AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
State government
State finance
This bill requires the secretary of administration to lapse moneys to the general fund from a number of program revenue appropriation accounts. The appropriations are made to the following state entities: the Office of State Employment Relations in DOA, DATCP, DHFS, DOJ, DPI, DOC, DORL, DOR, and DVA; the Department of Commerce, the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board, and the Technical College System Board; and OCI.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 9255. Appropriation changes; other.
(1) STATE AGENCY APPROPRIATION LAPSES TO THE GENERAL FUND.
(a) Appropriation lapses to the general fund. Subject to paragraph (b), in the fiscal years indicated, from the following appropriation accounts, the secretary of administration shall lapse to the general fund the amounts indicated:
(b) Prohibited appropriation lapses and transfers. The secretary of administration may not lapse or transfer moneys to the general fund from any appropriation account specified in paragraph (a) if the lapse or transfer would violate a condition imposed by the federal government on the expenditure of the moneys or if the lapse or transfer would violate the federal or state constitution.
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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Statz, BB0397 - Exemption from recycling tipping fees
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Environment
Recycling
Current law imposes a recycling fee of $3 per ton on most solid waste that is disposed of at a licensed solid waste disposal facility, such as a landfill. This bill creates an exemption from the recycling fee for certain waste material disposed of by companies that make paper or paperboard from wastepaper. The material to which the exemption applies is waste material that cannot be used to make paper or paperboard, and the material must have been acquired in the normal course of recycling.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 289.645 (4) (e) of the statutes is created to read:
289.645 (4) (e) 1. Subject to subd. 2., the recycling fee does not apply to waste material that is acquired during the normal course of recycling operations by a person that makes paper or paperboard from wastepaper, if the waste material cannot be used to make paper or paperboard.
2. The maximum weight of waste material to which the exemption in subd. 1. applies in a year is 5 percent of the weight of all waste material from the facility at which the person makes paper or paperboard from wastepaper that is disposed of in that year.
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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Percy - Training assistance grant program
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
COMMERCE and economic development
Economic development
This bill authorizes the Department of Commerce (department) to make a grant to an employer to provide a job training program for the employer's employees. The department may award a grant to an employer that will create a significant number of new, high-paying jobs in this state or will introduce new capital investment that will retain a significant number of jobs in this state. The department may also award a grant to an employer for training employees who do not earn a family-supporting wage, if the employer agrees to pay a family-supporting wage to employees who successfully complete the training program and there is significant potential for additional wage increases.
Under the bill, employers must develop training programs jointly with a technical college or other training provider, and grant proceeds may be paid directly to the technical college or other training provider. The department must give preference to employers who develop training programs with a technical college. The bill requires the department to define the terms "capital investment," "family-supporting wage," "high-paying job," and "significant numbers."
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 20.143 (1) (cs) of the statutes is created to read:
20.143 (1) (cs) Training assistance grants. Biennially, the amounts in the schedule for job training grants under s. 560.24.
****NOTE: This SECTION involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
SECTION 2. 560.24 of the statutes is created to read:
560.24 Training assistance grant program. (1) (a) The department may award a grant to an employer for training the employer's employees if all of the following apply:
1. The employer satisfies any of the following:
a. The employer will create significant numbers of new, high-paying jobs in the state, as determined by the department.
b. The employer will introduce new capital investment to retain a significant number of jobs in the state, as determined by the department.
c. The employer agrees to pay a family-supporting wage to employees who successfully complete a job training program, and the department determines that there is significant potential for those employees to obtain additional wage increases.
2. The employer submits, and the department approves, a training plan that has been developed jointly by the employer with a technical college or other training provider and that details the proposed use of the grant proceeds.
3. The employer enters into an agreement for the use of the grant proceeds.
4. The employer agrees to submit the report required under par. (b) by the time the report is required under par. (b).
(b) An employer that is awarded a grant under this section shall submit to the department, within 6 months after the full amount of the grant has been spent, a report detailing how the grant proceeds were used.
(2) In awarding grants under sub. (1), the department shall give preference to employers who submit training plans under which the training will be provided by a technical college.
(3) The department shall award grants under sub. (1) from the appropriation under s. 20.143 (1) (cs). If the department exhausts the moneys in the appropriation under s. 20.143 (1) (cs), the department may award grants under sub. (1) from the appropriation under s. 20.143 (1) (c).
(4) The department may pay the proceeds of a grant under sub. (1) directly to the technical college or other training provider that participated in developing the training plan under sub. (1) (a) 2.
(5) The department shall promulgate rules defining, for purposes of the program under this section, all of the following terms:
(a) Capital investment.
(b) Family-supporting wage.
(c) High-paying job.
(d) Significant numbers.
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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Hummert, BB0382 - Worker's compensation injury prevention and safety demonstration
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
employment
Under current law, DWD collects an annual assessment from each worker's compensation insurer and self-insured employer doing business in this state and uses those assessments for the administration of the worker's compensation program. This bill requires DWD to use a portion of those assessments to conduct a study of injuries to health care workers caused by lifting; develop and distribute to health care facilities, providers, and workers informational materials that promote a lift-free working environment for health care workers; and distribute grants to health care facilities and providers to assist in the implementation of a lift-free working environment for health care workers.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 20.445 (1) (ha) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.445 (1) (ha) Worker's compensation operations. The amounts in the schedule for the administration of the worker's compensation program by the department. All moneys received under ss. 102.28 (2) (b) and 102.75 for the department's activities and not appropriated under par. (hp) or (hr) shall be credited to this appropriation. From this appropriation, an amount not to exceed $5,000 may be expended each fiscal year for payment of expenses for travel and research by the council on worker's compensation.
SECTION 2. 20.445 (1) (hr) of the statutes is created to read:
20.445 (1) (hr) Health care worker injury prevention. From the moneys received under ss. 102.28 (2) (b) and 102.75, the amounts in the schedule for the health care worker injury prevention activities specified under s. 102.77.
****NOTE: This SECTION involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
SECTION 3. 102.77 of the statutes is created to read:
102.77 Health care worker injury prevention. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section:
(a) "Health care facility" has the meaning given in s. 146.997 (1) (c).
(b) "Health care provider" has the meaning given in s. 146.997 (1) (d).
(c) "Health care worker" means an employee of a health care facility or of a health care provider.
(2) STUDY, EDUCATION CAMPAIGN, AND GRANTS. From the appropriation account under s. 20.445 (1) (hr), the department shall do all of the following:
(a) Conduct a study of injuries to health care workers caused by lifting.
(b) Develop and distribute to health care facilities, health care providers, and health care workers informational materials that promote a lift-free working environment for health care workers.
(c) Distribute grants to health care facilities and health care providers to assist in the implementation of a lift-free working environment for the health care workers of those health care facilities and health care providers. The department shall require a grant recipient to provide matching funds in an amount determined by the department.
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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Steinmetz, BB0385 - Transfer of Community Intervention Program to Office of Justice Assistance
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
