LRB-1729/P1
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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Stinebrink, BB0480 - State office of homeland security
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
military affairs
Creating an office of homeland security
This bill creates an office of homeland security in DMA that must work with the federal Department of Homeland Security and state and local law enforcement agencies to identify, investigate, assess, report, and share tips and leads linked to emerging homeland security threats. The director of the office of homeland security must be appointed by the adjutant general.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 15.01 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
15.01 (6) “Division," “bureau," “section," and “unit" means the subunits of a department or an independent agency, whether specifically created by law or created by the head of the department or the independent agency for the more economic and efficient administration and operation of the programs assigned to the department or independent agency. The office of credit unions in the department of financial institutions, the office of the inspector general in the department of children and families, the office of the inspector general in the department of health services, and the office of children's mental health in the department of health services have the meaning of “division" under this subsection. The office of the long-term care ombudsman under the board on aging and long-term care, the office of homeland security under the department of military affairs, and the office of educational accountability in the department of public instruction have the meaning of “bureau" under this subsection.
Section
2. 15.317 of the statutes is created to read:
15.317 Same; offices. (1) Office of homeland security. There is created an office of homeland security in the department of military affairs. The director of the office shall be appointed by the adjutant general.
Section
3. 20.465 (1) (am) of the statutes is created to read:
20.465 (1) (am) Office of homeland security. The amounts in the schedule for the general operations of the office of homeland security under 321.52.
****Note: Please let me know if you would like alternative language to “for the general operations of”.
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involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
4. 321.52 of the statutes is created to read:
321.52 Office of homeland security. The office of homeland security shall coordinate with the federal department of homeland security and state and local law enforcement agencies to identify, investigate, assess, report, and share tips and leads linked to emerging homeland security threats.
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