AB100,86,1717
(b) Holding public hearings or information meetings on land use issues.
AB100,86,1818
(c) Conducting surveys on land use issues.
AB100,86,1919
(d) Consulting with any person who is interested in land use issues.
AB100, s. 94
20Section
94. 16.971 (17) of the statutes is created to read:
AB100,86,2421
16.971
(17) Provide educational agencies that are eligible for a rate discount
22on telecommunications services under
47 USC 254 with additional
23telecommunications access under s. 16.998 and contract with telecommunications
24providers to provide that access.
AB100, s. 95
25Section
95. 16.993 (9) of the statutes is repealed.
AB100, s. 96
1Section
96. 16.995 (3m) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,87,92
16.995
(3m) Public debt repayment. To the extent that sufficient moneys
for
3the provision of educational telecommunications access under s. 16.997 are available
4in the appropriation account under s. 20.505 (4) (mp) after payment of the
5administrative expenses specified in s. 20.505 (4) (mp), the department shall use
6those available moneys to reimburse s. 20.505 (4) (es) and (et) for the payment of
7principal and interest costs incurred in financing educational technology
8infrastructure financial assistance under this section and to make full payment of
9the amounts determined by the building commission under s. 13.488 (1) (m).
AB100, s. 97
10Section
97. 16.997 (2) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 16.997 (2) (a) (intro.)
11and amended to read:
AB100,87,1412
16.997
(2) (a) (intro.) Allow an educational agency to make a request to the
13department for access to either one data line or one video link, except
that any as
14follows:
AB100,87,17
151. Any educational agency may request access to additional data lines if the
16agency shows to the satisfaction of the department that the additional data lines are
17more cost-effective than a single data line
and except that a.
AB100,87,20
182. A school district that operates more than one high school or a public library
19board that operates more than one library facility may request access to both a data
20line and a video link and access to more than one data line or video link.
AB100, s. 98
21Section
98. 16.997 (2) (a) 3. of the statutes is created to read:
AB100,87,2422
16.997
(2) (a) 3. An educational agency that is eligible for a rate discount on
23telecommunications services under
47 USC 254 may request access to additional
24data lines and video links and to increased bandwidth access as provided in s. 16.998.
AB100, s. 99
25Section
99. 16.997 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,88,7
116.997
(2) (b) Establish eligibility requirements for an educational agency to
2participate in the program established under sub. (1)
and to receive additional
3telecommunications access under s. 16.998, including a requirement that a charter
4school sponsor use data lines and video links to benefit pupils attending the charter
5school and a requirement that Internet access to material that is harmful to children,
6as defined in s. 948.11 (1) (b), is blocked on the computers of secured correctional
7facilities that are served by data links and video links subsidized under this section.
AB100, s. 100
8Section
100. 16.997 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,88,129
16.997
(2) (c) Establish specifications for data lines and video links for which
10access is provided to an educational agency under the program established under
11sub. (1)
or for which additional access is provided to an educational agency under s.
1216.998.
AB100, s. 101
13Section
101. 16.997 (2) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,88,1714
16.997
(2) (f) Ensure that secured correctional facilities that receive access
15under this section to data lines and video links
use them or that receive additional
16access under s. 16.998 to data lines, video links, and bandwidth use those data lines
17and video links and that bandwidth only for educational purposes.
AB100, s. 102
18Section
102. 16.997 (2g) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,88,2119
16.997
(2g) (intro.) An educational agency that is provided access to a data line
20under the program established under sub. (1)
or to an additional data line under s.
2116.998 may not do any of the following:
AB100, s. 103
22Section
103. 16.997 (2r) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,89,623
16.997
(2r) (a) A public library board that is provided access to a data line under
24the program established under sub. (1)
or to an additional data line under s. 16.998 25may enter into a shared service agreement with a political subdivision that provides
1the political subdivision with access to any excess bandwidth on the data line that
2is not used by the public library board, except that a public library board may not sell,
3resell, or transfer in consideration for money or anything of value to a political
4subdivision access to any excess bandwidth. A shared service agreement under this
5paragraph is not valid unless the agreement allows the public library board to cancel
6the agreement at any time after providing notice to the political subdivision.
AB100, s. 104
7Section
104. 16.998 of the statutes is created to read:
AB100,89,18
816.998 Educational telecommunications; additional access. An
9educational agency that is eligible for a rate discount for telecommunications
10services under
47 USC 254 may request data lines, video links, and bandwidth access
11that is in addition to what is provided under the program under s. 16.997 (1). The
12department shall apply for aid under
47 USC 254 to cover the costs of the data lines,
13video links, and bandwidth access that are provided under this section and shall
14credit any aid received to the appropriation account under s. 20.505 (4) (mp). To the
15extent that the aid does not fully cover those costs, the department shall require an
16educational agency to pay the department a monthly fee that is sufficient to cover
17those costs and shall credit any monthly fee received to the appropriation account
18under s. 20.505 (4) (Lm).
AB100, s. 105
19Section
105. 17.11 (4) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,90,220
17.11
(4) (intro.) If it is determined in the action or proceeding or is found upon
21the investigation that a district attorney or sheriff suspended under this section is
22not guilty of an offense, or has not willfully neglected or refused to perform his or her
23duties, as charged, that fact shall be certified by the governor to the department of
24administration justice if a district attorney is involved or to the county clerk of the
1sheriff's county if a sheriff is involved. Upon the certification, the district attorney
2or sheriff shall be:
AB100, s. 106
3Section
106. 18.01 (4) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,90,64
18.01
(4) (intro.) "Public debt" or "debt" means every voluntary, unconditional
5undertaking by the state, other than an operating note
or an interest exchange
6agreement, to repay a sum certain:
AB100, s. 107
7Section
107. 18.06 (8) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 18.06 (8) (a) (intro.)
8and amended to read:
AB100,90,169
18.06
(8) (a) (intro.)
The Subject to par. (am), at the time of, or in anticipation
10of, contracting public debt and at any time thereafter while the public debt is
11outstanding, the commission may enter into agreements and ancillary
12arrangements
for relating to the public debt, including liquidity facilities,
13remarketing or dealer agreements, letter of credit agreements, insurance policies,
14guaranty agreements, reimbursement agreements, indexing agreements
, or interest
15exchange agreements.
At the time of contracting for any such agreement or ancillary
16arrangement, the commission shall determine all of the following, if applicable:
AB100, s. 108
17Section
108. 18.06 (8) (a) 1. of the statutes is created to read:
AB100,90,2018
18.06
(8) (a) 1. For any payment to be received with respect to the agreement
19or ancillary arrangement, whether the payment will be deposited into the bond
20security and redemption fund or the capital improvement fund.
AB100, s. 109
21Section
109. 18.06 (8) (a) 2. of the statutes is created to read:
AB100,90,2522
18.06
(8) (a) 2. For any payment to be made with respect to the agreement or
23ancillary arrangement, whether the payment will be made from the bond security
24and redemption fund or the capital improvement fund and the timing of any transfer
25of funds.
AB100, s. 110
1Section
110. 18.08 (1) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 18.08 (1) (a) (intro.)
2and amended to read:
AB100,91,73
18.08
(1) (a) (intro.) All moneys resulting from the contracting of public debt
4or any payment to be received with respect to any agreement or ancillary
5arrangement entered into under s. 18.06 (8) (a) with respect to any such public debt 6shall be credited to a separate and distinct fund, established in the state treasury,
7designated as the capital improvement fund, except that
such:
AB100,91,11
81. Such moneys which represent
premium and accrued interest on bonds
or
9notes issued, or are for purposes of funding or refunding bonds pursuant to s. 18.06
10(5)
, shall be credited to one or more of the sinking funds of the bond security and
11redemption fund or to the state building trust fund
.; and
AB100, s. 111
12Section
111. 18.08 (1) (a) 2. of the statutes is created to read:
AB100,91,1713
18.08
(1) (a) 2. Any such moneys that represent premium or any payments
14received pursuant to any agreement or ancillary arrangement entered into under s.
1518.06 (8) (a) with respect to any such public debt may be credited to one or more of
16the sinking funds of the bond security and redemption fund or to the capital
17improvement fund, as determined by the commission.
AB100, s. 112
18Section
112. 18.08 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,91,2519
18.08
(2) The capital improvement fund may be expended, pursuant to
20appropriations, only for the purposes and in the amounts for which the
public debts
21have been contracted, for the payment of principal and interest on loans or on notes
,
22for the payment due, if any, under an agreement or ancillary arrangement entered
23into under s. 18.06 (8) (a) with respect to any such public debt, for the purposes
24identified under s. 20.867 (2) (v) and (4) (q)
, and for expenses incurred in contracting
25public debt.
AB100, s. 113
1Section
113. 18.08 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,92,102
18.08
(4) If at any time it appears that there will not be on hand in the capital
3improvement fund sufficient moneys for the payment of principal and interest on
4loans or on notes
or for the payment due, if any, under an agreement or ancillary
5arrangement that has been entered into under s. 18.06 (8) (a) with respect to any
6public debt and that has been determined to be payable from the capital
7improvement fund under s. 18.06 (8) (a) 2., the department of administration shall
8transfer to such fund, out of the appropriation made pursuant to s. 20.866, a sum
9sufficient which, together with any available money on hand in such fund, is
10sufficient to make such payment.
AB100, s. 114
11Section
114. 18.09 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,92,1812
18.09
(2) Each sinking fund shall be expended, and all moneys from time to
13time on hand therein are irrevocably appropriated, in sums sufficient, only for the
14payment of principal and interest on the bonds giving rise to it
and, premium, if any,
15due upon
refunding redemption of any such bonds
, and payment due, if any, under
16an agreement or ancillary arrangement that has been entered into under s. 18.06 (8)
17(a) with respect to any such bonds and that has been determined to be payable from
18the bond security and redemption fund under s. 18.06 (8) (a) 2.
AB100, s. 115
19Section
115. 18.55 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,93,520
18.55
(5) Exercise of authority. Money may be borrowed and evidences of
21revenue obligation issued therefor pursuant to one or more authorizing resolutions,
22unless otherwise provided in the resolution or in this subchapter, at any time and
23from time to time, for any combination of purposes, in any specific amounts, at any
24rates of interest, for any term, payable at any intervals, at any place, in any manner
25and having any other terms or conditions deemed necessary or useful. Revenue
1obligation bonds may bear interest at variable or fixed rates, bear no interest or bear
2interest payable only at maturity or upon redemption prior to maturity. Unless
3sooner exercised or unless a
shorter different period is provided in the resolution,
4every authorizing resolution, except as provided in s. 18.59 (1), shall expire one year
5after the date of its adoption.
AB100, s. 116
6Section
116. 18.61 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,93,167
18.61
(5) The legislature may provide, with respect to any specific issue of
8revenue obligations, prior to their issuance, that if the special fund income or the
9enterprise or program income pledged to the payment of the principal and interest
10of the issue is insufficient for that purpose,
or is insufficient to replenish a reserve
11fund, if applicable, it will consider supplying the deficiency by appropriation of funds,
12from time to time, out of the treasury. If the legislature so provides, the commission
13may make the necessary provisions therefor in the authorizing resolution and other
14proceedings of the issue. Thereafter, if the contingency occurs, recognizing its moral
15obligation to do so, the legislature hereby expresses its expectation and aspiration
16that it shall make such appropriation.
AB100, s. 117
17Section
117. 18.70 of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,93,24
1818.70 Provisions applicable. The following sections apply to this
19subchapter, except that all references to "public debt," "debt," or "revenue obligation"
20are deemed to refer to "operating notes," all references to "evidence of indebtedness"
21are deemed to refer to "evidence of operating note," and all references to "evidences
22of indebtedness" are deemed to refer to "evidences of operating notes": ss. 18.03,
2318.06 (8), 18.07, 18.10 (1), (2), (4) to (9), and (11), 18.17, 18.52 (1m), 18.61 (1), 18.62,
24and 18.63.
AB100, s. 118
25Section
118. 18.73 (5) of the statutes is created to read:
AB100,94,11
118.73
(5) Agreements and arrangements; delegation; use of operating notes. 2(a) At the time of, or in anticipation of, contracting operating notes and at any time
3thereafter while the operating notes are outstanding, the commission may enter into
4agreements and ancillary arrangements relating to the operating notes, including
5liquidity facilities, remarketing or dealer agreements, letter of credit agreements,
6insurance policies, guaranty agreements, reimbursement agreements, indexing
7agreements, or interest exchange agreements. Any payment received pursuant to
8any such agreements or ancillary arrangements shall be deposited in, and any
9payments made pursuant to any such agreements or ancillary arrangements will be
10made from, the general fund or the operating note redemption fund, as determined
11by the commission.
AB100,94,1412
(b) The commission may delegate to other persons the authority and
13responsibility to take actions necessary and appropriate to implement agreements
14and ancillary arrangements under par. (a).
AB100,94,1615
(c) Any operating notes may include operating notes contracted to fund
16interest, accrued or to accrue, on the operating notes.
AB100, s. 119
17Section
119. 18.74 of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,94,24
1818.74 Application of operating note proceeds. All moneys resulting from
19the contracting of operating notes
or any payment to be received under an agreement
20or ancillary arrangement entered into under s. 18.73 (5) with respect to any such
21operating notes shall be credited to the general fund, except that moneys which
22represent premium and accrued interest on operating notes, or moneys for purposes
23of funding or refunding operating notes pursuant to s. 18.72 (1) shall be credited to
24the operating note redemption fund.
AB100, s. 120
25Section
120. 18.75 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,95,6
118.75
(2) The operating note redemption fund shall be expended and all
2moneys from time to time on hand therein are irrevocably appropriated, in sums
3sufficient, only for the payment of principal and interest on operating notes giving
4rise to it and premium, if any, due upon refunding or early redemption of such
5operating notes
, and for the payment due, if any, under an agreement or ancillary
6arrangement entered into under s. 18.73 (5) with respect to such operating notes.
AB100, s. 121
7Section
121. 18.75 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,95,228
18.75
(4) There shall be transferred, under s. 20.855 (1) (a), a sum sufficient
9for the payment of the principal, interest and premium due, if any,
on the and for the
10payment due, if any, under an agreement or ancillary arrangement entered into
11pursuant to s. 18.73 (5) with respect to operating notes giving rise to it as the same
12falls due. Such transfers shall be so timed that there is at all times on hand in the
13fund an amount not less than the amount to be paid out of it during the ensuing 30
14days or such other period if so provided for in the authorizing resolution. The
15commission may pledge the deposit of additional amounts at periodic intervals and
16the secretary of the department may impound moneys of the general fund, including
17moneys temporarily reallocated from other funds under s. 20.002 (11), in accordance
18with the pledge of revenues in the authorizing resolution, and all such
19impoundments are deemed to be payments for purposes of s. 16.53 (10), but no such
20impoundment may be made until the amounts to be paid into the bond security and
21redemption fund under s. 18.09 during the ensuing 30 days have been deposited in
22the bond security and redemption fund.
AB100, s. 122
23Section
122. 19.01 (4) (bn) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,95,2524
19.01
(4) (bn) Official oaths and bonds of all district attorneys shall be filed with
25the
secretary department of
administration justice.
AB100, s. 123
1Section
123. 19.42 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,96,82
19.42
(5) "Department" means the legislature, the University of Wisconsin
3System, any authority or public corporation created and regulated by an act of the
4legislature and any office, department, independent agency or legislative service
5agency created under ch. 13, 14 or 15, any technical college district or any
6constitutional office other than a judicial office. In the case of a district attorney,
7"department" means the department of
administration justice unless the context
8otherwise requires.
AB100, s. 124
9Section
124. 20.001 (2) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,96,1710
20.001
(2) (e)
Federal revenues.
Moneys "Federal revenues" consist of moneys 11received from the federal government
, except that under s. 20.445 (3) (md) "federal
12revenues" also include moneys treated as refunds of expenditures, and under s.
1320.445 (3) (me) "federal revenues" consist only of moneys treated as received from the
14federal government. Federal revenues may be deposited as program revenues in the
15general fund or as segregated revenues in a segregated fund. In either case they are
16indicated in s. 20.005 by the addition of "-F" after the abbreviation assigned under
17pars. (b) and (d).
AB100, s. 125
18Section
125. 20.001 (3) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,96,2519
20.001
(3) (e)
Capital improvement authorizations. The appropriations in s.
2020.866 (2) are authorizations to contract public debt in accordance with ch. 18. The
21amount of debt repaid under each authorization shall not be construed to represent
22new or additional authority even though the authority is not reduced by the amount
23of repayment.
The Any limiting dollar amount contained in the language of any
24appropriation under s. 20.866 (2) is the cumulative total authorization carried over
25from previous biennia plus any new authorization contained in the schedule.
AB100, s. 126
1Section
126. 20.001 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,98,32
20.001
(5) Refunds of expenditures. Any amount not otherwise appropriated
3under this chapter that is received by a state agency as a result of an adjustment
4made to a previously recorded expenditure from a sum certain appropriation to that
5agency due to activities that are of a temporary nature or activities that could not be
6anticipated during budget development and which serves to reduce or eliminate the
7previously recorded expenditure in the same fiscal year in which the previously
8recorded expenditure was made
, except as provided in s. 20.445 (3) (md), may, upon
9request of the agency, be designated by the secretary of administration as a refund
10of an expenditure. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the secretary of
11administration may designate an amount received by a state agency as a refund of
12an expenditure only if the agency submits to the secretary a written explanation of
13the circumstances under which the amount was received that includes a specific
14reference in a statutory or nonstatutory law to a function of the agency under which
15the amount was received and the appropriation from which the previously recorded
16expenditure was made. A refund of an expenditure shall be deposited by the
17receiving state agency in the appropriation account from which the previously
18recorded expenditure was made. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, a
19state agency which proposes to make an expenditure from moneys designated as a
20refund of an expenditure shall submit to the secretary of administration a written
21explanation of the purpose of the expenditure, including a specific reference in a
22statutory or nonstatutory law to a function of the agency under which the
23expenditure is to be made and the appropriation from which the expenditure is to be
24made. After submission and approval of an estimate of the amount proposed to be
25expended under s. 16.50 (2), a state agency may expend the moneys received from
1the refund of the expenditure. The secretary of administration may waive
2submission of any explanation required by this subsection for categories of refunds
3of expenditures or proposed refunds of expenditures.
AB100, s. 127
4Section
127. 20.003 (4) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,98,125
20.003
(4) Required general fund balance. (intro.) No bill directly or
6indirectly affecting general purpose revenues as defined in s. 20.001 (2) (a) may be
7enacted by the legislature if the bill would cause the estimated general fund balance
8on June 30 of any fiscal year specified in this subsection, as projected under s. 20.005
9(1), to be an amount equal to less than the following
amounts for that fiscal year or 10percentage of the total general purpose revenue appropriations for that fiscal year
11plus any amount from general purpose revenue designated as "Compensation
12Reserves" for that fiscal year in the summary under s. 20.005 (1):
AB100, s. 128
13Section
128. 20.003 (4) (a) of the statutes is repealed.
AB100, s. 129
14Section
129. 20.003 (4) (b) of the statutes is repealed.
AB100, s. 130
15Section
130. 20.003 (4) (d) of the statutes is repealed.
AB100, s. 131
16Section
131. 20.003 (4) (e) of the statutes is repealed.
AB100, s. 132
17Section
132. 20.003 (4) (f) of the statutes is repealed.
AB100, s. 133
18Section
133. 20.003 (4) (fm) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB100,98,1919
20.003
(4) (fm) For fiscal year 2005-06,
$75,000,000 $65,000,000.
AB100, s. 134
20Section
134. 20.003 (4) (fr) of the statutes is created to read:
AB100,98,2121
20.003
(4) (fr) For fiscal year 2006-07, $65,000,000.
AB100, s. 135
22Section
135. 20.003 (4) (ft) of the statutes is created to read:
AB100,98,2323
20.003
(4) (ft) For fiscal year 2007-08, $65,000,000.
AB100, s. 136
24Section
136. 20.003 (4) (fv) of the statutes is created to read:
AB100,98,2525
20.003
(4) (fv) For fiscal year 2008-09, $65,000,000.
AB100, s. 137
1Section
137. 20.003 (4) (g) of the statutes is amended to read: