Amendment JR1 AA1-AB6

AB6-AA1,2,23 20.505 (1) (gp) Contractual services agreement with Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. All moneys received from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation under any contractual services agreement entered into under s. 16.03 (2) to provide employee services for the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.".

AB6-AA1,2,24 4. Page 13, line 16: after that line insert:

AB6-AA1,3,1 " Section 28m. 19.42 (10) (t) of the statutes is created to read:

AB6-AA1,3,3 19.42 (10) (t) Nonclerical employees of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.

AB6-AA1, s. 28n Section 28n. 19.42 (13) (p) of the statutes is created to read:

AB6-AA1,3,6 19.42 (13) (p) Nonclerical employees of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.".

AB6-AA1,3,7 5. Page 18, line 24: delete "and".

AB6-AA1,3,9 6. Page 19, line 1: after "governor" insert ", the speaker of the assembly or the speaker's designee, and the senate majority leader or the majority leader's designee".

AB6-AA1,3,11 7. Page 20, line 7: delete "Employ" and substitute "Subject to s. 238.045, employ".

AB6-AA1,3,12 8. Page 20, line 14: after that line insert:

AB6-AA1,3,16 "238.045 Contractual services agreement with the department of administration. The board shall contract with the department of administration under s. 16.03 (2) for all employee services of the corporation, except for executive, supervisory, and managerial employee services.".

AB6-AA1,3,17 9. Page 21, line 1: delete lines 1 to 4 and substitute:

AB6-AA1,3,20 "238.07 Goals and accountability measures; reporting. (1) Goals and accountability measures. The board shall do all of the following for each economic development program implemented under s. 238.03:

AB6-AA1,3,22 (a) Establish clear and measurable goals for the program that are tied to the duties of the board under s. 238.03.

AB6-AA1,3,24 (b) Establish at least one quantifiable benchmark for each program goal described in par. (a).

AB6-AA1,4,5 (c) Require that each recipient of a grant, loan, or other award under the program submit a report to the corporation. Each contract with a recipient of a grant, loan, or other award under the program shall specify the frequency and format of the report to be submitted to the corporation and the performance measures to be included in the report.

AB6-AA1,4,8 (d) Establish a method for evaluating the projected results of the program with actual outcomes as determined by evaluating the information described in pars. (a) and (b).

AB6-AA1,4,10 (e) Annually and independently verify, from a sample of grants, loans, or other awards the accuracy of the information required to be reported under par. (c).

AB6-AA1,4,18 (f) Establish a requirement that the recipient of a grant, loan, or other award under the program of at least $100,000 submit to the corporation a verified statement signed by both an independent certified public accountant licensed or certified under ch. 442 and the director or principal officer of the recipient to attest to the accuracy of the verified statement, and make available for inspection the documents supporting the verified statement. The board shall include the requirement established under this paragraph in the contract entered into by the recipient of a grant, loan, or other award.

AB6-AA1,4,25 (g) Establish policies and procedures requiring the department to recoup payments made to a recipient of a grant, loan, or other award under the program, and permitting the board to, in addition to all other available legal remedies, do all of the following if a recipient of a grant, loan, or other award or tax benefits under the program submits false or misleading information to the corporation or fails to comply with the terms of a contract entered into with the board under the program and fails to provide to the satisfaction of the board an explanation for the noncompliance:

AB6-AA1,5,1 1. Recoup payments made to the recipient.

AB6-AA1,5,2 2. Withhold payments to be made to the recipient.

AB6-AA1,5,3 3. Impose a financial penalty on the recipient.

AB6-AA1,5,10 (2) Economic development assistance reporting. Annually, no later than December 31, the board shall submit to the joint legislative audit committee and to the appropriate standing committees of the legislature under s. 13.172 (3) a comprehensive report assessing economic development programs implemented by the board. The board shall make readily accessible to the public on an Internet-based system the information required under this subsection. The report shall include all of the following information:

AB6-AA1,5,11 (a) A description of each program.

AB6-AA1,5,13 (b) Quantifiable performance measures directly related to the purpose of the program including, when applicable, all of the following information:

AB6-AA1,5,16 1. An accounting of the location, by municipality, of each recipient of a grant, loan, or other award and each job created or retained in the state in the previous fiscal year as a result of the program.

AB6-AA1,5,21 2. An accounting of the industry classification, based on the standard industrial classification manual, 1987 edition, published by the U.S. Office of management and budget; by municipality, of each recipient of a grant, loan or other award and each job created or retained in the state during the year as a result of the program.

AB6-AA1,5,25 3. An accounting of the kind of employment position, including whether the position is full-time, part-time, temporary, seasonal, salaried, hourly, managerial, represented, or nonrepresented, by municipality, of each job created or retained in the state during the year as a result of the program.

AB6-AA1,6,2 4. An accounting of the salary or hourly wage, by municipality, of each job created or retained in the state during the year as a result of the program.

AB6-AA1,6,5 5. An accounting of the extent to which each recipient of a grant, loan, or other award retrained or relocated current employees during the year as a result of the program.

AB6-AA1,6,8 6. An accounting of the extent to which each recipient of a grant, loan, or other award utilized the Wisconsin supply chain, including Wisconsin manufacturers, suppliers, transporters, warehouses, and retailers, during the year.

AB6-AA1,6,11 7. An accounting of the percentage of recipients of a grant, loan, or other award during the year, by municipality, that were businesses with fewer than 100 employees, including employees of any subsidiary or affiliated organization.

AB6-AA1,6,14 8. An accounting of the estimated economic growth within this state that is likely to result from each grant, loan, or other award made by the corporation during the year.

AB6-AA1,6,17 9. An accounting of the percentage of recipients of a grant, loan, or other award during the year, by municipality, that were minority businesses certified by the department of commerce under s. 560.036.

AB6-AA1,6,20 10. An accounting of the percentage of recipients of a grant, loan, or other award during the year, by municipality, that were woman-owned businesses certified by the department of commerce under s. 560.035.

AB6-AA1,6,23 11. An accounting of the percentage of recipients of a grant, loan, or other award during the year, by municipality, that were disabled veteran-owned businesses certified by the department of commerce under s. 560.0335.

AB6-AA1,6,24 (c) A comparison of expected and actual program outcomes.

AB6-AA1,6,25 (d) The number of grants made under the program during the year.

AB6-AA1,7,1 (e) The number of loans made under the program during the year.

AB6-AA1,7,3 (f) The number of other awards, if applicable, made under the program during the year.

AB6-AA1,7,5 (g) The amount of each grant, loan, or other award made under the program during the year.

AB6-AA1,7,7 (h) The recipient of each grant, loan, or other award made under the program during the year.

AB6-AA1,7,9 (i) The total dollar amount contributed to any program by each recipient of a grant, loan, or other award under the program.

AB6-AA1,7,11 (j) The sum total of all grants and loans awarded to and received by each recipient under the program during the year.".

AB6-AA1,7,14 10. Page 21, line 23: after "statutes" insert ", or transfer any such position or portion thereof to the department of administration to be funded from revenues appropriated under section 20.505 (1) (gp) of the statutes, as created by this act".

AB6-AA1,7,16 11. Page 21, line 25: delete "Before" and substitute (a) "Subject to paragraph (b), before".

AB6-AA1,7,17 12. Page 22, line 9: after that line insert:

AB6-AA1,8,2 "(b) If the secretary of administration transfers any moneys under paragraph (a), the secretary shall ensure under section 238.05 (2) of the statutes, as created by this act, that the board of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation develop and implement economic development and other programs similar to the programs at the department of commerce that were funded from the moneys transferred under paragraph (a). The secretary of administration shall also submit to the joint committee on finance proposed legislation to eliminate at the department of commerce any programs the funding for which has been transferred under paragraph (a).".

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