Wisconsin Legislature: Legislature -- Finance, Joint Committee on

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Consolidation of DSPS and DATCP: DOA study requirement repealed - AB362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

Workforce training program: grant appropriation increased; DWD required to use funds for reducing waiting lists for certain technical college programs, collaborative projects among school districts, technical colleges, and businesses, and enhancing employment opportunities for persons with disabilities through public and private organizations; DWD budget request provision - Jr4 AB2

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Battery to family member of a public officer and harassing, threatening, or intimidating a legislator or his or her family: crimes and penalties created; JRCCP report - AB213