SE5 AB1: Bill Text Engrossed

AB1-engrossed, s. 9 Section 9. 19.59 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,9,25 19.59 (1) (a) No local public official may use his or her public position or office to obtain financial gain or anything of substantial value for the private benefit of himself or herself or his or her immediate family, or for an organization with which he or she is associated. A violation of this paragraph includes the acceptance of free or discounted admissions to a professional baseball game by a member of the district board of a local professional baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229. This paragraph does not prohibit a local public official from using the title or prestige of his or her office to obtain campaign contributions that are permitted and reported as required by ch. 11.

AB1-engrossed, s. 10 Section 10. 19.59 (1) (g) of the statutes is created to read:

AB1-engrossed,10,7 19.59 (1) (g) 1. In this paragraph:

AB1-engrossed,10,9 a. "District" means a local professional baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229.

AB1-engrossed,10,10 b. "District board member" means a member of the district board of a district.

AB1-engrossed,10,13 2. No district board member may accept or retain any transportation, lodging, meals, food or beverage, or reimbursement therefor, except in accordance with this paragraph.

AB1-engrossed,10,18 3. A district board member may receive and retain reimbursement or payment of actual and reasonable expenses for a published work or for the presentation of a talk or participation in a meeting related to processes, proposals and issues affecting a district if the payment or reimbursement is paid or arranged by the organizer of the event or the publisher of the work.

AB1-engrossed,10,25 4. A district board member may receive and retain anything of value if the activity or occasion for which it is given is unrelated to the member's use of the time, facilities, services or supplies of the district not generally available to all residents of the district and the member can show by clear and convincing evidence that the payment or reimbursement was unrelated to and did not arise from the recipient's holding or having held a public office and was paid for a purpose unrelated to the purposes specified in subd. (3).

AB1-engrossed,11,6 5. A district board member may receive and retain from the district or on behalf of the district transportation, lodging, meals, food or beverage, or reimbursement therefor or payment or reimbursement of actual and reasonable costs that the member can show by clear and convincing evidence were incurred or received on behalf of the district and primarily for the benefit of the district and not primarily for the private benefit of the member or any other person.

AB1-engrossed,11,11 6. No district board member may intentionally use or disclose information gained in the course of or by reason of his or her official position or activities in any way that could result in the receipt of anything of value for himself or herself, for his or her immediate family, or for any other person, if the information has not been communicated to the public or is not public information.

AB1-engrossed,11,14 7. No district board member may use or attempt to use the position held by the member to influence or gain unlawful benefits, advantages or privileges personally or for others.

AB1-engrossed,12,2 8. No district board member, member of a district board member's immediate family, nor any organization with which the district board member or a member of the district board member's immediate family owns or controls at least 10% of the outstanding equity, voting rights, or outstanding indebtedness may enter into any contract or lease involving a payment or payments of more than $3,000 within a 12-month period, in whole or in part derived from district funds unless the district board member has first made written disclosure of the nature and extent of such relationship or interest to the ethics board and to the district. Any contract or lease entered into in violation of this subdivision may be voided by the district in an action commenced within 3 years of the date on which the ethics board, or the district, knew or should have known that a violation of this subdivision had occurred. This subdivision does not affect the application of s. 946.13.

AB1-engrossed,12,8 9. No former district board member, for 12 months following the date on which he or she ceases to be a district board member, may, for compensation, on behalf of any person other than a governmental entity, make any formal or informal appearance before, or negotiate with, any officer or employe of the district with which he or she was associated as a district board member within 12 months prior to the date on which he or she ceased to be a district board member.

AB1-engrossed,12,17 10. No former district board member, for 12 months following the date on which he or she ceases to be a district board member, may, for compensation, on behalf of any person other than a governmental entity, make any formal or informal appearance before, or negotiate with, any officer or employe of a district with which he or she was associated as a district board member in connection with any judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding, application, contract, claim, or charge which might give rise to a judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding which was under the former member's responsibility as a district board member within 12 months prior to the date on which he or she ceased to be a member.

AB1-engrossed,12,23 11. No former district board member may, for compensation, act on behalf of any party other than the district with which he or she was associated as a district board member in connection with any judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding, application, contract, claim, or charge which might give rise to a judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding in which the former member participated personally and substantially as a district board member.

AB1-engrossed, s. 11 Section 11. 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert the following amounts for the purposes indicated: - See PDF for table - See PDF for table

AB1-engrossed, s. 12 Section 12. 20.505 (1) (ka) of the statutes, as affected by 1995 Wisconsin Act 27, is amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,13,12 20.505 (1) (ka) (title) Materials and services to state agencies and certain districts. The amounts in the schedule to provide services primarily to state agencies or local professional baseball park districts created under subch. III of ch. 229, other than services specified in pars. (im), (is) and (kb) to (kr) and subs. (2) (k) and (5) (ka), and to repurchase inventory items sold primarily to state agencies or such districts. All moneys received from the provision of services primarily to state agencies and such districts and from the sale of inventory items primarily to state agencies and such districts, other than moneys received and disbursed under pars. (im), (is) and (kb) to (kr) and subs. (2) (k) and (5) (ka), shall be credited to this appropriation account.

AB1-engrossed, s. 13 Section 13. 20.505 (1) (kc) of the statutes, as affected by 1995 Wisconsin Act 27, is amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,14,2 20.505 (1) (kc) Capital planning and building construction services. The amounts in the schedule to provide capital planning services under s. 13.48 (5) and building construction services under subch. V of ch. 16 on behalf of state agencies and local professional baseball park districts created under subch. III of ch. 229. The secretary of administration may credit moneys received for the provision of building construction and capital planning services on behalf of state agencies and such districts to this appropriation account.

AB1-engrossed, s. 14 Section 14. 20.566 (1) (gd) of the statutes is created to read:

AB1-engrossed,14,7 20.566 (1) (gd) Administration of special district taxes. From the moneys received from the appropriation account under s. 20.835 (4) (gb), the amounts in the schedule for the purpose of administering the special district taxes imposed under s. 77.705 by a district created under subch. III of ch. 229.

AB1-engrossed, s. 15 Section 15. 20.835 (4) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,14,14 20.835 (4) (g) County taxes. All moneys received from the taxes imposed under subch. V of ch. 77 s. 77.70 for distribution to the counties that enact an ordinance imposing taxes under that subchapter section and for interest payments on refunds under s. 77.76 (3), except that 1.5% of those tax revenues collected under that subchapter section shall be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.566 (1) (g).

AB1-engrossed, s. 16 Section 16. 20.835 (4) (gb) of the statutes is created to read:

AB1-engrossed,14,21 20.835 (4) (gb) Special district taxes. All moneys received from the taxes imposed under s. 77.705, for the purpose of distribution to the special districts that adopt a resolution imposing taxes under subch. V of ch. 77, and for the purpose of financing a local professional baseball park district, except that of those tax revenues collected under subch. V of ch. 77 3% for the first 2 years of collection and 1.5% thereafter shall be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.566 (1) (gd).

AB1-engrossed, s. 17 Section 17. 24.61 (2) (a) 7. of the statutes is created to read:

AB1-engrossed,14,24 24.61 (2) (a) 7. Bonds issued by a local professional baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229.

AB1-engrossed, s. 18 Section 18. 25.17 (3) (b) 10. of the statutes is created to read:

AB1-engrossed,15,2 25.17 (3) (b) 10. Bonds issued by a local professional baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229.

AB1-engrossed, s. 19 Section 19. 25.50 (1) (d) of the statutes, as affected by 1995 Wisconsin Act 27, is amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,15,12 25.50 (1) (d) "Local government" means any county, town, village, city, power district, sewerage district, drainage district, town sanitary district, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, local professional baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229, public library system, school district or technical college district in this state, any commission, committee, board or officer of any governmental subdivision of this state, any court of this state, other than the court of appeals or the supreme court, or any authority created under s. 231.02, 233.02 or 234.02.

AB1-engrossed, s. 20 Section 20. 66.04 (2) (a) 3p. of the statutes is created to read:

AB1-engrossed,15,15 66.04 (2) (a) 3p. Bonds issued by a local professional baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229.

AB1-engrossed, s. 21 Section 21. 66.066 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,16,2 66.066 (1) (a) "Municipality" means any city, village, town, county, commission created by contract under s. 66.30, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district established under s. 33.23, 33.235 or 33.24, metropolitan sewerage district created under ss. 66.20 to 66.26 or 66.88 to 66.918, town sanitary district under subch. IX of ch. 60, a local professional baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229 or a municipal water district or power district under ch. 198 and any other public or quasi-public corporation, officer, board or other public body empowered to borrow money and issue obligations to repay the same out of revenues. "Municipality" does not include the state or a local exposition district created under subch. II of ch. 229.

AB1-engrossed, s. 22 Section 22. 66.066 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,16,8 66.066 (1) (c) "Revenue" means all moneys received from any source by a public utility and all rentals and fees and in the case of a local professional baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229 includes tax revenues deposited into a special fund under s. 229.685 and payments made into a special debt service reserve fund under s. 229.74.

AB1-engrossed, s. 23 Section 23. 66.066 (5) of the statutes is created to read:

AB1-engrossed,16,11 66.066 (5) Revenue bonds issued by a local professional baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229 are subject to the provisions in ss. 229.72 to 229.81.

AB1-engrossed, s. 24 Section 24. 66.067 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,16,20 66.067 Public works projects. For financing purposes, garbage incinerators, toll bridges, swimming pools, tennis courts, parks, playgrounds, golf links, bathing beaches, bathhouses, street lighting, city halls, village halls, town halls, courthouses, jails, schools, cooperative educational service agencies, hospitals, homes for the aged or indigent, regional projects, waste collection and disposal operations, systems of sewerage, local professional baseball park facilities and any and all other necessary public works projects undertaken by any municipality are public utilities within the meaning of s. 66.066.

AB1-engrossed, s. 25 Section 25. 66.30 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,17,5 66.30 (1) (a) In this section "municipality" means the state or any department or agency thereof, or any city, village, town, county, school district, public library system, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, sanitary district, farm drainage district, metropolitan sewerage district, sewer utility district, solid waste management system created under s. 59.07 (135), local exposition district created under subch. II of ch. 229, local professional baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229, water utility district, mosquito control district, municipal electric company, county or city transit commission, commission created by contract under this section, taxation district or regional planning commission.

AB1-engrossed, s. 26 Section 26. 71.05 (1) (c) of the statutes is renumbered 71.05 (1) (c) (intro.) and amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,17,9 71.05 (1) (c) Certain interest income. (intro.) Interest received on bonds or notes issued by the any of the following:

AB1-engrossed,17,13 1. The Wisconsin housing and economic development authority under s. 234.65, if the bonds are used to fund an economic development loan to finance construction, renovation or development of property that would be exempt under s. 70.11 (36).

AB1-engrossed, s. 27 Section 27. 71.05 (1) (c) 4. of the statutes is created to read:

AB1-engrossed,17,16 71.05 (1) (c) 4. A local professional baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229.

AB1-engrossed, s. 28 Section 28. 71.05 (1) (d) (title) of the statutes is repealed.

AB1-engrossed, s. 29 Section 29. 71.05 (1) (d) of the statutes is renumbered 71.05 (1) (c) 2. and amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,17,21 71.05 (1) (c) 2. Interest received on bonds issued by the The Wisconsin housing and economic development authority, if the bonds are to fund a loan under s. 234.935.

AB1-engrossed, s. 30 Section 30. 71.05 (1) (e) (title) of the statutes is repealed.

AB1-engrossed, s. 31 Section 31. 71.05 (1) (e) of the statutes is renumbered 71.05 (1) (c) 3. and amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,18,2 71.05 (1) (c) 3. Interest received on bonds issued by a A local exposition district created under subch. II of ch. 229.

AB1-engrossed, s. 32 Section 32. 71.26 (1) (bm) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,18,6 71.26 (1) (bm) (title) Certain local districts. Income of a local exposition district created under subch. II of ch. 229 or a local professional baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229.

AB1-engrossed, s. 33 Section 33. 71.26 (1m) (g) of the statutes is created to read:

AB1-engrossed,18,9 71.26 (1m) (g) Those issued under s. 66.066 by a local professional baseball park district.

AB1-engrossed, s. 34 Section 34. 71.36 (1m) of the statutes, as affected by 1995 Wisconsin Act 27, is amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,19,7 71.36 (1m) A tax-option corporation may deduct from its net income all amounts included in the Wisconsin adjusted gross income of its shareholders, the capital gain deduction under s. 71.05 (6) (b) 9. and all amounts not taxable to nonresident shareholders under ss. 71.04 (1) and (4) to (9) and 71.362. For purposes of this subsection, interest on federal obligations, obligations issued under s. 66.066 by a local professional baseball park district, obligations issued under ss. 66.40, 66.431 and 66.4325, obligations issued under s. 234.65 to fund an economic development loan to finance construction, renovation or development of property that would be exempt under s. 70.11 (36) and obligations issued under subch. II of ch. 229 is not included in shareholders' income. The proportionate share of the net loss of a tax-option corporation shall be attributed and made available to shareholders on a Wisconsin basis but subject to the limitation and carry-over rules as prescribed by section 1366 (d) of the internal revenue code. Net operating losses of the corporation to the extent attributed or made available to a shareholder may not be used by the corporation for further tax benefit. For purposes of computing the Wisconsin adjusted gross income of shareholders, tax-option items shall be reported by the shareholders and those tax-option items, including capital gains and losses, shall retain the character they would have if attributed to the corporation, including their character as business income. In computing the tax liability of a shareholder, no credit against gross tax that would be available to the tax-option corporation if it were a nontax-option corporation may be claimed.

AB1-engrossed, s. 35 Section 35. 71.45 (1t) (g) of the statutes is created to read:

AB1-engrossed,19,10 71.45 (1t) (g) Those issued under s. 66.066 by a local professional baseball park district.

AB1-engrossed, s. 36 Section 36. Chapter 77 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,19,21 CHAPTER 77 TAXATION OF FOREST CROPLANDS; REAL ESTATE TRANSFER FEES; SALES AND USE TAXES; COUNTY and special district SALES AND USE TAXES; MANAGED FOREST LAND; TEMPORARY RECYCLING SURCHARGE; LOCAL FOOD AND BEVERAGE TAX; LOCAL RENTAL CAR TAX

AB1-engrossed, s. 37 Section 37. Subchapter V (title) of chapter 77 [precedes 77.70] of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,19,24 CHAPTER 77

AB1-engrossed,20,3 SUBCHAPTER V COUNTY and special district SALES AND USE TAXES

AB1-engrossed, s. 38 Section 38. 77.705 of the statutes is created to read:

AB1-engrossed,20,10 77.705 Adoption by resolution. A local professional baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229, by resolution under s. 229.68 (15), may impose a sales tax and a use tax under this subchapter at a rate of no more than 0.1% of the gross receipts or sales price. Those taxes may be imposed only in their entirety. The resolution shall be effective on the first day of the first month that begins at least 30 days after the adoption of the resolution.

AB1-engrossed, s. 39 Section 39. 77.707 of the statutes is created to read:

AB1-engrossed,20,18 77.707 Sunset. Retailers and the department of revenue may not collect a tax under s. 77.705 for any local professional baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229 after the calendar quarter during which the local professional baseball park district board makes a certification to the department of revenue under s. 229.685 (2), except that the department of revenue may collect from retailers taxes that accrued before that calendar quarter and fees, interest and penalties that relate to those taxes.

AB1-engrossed, s. 40 Section 40. 77.71 (intro.) and (1) of the statutes are amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,20,23 77.71 (title) Imposition of county and special district sales and use taxes. (intro.) Whenever a county sales and use tax ordinance is adopted under s. 77.70 or a special district resolution is adopted under s. 77.705, the following taxes are imposed:

AB1-engrossed,21,6 (1) For the privilege of selling, leasing or renting tangible personal property and for the privilege of selling, performing or furnishing services a sales tax is imposed upon retailers at the rate of 0.5% in the case of a county tax or at the rate under s. 77.705 in the case of a special district tax of the gross receipts from the sale, lease or rental of tangible personal property, except property taxed under sub. (4), sold, leased or rented at retail in the county or special district or from selling, performing or furnishing services described under s. 77.52 (2) in the county or special district.

AB1-engrossed, s. 41 Section 41. 77.71 (2) of the statutes, as affected by 1995 Wisconsin Act 27, is amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,21,20 77.71 (2) An excise tax is imposed at the rate of 0.5% in the case of a county tax or at the rate under s. 77.705 in the case of a special district tax of the sales price upon every person storing, using or otherwise consuming in the county or special district tangible personal property or services if the property or service is subject to the state use tax under s. 77.53, except that a receipt indicating that the tax under sub. (1), (3) or (4) has been paid relieves the buyer of liability for the tax under this subsection and except that if the buyer has paid a similar local tax in another state on a purchase of the same property or services that tax shall be credited against the tax under this subsection and except that for motor vehicles that are used for a purpose in addition to retention, demonstration or display while held for sale in the regular course of business by a dealer the tax under this subsection is imposed not on the sales price but on the amount under s. 77.53 (1m).

AB1-engrossed, s. 42 Section 42. 77.71 (3) and (4) of the statutes are amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,22,6 77.71 (3) An excise tax is imposed upon a contractor engaged in construction activities within the county or special district, at the rate of 0.5% in the case of a county tax or at the rate under s. 77.705 in the case of a special district tax of the sales price of tangible personal property that is used in constructing, altering, repairing or improving real property and that becomes a component part of real property in that county or special district, unless the contractor has paid the sales tax of a county in the case of a county tax or of a special district in the case of a special district tax in this state on that property, and except that if the buyer has paid a similar local sales tax in another state on a purchase of the same property that tax shall be credited against the tax under this subsection.

AB1-engrossed,22,16 (4) An excise tax is imposed at the rate of 0.5% in the case of a county tax or at the rate under s. 77.705 in the case of a special district tax of the sales price upon every person storing, using or otherwise consuming a motor vehicle, boat, snowmobile, mobile home not exceeding 45 feet in length, trailer, semitrailer, all-terrain vehicle or aircraft, if that property must be registered or titled with this state and if that property is to be customarily kept in a county that has in effect an ordinance under s. 77.70 or in a special district that has in effect a resolution under s. 77.705, except that if the buyer has paid a similar local sales tax in another state on a purchase of the same property that tax shall be credited against the tax under this subsection.

AB1-engrossed, s. 43 Section 43. 77.73 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,22,22 77.73 Jurisdiction to tax. (1) Retailers making deliveries in their company-operated vehicles of tangible personal property, or of property on which taxable services were performed, to purchasers in a county or special district are doing business in that county or special district, and that county or special district has jurisdiction to impose the taxes under this subchapter on them.

AB1-engrossed,23,3 (2) Counties and special districts do not have jurisdiction to impose the tax under s. 77.71 (2) in regard to tangible personal property purchased in a sale that is consummated in another county or special district in this state that does not have in effect an ordinance or resolution imposing the taxes under this subchapter and later brought by the buyer into the county or special district that has imposed a tax under s. 77.71 (2).

AB1-engrossed, s. 44 Section 44. 77.75 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,23,10 77.75 Reports. Every person subject to county or special district sales and use taxes shall, for each reporting period, record that person's sales made in the enacting county or special district that has imposed those taxes separately from sales made elsewhere in this state and report the measure of the county or special district sales and use taxes and the tax due thereon separately to the department of revenue on forms to be provided by the department.

AB1-engrossed, s. 45 Section 45. 77.76 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1-engrossed,23,17 77.76 (1) The department of revenue shall have full power to levy, enforce and collect county and special district sales and use taxes and may take any action, conduct any proceeding, impose interest and penalties and in all respects proceed as it is authorized to proceed for the taxes imposed by subch. III. The department of transportation and the department of natural resources may administer the county and special district sales and use taxes in regard to items under s. 77.61 (1).

AB1-engrossed, s. 46 Section 46. 77.76 (2) of the statutes is amended to read: