(3) Judicial and gubernatorial appointees. Members appointed under sub. (1) (e) or (f) shall serve at the pleasure of the authority appointing them.
(4) Eligibility. A member shall cease to be a member upon losing the status upon which the appointment is based. Membership on the committee shall not be incompatible with any other public office.
(5) Review of legislation relating to crimes. (a) If any bill that is introduced in either house of the legislature proposes to create a new crime or revise a penalty for an existing crime and the bill is referred to a standing committee of the house in which it is introduced, the chairperson may request the joint review committee to prepare a report on the bill under par. (b). If the bill is not referred to a standing committee, the speaker of the assembly, if the bill is introduced in the assembly, or the presiding officer of the senate, if the bill is introduced in the senate, may request the joint review committee to prepare a report on the bill under par. (b).
(b) If the joint review committee receives a request under par. (a) for a report on a bill that proposes to create a new crime or revise a penalty for an existing crime, the committee shall prepare a report concerning all of the following:
1. The costs that are likely to be incurred or saved by the department of corrections, the department of justice, the state public defender, the courts, district attorneys, and other state and local government agencies if the bill is enacted.
2. The consistency of penalties proposed in the bill with existing criminal penalties.
3. Alternative language needed, if any, to conform penalties proposed in the bill to penalties in existing criminal statutes.
4. Whether acts prohibited under the bill are prohibited under existing criminal statutes.
(c) The chief clerk shall print a report prepared by the committee under par. (b) as an appendix to the bill and attach it thereto as are amendments. The reproduction shall be in lieu of inclusion in the daily journal of the house in which the proposal is introduced.
(d) If a bill that is introduced in either house of the legislature proposes to create a new crime or revise a penalty for an existing crime, a standing committee to which the bill is referred may not vote on whether to recommend the bill for passage and the bill may not be passed by the house in which it is introduced before the joint review committee submits a report under par. (b) or before the 30th day after a report is requested under par. (a), whichever is earlier.
(6) Committee powers and procedures. The committee may hold hearings as needed to elicit information for making a report under sub. (5) (b) or (5m) (a) or for developing proposed legislation under sub. (5m) (a). The committee shall meet at the call of its cochairpersons. All actions of the committee require the approval of a majority of all of its members.
13.58 (5) (a) 5. Upon receipt of strategic plans from the department of electronic government administration, the joint committee on legislative organization and the director of state courts, review and transmit comments concerning the plans to the entities submitting the plans.
13.58 (5) (b) 4. (intro.) With the concurrence of the joint committee on finance, direct the department of electronic government administration to report semiannually to the committee and the joint committee on finance concerning any specific information technology system project which is being designed, developed, tested or implemented and which the committees anticipate will have a total cost to the state exceeding $1,000,000 in the current or any succeeding fiscal biennium. The report shall include all of the following:
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Section 10. 13.69 (6m) of the statutes is amended to read:
13.69 (6m) Any principal, lobbyist or other individual acting on behalf of a principal who files a statement under s. 13.63 (1), 13.64, 13.65, 13.67 or 13.68 which he or she does not believe to be true may be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than 7 years and 6 months or both is guilty of a Class H felony.
13.90 (6) The joint committee on legislative organization shall adopt, revise biennially and submit to the cochairpersons of the joint committee on information policy and technology, the governor and the chief information officer administrator of the division of electronic government in the department of administration, no later than September 15 of each even-numbered year, a strategic plan for the utilization of information technology to carry out the functions of the legislature and legislative service agencies, as defined in s. 16.70 (6). The plan shall address the business needs of the legislature and legislative service agencies and shall identify all resources relating to information technology which the legislature and legislative service agencies desire to acquire, contingent upon funding availability, the priority for such acquisitions and the justification for such acquisitions. The plan shall also identify any changes in the functioning of the legislature and legislative service agencies under the plan.
13.93 (2) (h) Approve specifications and scheduling for computer databases containing the Wisconsin statutes and for the printing of the Wisconsin statutes as prescribed in ss. 22.03 16.971 (6) and 35.56 (5).
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Section 11m. 13.94 (1) (bm), (bp) and (br) of the statutes are created to read:
13.94 (1) (bm) 1. Conduct a management and performance evaluation audit of every large program at least once each 5 years. In this paragraph "large program" means a program, as described in s. 20.003 (3), under s. 20.255 (2), 20.285 (1), 20.292 (1), 20.395 (1), (2), or (3), 20.410 (1) or (3), 20.435 (2), (3), (4), or (6), 20.445 (1) or (3), or 20.835 (1), (2), (3), or (4).
2. The audit must include an appraisal of all management practices, operating procedures, and organizational structures related to the program. The audit may be conducted in conjunction with the audit under par. (b) or separately. Within 30 days after completion of the audit, the bureau shall file with the joint legislative audit committee, the appropriate standing committees, and the joint committee on legislative organization, under s. 13.172 (3), the governor, the department of administration, the legislative reference bureau, the joint committee on finance, the legislative fiscal bureau, and the state department, board, commission, or independent agency that administers the program audited, a detailed report thereof, including its recommendations for improvement and efficiency and including specific instances, if any, of illegal or improper expenditures.
(bp) 1. Conduct a management and performance evaluation audit to review supervisor-to-staff ratios in every large agency at least once each 5 years. In this paragraph "large agency" means an agency created under ch. 15 and that has more than 100 full-time equivalent positions.
2. The audit may be conducted in conjunction with the audit under par. (b) or (bm) or separately. Within 30 days after completion of the audit, the bureau shall file with the joint legislative audit committee, the appropriate standing committees, and the joint committee on legislative organization, under s. 13.172 (3), the governor, the department of administration, the legislative reference bureau, the joint committee on finance, the legislative fiscal bureau, and the state department, board, commission, or independent agency audited, a detailed report thereof, including its recommendations for improvement and efficiency.
(br) Maintain a toll-free telephone number with voice mail at the bureau's office to receive reports of fraud, waste, or abuse in state government. The bureau shall relay these reports to the appropriate bureau employee for investigation. The bureau shall publicize the toll-free telephone number on the bureau's website. The bureau shall maintain records that permit the release of information provided by informants while protecting the identity of the informant. Any records maintained by the bureau which relate to the identity of informants shall be only for the confidential use of the bureau in the administration of this section, unless the informant expressly agrees to release the records. Appearance in court as a witness shall not be considered consent by an informant to release confidential records maintained by the bureau.
14.20 (1) (a) "Local governmental unit" has the meaning given in s. 22.01 16.97 (7).
15.01 (2) "Commission" means a 3-member governing body in charge of a department or independent agency or of a division or other subunit within a department, except for the Wisconsin waterways commission which shall consist of 5 members, the parole commission which shall consist of 8 members, and the Fox River management commission which shall consist of 7 members. A Wisconsin group created for participation in a continuing interstate body, or the interstate body itself, shall be known as a "commission", but is not a commission for purposes of s. 15.06. The parole commission created under s. 15.145 (1) shall be known as a "commission", but is not a commission for purposes of s. 15.06. The sentencing commission created under s. 15.105 (27) shall be known as a "commission" but is not a commission for purposes of s. 15.06 (1) to (4m), (7), and (9).
15.07 (2) (L) The governor shall serve as chairperson of the information technology management board and the chief information officer administrator of the division of electronic government in the department of administration shall serve as secretary of that board.
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Section 13p. 15.103 (6) of the statutes is created to read:
15.103 (6) There is created in the department of administration a division of electronic government.
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Section 13q. 15.105 (25) of the statutes is repealed.
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Section 14. 15.105 (27) of the statutes is created to read:
15.105 (27) Sentencing commission. (a) Creation; membership. There is created a sentencing commission that is attached to the department of administration under s. 15.03 and that shall consist of the following members:
1. The attorney general or his or her designee.
2. The state public defender or his or her designee.
3. Seven members, at least 2 of whom are not employed by any unit of federal, state, or local government, appointed by the governor.
4. One majority party member and one minority party member from each house of the legislature, appointed as are the members of standing committees in their respective houses.
5. Two circuit judges, appointed by the supreme court.
6. One representative of crime victims and one prosecutor, each appointed by the attorney general.
7. One attorney in private practice engaged primarily in the practice of criminal defense, appointed by the criminal law section of the State Bar of Wisconsin.
(b) Nonvoting members. The secretary of corrections or his or her designee, the chairperson of the parole commission or his or her designee, and the director of state courts or his or her designee shall be nonvoting members of the commission.
(c) Terms. 1. Except as provided in subd. 2., members appointed under par. (a) 3. and 5. to 7. shall serve 3-year terms and are eligible for reappointment.
2. The term of a circuit judge appointed under par. (a) 5. shall end when such person ceases to be a circuit judge. The term of a prosecutor appointed under par. (a) 6. shall end when such person ceases to be a prosecutor.
(d) Officers. The governor shall designate annually one of the members of the commission as chairperson. The commission may elect officers other than a chairperson from among its members as its work requires.
(e) Reimbursement and compensation. Members of the commission shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. An officer or employee of the state shall be reimbursed by the agency that pays the member's salary. Members who are full-time state officers or employees shall receive no compensation for their services. Other members shall be paid $25 per day, in addition to their actual and necessary expenses, for each day on which they are actually and necessarily engaged in the performance of their duties.
(f) Sunset. This subsection does not apply after December 31, 2007.
15.107 (7) (f) A representative of the department division of electronic government in the department of administration.
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Section 14d. 15.197 (25) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
15.197 (25) (c) This subsection does not apply beginning on July 1, 2002 2003.
15.105 (27) Information technology management board. There is created an information technology management board which is attached to the department of electronic government administration under s. 15.03. The board shall consist of the governor, the cochairpersons of the joint committee on information policy and technology or a member of the legislature from the same house as a cochairperson designated by that cochairperson, one member of the minority party in each house of the legislature, appointed in the same manner as members of standing committees are appointed, the secretary of administration, 2 heads of departments or independent agencies appointed to serve at the pleasure of the governor, 2 other members appointed to serve for 4-year terms, and the chief information officer administrator of the division of electronic government in the department of administration.
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Section 14j. 15.347 (18) of the statutes is created to read:
15.347 (18) Invasive species council. (a) There is created an invasive species council, attached to the department of natural resources under s. 15.03.
(b) The council consists of the following members:
1. The secretary of natural resources or his or her designee.
2. The secretary of administration or his or her designee.
3. The secretary of agriculture, trade and consumer protection or his or her designee.
4. The secretary of commerce or his or her designee.
5. The secretary of tourism or his or her designee.
6. The secretary of transportation or his or her designee.
7. Seven other members appointed by the governor to serve 5-year terms.
(c) The members appointed under par. (b) 7. shall represent public and private interests that are affected by the presence of invasive species in this state.
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Section 14kr. 15.347 (19) of the statutes is created to read:
15.347 (19) Council on forestry. (a) There is created in the department of natural resources a council of forestry consisting of:
1. The chief state forester or his or her designee.
2. One member of the senate
, appointed by the president of the senate .
3. One member of the senate, appointed by the senate minority leader .
4. One member of the assembly
, appointed by the speaker of the assembly .
5. One member of the assembly, appointed by the assembly minority leader .
6. One member who represents the interests of a forest products company that owns and manages large tracts of private forest land that supply raw materials to the forest products industry.
7. One member who represents the interests of owners of nonindustrial, private forest land who manage the land to produce ecological, economic, and social benefits.
8. One member who represents the interests of counties that have county forests within their boundaries.
9. One member who represents the interests of the paper and pulp industry.
10. One member who represents the interests of the lumber industry.
11. One member who represents the interests of nonprofit conservation organizations whose purposes include the conservation and use of forest resources.
12. One member who is a forester who engages in the practice of providing consultation services on forestry issues.
13. One member who represents the interests of schools of forestry within the state that have curricula in the management of forest resources that are accredited by the Society of American Foresters.
14. One member who represents the interests of persons who engage in the practice of conservation education.
15. One member who represents the interests of persons who are members of labor unions that are affiliated with the forestry industry.
16. One member who represents the interests of persons who are engaged in the practice of urban and community forestry.
17. One member who represents the interests of persons who are members of the Society of American Foresters.
