Amendment SSA1-SB55

SB55-SSA1,1364,2 (7d) Rules for harbor assistance program. In the 2001-03 fiscal biennium, the department of transportation shall amend any rules that have been promulgated to administer the harbor assistance program under section 85.095 of the statutes to specifically provide that a facility that is used by a ferry service or cruise ship constitutes a commercial transportation facility for purposes of determining eligibility under the program.

SB55-SSA1,1364,7 (7tk) Sidewalk reconstruction in Wisconsin Rapids. Not later than June 30, 2003, the department of transportation shall reconstruct the sidewalk on the south side of Plover Road between the railroad tracks and 36th Street in Wisconsin Rapids in Wood County. Notwithstanding section 66.0907 of the statutes, the sidewalk shall be 7 feet in width and 6 inches in depth.

SB55-SSA1, s. 9153 Section 9153. Nonstatutory provisions; treasurer.

SB55-SSA1,1364,12 (1) Report of abandoned property. Notwithstanding section 177.17 (4) (a) 1. of the statutes, as affected by this act, if this subsection takes effect after October 31, 2001, the report due under section 177.17 (4) (a) 1. of the statutes, as affected by this act, by November 1, 2002, shall cover the 2 preceding calendar years.

SB55-SSA1,1364,19 (2) Service charges concerning abandoned property. Notwithstanding section 177.06 (3) (b) of the statutes, as affected by this act, if this subsection takes effect after October 31, 2001, a holder may assess a service charge on or before December 31 of the 2nd calendar year covered in the report required by November 1, 2002, under section 177.17 (4) (a) 1. of the statutes, as affected by this act, with respect to any property that is described in section 177.06 (1) of the statutes and that is required to be listed in the report.

SB55-SSA1, s. 9154 Section 9154. Nonstatutory provisions; University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority.

SB55-SSA1, s. 9155 Section 9155. Nonstatutory provisions; University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Board.

SB55-SSA1, s. 9156 Section 9156. Nonstatutory provisions; University of Wisconsin System.

SB55-SSA1,1365,6 (2mp) Reports on transfer credits. The president of the University of Wisconsin System, the president of the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin System, the president of the technical college system board, and the director of the technical college system shall submit reports no later than October 15, 2001, April 15, 2002, October 15, 2002, and April 15, 2003, to the education committees of the assembly and the senate on all of the following:

SB55-SSA1,1365,9 (a) The status of implementing the plan under 1999 Wisconsin Act 9, Section 9154 (4g), concerning transfer of credits from the technical college system to the University of Wisconsin System.

SB55-SSA1,1365,11 (b) Identification of occupations in high demand by geographic region and a plan to expand educational programs to meet the needs identified.

SB55-SSA1,1365,16 (2x) Digital television conversion funding cooperation. The board of regents of the University of Wisconsin System shall cooperate fully with the educational communications board in an effort to secure the greatest possible federal financial participation in the digital television conversion project enumerated under Section 9107 (1) (c) of this act.

SB55-SSA1, s. 9157 Section 9157. Nonstatutory provisions; veterans affairs.

SB55-SSA1,1365,18 (1) Servicing primary mortgage loans.

SB55-SSA1,1365,21 (a) Plan. The department of veterans affairs and the department of administration shall develop a plan for the most cost-effective method of servicing loans purchased under section 45.79 (5) (a) 10. of the statutes, as created by this act.

SB55-SSA1,1365,25 (b) Funding. The secretary of administration may not direct that moneys appropriated to the department of veterans affairs under section 20.485 (3) (wd), (wg), and (wp) of the statutes, as created by this act, be encumbered or expended until after the plan developed under paragraph (a ) is completed.

SB55-SSA1,1366,4 (c) Escrow payments. Notwithstanding section 45.79 (5) (a) of the statutes, as affected by this act, the department of veterans affairs may not hold monthly escrow payments made by borrowers until after the plan developed under paragraph (a) is completed.

SB55-SSA1,1366,5 (3) Transfer of approval of veterans training.

SB55-SSA1,1366,14 (a) Transfer of positions and employees. On the effective date of this paragraph, 3.0 FTE FED positions in the educational approval board, and the incumbent employees holding those positions, are transferred to the department of veterans affairs. The educational approval board and the department of veterans affairs shall jointly determine the employees to be transferred under this paragraph and shall jointly develop a plan for the orderly transfer thereof. In the event of any disagreement between the educational approval board and the department of veterans affairs, the secretary of administration shall resolve the dispute and shall develop a plan for the orderly transfer thereof.

SB55-SSA1,1366,20 (b) Employee status. Employees transferred under paragraph (a ) have all the rights and the same status under subchapter V of chapter 111 and chapter 230 of the statutes in the department of veterans affairs that they enjoyed in the educational approval board immediately before the transfer. Notwithstanding section 230.28 (4) of the statutes, no employee so transferred who has attained permanent status in class is required to serve a probationary period.

SB55-SSA1,1366,24 (4) Education center grant. From the appropriation under section 20.485 (2) (vj) of the statutes, as created by this act, the department of veteran affairs may provide, in the 2001-03 fiscal biennium, one grant of $200,000 to the Wisconsin Veterans War Memorial/Milwaukee, Inc., for a veterans education center.

SB55-SSA1,1366,25 (5mk) Mobile claims officer and regional coordinator positions.

SB55-SSA1,1367,19 (a) The department of veterans affairs, in consultation with Wisconsin veterans service organizations, county veterans' service officer organizations, and county veterans' service officers, shall study whether additional mobile claims officers are needed to provide claim and benefit assistance to veterans located outside the department's southeastern regional service area. If the department determines that additional mobile claims officers are needed, the department may submit a proposal to the joint committee on finance to increase the number of authorized positions in the department for mobile claims officers. If the cochairpersons of the committee do not notify the secretary of veterans affairs within 14 working days after receiving the proposal that the cochairpersons have scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the proposal, the number of authorized positions are increased by the number proposed. If, within 14 working days after receiving the proposal, the cochairpersons notify the secretary of veterans affairs that the cochairpersons have scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the proposal, the number of authorized positions may be increased only as approved by the committee. The number of authorized positions for mobile claims officers that are proposed by the department and approved by the committee under this paragraph may not exceed the limits under section 45.35 (4) (d) of the statutes, as created by this act.

SB55-SSA1,1368,15 (b) The department of veterans affairs, in consultation with Wisconsin veterans service organizations, county veterans' service officer organizations, and county veterans' service officers, shall study whether additional regional coordinators are needed to provide claim and benefit assistance to veterans located outside the department's southeastern regional service area. If the department and the Wisconsin veterans service organizations, county veterans' service officer organizations, and county veterans' service officers with which the department consults determine that additional regional coordinators are needed, the department shall submit a proposal to the joint committee on finance to increase the number of authorized positions in the department for regional coordinators. If the cochairpersons of the committee do not notify the secretary of veterans affairs within 14 working days after receiving the proposal that the cochairpersons have scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the proposal, the number of authorized positions are increased by the number proposed. If, within 14 working days after receiving the proposal, the cochairpersons notify the secretary of veterans affairs that the cochairpersons have scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the proposal, the number of authorized positions may be increased only as approved by the committee. The number of authorized positions for regional coordinators that are proposed by the department and approved by the committee under this paragraph may not exceed the limits under section 45.35 (4) (b) of the statutes, as created by this act.

SB55-SSA1,1368,19 (c) Notwithstanding section 13.101 (3) (a) of the statutes, if the committee approves the position increase under paragraph (a) or (b), the committee may supplement the appropriation account under section 20.485 (2) (u) of the statutes and is not required to find that an emergency exists.

SB55-SSA1,1368,24 (6c) Grant for a supportive living environment for veterans. From the appropriation account under section 20.485 (2) (rm) of the statutes, as affected by this act, in fiscal year 2001-02, the department of veterans affairs shall provide one grant of $25,000 to Armitage, Inc., to establish a supportive living environment for veterans in the city of Onalaska.

SB55-SSA1,1369,4 (7e) Cost-effective transportation services for veterans. The department of veterans affairs and the department of administration, jointly, shall determine the most cost-effective methods for providing statewide transportation services to disabled veterans under section 45.43 (7m) of the statutes, as created by this act.

SB55-SSA1, s. 9158 Section 9158. Nonstatutory provisions; workforce development.

SB55-SSA1,1369,6 (2) Transfer of position and incumbent employee; electrician.

SB55-SSA1,1369,7 (a) Position transfer.

SB55-SSA1,1369,11 1. On the effective date of this subdivision, the authorized FTE positions for the department of workforce development, funded from the appropriation under section 20.445 (1) (kc) of the statutes, are decreased by 1.0 PR-S position having responsibility for small projects requiring the services of an electrician.

SB55-SSA1,1369,15 2. On the effective date of this subdivision, the authorized FTE positions for the department of administration, funded from the appropriation under section 20.505 (5) (ka) of the statutes, as affected by this act, are increased by 1.0 PR-S position having responsibility for small projects requiring the services of an electrician.

SB55-SSA1,1369,18 3. On the effective date of this subdivision, the incumbent employee holding the position specified in subdivision 1 . is transferred to the department of administration.

SB55-SSA1,1369,24 (b) Employee status. The employee transferred under paragraph (a ) 3. shall have all the same rights and the same statutes under subchapter V of chapter 111 and chapter 230 of the statutes in the department of workforce development immediately before the transfer. Notwithstanding section 230.28 (4) of the statutes, if the employee so transferred has attained permanent status in class, that employee is not required to serve a probationary period.

SB55-SSA1,1370,11 (3f) Study regarding the provision or sale of impounded vehicles to low-income individuals. The department of workforce development shall study the feasibility of instituting and administering a program that would provide unclaimed, impounded vehicles to low-income individuals or that would provide for the sale of these vehicles to low-income individuals at below-market prices. In conducting the study, the department of workforce development shall consult with the department of transportation and local units of government. No later than June 30, 2002, the department shall submit a report documenting the findings of its study to the members of the joint committee on finance and, in the manner provided under section 13.172 (3) of the statutes, to the appropriate standing committees of the legislature.

SB55-SSA1,1370,12 (6) Transfer of medical assistance eligibility.

SB55-SSA1,1370,13 (a) Position decreases.

SB55-SSA1,1370,17 1. On the effective date of this subdivision, the authorized FTE positions for the department of workforce development, funded from the appropriation under section 20.445 (1) (kc) of the statutes, as affected by the acts of 2001, are decreased by 6.5 PR positions.

SB55-SSA1,1370,21 2. On the effective date of this subdivision, the authorized FTE positions for the department of workforce development, funded from the appropriation under section 20.445 (1) (ha) of the statutes, as affected by the acts of 2001, are decreased by 0.3 PR position.

SB55-SSA1,1370,25 3. On the effective date of this subdivision, the authorized FTE positions for the department of workforce development, funded from the appropriation under section 20.445 (1) (gb) of the statutes, as affected by the acts of 2001, are decreased by 0.2 PR position.

SB55-SSA1,1371,1 (b) Transfer of positions and employees.

SB55-SSA1,1371,4 1. On the effective date of this subdivision, 8.18 FTE FED positions in the department of workforce development, and the incumbent employees holding those positions, are transferred to the department of health and family services.

SB55-SSA1,1371,7 2. On the effective date of this subdivision, 4.82 FTE GPR positions in the department of workforce development, and the incumbent employees holding those positions, are transferred to the department of health and family services.

SB55-SSA1,1371,11 3. On the effective date of this subdivision, there are transferred from the department of workforce development to the department of health and family services 7.0 FTE incumbent employees holding the positions specified in paragraph (a).

SB55-SSA1,1371,16 4. The departments of workforce development and health and family services shall jointly determine the employees to be transferred under subdivisions 1. to 3 . and shall jointly develop a plan for the orderly transfer thereof. In the event of any disagreement between the departments, the secretary of administration shall resolve the dispute and shall develop a plan for the orderly transfer thereof.

SB55-SSA1,1371,22 (c) Employee status. Employees transferred under paragraph (b ) have all the rights and the same status under subchapter V of chapter 111 and chapter 230 of the statutes in the department of health and family services that they enjoyed in the department of workforce development immediately before the transfer. Notwithstanding section 230.28 (4) of the statutes, no employee so transferred who has attained permanent status in class is required to serve a probationary period.

SB55-SSA1,1371,23 (8) Food stamp reinvestment.

SB55-SSA1,1372,5 (a) In this subsection "cost allocation resolution moneys" means the moneys appropriated under section 20.445 (3) (nL) of the statutes that were allocated on September 25, 1998, by the joint committee on finance to reimburse the federal government for expenditures that were not approved by the federal departments of labor and health and human services in a cost allocation plan that was developed and submitted by the department of workforce development in the 1997-98 federal fiscal year.

SB55-SSA1,1372,8 (b) From the appropriation under section 20.445 (3) (nL) of the statutes, the department of workforce development shall reallocate cost allocation resolution moneys to local food stamp reinvestment activities.

SB55-SSA1,1372,17 (8x) Community youth grants. Notwithstanding section 49.175 (1) (z) of the statutes, as affected by this act, from the moneys allocated under section 49.175 (1) (z) of the statutes, as affected by this act, the department of workforce development shall provide grants in each fiscal year of the 2001-03 fiscal biennium to the Wisconsin chapters of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America to improve social, academic, and employment skills of youth who are eligible to receive temporary assistance for needy families under 42 USC 601 et seq. The total amount of grants that are provided under this subsection in each fiscal year of the 2001-03 fiscal biennium shall be $500,000.

SB55-SSA1,1372,23 (8y) Community reinvestment in certain Wisconsin works contracts. The department of workforce development may not extend the deadline for the expenditures, by Wisconsin works agencies, of community reinvestment funds that were earned as part of contracts that were entered into under section 49.143 of the statutes and have a term that begins on September 1, 1997, and ends on December 1, 1999.

SB55-SSA1,1373,5 (9c) Local youth apprenticeship grant to Wisconsin Plastics Valley Consortium. From the appropriation under section 20.445 (7) (b) of the statutes, the governor's work-based learning board shall distribute not less than $64,100 nor more than $128,300 in fiscal year 2001-02 as a local youth apprenticeship grant under section 106.13 (3m) (b) of the statutes, as affected by this act, to the Wisconsin Plastics Valley Consortium for the implementation and coordination of a local youth apprenticeship program.

SB55-SSA1,1373,6 (9e) Wisconsin works contracts for the 2002-03 contract period.

SB55-SSA1,1373,7 (a) Definitions. In this subsection:

SB55-SSA1,1373,8 1. "Department" means the department of workforce development.

SB55-SSA1,1373,12 2. "Draft contract terms" means the draft contract terms issued by the department of workforce development on May 14, 2001, for Wisconsin works contracts having a term that begins on January 1, 2002, and ends on December 31, 2003.

SB55-SSA1,1373,14 3. "Wisconsin works" has the meaning given in section 49.141 (1) (p) of the statutes.

SB55-SSA1,1373,16 4. "Wisconsin works agency" has the meaning given in section 49.001 (9) of the statutes.

SB55-SSA1,1373,18 5. "Wisconsin works contract" means a contract to administer Wisconsin works under section 49.143 of the statutes, as affected by this act.

SB55-SSA1,1373,21 (b) Performance bonuses. Each Wisconsin works contract having a term that begins on January 1, 2002, and ends on December 31, 2003, shall require the department to do all of the following:

SB55-SSA1,1373,25 1. Pay a Wisconsin works agency an amount equal to 2% of the total amount of the contract if the agency meets the performance standards for restricted performance bonus that are required under paragraph (d) and the agency is otherwise eligible to receive payment under the contract.

SB55-SSA1,1374,4 2. Pay a Wisconsin works agency an amount equal to 2% of the total amount of the contract if the agency meets the performance standards for unrestricted performance bonus that are required under paragraph (d) and the agency is otherwise eligible to receive payment under the contract.

SB55-SSA1,1374,11 (c) Sanctions for unallowable expenses. Each Wisconsin works contract having a term that begins on January 1, 2002, and ends on December 31, 2003, shall require a Wisconsin works agency that submits to the department unallowable expenses, as identified by the department or in an audit sponsored by the department or legislative audit bureau to pay to the department a sanction equal to 50% of the total amount of unallowable expenses that were submitted by the Wisconsin works agency.

SB55-SSA1,1374,15 (d) Performance standards. Each Wisconsin works contract having a term that begins on January 1, 2002, and ends on December 31, 2003, shall include the performance standards specified in the department's draft contract terms except that each contract shall specify all of the following:

SB55-SSA1,1374,19 1. That the department may only grant a Wisconsin works agency a one-case credit for purposes of determining whether the agency meets the base contract benchmark and whether the agency is eligible to contract with the department under section 49.143 (1) (a) 2. of the statutes, as created by this act.

SB55-SSA1,1374,21 2. That no Wisconsin works agency may receive a one-case credit for purposes of determining whether the agency is eligible for unrestricted bonus funds.

SB55-SSA1,1375,3 3. That the performance standards the department uses to determine whether the Wisconsin works agency meets the base contract benchmark and whether the Wisconsin works agency is eligible to contract with the department under section 49.143 (1) (a) 2. of the statutes, as created by this act, include an extension request standard that requires timely processing of requests for extensions and timely documentation of those requests on the client assistance for reemployment and economic support computer system.

SB55-SSA1,1375,6 4. That the department may not apply the extension requests standard under subdivision 3. to determine whether a Wisconsin works agency is eligible to receive unrestricted bonus funds.

SB55-SSA1,1375,10 5. That, if the Wisconsin works agency has an average score of 6.5 on each survey item under the financial management standards and is otherwise eligible to receive payment under the contract, the agency shall be eligible for unrestricted bonus funds.

SB55-SSA1,1375,15 6. That the significant audit finding item that is part of the financial management performance standard includes an audit finding that the unallowable or questioned costs, as identified by the department or in an audit sponsored by the department or legislative audit bureau, exceed a percentage of the total amount of the contract that is determined by the department.

SB55-SSA1,1375,19 (e) Community reinvestment funds. No Wisconsin works contract having a term that begins on January 1, 2002, and ends on December 31, 2003, may include a provision that provides community reinvestment funds to a Wisconsin works agency.

SB55-SSA1,1375,24 (f) Contracting process. Not later than the first day of the first month beginning after the effective date of this paragraph, the department shall amend the draft contract terms to specify that in subsequent contracts the department shall use the contracting process specified under section 49.143 (1) of the statutes, as affected by this act.

SB55-SSA1,1376,17 (9q) Food stamp transfer. No later than March 1, 2002, the department of health and family services and the department of workforce development shall submit a proposal to the secretary of administration for supplemental expenditure and position authority necessary to transfer all administrative functions related to the food stamp program authorized under 7 USC 2011 to 2036 from the department of workforce development to the department of health and family services. If the secretary of administration approves the plan, the secretary shall submit the proposal to the cochairpersons of the joint committee on finance. If the cochairpersons of the committee do not notify the secretary of administration within 14 working days after receiving the proposal that the cochairpersons have scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the proposal, the secretary of administration shall approve the proposed expenditure and position authority, as authorized under current law. If, within 14 working days after receiving the proposal, the cochairpersons notify the secretary of administration that the cochairpersons have scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the proposal, the secretary of administration may not approve the proposed expenditure and position authority, except as approved by the committee and as authorized under current law.

SB55-SSA1, s. 9159 Section 9159. Nonstatutory provisions; other.

SB55-SSA1,1376,19 (1) State agency appropriations reductions.

SB55-SSA1,1376,23 (a) Appropriations reductions. Except as provided in paragraph (b), the largest sum certain appropriation for state operations made to the following state agencies from general purpose revenue in the 2001-03 fiscal biennium is reduced by the amounts in each fiscal year indicated: - See PDF for table

SB55-SSA1,1378,6 (b) Submission of requests to the joint committee on finance for reallocating appropriations reductions. Any state agency specified in paragraph (a) may submit a request to the joint committee on finance under section 13.10 of the statutes to reallocate any of the reductions under paragraph (a) to other sum certain appropriations for state operations made to the agency from general purpose revenue.

SB55-SSA1,1378,12 (2) Information technology management board; initial terms. Notwithstanding section 15.215 (1) of the statutes, as created by this act, of the members other than state officers first appointed to serve as members of the information technology management board, the governor shall designate one to serve for a term expiring on May 1, 2003, and one to serve for a term expiring on May 1, 2005.

SB55-SSA1,1378,21 (2x) Study of public broadcasting services. The president of the University of Wisconsin System and the chairperson of the educational communications board shall jointly submit a report to the secretary of administration suggesting methods by which the University of Wisconsin-Extension and the educational communications board can improve coordination with regard to provision of public broadcasting services in this state. The report shall include specific identification of methods by which the University of Wisconsin-Extension and the educational communications board can achieve operational efficiencies through greater cooperation and sharing of resources between the agencies.

SB55-SSA1,1379,2 (2y) Report on efforts to secure funding for digital television conversion project. No later than June 1, 2003, the president of the University of Wisconsin System and the educational communications board shall submit a report to the building commission concerning their efforts to secure federal financial participation to finance the digital television conversion project enumerated under Section 9107 (1) (c) of this act.

SB55-SSA1,1379,11 (2z) Review of space needs of department of veterans affairs. The department of veterans affairs and the department of administration shall jointly conduct a review of the current and future space needs of the department of veterans affairs for departmental offices and for the Wisconsin veterans museum. The review shall include an analysis of the options available to meet those needs. No later than July 1, 2002, the department of veterans affairs and the department of administration shall jointly submit a report to the building commission describing the review and providing recommendations and alternatives for action to meet the space needs.

SB55-SSA1, s. 9201 Section 9201. Appropriation changes; administration.

SB55-SSA1,1379,13 (1) Consolidation of appropriations.

SB55-SSA1,1379,16 (a) The unencumbered balance in the appropriation account under section 20.505 (3) (g), 1999 stats., is transferred to the appropriation account under section 20.505 (1) (j) of the statutes, as affected by this act.

SB55-SSA1,1379,19 (b) The unencumbered balance in the appropriation account under section 20.505 (4) (gm), 1999 stats., is transferred to the appropriation account under section 20.505 (1) (j) of the statutes, as affected by this act.

SB55-SSA1,1379,22 (c) The unencumbered balance in the appropriation account under section 20.505 (3) (h), 1999 stats., is transferred to the appropriation account under section 20.505 (4) (h) of the statutes, as affected by this act.

SB55-SSA1,1379,25 (d) The unencumbered balance in the appropriation account under section 20.505 (1) (ma), 1999 stats., is transferred to the appropriation account under section 20.505 (1) (mb) of the statutes, as affected by this act.

SB55-SSA1,1380,3 (e) The unencumbered balance in the appropriation account under section 20.505 (1) (mc), 1999 stats., is transferred to the appropriation account under section 20.505 (1) (mb) of the statutes, as affected by this act.

SB55-SSA1,1380,6 (f) The unencumbered balance in the appropriation account under section 20.505 (1) (n), 1999 stats., is transferred to the appropriation account under section 20.505 (1) (mb) of the statutes, as affected by this act.