XX30 Legislature.
XX31 Lieutenant governor.
XX32 Lower Wisconsin state riverway board.
XX33 Medical College of Wisconsin.
XX34 Military affairs.
XX35 Natural resources.
XX36 Public defender board.
XX37 Public instruction.
XX38 Public lands, board of commissioners of.
XX39 Public service commission.
XX40 Regulation and licensing.
XX41 Revenue.
XX42 Secretary of state.
XX43 State employment relations, office of.
XX44 State fair park board.
XX45 Supreme Court.
XX46 Technical college system.
XX47 Tourism.
XX48 Transportation.
XX49 Treasurer.
XX50 University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority.
XX51 University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Board.
XX52 University of Wisconsin System.
XX53 Veterans affairs.
XX54 Workforce development.
XX55 Other.
For example, for general nonstatutory provisions relating to the historical
society, see Section 9123. For any agency that is not assigned a two-digit
identification number and that is attached to another agency, see the number of the
latter agency. For any other agency not assigned a two-digit identification number
or any provision that does not relate to the functions of a particular agency, see
number "55" (other) within each type of provision.
To facilitate amendment drafting and the enrolling process, separate section
numbers and headings appear for each type of provision and for each state agency,
even if there are no provisions included in that section number and heading. Section
numbers and headings for which there are no provisions will be deleted in enrolling
and will not appear in the published act.
Following is a list of the most commonly used abbreviations appearing in the
analysis.
DATCPDepartment of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection
DETFDepartment of Employee Trust Funds
DFIDepartment of Financial Institutions
DHFSDepartment of Health and Family Services
DMADepartment of Military Affairs
DNRDepartment of Natural Resources
DOADepartment of Administration
DOCDepartment of Corrections
DOJDepartment of Justice
DORDepartment of Revenue
DOTDepartment of Transportation
DPIDepartment of Public Instruction
DRLDepartment of Regulation and Licensing
DVADepartment of Veterans Affairs
DWDDepartment of Workforce Development
JCFJoint Committee on Finance
OCIOffice of the Commissioner of Insurance
PSCPublic Service Commission
UWUniversity of Wisconsin
WHEDAWisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority
WHEFAWisconsin Health and Educational Facilities Authority
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Agriculture
Under current law, DATCP administers the Soil and Water Resource
Management Program, which awards grants to counties for land and water resource
management projects and for the construction of animal waste management
systems. This bill increases the general obligation bonding authority for the Soil and
Water Resource Management Program by $7,000,000.
This bill authorizes DATCP to award grants to increase the use of agricultural
products and wastes as energy sources, to reduce the generation or increase the
beneficial use of agricultural wastes, and to encourage the development of
biochemicals from agricultural products. A grant may not exceed $300,000.
This bill authorizes DATCP to make loans for the development of rural business
enterprises or for rural economic development using federal funds.
Under current law, DATCP generally pays partial reimbursement to owners for
the value of their livestock, including farm-raised deer, that DATCP orders to be
destroyed because of exposure to disease. Under this bill, if DATCP orders an animal
to be destroyed because it is suspected to have a transmissible spongiform
encephalopathy, such as chronic wasting disease, and the owner disposes of the
animal as directed by DATCP, DATCP reimburses the owner also for the costs of
destroying and disposing of the animal.
commerce and economic development
Economic development
Current law authorizes the Department of Commerce (department) to award,
from the Wisconsin development fund (WDF): 1) a grant to a person for capitalizing
a revolving loan fund to promote local or regional economic development; 2) a "rapid
response" loan to a person to purchase equipment or purchase, renovate, or construct
a building; 3) a grant to a business group to investigate reorganizing or
reincorporating an existing business as an employee-owned business; 4) a grant to
a small business for preparing a proposal for a federal program; 5) a grant to fund
the preliminary stages of the expansion or start-up of a business located in an urban
area; and 6) grants to the Wisconsin Procurement Institute to secure federal
government contracts and create jobs.
Current law also authorizes the department, at the request of the Development
Finance Board (board), to award, from the WDF, a grant or loan to any of the
following: 1) a business or consortium for technical research related to technology
development; 2) a business for customized labor training; 3) a major economic
development project (defined as a project that is necessary to retain or create a
significant number of jobs, that will lead to significant capital investment in the
state, or that will make a significant contribution to the state's economy), if the
project is not eligible for technology development or customized labor training grants
or loans; and 4) a business, public entity, or nonprofit organization for researching,
developing, and marketing products and processes related to certain types of
pollution or waste.
This bill eliminates the technology development, customized labor training,
major economic development, and technology and pollution control and abatement
programs, as well as the programs for revolving loan fund capitalization, rapid
response loans, employee ownership assistance, urban area early planning, and the
Wisconsin Procurement Institute. The bill authorizes the department, at the request
of the board, to award a grant or make a loan of WDF funds to an eligible governing
body or person for any of the following: capital financing; worker training;
entrepreneurial development; assisting technology-based businesses or businesses
at a foreign trade show; promoting urban or regional economic development;
establishing revolving loan funds; providing working capital; and promoting
employee ownership.
Under the bill, in deciding whether to award a WDF grant or loan, the board
must consider, among other factors, whether the project serves a public purpose and
whether the project might not occur without the grant or loan. The bill eliminates
certain factors from the board's consideration of whether a project will be located in
a targeted area. The bill requires the department to establish procedures and
conditions for WDF grants and loans, including a matching requirement of at least
25 percent.
This bill requires the department to designate certain areas as extremely
depressed areas and authorizes the department to award a grant for up to five years
to a business that locates in an extremely depressed area (which must be an area
with an unemployment rate equal to or exceeding 150 percent of the statewide
average unemployment rate) if the business will create at least 100 qualifying jobs
in the area. 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.
This bill authorizes the department to award a grant to an employer to provide
a job training program for the employer's employees if the employer will create a
significant number of high-paying jobs or will retain a significant number of jobs.
The department may also award a grant to an employer for training employees who
do not earn a family-supporting wage if the employer agrees to pay a
family-supporting wage to employees who complete the training program and there
is significant potential for additional wage increases. Employers must develop
training programs with a technical college or other training provider, and grant
proceeds may be paid directly to the technical college or other training provider.
This bill appropriates to the Department of Tourism, from the transportation
fund, an amount equal to 40 percent of the fees imposed on certain rental vehicles
to pay for tourism marketing.
Currently, under the Enterprise Development Zone Program, the department
may allocate tax credits to eligible businesses that conduct certain economic
activities in areas designated as enterprise development zones. The department
may not designate more than 79 enterprise development zones unless it obtains the
approval of JCF. This bill eliminates the cap on the number of enterprise
development zones the department may designate without JCF's approval and limits
the total amount of tax benefits allocated under the program to $243,000,000.
Currently, the department may award a gaming economic development grant
to improve the profitability of a business that has been negatively affected by a
casino, a gaming economic diversification grant to diversify the economy of a
community or to remediate brownfields, and a business employees' skills training
grant for training a business's current or prospective employees. Under current law,
the department awards these grants directly to qualified businesses. This bill
authorizes the department to contract with and pay the grant directly to persons who
provide the qualified businesses the assistance for which the grants are made.
This bill prohibits Forward Wisconsin, Inc., from spending $1,000,000 of
appropriated money in the 2006-07 fiscal year unless DOA certifies that Forward
Wisconsin, Inc., has raised $2,000,000 in private donations.
Commerce
Under current law, the department awards grants to technology-based
nonprofit organizations to support a manufacturing extension center. This bill
transfers administration of this grant program to the Technical College System
Board and prohibits the board from awarding a grant to a technical college district
or to a corporation or foundation created for the benefit of a district.
Under current law, alcohol beverages are generally distributed to consumers
under a three-tier distribution system (manufacturer, wholesaler, and retailer).
DOR issues intoxicating liquor wholesalers' permits authorizing the sale of
intoxicating liquor (wine and distilled spirits) at wholesale from the premises
described in the permit to intoxicating liquor retailers and to other wholesalers.
With limited exceptions, a manufacturer may not hold any direct or indirect interest
in a wholesaler and a manufacturer or wholesaler may not hold any direct or indirect
interest in a retailer.
Under this bill, any intoxicating liquor sold by a wholesaler must be physically
unloaded at the wholesaler's premises prior to being delivered to a retailer or to
another wholesaler, and the wholesaler's premises must be capable of warehousing
intoxicating liquor. Also, a wholesaler must annually sell and deliver intoxicating
liquor to at least ten retailers that do not have any direct or indirect interest in each
other or in the wholesaler. If a wholesaler violates these requirements, in addition
to the current penalty of a fine or imprisonment or both, a court may order the
forfeiture of profits gained from the violation and the wholesaler's permit revoked.
A retailer that receives a benefit from a wholesaler violation, with knowledge of the
circumstances giving rise to the violation, is subject to similar penalties.
Under current law, DOR may suspend or revoke any alcohol beverages permit
if the permit holder violates any legal requirement. This bill allows DOR to suspend
or revoke wholesalers' permits based upon written allegations, including allegations
of third parties, without a hearing.
Under current law, upon request by the secretary of revenue, the attorney
general may represent this state or assist a district attorney in prosecuting any
alcohol beverages violation, but DOR may not prosecute such violations. This bill
authorizes DOR to represent the state in prosecuting violations of the wholesaler
requirements created by the bill. The bill also allows wholesalers, retailers, and
trade associations to prosecute violations of the wholesaler requirements created by
the bill if DOR fails to timely render a decision on a complaint made to DOR.
Housing
Currently, DOA may not allocate more than $3.2 million of federal funds to pay
for assistance to meet weather-related or fuel supply shortage emergencies. This bill
eliminates this restriction.
Under current law, WHEDA maintains a surplus fund, which generally
consists of assets that are not required to pay the cost of issuing bonds or notes, to
make loans, or to honor agreements with bondholders and noteholders. This bill
requires WHEDA to pay $2,500,000 in each fiscal year of the 2005-07 biennium to
the state from this surplus fund.
Other commerce and economic development
This bill increases the fees that DFI charges a foreign corporation when the
corporation files its annual report or applies for a certificate of withdrawal (which
withdraws authority for the corporation to transact business in this state).
This bill doubles the maximum fee that the department may charge for licenses
and registrations issued to plumbers, utility contractors, pipelayers, and contractors
installing or maintaining automatic fire sprinklers. The bill also doubles the
maximum term for these licenses and registrations, as well as the term for plumbing
supervisors that the department employs.
Correctional system
Adult correctional system
Under current law, DOC and DHFS operate the Drug Abuse Correctional
Center Program in Winnebago, which provides substance abuse treatment for prison
inmates transferred there. If DOC determines that an inmate has successfully
completed the program, the inmate is released early to parole or extended
supervision. Inmates convicted of certain violent crimes or certain offenses against
children are not eligible for early release under this program. Inmates who are
sentenced under the "Truth in Sentencing" law are eligible only if the court
authorizes their participation. This bill authorizes DOC to establish similar
treatment and release programs at any state prison.
Under current law, DOC may lease space within adult or juvenile correctional
institutions to one or two private businesses to employ inmates or residents to
manufacture products or provide services for sale on the open market. The earnings
of an inmate or resident employed under this program must be used for
compensating victims of crimes, supporting the person's dependents, and paying for
room and board, among other things. This bill eliminates DOC's authority to operate
the private business prison employment program.
Current law provides that, with certain exceptions, DOC must charge each
person on probation, parole, or extended supervision a fee to cover some of the costs
of supervising the person. This bill authorizes DOC to charge a person who is
required to register as a sex offender and is on probation, parole, or extended
supervision or otherwise in DOC's custody an annual fee of up to $50. DOC may use
the proceeds of the fee to cover some of its costs of supervising persons on probation,
parole, or extended supervision.
Juvenile correctional system
Under current law relating to community youth and family aids, generally
referred to as "youth aids," DOC must allocate various state and federal moneys to
counties to pay for state-provided juvenile correctional services and local
delinquency-related and juvenile justice services. DOC charges counties for the
costs of services provided by DOC according to per person daily cost assessments
specified by law. This bill increases the assessments for care in a juvenile
correctional facility, treatment facility, foster home, or group home, for corrective
sanctions services, and for aftercare services and decreases the assessments for care
in a residential care center for children and youth or treatment foster home.
Current law requires DOC, under the Community Intervention Program, to
distribute $3,750,000 each year to counties for early intervention services for
juvenile first offenders and for intensive community-based intervention services for
seriously chronic juvenile offenders. This bill transfers administration of the
Community Intervention Program to the Office of Justice Assistance in DOA.
Courts and procedure
