Amendment SA1-AB152

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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE

SENATE AMENDMENT 1, TO ASSEMBLY BILL 152

June 5, 2023 - Offered by Senator Feyen.

AB152-SA1,1,1 At the locations indicated, amend the bill as follows:

AB152-SA1,1,2 1. Page 2, line 1: before that line insert:

AB152-SA1,1,3 “ Section 1c. 16.004 (18m) of the statutes is created to read:

AB152-SA1,1,5 16.004 (18m) Temporary assignment of employees to department of workforce development. (a ) In this subsection:

AB152-SA1,1,6 1. “Allowable period” means a period described in par. (c).

AB152-SA1,1,8 2. “State agency” means any office or department in the executive branch of state government.

AB152-SA1,2,3 (b) Notwithstanding s. 230.047, the secretary may transfer any employee to the department of workforce development from any other state agency to provide services for the department of workforce development that are needed to hear and decide appeals under s. 108.09 (4). Such an employee may, notwithstanding s. 108.09 (3) (a), serve as an appeal tribunal under ss. 108.09 to 108.10, subject to approval by the secretary of workforce development. The department of workforce development shall pay all salary and fringe benefit costs of the employee during the time he or she is providing services for the department of workforce development.

AB152-SA1,2,5 (c) A transfer under par. (b) may be made at any time for 120 days, unless an extension is approved by the joint committee on finance as set forth in par. (d).

AB152-SA1,2,16 (d) The secretary may submit a request to extend an allowable period under par. (b) to the cochairpersons of the joint committee on finance in writing. If the cochairpersons of the joint committee on finance do not notify the secretary that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the request within 14 working days after the secretary submitted the request, the secretary may extend the allowable period by 120 days. If, within 14 working days after the secretary submitted the request, the cochairpersons of the joint committee on finance notify the secretary that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the request application, the department may extend the allowable period only with the committee's approval. The committee shall notify the secretary of all of its actions taken under this subsection.

AB152-SA1,2,21 (e) If an employee is transferred under par. (b), the department of workforce development may not increase the employee's salary at the time of transfer or during the time he or she is providing services for the department of workforce development, and the agency from which the employee was transferred may not increase the employee's salary at the time the employee returns to the agency.

AB152-SA1,3,3 (f) The secretary shall submit a report to the joint committee on finance, no later than the first day of the 2nd month beginning after an allowable period has begun and on the first day of each subsequent month during an allowable period, that provides information on all employee transfers under par. (b). Each report shall specify the number of employees transferred, the title of each employee transferred, the title the employee assumed at the department of workforce development, and the reasons for each employee transfer.”.

AB152-SA1,3,5 2. Page 4, line 11: delete the material beginning with that line and ending with page 5, line 17.

AB152-SA1,3,6 (End)