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Buckley, James P. ``Jim": life and public service, including serving as Assembly Chief Clerk, commended - AR7

Clark, (1LT) Jacob Matthew: life, military service, and public service commended upon his death - SR7

Prestegard, Orlan: life and public service of former Revisor of Statutes and LC employee commended upon his death - SJR3

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Compensation plans and salary increases for UW employees: UW--Madison chancellor and Board of Regents not required to submit plans to OSER or get JCOER approval; funding from compensation reserve eliminated [Sec. 66, 67, 469-475, 498-500, 576, 577, 586, 587, 605, 1999, 2011-2013; original bill only] - AB40

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Air pollution control permits: registration permit for certain stationary source; exemption for natural minor sources and report required; DNR required to contact owners or operators of stationary sources re benefits of registration permits and exemptions; and evaluation of reporting, monitoring, and record-keeping requirements [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 2104i-je, n-r, 9132 (1L)] - AB40

Aircraft maintenance and repair company grant program: WEDC to administer; reports and JCF approval required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9150 (1e); deleted by A.Amdt.3] - AB40

Biennial budget bill: process for removal of nonfiscal policy items established; LFB and JCF provisions - AB148

Children's Mental Health, Office of, created in DHS; director is appointed by the governor [Sec. 40, 1232, 2000; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, annual report requirement added] - AB40

Community programs and services: school board levy provisions, report required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9134 (4L); A.Amdt.3: further revisions, resolution to exceed the limit required] - AB40

Comprehensive community services: full reimbursement if offered on a regional basis [Sec. 1055, 1056, 9318 (13), 9418 (6); A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, report to and approval of JCF required, 1056b, deletes 1055, 9318 (13), 9418 (6)] - AB40

Consolidation of DSPS and DATCP: DOA study required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9101 (3s)] - AB40

Consolidation of DSPS and DATCP: DOA study requirement repealed - AB362

Credential fees proposed for 2015-17 fiscal biennium: DSPS to submit to JCF under the passive review process, 25 percent reduction required - AB673

Deadline changed for certain reports from DOR and DOT re consumer price index, computer-related equipment exempt from property tax, and general transportation aids program - AB724

DETF progress on modernizing business processes and integrating information technology systems: annual report required; supplemental appropriation and FTE position flexibility; governor and JCF duties [Sec. 713, 9112 (1), 9212 (1); A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions] - AB40

DVA appropriations modified re aids to veterans [Sec. 398-407, 478, 490, 516, 789, 804, 807; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, transfer to veterans trust fund from a veterans home appropriation, JCF approval and report required, home for needy veterans appropriation repealed, 413e, 766m, 801f, 9249 (2e), deletes 398-407, 490, 789, 804, 807] - AB40

Economic development tax credits: authorizing transfer to another Wisconsin taxpayer, conditions specified; WEDC duties and JCF review - AB580

Economic development tax credits: authorizing transfer to another Wisconsin taxpayer, conditions specified; WEDC duties and JCF review - SB449

Emergency heating assistance loan guarantee program created, WHEDA and JCF duties; declared state of emergency and funding provisions - AB770

Emergency heating assistance loan guarantee program created, WHEDA and JCF duties; declared state of emergency and funding provisions - SB612

Employer charged a fee for every full time employee receiving benefits under the food stamp program or BadgerCare Plus: DHS and DOR required to develop and implement, EITC provision, and report to JCF required - AB887

Executive branch state agency FTE position reductions and DOA duties, report required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9101 (3c)] - AB40

Family Care benefit and IRIS services provided to residents of Brown, Door, Kewaunee, Marinette, Menominee, Oconto, and Shawano counties; DHS not required to have JCF approval for contracts to provide services - AB299

Family Care benefit and IRIS services provided to residents of Brown, Door, Kewaunee, Marinette, Menominee, Oconto, and Shawano counties; timeline specified; DHS not required to have JCF approval for contracts to provide services - AB428

Family Care enrollees admitted to mental health institutes: DHS required to notify the county, care management organization required to maintain emergency contacts, report to JCF required, and appropriation provision - AB468

Family Care expansion: DHS study and report required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9118 (3q)] - AB40

Fees charged to students: UW Board of Regents annual report to JCF and JLAC required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 609m] - AB40

Flood damage to highways: appropriation expanded to cover any disaster, definition provision [Sec. 291, 1515, 1582-1587, 9345 (3); A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, JCF approval required to pay aid over set amount, 466m, 518m, 1587m] - AB40

Forestry and fire prevention study required; JCF provision [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 286g, j, 532m, 9432 (1d)] - AB40

Fund of funds investment program created; WEDC and SWIB duties; investment manager, venture capital funds, and report provisions [A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, WEDC changed to DOA, required reports revised, quarterly report to DOA added, LAB duties added; S.Amdt.1: members of committee to select investment manager modified] - AB181

Fund of funds investment program created; WEDC and SWIB duties; investment manager, venture capital funds, and report provisions - SB169

GIB to offer a high-deductible health insurance plan and health savings account; OSER duties [Sec. 462, 491, 705, 706, 711, 716, 719, 730, 753; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, OSER and GIB to design program specifying key actuarial parameters, DETF and OSER to study offering health reimbursement accounts instead of savings accounts, report required, 9112 (4L), (4m)] - AB40

GIB to offer a high-deductible health insurance plan with health savings account and study of health reimbursement accounts instead of savings account requirements repealed - AB364

Governor required to prepare a bill incorporating all proposed expenditure reductions resulting from the sequester of federal spending under the federal Budget Control Act of 2011 - SB92

Grain inspection program funding; DATCP and JCF duties [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9102 (1e)] - AB40

HEAB to study viability of students with high school diploma, or equivalent, from this state to attend a technical college or UW System campus for two years without paying tuition or fees; report required - AB926

Highway projects of certain size and including replacing left-side ramp with a right-side ramp: DOT study and report required and JCF passive review provision - SB666

Information technology infrastructure services: DOA may assess and transfer staff and equipment from another executive branch agency to DOA; exception provision [Sec. 188, 426; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, DOA and another agency jointly submit request to JCF, 188m, 426m, deletes 188, 426] - AB40

Inspector General, Office of, created in DCF [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 40m, 9106 (1e)] - AB40

Interest rate on child support arrears: reduced rate pilot program [Sec. 2276-2279; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, extension of lower interest rate after the pilot program requires JCF approval] - AB40

JCF meeting and hearing rooms [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 1t] - AB40

Land information program and register of deeds fees revised, SSN redaction provisions; DOA to establish an implementation plan for statewide digital parcel map [Sec. 186, 1241-1243, 1248-1250; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, county board duties, report required, land information fund established, SSN provision deleted, 185g, r, 186b-y, 420d, f, 514u, 530m, 1242e, g, 1247d-t, 1250g, 9429 (1i), deletes 1243, 1250] - AB40

MA program changes and finances: quarterly reports to JCF required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 1043s, t] - AB40

MacKenzie Environmental Education Center: DOA report on status and condition of buildings required; DNR appropriation [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9101 (2i), 9132 (3i)] - AB40

Medical College of Wisconsin and UW--Madison Medical School: biennial reports combined into one biennial report; new annual report on rural or underserved urban medicine programs required [Sec. 2-6] - AB40

Municipal services provided to state facilities: DOA not required to submit negotiating guidelines for payment of to JCF [Sec. 1284-1287; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, negotiating guidelines provision removed, deletes 1284, 1285] - AB40

Nonfiscal policy items should not be included in the substitute amendment to the biennial budget bill, nor any amendments offered during floor consideration - AR14

Out-of-home care for child with an individualized education program (IEP) and who is a full-time student: extending care to age 21 or until the child is granted a high school diploma; conditions and exemptions to emergency rules and rule-making procedures provisions [S.Amdt.1: appropriations added; S.Amdt.2 to S.Amdt.1: appropriations to Corr.Dept, DCF, and JCF modified] - SB451

Out-of-home care for youths with individualized education programs (IEP): funding provisions [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9124 (1L)] - AB40

Position elimination in DNR: DOA report to JCF required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9101 (3u)] - AB40

Production plant requirements: DOR and PSC required to study re aid payments [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9137 (1i)] - AB40

Public assistance benefits recovery programs in DHS revisions; property subject to recovery defined; recovery of nonprobate property expanded; real property and living trust provisions [Sec. 353, 354, 361, 821-831, 833, 834, 1179-1197, 1199-1210, 1221-1226, 1240, 2266, 2268-2271, 2275, 2294-2318, 9318 (3)-(6), 9418 (2); A.Amdt.3 to A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, JCF approval required, 9118 (6i)] - AB40

Public school financing law changes re general school aids formula, counting low-income pupils, per pupil adjustment, school aid factors, high-poverty aid, delayed school aid payments, per pupil aid, and revenue limits; eliminates school levy property tax credit and the first dollar property tax credit; DPI, DOA, LFB, and JCF duties - AB650

Qualified rehabilitation expenses for certified historic structures and qualified rehabilitated buildings: income and franchise tax credits; DOR and WHS report to JCF required [A.Amdt.1: dates revised, WEDC certification and report requirements added] - Oc3 AB4

Qualified rehabilitation expenses for certified historic structures and qualified rehabilitated buildings: income and franchise tax credits; DOR and WHS report to JCF required - Oc3 SB4

Rural schools task force: JLC requested to establish, report required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9127 (1i)] - AB40

Sale of city-owned property used for school purposes by the Milwaukee Common Council: eligible school buildings defined; sale to education operator only, conditions specified; inventory of school buildings required and Web site and attorney provisions - AB417

Sale or lease of state-owned real property, contractual operation of state facilities, and management of state-owned heating, cooling, and power plants; DOA and Building Commission duties; state agencies to inventory real property under their jurisdiction and report to DOA [Sec. 7-20, 22-27, 65, 123-137, 290, 515, 531, 578-580, 585, 602-604, 759, 760, 762, 766, 814, 815, 817, 1233, 1516, 1547-1554, 1557, 1565-1568, 1719, 1720, 1728, 1729, 2132-2134, 2154; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, budget stabilization fund provision, JCF approval required, ``contractual operation" deleted, 10m, 125m, 129m, 131m, deletes 515; A.Amdt.3: further revisions] - AB40

Sale or lease of state-owned real property permitted; reports required re state-owned surplus land - AB317

State employee health insurance coverage: actuarial study of options re employees who elect not to receive coverage and spouse or domestic partner of employee with coverage from their employers; report required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 461pg, pr, 9112 (3q), 9412 (1q)] - AB40

State employee health insurance coverage: repealing actuarial study of options re employees who elect not to receive coverage and spouse or domestic partner of employee with coverage from their employers - AB331

Stewardship program: moneys obligated for the land acquisition subprogram and property development and local assistance subprogram modified; Kettle Moraine Springs fish hatchery provision [Sec. 501-514; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, JCF duties and report on the fish hatchery project required, 478u, 500m, p, 501m, 509c-y, 9132 (4c), deletes 501-505, 512] - AB40

Student information system: include charter schools and private schools participating in a parental choice program [Sec. 1732-1734; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, JCF approval required, 1732m, deletes 1732] - AB40

Technical college districts' facilities, properties, assets, employees, and liabilities transferred to TCS Board; technical college district boards prohibited from levying property tax; TCS Board to develop transition plan to submit to JCF; sales and use tax increase; referendum required; LRB duties - AB177

Technical college state aid formula replaced with a performance based formula, reports required [Sec. 257, 641-646, 648, 1993; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, JCF duties added] - AB40

Transaction information for management of enforcement (TIME) system: requirement that DOJ submit plan to JCF re daily message volume exceeding certain limit eliminated - SB296

Unallocated early stage seed investment credits: required fund manager reports to WEDC, JCF provision - AB761

Unclassified division administrators in the civil service system: eliminating increases authorized in 2011 WisActs 10 and 32 and 2013 WisAct 20; Secretary of DOA to submit plan to JCF re adjusting appropriations and classified and unclassified positions - AB310

UW Board of Regents may accept research involving government security classifications or restrictions on participation in, access to, or dissemination of research results; open records law exemption; annual report required [A.Amdt.1: open records provision deleted] - AB729

UW Board of Regents: proposed methodology for calculating program revenue balances and reserves submitted to JLAC; PR account balance limits and policies on distribution and expenditure of tuition, fee, and GPR proposals to JCF; tuition and segregated fees cannot increase for 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9148 (4L)-(4n)] - AB40

UW Board of Regents to award incentive grants to UW institutions for specified programs; report to DOA required [Sec. 249, 591, 9148 (1); A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, DOA provision removed, other report provisions added, JCF approval, flexible option initiative provisions added, funding plan to JCF required, 608c-x, 9148 (1e), (2c), (5e), 9148 (1) renumbered (1i), deletes 249] - AB40

UW Carbone Cancer Center transitional imaging research funding; plan to raise funds submitted to DOA required [Sec. 250, 590; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, appropriation revised and matching fund required, DOA provision removed, JCF approval added, 9148 (4i), deletes 250, 590] - AB40

Veterans unemployment tax credit: report by DOR and DWD to JCF modified [Sec. 1460, 2366; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, tax credit changed to veteran employment grants, report requirement deleted, 375v, 1348bn, c, 1398g, h, 1434g, h, 1714d, deletes 1460] - AB40

WEDC law revisions re report to JLAC, board member terms, lead director position, governance committee, LAB financial audit, power to establish a nonprofit organization, and state procurement - AB228

WEDC law revisions re report to JLAC, board member terms, lead director position, governance committee, LAB financial audit, power to establish a nonprofit organization, and state procurement - SB205

WEDC operation requirements re procurement, code of ethics applies to employees, annual reports, and independent audit [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 193o, q, 2055m-x, 9150 (1q)] - AB40

Wisconsin Shares program revisions re distribution, maximum rates, copayments, and noncustodial parents [Sec. 374, 375, 936, 951-953, 960, 962, 973, 979-981, 983-986, 990-992, 994-1020, 1217, 9406 (4); A.Sub.Admt.1: further revisions, plan to implement electronic means of delivering W-2 benefits and child care subsidies requires JCF approval, 952m, 9406 (5L)] - AB40

Wisconsin Student Loan Refinancing Authority (WSLRA) created; DFI duties re financial aid information; institutions of higher education required to provide student loan counseling; individual income tax subtraction for tuition and student fees revised; annual report from HEAB to JCF required re student loan debt; JSCTE appendix report - AB498

Wisconsin Trust Code, a modified version of the Uniform Trust Code, replaces current law related to trusts with Uniform Principal and Income Act and Uniform Prudent Investor Act provisions; estate recovery and divestment provisions not approved by JCF repealed and the approved provisions changed - AB490

Work-share programs: DWD approval required and UI benefit provisions specified; JCF may delay implementation [A.Amdt.1: training, modification of plans, and DWD Secretary may waive compliance provisions added] - AB15

Work-share programs: DWD approval required and UI benefit provisions specified; JCF may delay implementation - SB26