55,4109k
Section 4109k. 256.15 (4) (d) of the statutes is created to read:
256.15 (4) (d) If an ambulance service provider that was initially licensed at the paramedic level in 1993 and is located in a municipality in Dodge and Jefferson counties has dispatched an ambulance containing 2 emergency medical technicians — paramedics, the department shall allow that ambulance service provider to staff an ambulance at the paramedic level for a subsequent call with one emergency medical technician — paramedic and one emergency medical technician of any level while the first ambulance containing 2 emergency medical technicians — paramedics is occupied providing service.
55,4110
Section
4110. 257.01 (5) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
257.01 (5) (a) An individual who is licensed as a physician, a physician assistant, or a podiatrist under ch. 448, licensed as a registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, or nurse-midwife under ch. 441, licensed as a dentist under ch. 447, licensed as a pharmacist under ch. 450, licensed as a veterinarian or certified as a veterinary technician under ch. 453 89, or certified as a respiratory care practitioner under ch. 448.
55,4111
Section
4111. 257.01 (5) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
257.01 (5) (b) An individual who was at any time within the previous 10 years, but is not currently, licensed as a physician, a physician assistant, or a podiatrist under ch. 448, licensed as a registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, or nurse-midwife, under ch. 441, licensed as a dentist under ch. 447, licensed as a pharmacist under ch. 450, licensed as a veterinarian or certified as a veterinary technician under ch. 453 89, or certified as a respiratory care practitioner under ch. 448, if the individual's license or certification was never revoked, limited, suspended, or denied renewal.
55,4112e
Section 4112e. 281.31 (2m) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.31 (2m) (intro.) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or administrative rule, a shoreland zoning ordinance required under s. 59.692, a construction site erosion control and storm water management zoning ordinance authorized under s. 59.693, 60.627, 61.354, or 62.234, or a wetland zoning ordinance required under s. 61.351 or 62.231 does not apply to lands any of the following:
(a) Lands adjacent to farm drainage ditches if
all of the following apply:
55,4112f
Section 4112f. 281.31 (2m) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 281.31 (2m) (a) 1. and amended to read:
281.31 (2m) (a) 1. Such The lands are not adjacent to a natural navigable stream or river;.
55,4112g
Section 4112g. 281.31 (2m) (b) of the statutes is renumbered 281.31 (2m) (a) 2. and amended to read:
281.31 (2m) (a) 2. Those parts of the drainage ditches adjacent to these lands were nonnavigable streams before ditching; and.
55,4112h
Section 4112h. 281.31 (2m) (bg) of the statutes is created to read:
281.31 (2m) (bg) Lands adjacent to artificially constructed drainage ditches, ponds, or storm water retention basins that are not hydrologically connected to a natural navigable water body.
55,4112i
Section 4112i. 281.31 (2m) (c) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4117
Section
4117. 281.57 (7) (c) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
281.57 (7) (c) 1. Metropolitan sewerage districts that serve 1st class cities are limited in each fiscal year to receiving total grant awards not to exceed 33% of the sum of the amounts in the schedule for that fiscal year for the appropriation under s. 20.165 (2) (de) (ke) and the amount authorized under sub. (10) for that fiscal year plus the unencumbered balance at the end of the preceding fiscal year for the amount authorized under sub. (10). This subdivision is not applicable to grant awards provided during fiscal years 1985-86, 1986-87, 1988-89 and 1989-90.
55,4119
Section
4119. 281.58 (8) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.58 (8) (c) Except as provided in par. (k), financial assistance may be provided for the design, planning and construction of a collection system, interceptor or individual system project in an unsewered municipality or an unsewered area of a municipality, only if the department finds that at least two-thirds of the initial flow will be for wastewater originating from residences in existence on October 17, 1972 for at least 20 years prior to the submission of the application under sub. (9) (a).
55,4120
Section
4120. 281.58 (8) (i) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.58 (8) (i) After June 30, 1991, no municipality may receive for projects in a biennium an amount that exceeds 35.2% of the amount approved by the legislature under s. 281.59 (3e) (b) that the department of administration projects will be available to provide financial assistance for projects under this section for that biennium.
55,4121
Section
4121. 281.58 (8) (j) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.58 (8) (j) The amount of a payment under sub. (6) (b) 8. may not exceed the amount of subsidy necessary to reduce the interest rate on the loan from market rate to the interest rate that would have been charged on a loan to the municipality under sub. (6) (b) 4.
55,4122
Section
4122. 281.58 (9) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.58 (9) (e) If the department of natural resources and the department of administration determine that the governor's recommendation, as set forth in the executive budget bill, for the amount under s. 281.59 (3e) (b), the amount available under s. 20.866 (2) (tc), or the amount available under s. 281.59 (4) (f) the total amount that the department of administration projects will be available to provide financial assistance for projects under this section for a biennium, as set forth in the biennial finance plan under s. 281.59 (3) (a) 2. and as updated under s. 281.59 (3) (bm) 2., is insufficient to provide funding for all projects for which applications will be approved during that biennium, the department shall inform municipalities that, if the governor's recommendations are approved, clean water fund program assistance during a fiscal year of that biennium will be available only to municipalities that submit financial assistance applications by the June 30 preceding September 30 of that fiscal year.
55,4123
Section
4123. 281.58 (9m) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.58 (9m) (a) (intro.) Subject to pars. (c) and par. (d), the department shall approve an application after all of the following occur:
55,4124
Section
4124. 281.58 (9m) (c) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4125
Section
4125. 281.58 (9m) (e) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
281.58 (9m) (e) 1. Except as provided under par. (f) and sub. (13), if a sufficient amount of subsidy
financial assistance under this section is available under s. 281.59 (3e) (b) for the municipality's project, based on the calculation under s. 281.59 (3e) (f), when the department approves the application under par. (a), the department of administration shall allocate that amount to the project.
55,4126
Section
4126. 281.58 (9m) (e) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
281.58 (9m) (e) 2. If a sufficient amount of
subsidy financial assistance under this section is not available under s. 281.59 (3e) (b) for the municipality's project when the department approves the application under subd. 1. par. (a), the department shall place the project on a list for allocation when additional subsidy becomes financial assistance becomes available.
55,4127
Section
4127. 281.58 (9m) (f) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.58 (9m) (f) (intro.) If the department of natural resources and the department of administration determine that the amount approved under s. 281.59 (3e) (b), the amount available under s. 20.866 (2) (tc), or the amount available under s. 281.59 (4) (f) available to provide financial assistance for projects under this section for a biennium is insufficient to provide funding for all projects for which applications will be approved during that biennium, all of the following apply:
55,4128
Section
4128. 281.58 (9m) (f) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
281.58 (9m) (f) 1. The department shall establish a funding list for each fiscal year of the biennium that ranks projects of municipalities that submit financial assistance applications under sub. (9) (a) no later than the June 30 preceding September 30 of the fiscal year in the same order that they appear on the priority list under sub. (8e).
55,4129
Section
4129. 281.58 (9m) (fm) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.58 (9m) (fm) The department, in consultation with the department of administration, shall promulgate, by rule, methods to establish deadlines for actions that must be taken by a municipality to which subsidy
financial assistance has been allocated. The methods may provide for extending deadlines under specified circumstances. If a municipality fails to meet a deadline, including any extension, the department of administration shall release rescind the
amount allocation of subsidy allocated to financial assistance for the municipality's project.
55,4130
Section
4130. 281.58 (9m) (g) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4131
Section
4131. 281.58 (12) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
281.58 (12) (a) 1. Except as modified under par. (f) and except as restricted by sub. (8) (b), (c), (f) or (h), the interest rate for projects specified in sub. (7) (b) 1. and 2. to 5. is 60 75 percent of market interest rate for projects for which the subsidy is was allocated from the amount under s. 281.59 (3e) (b), 2013 stats., for a biennium before the 2011-13 2015-17 biennium and 75 70 percent of market interest rate for projects for which the subsidy financial assistance is allocated from the amount under s. 281.59 (3e) (b) under this section for the
2011-13 2015-17 biennium or later.
55,4132m
Section 4132m. 281.58 (12) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed.
55,4133m
Section 4133m. 281.58 (12) (a) 3. of the statutes is repealed.
55,4134
Section
4134. 281.58 (13m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.58 (13m) (b) Grants provided under this subsection are not included for the purposes of determining under sub. (8) (i) the amount that a municipality may receive for projects under the clean water fund program. Grants awarded under this subsection are not considered for the purposes of sub. (9m) (e) or s. 281.59 (3e) (b).
55,4135
Section
4135. 281.58 (15) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.58 (15) (a) The department and the department of administration may, at the request of a municipality, issue a notice of financial assistance commitment to the municipality after the department approves the municipality's application under sub. (9m) (a) and the department of administration has allocated subsidy
financial assistance for the municipality's project.
55,4136
Section
4136. 281.59 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.59 (1) (b) "Market interest rate" means the effective interest rate on a fixed-rate revenue obligation issued by the state to fund a loan made under this section or, for a variable rate if the department of administration determines that there has been a significant change in interest rates after the fixed-rate revenue obligation has been issued or if a fixed-rate revenue obligation has not been issued by the state to fund a loan made under this section, the effective interest rate that the department of administration determines would have been paid if the variable rate a fixed-rate revenue obligation had been sold at a fixed rate issued on the date financial assistance is allotted.
55,4137
Section
4137. 281.59 (1) (d) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4139
Section
4139. 281.59 (3) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
281.59 (3) (a) 2. The total amount of that the department of administration projects will be available to provide financial assistance planned to be provided or committed for projects under subd. 1. during the next biennium.
55,4140
Section
4140. 281.59 (3) (a) 6. of the statutes is repealed.
55,4141
Section
4141. 281.59 (3) (a) 6e. of the statutes is repealed.
55,4142
Section
4142. 281.59 (3) (a) 6m. of the statutes is repealed.
55,4143
Section
4143. 281.59 (3) (a) 7. of the statutes is repealed.
55,4144
Section
4144. 281.59 (3) (j) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.59 (3) (j) No later than November 1 of each odd-numbered year, the department of administration and the department jointly shall submit a report, to the building commission and committees as required under par. (bm), on the implementation of the amount established under sub. (3e) (b) as required under s. 281.58 (9m) (e), and on the operations and activities of the clean water fund program, the safe drinking water loan program and the land recycling loan program for the previous biennium.
55,4145
Section
4145. 281.59 (3e) (a) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4146
Section
4146. 281.59 (3e) (b) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4147
Section
4147. 281.59 (3e) (c) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4148
Section
4148. 281.59 (3e) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.59 (3e) (d) The department may expend, for financial assistance in a biennium other than financial hardship assistance under s. 281.58 (13) (e), an amount up to 95 percent of the amount approved by the legislature under par. (b) available to provide financial assistance for projects under this section for that biennium. The department may expend such amount only from the percentage of the amount approved under par. (b) that is not available under par. (e) for financial hardship assistance.
55,4149
Section
4149. 281.59 (3e) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.59 (3e) (e) The department may expend, for financial hardship assistance in a biennium under s. 281.58 (13) (e), an amount up to 5 percent of the amount approved by the legislature under par. (b) available to provide financial assistance for projects under this section for that biennium. The department may expend such amount only from the percentage of the amount approved by the legislature under par. (b) that is not available under par. (d) for financial assistance.
55,4150
Section
4150. 281.59 (3e) (f) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4151
Section
4151. 281.59 (3m) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4152
Section
4152. 281.59 (3s) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4152m
Section 4152m. 281.59 (4) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.59 (4) (f) Revenue obligations may be contracted by the building commission when it reasonably appears to the building commission that all obligations incurred under this subsection, and all payments under an agreement or ancillary arrangement entered into under s. 18.55 (6) with respect to revenue obligations issued under this subsection, can be fully paid on a timely basis from moneys received or anticipated to be received. Revenue obligations issued under this subsection for the clean water fund program shall not exceed $2,708,900,000 $2,526,700,000 in principal amount, excluding obligations issued to refund outstanding revenue obligation notes.
55,4153
Section
4153. 281.59 (9) (am) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.59 (9) (am) The department of administration, in consultation with the department, may establish those terms and conditions of a financial assistance agreement that relate to its financial management, including what type of municipal obligation, as set forth under sub. (13f), if applicable, is required for the repayment of the financial assistance. Any terms and conditions established under this paragraph by the department of administration shall comply with the requirements of this section and s. 281.58, 281.60 or 281.61. In setting the terms and conditions, the department of administration may consider factors that the department of administration finds are relevant, including the type of obligation evidencing the loan, the pledge of security for the obligation and the applicant's creditworthiness.
55,4154
Section
4154. 281.59 (11) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.59 (11) (a) The department of natural resources and the department of administration may enter into a financial assistance agreement with an applicant for which the department of administration has allocated subsidy financial assistance under s. 281.58 (9m), 281.60 (8) or 281.61 (8) if the applicant meets the conditions under sub. (9) and the other requirements under this section and s. 281.58, 281.60 or 281.61.
55,4155
Section
4155. 281.60 (7) (d) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4156
Section
4156. 281.60 (8) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 281.60 (8).
55,4157
Section
4157. 281.60 (8) (b) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4158
Section
4158. 281.60 (8s) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.60 (8s) Limitation on financial assistance. The amount of a payment under sub. (2r) (d) may not exceed the amount of subsidy necessary to reduce the interest rate on the loan from market rate to the interest rate that would have been charged on a loan to the political subdivision under sub. (2r) (a).
55,4159
Section
4159. 281.60 (12) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
281.60 (12) (b) 3. If the sale proceeds are greater than the cost of the land plus the cost of the cleanup, pay to the department of administration an amount equal to the remaining loan balance plus the lesser of 75% of the amount by which the sale proceeds exceed the cost of the land plus the cost of the cleanup or the amount of subsidy incurred for the project difference between the amount of interest paid on the loan and the amount of interest that would have been paid if the loan had been made at the market rate, and retain the remainder of the sale proceeds.
55,4160
Section
4160. 281.61 (1) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 281.61 (1) (am).
55,4161
Section
4161. 281.61 (1) (ag) of the statutes is created to read:
281.61 (1) (ag) "Community water system" means a public water system that serves at least 15 service connections used by year-round residents or that regularly serves at least 25 year-round residents.
55,4163
Section
4163. 281.61 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.61
(2) General. The department and the department of administration shall administer a program to provide financial assistance to local governmental units
and to the private owners of community water systems that serve local governmental units for projects for the planning, designing, construction or modification of public water systems, if the projects will facilitate compliance with national primary drinking water regulations under
42 USC 300g-1 or otherwise significantly further the health protection objectives of the Safe Drinking Water Act,
42 USC 300f to
300j-26.
55,4164
Section
4164. 281.61 (2g) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.61
(2g) Ineligible projects. A local governmental unit
or the private owner of a community water system that serves a local governmental unit is not eligible for financial assistance under this section if the local governmental unit
or the private owner of the community water system that serves a local governmental unit does not have the technical, managerial or financial capacity to ensure compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act,
42 USC 300f to
300j-26, or the public water system operated by the local governmental unit
or private owner of the community water system that serves a local governmental unit is in significant noncompliance with any requirement of a primary drinking water regulation or variance under
42 USC 300g-1 unless the financial assistance will ensure compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act.
