SECTION 9421. Effective dates; health and family services.
(1) DIRECT CARE NURSING HOME REIMBURSEMENT. The treatment of section 49.45 (6m) (ag) 3m. and 3r. and (ar) 1. a., b., and c. of the statutes takes effect on July 1, 2006.
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LRB-1305LRB-1305/1
GMM:jld:ch
2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Hummert, BB0318 - Prevailing wage records
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
employment
Under current law, certain laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers employed on a state or local project of public works must be paid at the rate paid for a majority of the hours worked in the person's trade or occupation in the county in which the project is located (prevailing wage law). Current law requires each contractor, subcontractor, and contractor's or subcontractor's agent performing work on a project that is subject to the prevailing wage law to keep records indicating the name and trade or occupation of every person performing work that is subject to the prevailing wage law and an accurate record of the number of hours worked by each of those persons and the actual wages paid for those hours worked. This bill requires a contractor, subcontractor, or agent performing work on a project that is subject to the prevailing wage law, other than a state highway project, to submit, on a weekly basis, to the contracting local governmental unit or state agency authorizing the work a certified record indicating for the preceding week the name and trade or occupation of every person performing work that is subject to the prevailing wage law and an accurate record of the number of hours worked by each of those persons and the actual wages paid for those hours worked.
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. 66.0903 (10) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0903 (10) (a) Each contractor, subcontractor, or contractor's or subcontractor's agent performing work on a project that is subject to this section shall keep full and accurate records clearly indicating the name and trade or occupation of every person performing the work described in sub. (4) and an accurate record of the number of hours worked by each of those persons and the actual wages paid for the hours worked. By no later than the end of the week following a week in which a contractor, subcontractor, or contractor's or subcontractor's agent performs work on a project that is subject to this section, the contractor, subcontractor, or agent shall submit to the contracting local governmental unit a certified record of the information specified in the preceding sentence for that preceding week.
