AB100: Bill Text

AB100,1074,22 85.06 (2) (g) Acquire equipment for the purpose of providing rail passenger service or support services for rail passenger service.

AB100, s. 2480 Section 2480. 85.06 (2) (h) of the statutes is created to read:

AB100,1074,25 85.06 (2) (h) Enter into agreements with other states to assist or promote rail passenger service.

AB100, s. 2481 Section 2481. 85.06 (3) of the statutes is repealed.

AB100, s. 2482 Section 2482. 85.24 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB100,1075,5 85.24 (4) (b) Paragraph (a) does not prohibit the disclosure of the information to the extent necessary to administer the ride-sharing program or, if requested under s. 49.22 (2m), to the department of industry, labor and job development.

AB100, s. 2483 Section 2483. 85.24 (4) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB100,1075,12 85.24 (4) (c) Any person who wilfully discloses or who, under false pretenses, wilfully requests or obtains information in violation of par. (a) may be required to forfeit not more than $500 for each violation. This paragraph does not apply to information disclosed, requested or obtained to the extent necessary to administer the ride-sharing program or, if requested under s. 49.22 (2m), to the department of industry, labor and job development.

AB100, s. 2484 Section 2484. 85.51 of the statutes is created to read:

AB100,1075,19 85.51 State traffic patrol services; special events fee. The department may impose a fee for security and traffic enforcement services provided by the state traffic patrol at any public event for which an admission fee is charged for spectators if the event is organized by a private organization. All moneys received under this section shall be deposited in the general fund and credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.395 (5) (dg).

AB100, s. 2485 Section 2485. 85.52 of the statutes is created to read:

AB100,1075,22 85.52 Transportation infrastructure loan program. (1) Definitions. In this section:

AB100,1075,23 (ac) "Capital project" has the meaning given in 49 USC 5302.

AB100,1075,25 (ag) "Eligible applicant" means a county, city, village, town or combination thereof.

AB100,1076,2 (am) "Fund" means the transportation infrastructure loan fund established under s. 25.405.

AB100,1076,4 (bm) "Other assistance" has the meaning given in P.L. 104-59, section 350 (L) (3).

AB100,1076,5 (c) "Revenue obligation" has the meaning given in s. 18.52 (5).

AB100,1076,10 (2) Acceptance of federal capitalization grants. The department may enter into an agreement with the U.S. department of transportation to receive a capitalization grant under P.L. 104-59, section 350. The agreement may contain any provision required by P.L. 104-59, section 350, and any regulation, guideline or policy adopted under that section.

AB100,1076,20 (3) Administration. (a) The department shall administer a transportation infrastructure loan program to make loans, and to provide other assistance, to eligible applicants for highway projects or transit capital projects. The department of transportation may not make a loan or provide other assistance under the program unless the secretary of administration approves of the loan or other assistance and determines that the amounts in the fund, together with anticipated receipts, will be sufficient to fully pay principal and interest costs incurred on the revenue obligations issued under sub. (5). Loans or other assistance under the program for highway projects shall be credited to the highway account. Loans or other assistance under the program for transit capital projects shall be credited to the transit account.

AB100,1076,25 (bm) Any loan made under the program shall comply with P.L. 104-59, section 350, and any regulation, guideline or policy adopted under that section. The department may not provide other assistance under the program to an eligible applicant unless such assistance complies with P.L. 104-59, section 350, and any regulation, guideline or policy adopted under that section.

AB100,1077,5 (c) From the appropriation accounts under s. 20.395 (2) (bu) and sub. (3) (bq) and (cq), the department may, in each fiscal year, transfer moneys to the appropriation account under s. 20.395 (2) (pu) in amounts not to exceed the amounts necessary to meet the requirements under P.L. 104-59, section 350, for state deposits to the fund.

AB100,1077,11 (4) Rules. (a) The department of transportation and the department of administration shall promulgate rules necessary to implement the transportation infrastructure loan program. The rules shall specify the terms and conditions of loans or other assistance provided under the program and shall establish criteria for determining which eligible applicants and which projects are eligible to receive loans or other assistance under the program. The criteria shall include all of the following:

AB100,1077,13 1. The impact of funding a project under the program on accelerating the completion of a major highway project under s. 84.013.

AB100,1077,14 2. The statewide and local economic impact of the projects.

AB100,1077,15 3. The level of commitment by the eligible applicant to the project.

AB100,1077,17 4. The type and quality of intermodal transportation facilities affected by the project.

AB100,1077,20 (b) The department of transportation and the department of administration may charge and collect fees, established jointly by rules, from eligible applicants to recover the costs of administering the program.

AB100,1077,21 (4m) Investment management. The department of administration may:

AB100,1077,24 1. Subject to par. (b), direct the investment board under s. 25.17 (2) (e) to make any investment of the fund, or in the collection of the principal and interest of all moneys loaned or invested from such fund.

AB100,1078,7 2. Subject to par. (b), purchase or acquire, commit on a standby basis to purchase or acquire, sell, discount, assign, negotiate, or otherwise dispose of, or pledge, hypothecate or otherwise create a security interest in, loans as the department of administration may determine, or portions or portfolios of participations in loans, made or purchased under this section. The disposition may be at the price and under the terms that the department of administration determines to be reasonable and may be at public or private sale.

AB100,1078,9 (b) The department of administration shall take an action under par. (a) only if all of the following conditions occur:

AB100,1078,11 1. The action provides a financial benefit to the transportation infrastructure fund.

AB100,1078,13 2. The action does not contradict or weaken the purposes of the transportation infrastructure loan fund.

AB100,1078,15 3. The building commission approves the action before the department of administration acts.

AB100,1078,17 (5) Revenue obligations. (a) The transportation infrastructure loan program is a revenue-producing enterprise or program as defined in s. 18.52 (6).

AB100,1078,22 (b) Deposits, appropriations or transfers to the fund for the purposes specified in s. 20.395 (2) (pq) may be funded with the proceeds of revenue obligations issued subject to and in accordance with subch. II of ch. 18. Revenue obligations issued under this section shall not exceed $100 in principal amount, excluding obligations issued to refund outstanding revenue obligations.

AB100,1079,4 (c) The department of administration may, under s. 18.56 (5) and (9) (j), deposit in a separate and distinct fund in the state treasury or in an account maintained by a trustee outside the state treasury, any portion of the revenues derived under s. 25.405 (2). The revenues deposited with a trustee outside the state treasury are the trustee's revenues in accordance with the agreement between this state and the trustee or in accordance with the resolution pledging the revenues to the repayment of revenue obligations issued under this subsection.

AB100,1079,7 (d) The building commission may pledge any portion of revenues received or to be received in the fund established in par. (c) or the transportation infrastructure loan fund to secure revenue obligations issued under this subsection.

AB100,1079,10 (e) The department of administration has all other powers necessary and convenient to distribute the pledged revenues and to distribute the proceeds of the revenue obligations in accordance with subch. II of ch. 18.

AB100,1079,14 (f) The department of administration may enter into agreements with the federal government, political subdivisions of this state, individuals or private entities to insure or in any other manner provide additional security for the revenue obligations issued under this subsection.

AB100,1079,18 (g) Revenue obligations may be contracted by the building commission when it reasonably appears to the building commission that all obligations incurred under this subsection can be fully paid on a timely basis from moneys received or anticipated to be received by the fund.

AB100,1079,23 (h) Unless otherwise expressly provided in resolutions authorizing the issuance of revenue obligations or in other agreements with the holders of revenue obligations, each issue of revenue obligations under this subsection shall be on a parity with every other revenue obligation issued under this subsection and in accordance with subch. II of ch. 18.

AB100, s. 2486 Section 2486. 85.60 of the statutes is created to read:

AB100,1080,8 85.60 Aid to professional baseball park districts. The department may make aid payments from the appropriation under s. 20.395 (1) (gr) to a local professional baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229 for this state's share of costs for the development, construction, reconstruction or improvement of bridges, highways, parking lots, garages, transportation facilities or other functionally related or auxiliary facilities or structures associated with the construction of a new stadium to be used as a home field by a major league professional baseball team in the district.

AB100, s. 2487 Section 2487. 88.145 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB100,1080,17 88.145 Limitation of damages and suits. In any action against a drainage district, drainage board, drainage board member, drainage board employe or an owner of land within the district who undertakes work approved by the drainage board, s. 893.80 is applicable and the limit on the amount recoverable by any person under s. 893.80 (3) applies to the drainage board, the members and employes of the drainage board, the drainage district and any owner of land within the district who undertakes work approved by the drainage board. This section does not apply to actions commenced under s. 19.37 or, 19.97 or 281.99.

AB100, s. 2488 Section 2488. 88.40 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB100,1080,23 88.40 (2) From the time of recordation of recording the order confirming such assessments for costs until they are paid, such assessments and the interest thereon are a first lien upon the lands assessed and take priority over all other liens or mortgages except liens for general taxes and liens under ss. 292.31 (8) (i), 292.41 (6) (d) and 292.81, regardless of the priority in time of such other liens or mortgages.

AB100, s. 2489 Section 2489. 92.10 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB100,1081,5 92.10 (4) (a) Data. The department shall develop a systematic method of collecting and organizing data related to soil erosion. The department shall cooperate with the land information board department of administration under s. 16.967 in developing this methodology or any related activities related to land information collection.

AB100, s. 2490 Section 2490. 92.103 of the statutes is repealed.

AB100, s. 2491 Section 2491. 92.14 (5) (title) and (a) of the statutes are amended to read:

AB100,1081,13 92.14 (5) (title) Animal waste management grants in a priority watershed or priority lake area. (a) From the appropriation under s. 20.115 (7) (km), the department may make a grant for the purpose specified in sub. (4) (c) if the facility or system will be located in a priority watershed, as defined in s. 281.65 (2) (c), or a priority lake area, as defined in s. 281.65 (2) (bs), and the conditions specified in sub. (4) (c) are satisfied.

AB100, s. 2492 Section 2492. 93.06 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB100,1081,22 93.06 (8) Prescribe conditions of licenses. Issue Except as provided in ss. 93.13 and 93.135, issue any permit, certificate, registration or license on a temporary or conditional basis, contingent upon pertinent circumstances or acts. If the temporary or conditional permit, certificate, registration or license is conditioned upon compliance with chs. 93 to 100, ch. 127, a rule promulgated by the department or a regulation adopted under s. 97.41 (7) within a specified period of time and the condition is not met within the specified period, the permit, certificate, registration or license shall be void.

AB100, s. 2493 Section 2493. 93.06 (12) of the statutes is created to read:

AB100,1082,2 93.06 (12) Federal dairy policy reform. Seek the reform of federal milk marketing orders and other federally authorized dairy pricing policies for the benefit of milk producers in this state and provide assistance to organizations for the same purpose.

AB100, s. 2494 Section 2494. 93.07 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB100,1082,6 93.07 (5) Advice to university of Wisconsin system. To give advice to the secretary of education state superintendent of public instruction as to the courses in agricultural economics to be given in the university of Wisconsin system.

AB100, s. 2495 Section 2495. 93.11 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB100,1082,16 93.11 (1) The Except as provided in s. 93.135, the department, upon presentation of satisfactory evidence that the applicant is competent, may issue a license to any person to certify the grade of food products or farm products or of receptacles therefor, for which standards have become effective under s. 93.09. The purpose of such certification may be either to enforce the standard or merely to furnish to an interested party an official statement of the grade. A certificate issued under this section, unless superseded by a finding as provided in sub. (4), shall be accepted in any court of this state as prima facie evidence of the facts to which the certificate relates.

AB100, s. 2496 Section 2496. 93.13 of the statutes is created to read:

AB100,1082,22 93.13 License denial, nonrenewal and revocation based on tax delinquency. (1) The department shall require each applicant to provide the department with the applicant's social security number, if the applicant is an individual, or the applicant's federal employer identification number, if the applicant is not an individual, as a condition of issuing or renewing any of the following:

AB100,1082,23 (a) A license under s. 94.10 (3) or (4).

AB100,1082,24 (b) A license under s. 94.43.

AB100,1082,25 (c) A registration under s. 94.50 (2).

AB100,1083,1 (cm) A license under s. 94.64 (3).

AB100,1083,2 (d) A license under s. 94.68 (1).

AB100,1083,3 (e) A license under s. 94.685.

AB100,1083,4 (f) A license under s. 94.703.

AB100,1083,5 (fm) A license under s. 94.704.

AB100,1083,6 (g) A license under s. 94.72 (5).

AB100,1083,7 (h) A license under s. 95.69 (2).

AB100,1083,8 (i) A license under s. 95.71 (2).

AB100,1083,9 (im) A license under s. 95.72 (2).

AB100,1083,10 (j) A license under s. 97.17 (2).

AB100,1083,11 (jm) A license under s. 97.175 (2).

AB100,1083,12 (k) A license under s. 97.20 (2).

AB100,1083,13 (km) A license under s. 97.21 (2) or (3).

AB100,1083,14 (L) A license under s. 97.22 (2).

AB100,1083,15 (m) A license under s. 97.27 (2).

AB100,1083,16 (mm) A license under s. 97.29 (2).

AB100,1083,17 (n) A license under s. 97.30 (2).

AB100,1083,18 (nm) A license or registration certificate under s. 97.42 (2).

AB100,1083,19 (p) A license under s. 98.145.

AB100,1083,20 (pm) A license under s. 98.146.

AB100,1083,21 (q) A license under s. 98.16 (2).

AB100,1083,22 (r) A license under s. 99.02 (1).