AB544: Bill Text

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1999 - 2000 LEGISLATURE

1999 Assembly BILL 544

October 20, 1999 - Introduced by Committee on Corrections and the Courts. Referred to Committee on Corrections and the Courts.

AB544,1,3 An Act to repeal 20.410 (1) (ed); and to amend 20.410 (1) (ab) and 302.01 of the statutes; relating to: the lease and operation of correctional facilities and making an appropriation.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, as a part of the authorized state building program, the building commission may lease any facility, with an option to purchase the facility by the state, for use by the department of corrections (DOC). Current law also appropriates money to DOC for making payments under certain contracts. This bill amends the appropriation provision relating to contract payments to authorize DOC to use the money appropriated under that provision, subject to the approval of the joint committee on finance, to lease correctional facilities in this state and to operate the correctional facilities that it leases.

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:

AB544, s. 1 Section 1. 20.410 (1) (ab) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB544,2,5 20.410 (1) (ab) Corrections contracts and, agreements and leases. The amounts in the schedule for payments made in accordance with contracts entered into under ss. 301.21, 302.25 and 302.27, contracts entered into with the federal government under 18 USC 5003 and intra-agency agreements relating to the placement of prisoners and, subject to the approval of the joint committee on finance, for payments made to lease correctional facilities in this state under s. 13.48 (27) and for the operation of those facilities.

AB544, s. 2 Section 2. 20.410 (1) (ed) of the statutes is repealed.

AB544, s. 3 Section 3. 302.01 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB544,3,2 302.01 State prisons named and defined. The penitentiary at Waupun is named "Waupun Correctional Institution". The correctional treatment center at Waupun is named "Dodge Correctional Institution". The penitentiary at Green Bay is named "Green Bay Correctional Institution". The medium/maximum penitentiary at Portage is named "Columbia Correctional Institution". The medium security institution at Oshkosh is named "Oshkosh Correctional Institution". The medium security penitentiary near Fox Lake is named "Fox Lake Correctional Institution". The penitentiary at Taycheedah is named "Taycheedah Correctional Institution". The medium security penitentiary at Plymouth is named "Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution". The penitentiary at the village of Sturtevant in Racine County is named "Racine Correctional Institution". The medium security penitentiary at Racine is named "Racine Youthful Offender Correctional Facility". The resource facility at Oshkosh is named "Wisconsin Resource Center". The institutions named in this section, the correctional institution authorized under s. 301.16 (1n), correctional institution authorized under 1997 Wisconsin Act 4, section 4 (1) (a), correctional institution authorized under s. 301.046 (1), correctional institution authorized under s. 301.048 (4) (b), minimum security correctional institutions authorized under s. 301.13, correctional facilities leased and operated by the department under s. 13.48 (27) and state-local shared correctional facilities when established under s. 301.14, are state prisons.

AB544, s. 4 Section 4. Effective date.

AB544,3,5 (1) This act takes effect on the day after publication of the 1999-2001 biennial budget act.

AB544,3,6 (End)