LRB-0650/P2
MJW:cjs
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Stinebrink, BB0019 - Wisconsin Resource Center Security Staff
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
correctional system
Adult correctional system
Transfer of security operations at Wisconsin Resource Center
This bill transfers security operations at the Wisconsin Resource Center from DOC to DHS. The transfer includes the transfer of assets, liabilities, position authorizations and the incumbent employees holding those positions, tangible personal property, contracts, and any currently pending matters.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 20.435 (2) (bm) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.435 (2) (bm) Secure mental health units or facilities. The amounts in the schedule for the general program operations of the Wisconsin Resource Center under s. 46.056 and other secure mental health units or facilities under s. 980.065 at which persons committed under s. 980.06 are placed, but not for security operations at the Wisconsin Resource Center.
Section
2. 46.056 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 46.056.
Section
3. 46.056 (2) of the statutes is repealed.
Section 9108.
Nonstatutory provisions; Corrections.
(1) Transfer of security operations at the Wisconsin Resource Center.
(a) Assets and liabilities. On the effective date of this paragraph, the assets and liabilities of the department of corrections that are primarily related to security operations at the Wisconsin Resource Center, as determined by the secretary of administration, become the assets and liabilities of the department of health services.
(b)
Positions and employees. On the effective date of this paragraph, 110.0 FTE GPR positions, and the incumbent employees holding those positions, in the department of corrections responsible for the performance of security operations at the Wisconsin Resource Center under s. 46.056 (2), 2021 stats., as determined by the secretary of administration, are transferred to the department of health services.
(c) Employee status. Employees transferred under par. (b
) have all the rights and the same status under ch. 230 of the statutes in the department of health services that they enjoyed in the department of corrections immediately before the transfer. Notwithstanding s. 230.28 (4), no employee transferred under par. (b) who has attained permanent status in class is required to serve a probationary period.
(d) Tangible personal property. On the effective date of this paragraph, all tangible personal property, including records, of the department of corrections that are primarily related to security operations at the Wisconsin Resource Center, as determined by the secretary of administration, is transferred to the department of health services.
(e) Pending matters. Any matter pending with the department of corrections on the effective date of this paragraph that is primarily related to security operations at the Wisconsin Resource Center, as determined by the secretary of administration, is transferred to the department of health services. All materials submitted to or actions taken by the department of corrections with respect to the pending matter are considered as having been submitted to or taken by the department of health services.
(f) Contracts. All contracts entered into by the department of corrections primarily related to security operations at the Wisconsin Resource Center, as determined by the secretary of administration, in effect on the effective date of this paragraph remain in effect and are transferred to the department of health services. The department of health services shall carry out any obligations under those contracts unless modified or rescinded to the extent allowed under the contract.
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