Other health and human services
Under current law, the general purpose revenues (GPR) appropriation account from which DWD provides moneys for vocational rehabilitation services is an annual appropriation but permits transfer of funds between fiscal years. Funds appropriated for a particular fiscal year that are so transferred but are not spent or encumbered by September 30 of that next fiscal year lapse to the general fund on the succeeding October 1.
This bill changes the DWD GPR vocational rehabilitation services appropriation account from an annual to a continuing, sum certain appropriation.
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. 20.445 (5) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.445 (5) (a) General program operations; purchased services for clients. The As a continuing appropriation, the amounts in the schedule for general program operations, including field services to clients and administrative services, for the purchase of goods and services authorized under ch. 47, and for vocational rehabilitation and other independent living services to persons with disabilities. Notwithstanding ss. 20.001 (3) (a) and 20.002 (1), the department may transfer funds between fiscal years under this paragraph. All funds appropriated for a particular fiscal year that are transferred to the next fiscal year and are not spent or encumbered by September 30 of that next fiscal year shall lapse to the general fund on the succeeding October 1.
****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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2007 - 2008 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Fath, BB0102 - Declining enrollment revenue limit exceptions
For 2007-09 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2007 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
education
Primary and secondary education
Currently, if a school district's enrollment is declining, its revenue limit is increased by the amount of additional revenue that would have been calculated had the decline in enrollment been 25 percent of what it was. This bill increases the district's revenue limit by the additional amount that would have been calculated had there been no decline in enrollment.
The bill also provides that if a school district's revenue limit, after consideration of the per pupil adjustment and low revenue ceiling but before any other adjustments, is less than the district's base revenue from the previous school year, the district's initial revenue limit would be set at the prior year's base revenue.
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. 121.91 (2m) (e) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
121.91 (2m) (e) (intro.) Except as provided in subs. (3) and, (4), and (8), no school district may increase its revenues for the 1999-2000 school year or for any school year thereafter to an amount that exceeds the amount calculated as follows:
SECTION 2. 121.91 (4) (f) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
121.91 (4) (f) 1. Except as provided in subd. 1m., for the 1999-2000 2007-08 school year or any school year thereafter, if the average of the number of pupils enrolled in the current and the 2 preceding school years is less than the average of the number of pupils enrolled in the 3 previous school years, the limit otherwise applicable under sub. (2m) (e) is increased by the additional amount that would have been calculated had the there been no decline in average enrollment been 25% of what it was.
SECTION 3. 121.91 (4) (f) 1m. b. of the statutes is amended to read:
121.91 (4) (f) 1m. b. For the school year beginning on the first July 1 following the effective date of the school district reorganization, if the number of pupils enrolled in that school year is less than the number of pupils enrolled in the previous school year, the limit otherwise applicable under sub. (2m) (e) is increased by the additional amount that would have been calculated had the there been no decline in enrollment been 25 percent of what it was.
SECTION 4. 121.91 (4) (f) 1m. c. of the statutes is amended to read:
121.91 (4) (f) 1m. c. For the school year beginning on the 2nd July 1 following the effective date of the school district reorganization, if the average of the number of pupils enrolled in that school year and the previous school year is less than the average of the number of pupils enrolled in the 2 previous school years, the limit otherwise applicable under sub. (2m) (e) is increased by the additional amount that would have been calculated had the there been no decline in average enrollment been 25 percent of what it was.
SECTION 5. 121.91 (8) of the statutes is created to read:
121.91 (8) If a school district's initial revenue limit for the current school year, as calculated under s. 121.905 or sub. (2m) (e), whichever is appropriate, before making any adjustments under sub. (3) or (4), is less than the amount determined by multiplying the amount under sub. (2m) (e) 1. by the average of the number of pupils enrolled in the 3 preceding school years, the school district's initial revenue limit for the current school year, before making any adjustments under sub. (3) or (4), is the amount determined by multiplying the amount under sub. (2m) (e) 1. by the average of the number of pupils enrolled in the 3 preceding school years.
SECTION 9337. Initial applicability; Public Instruction.
(1) REVENUE LIMIT; DECLINING ENROLLMENT. The treatment of section 121.91 (2m) (e) (intro.), (4) (f) 1. and 1m. b. and c., and (8) of the statutes first applies to the calculation of a school district's revenue limit for the 2007-08 school year.
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2007 - 2008 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Miner, BB0141 - Increase bonding for nonpoint water pollution programs
For 2007-09 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2007 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Environment
Water quality
Under current law, DNR, in conjunction with local governmental units, administers a program to provide financial assistance for measures to reduce water pollution from nonpoint (diffuse) sources. This bill increases the general obligation bonding authority for nonpoint source financial assistance by $12,000,000.
Under current law, DNR also administers programs to provide financial assistance for the management of urban storm water runoff and for flood control and riparian restoration projects. This bill increases the general obligation bonding authority for these programs by $6,000,000.
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. 20.866 (2) (te) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.866 (2) (te) Natural resources; nonpoint source grants. From the capital improvement fund, a sum sufficient for the department of natural resources to provide funds for nonpoint source water pollution abatement projects under s. 281.65 and to provide the grant under 2003 Wisconsin Act 33, section 9138 (3f). The state may contract public debt in an amount not to exceed $89,310,400 $94,310,400 for this purpose.
SECTION 2. 20.866 (2) (tf) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.866 (2) (tf) Natural resources; nonpoint source. From the capital improvement fund, a sum sufficient for the department of natural resources to fund nonpoint source water pollution abatement projects under s. 281.65 (4c). The state may contract public debt in an amount not to exceed $4,000,000 $11,000,000 for this purpose.
SECTION 3. 20.866 (2) (th) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.866 (2) (th) Natural resources; urban nonpoint source cost-sharing. From the capital improvement fund, a sum sufficient for the department of natural resources to provide cost-sharing grants for urban nonpoint source water pollution abatement and storm water management projects under s. 281.66 and to provide municipal flood control and riparian restoration cost-sharing grants under s. 281.665. The state may contract public debt in an amount not to exceed $23,900,000 $29,900,000 for this purpose. Of this amount, $500,000 is allocated in fiscal biennium 2001-03 for dam rehabilitation grants under s. 31.387.
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2007 - 2008 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Harshner, BB0110 - Consolidation of unemployment I&P appropriations
For 2007-09 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2007 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: consolidation of unemployment insurance appropriations derived from interest, penalties, and certain assessments and making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Employment
Currently, DWD receives program revenue from interest and penalties assessed by DWD under the unemployment insurance law, from assessments for the purpose of making interest payments to the federal government, and from forfeitures (civil monetary penalties) imposed for violations of the unemployment insurance law. These revenues are expended by DWD for certain purposes specified by law. Expenditures are limited only by available revenues. However, there are also four sum certain appropriations made to DWD from the same program revenue for specified purposes. These appropriations are a first draw upon available revenues and are expendable only up to the maximum dollar amount for each appropriation specified by law. These appropriations relate to research relating to the condition of the unemployment reserve fund, administration of the unemployment insurance program and federal and state unemployment insurance programs authorized by the governor, renovation and modernization of unemployment insurance information technology systems, and assistance to the DOJ in enforcing the unemployment insurance law.
Under this bill, the sum certain appropriations for each of the above purposes are deleted and DWD is permitted to spend available moneys from this program revenue for any of the purposes specified in the current sum certain appropriations as well as for the purposes currently specified by law in whatever amounts DWD chooses subject only to available revenues.
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 (1) (gd) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.445 (1) (gd) Unemployment interest and penalty payments. From the All moneys received as interest and penalties collected under ss. 108.04 (11) (c) and (cm) and (13) (c) and 108.22, assessments under s. 108.19 (1m), and forfeitures under s. 103.05 (5), all moneys not appropriated under pars. (ge), (gf), (gg), and (gi), and all moneys transferred to this appropriation account from the appropriation account under par. (gh) for the payment of benefits specified in s. 108.07 (5) and 1987 Wisconsin Act 38, section 132 (1) (c), for the payment of interest to employers under s. 108.17 (3m), for research relating to the condition of the unemployment reserve fund under s. 108.14 (6), for administration of the unemployment insurance program and federal or state unemployment insurance programs authorized by the governor under s. 16.54, for satisfaction of any federal audit exception concerning a payment from the unemployment reserve fund or any federal aid disallowance concerning the unemployment insurance program, for renovation and modernization of unemployment insurance information technology systems, for assistance to the department of justice in the enforcement of ch. 108, for the payment of interest due on advances from the federal unemployment account under title XII of the social security act to the unemployment reserve fund, and for payments made to the unemployment reserve fund to obtain a lower interest rate or deferral of interest payments on these advances, except as otherwise provided in s. 108.20.
SECTION 2. 20.445 (1) (ge) 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 3. 20.445 (1) (gf) 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 4. 20.445 (1) (gg) 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 5. 20.445 (1) (gi) 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 6. 108.20 (2m) of the statutes is amended to read:
108.20 (2m) From the moneys not appropriated under s. 20.445 (1) (ge), (gf), (gg), and (gi) which (gd) that are received by the administrative account as interest and penalties under this chapter, the department shall pay the benefits chargeable to the administrative account under s. 108.07 (5) and the interest payable to employers under s. 108.17 (3m), and may expend the remainder to pay interest due on advances to the unemployment reserve fund from the federal unemployment account under title XII of the social security act, 42 USC 1321 to 1324, may to conduct research relating to the condition of the unemployment reserve fund under s. 108.14 (6), to administer the unemployment insurance program and federal or state unemployment insurance programs authorized by the governor under s. 16.54, to renovate and modernize unemployment insurance information technology systems, to assist the department of justice in the enforcement of this chapter, to make payments to satisfy a federal audit exception concerning a payment from the fund or any federal aid disallowance involving the unemployment insurance program, or may to make payments to the fund if such action is necessary to obtain a lower interest rate or deferral of interest payments on advances from the federal unemployment account under title XII of the social security act, except that any interest earned pending disbursement of federal employment security grants under s. 20.445 (1) (n) shall be credited to the general fund. Any moneys reverting to the administrative account from the appropriations under s. 20.445 (1) (ge) and (gf) shall be utilized as provided in this subsection.
SECTION 9254. Fiscal changes; Workforce Development.
(1) UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE APPROPRIATION BALANCE TRANSFERS. The unencumbered balances in the appropriation accounts under section 20.445 (1) (ge), (gf), (gg), and (gi) of the statutes are transferred to the appropriation account under section 20.445 (1) (gd) of the statutes, as affected by this act.
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2007 - 2008 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Schmiedicke, BB0084 - General provisions in the budget
For 2007-09 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2007 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2007 legislature.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Introduction
This bill is the "executive budget bill" under section 16.47 (1) of the statutes. It contains the governor's recommendations for appropriations for the 2007-2009 fiscal biennium.
The bill repeals and recreates the appropriation schedule in chapter 20 of the statutes, thereby setting the appropriation levels for the 2007-2009 fiscal biennium. The descriptions that follow relate to the most significant changes in the law that are proposed in the bill. In most cases, changes in the amounts of existing spending authority and changes in the amounts of bonding authority under existing bonding programs are not discussed.
For additional information concerning this bill, see the Department of Administration's publication Budget in Brief and the executive budget books, the Legislative Fiscal Bureau's summary document, and the Legislative Reference Bureau's drafting files, which contain separate drafts on each policy item. In most cases, the policy item drafts contain a more detailed analysis than is printed with this bill.
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Guide to the bill
As is the case for all other bills, the sections of the budget bill that affect statutes are organized in ascending numerical order of the statutes affected.
Treatments of prior session laws (styled "laws of [year], chapter ...." from 1848 to 1981, and "[year] Wisconsin Act ...." beginning with 1983) are displayed next by year of original enactment and by act number.
The remaining sections of the budget bill are organized by type of provision and, within each type, alphabetically by state agency. The first two digits of the four-digit section number indicate the type of provision:
