SB40: Bill Text

SB40, s. 723 Section 723. 30.52 (3) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB40,473,21 30.52 (3) (e) Fee for boats 40 feet or longer. The fee for the issuance or renewal of a certificate of number for a boat 40 feet or more in length is $75 $98.

SB40, s. 724 Section 724. 30.52 (3) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB40,473,25 30.52 (3) (f) Fee for nonmotorized sailboats. Notwithstanding pars. (b) to (e), the fee for the issuance or renewal of a certificate of number for a sailboat which is not a motorboat is $15 $20.

SB40, s. 725 Section 725. 30.52 (3) (fm) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB40,474,4 30.52 (3) (fm) Fee for voluntarily registered boats. Notwithstanding pars. (b) to (f), the fee for issuance or renewal of registration for a boat registered pursuant to sub. (1) (b) 1m. is $9.75 $13.

SB40, s. 726 Section 726. 30.74 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB40,474,15 30.74 (1) (b) The department by rule shall set the instruction fee for the course. A person conducting a course or giving instruction under this subsection shall collect the instruction fee from each person who receives instruction. The department may determine the portion of this fee, which may not exceed 50%, that the person may retain to defray expenses incurred by the person in conducting the course or giving the instruction. The person shall remit the remainder of the fee or, if nothing is retained, the entire fee to the department. The department by rule shall set the fee for the course. The department shall issue a duplicate certificate of accomplishment to a person who is entitled to a duplicate certificate of accomplishment and who pays a fee of $2.75.

SB40, s. 727 Section 727. 35.86 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB40,475,4 35.86 (1) The director of the historical society may procure the exchange of public documents produced by federal, state, county, local, and other agencies as may be desirable to maintain or enlarge its historical, literary, and statistical collections, and may make such distributions of public documents, with or without exchange, as may accord with interstate or international comity. The state law librarian shall procure so many of such exchanges as the state law librarian is authorized by law to make, and the department of health and family services, department of children and families, commission of banking, department of public instruction, legislative reference bureau, and the legislative council staff, may procure by exchange such documents from other states and countries as may be needed for use in their respective offices. Any other state agency wishing to initiate a formal exchange program in accordance with this section may do so by submitting a formal application to the department and by otherwise complying with this section.

SB40, s. 728 Section 728. 36.09 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB40,475,18 36.09 (1) (e) The board shall appoint a president of the system; a chancellor for each institution; a dean for each college campus; the state geologist; the director of the laboratory of hygiene; the director of the psychiatric institute; the state cartographer; and the requisite number of officers, other than the vice presidents, associate vice presidents, and assistant vice presidents of the system; faculty; academic staff; and other employees and fix the salaries, subject to the limitations under par. (j) and ss. 20.923 (4g), 36.11 (53), and 230.12 (3) (e), the duties and the term of office for each. The board shall fix the salaries, subject to the limitations under par. (j) and ss. 20.923 (4g) and 230.12 (3) (e), and the duties for each chancellor, vice president, associate vice president, and assistant vice president of the system. No sectarian or partisan tests or any tests based upon race, religion, national origin, or sex shall ever be allowed or exercised in the appointment of the employees of the system.

SB40, s. 729 Section 729. 36.09 (1) (j) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB40,476,24 36.09 (1) (j) Except where such matters are a subject of bargaining with a certified representative of a collective bargaining unit under s. 111.91 or 111.998, the board shall establish salaries for persons not in the classified staff prior to July 1 of each year for the next fiscal year, and shall designate the effective dates for payment of the new salaries. In the first year of the biennium, payments of the salaries established for the preceding year shall be continued until the biennial budget bill is enacted. If the budget is enacted after July 1, payments shall be made following enactment of the budget to satisfy the obligations incurred on the effective dates, as designated by the board, for the new salaries, subject only to the appropriation of funds by the legislature and s. 20.928 (3). This paragraph does not limit the authority of the board to establish salaries for new appointments. The board may not increase the salaries of employees specified in ss. 20.923 (5) and (6) (m) and 230.08 (2) (d) under this paragraph unless the salary increase conforms to the proposal as approved under s. 230.12 (3) (e) or the board authorizes the salary increase to correct salary inequities under par. (h), to fund job reclassifications or promotions, or to recognize competitive factors. The board may not increase the salary of any position identified in s. 20.923 (4g) under this paragraph unless the salary increase conforms to the proposal as approved under s. 230.12 (3) (e) or the board authorizes the salary increase to correct a salary inequity or to recognize competitive factors. The board may not increase the salary of any position identified in s. 20.923 (4g) (ae) and (am) to correct a salary inequity that results from the appointment of a person to a position identified in s. 20.923 (4g) (ae) and (am) unless the increase is approved by the office of state employment relations. The granting of salary increases to recognize competitive factors does not obligate inclusion of the annualized amount of the increases in the appropriations under s. 20.285 (1) for subsequent fiscal bienniums. No later than October 1 of each year, the board shall report to the joint committee on finance and the secretary of administration and director of the office of state employment relations concerning the amounts of any salary increases granted to recognize competitive factors, and the institutions at which they are granted, for the 12-month period ending on the preceding June 30.

SB40, s. 730 Section 730. 36.11 (3) (d) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB40,477,5 36.11 (3) (d) 1. Except as provided in subd. 2., the board shall require that a $35 $50 fee accompany each application for admittance from persons seeking admittance to any school within the system as new freshmen or as transfer students from outside the system. The board may exempt from the fee under this subdivision, on the basis of financial need, a maximum of 5% of the applications in any school year.

SB40, s. 731 Section 731. 36.11 (3) (d) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB40,477,9 36.11 (3) (d) 2. The board shall require that a $45 $60 fee accompany each application for admittance to a graduate school, law school or medical school within the system.

SB40, s. 732 Section 732. 36.11 (53) of the statutes is created to read:

SB40,477,18 36.11 (53) High demand faculty salaries. In a fiscal year, the board may not expend moneys appropriated under s. 20.285 (1) (a) or (im) to support supplemental salary increases for faculty whose services are in high demand by other higher educational institutions in an amount that exceeds the amount expended for that purpose from those appropriations in the prior fiscal year unless the board has submitted a plan for expending that excessive amount to the secretary of administration and the secretary has approved the expenditure of that excessive amount.

SB40, s. 733 Section 733. 36.27 (2) (cr) of the statutes is created to read:

SB40,477,22 36.27 (2) (cr) A person who is a citizen of a country other than the United States is entitled to the exemption under par. (a) if that person meets all of the following requirements:

SB40,477,24 1. The person graduated from a high school in this state or received a high school graduation equivalency from this state.

SB40,478,2 2. The person was continuously present in this state for at least one year following the first day of attending a high school in this state.

SB40,478,6 3. The person enrolls in an institution and provides that institution with an affidavit stating that the person has filed or will file an application for a permanent resident visa with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as soon as the person is eligible to do so.

SB40, s. 734 Section 734. 36.27 (3n) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB40,478,9 36.27 (3n) (b) 3. A child of an eligible veteran, if the child is at least 18 17 but not yet 26 years of age and is a full-time student at an institution.

SB40, s. 735 Section 735. 36.27 (3n) (c) of the statutes is created to read:

SB40,478,13 36.27 (3n) (c) The higher educational aids board shall reimburse the board of regents for all academic fees and segregated fees remitted under par. (b) as provided in s. 39.50 (1).

SB40, s. 736 Section 736. 36.27 (3p) (c) of the statutes is created to read:

SB40,478,17 36.27 (3p) (c) The higher educational aids board shall reimburse the board of regents for all nonresident tuition, academic fees, and segregated fees remitted under par. (b) as provided in s. 39.50 (1).

SB40, s. 737 Section 737. 38.04 (21) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB40,478,23 38.04 (21) (intro.) Pupils attending technical colleges; board report. Annually by the 3rd Monday in February the board shall submit a report to the department of administration, department of children and families, department of public instruction, and department of workforce development, and to the legislature under s. 13.172 (2). The report shall specify all of the following by school district:

SB40, s. 738 Section 738. 38.22 (6) (e) of the statutes is created to read:

SB40,479,2 38.22 (6) (e) Any person who is a citizen of a country other than the United States if that person meets all of the following requirements:

SB40,479,4 1. The person graduated from a high school in this state or received a high school graduation equivalency from this state.

SB40,479,6 2. The person was continuously present in this state for at least 3 years following the first day of attending a high school in this state.

SB40,479,10 3. The person enrolls in a district school and provides the district board with an affidavit stating that the person has filed or will file an application for a permanent resident visa with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as soon as the person is eligible to do so.

SB40, s. 739 Section 739. 38.24 (7) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB40,479,13 38.24 (7) (b) 3. A child of an eligible veteran, if the child is at least 18 17 but not yet 26 years of age and is a full-time student at a technical college.

SB40, s. 740 Section 740. 38.24 (7) (c) of the statutes is created to read:

SB40,479,17 38.24 (7) (c) The higher educational aids board shall reimburse the district board for all fees under sub. (1m) (a) to (c) remitted under par. (b) as provided in s. 39.50 (2).

SB40, s. 741 Section 741. 38.24 (8) (c) of the statutes is created to read:

SB40,479,21 38.24 (8) (c) The higher educational aids board shall reimburse the district board for all fees under sub. (1m) (a) to (c) remitted under par. (b) as provided in s. 39.50 (2).

SB40, s. 742 Section 742. 38.28 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB40,480,4 38.28 (3) If the appropriation for state aid under s. 20.292 (1) (fc) (u) in any one year is insufficient to pay the full amount under subs. (2) (c) and (g), funds in the appropriation shall be used first for the purposes of sub. (2) (c) and any remaining funds shall be prorated among the districts entitled to support under sub. (2) (g). If the appropriation for state aid under s. 20.292 (1) (fc) (u) in any one year is insufficient to pay the full amount under sub. (2) (c), funds in the appropriation shall be prorated among the districts entitled to the funds.

SB40, s. 743 Section 743. 38.29 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB40,480,7 38.29 (2) (c) Amounts awarded shall be paid from the appropriation under s. 20.292 (1) (fg) (v).

SB40, s. 744 Section 744. 39.435 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB40,480,16 39.435 (3) Grants under sub. (1) shall not be less than $250 during any one academic year, unless the joint committee on finance approves an adjustment in the amount of the minimum grant. Grants under sub. (1) shall not exceed $3,000 during any one academic year shall not exceed 50 percent of the resident undergraduate academic fees charged to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the previous academic year. The board shall, by rule, establish a reporting system to periodically provide student economic data and shall promulgate other rules the board deems necessary to assure uniform administration of the program.

SB40, s. 745 Section 745. 39.435 (7) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB40,480,21 39.435 (7) (a) 1. For purposes of calculating the amount to be appropriated under s. 20.235 (1) (fe) for fiscal year 2007-08 2009-10, "base amount" means the amount shown in the schedule under s. 20.005 for that appropriation for fiscal year 2006-07 2008-09.

SB40, s. 746 Section 746. 39.435 (7) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB40,481,2 39.435 (7) (a) 2. For purposes of calculating the amount to be appropriated under s. 20.235 (1) (fe) for each fiscal year after fiscal year 2007-08 2009-10, "base amount" means the appropriation amount calculated under par. (b) for the previous fiscal year.

SB40, s. 747 Section 747. 39.435 (7) (b) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB40,481,6 39.435 (7) (b) (intro.) Biennially, beginning on February 1, 2007 2009, the board shall calculate the amounts to be appropriated under s. 20.235 (1) (fe) for the next biennium as follows:

SB40, s. 748 Section 748. 39.437 of the statutes is created to read:

SB40,481,11 39.437 Wisconsin covenant scholars grants. (1) Establishment of grant program. There is established, to be administered by the board, a Wisconsin Covenant Scholars Program to provide grants to students who meet the eligibility criteria specified in sub. (2).

SB40,481,13 (2) Eligibility. (a) Except as provided in par. (b), a student is eligible for a grant under this section if the student meets all of the following criteria:

SB40,481,17 1. The student is a resident of this state and is enrolled at least half time and registered as a freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior in a public or private, nonprofit, accredited institution of higher education or in a tribally controlled college in this state.

SB40,481,25 2. The student is eligible for a Federal Pell Grant under 20 USC 1070a, the federal adjusted gross income of a parent of the student, as shown on the student's application for student financial assistance, does not exceed the income guidelines prescribed under 42 USC 1758 (b) for determining eligibility for reduced-price lunches under the federal National School Lunch Act, 42 USC 1751 to 1769i, or, if the student is an independent student, as defined in 20 USC 1087vv, the federal adjusted gross income of the student, as shown on the student's application for student financial assistance, does not exceed those income guidelines.

SB40,482,5 (b) 1. The board may not make a grant under this section to a person whose name appears on the statewide support lien docket under s. 49.854 (2) (b), unless the person provides to the board a payment agreement that has been approved by the county child support agency under s. 59.53 (5) and that is consistent with rules promulgated under s. 49.858 (2) (a).

SB40,482,7 2. No student shall be eligible for a grant under this section in more than the equivalent of 10 semesters of undergraduate education.

SB40,482,10 3. No student who fails to meet acceptable academic standards prescribed by the student's institution of higher education or tribally controlled college shall be or shall remain eligible for a grant under this section.

SB40,482,13 (3) Amount of grant. The amount of a grant shall be based on financial need, as determined by the board, and shall be paid from the appropriation account under s. 20.235 (1) (fm).

SB40,482,22 (4) Administration of grant program. (a) By February 1 of each year, the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System shall provide to the board information relating to the resident undergraduate academic fees charged to attend each of the institutions within that system for the current academic year, the technical college system board shall provide to the board information relating to the fees under s. 38.24 (1m) (a) to (c) charged to attend each of the technical colleges within that system for the current academic year, and each tribally controlled college in this state shall provide to the board information relating to the tuition and fees charged to attend the tribal college for the current academic year.

SB40,483,3 (b) By April 1 of each year, the board shall determine the average of the resident undergraduate academic fees charged for the current academic year among the institutions within the University of Wisconsin System, the average of the fees under s. 38.24 (1m) (a) to (c) charged for the current academic year among the technical colleges in this state, and the average of the tuition and fees charged for the current academic year among the tribally controlled colleges in this state.

SB40,483,7 (5) Rules. The board shall promulgate rules to implement this section, including rules establishing a reporting system to periodically provide student economic data and any other rules the board considers necessary to assure the uniform administration of this section.

SB40, s. 749 Section 749. 39.50 of the statutes is created to read:

SB40,483,20 39.50 Remission of fees for veterans and dependents. (1) University of Wisconsin System. At the end of each semester, the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System shall certify to the board the number of students enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System to whom any fees or nonresident tuition has been remitted under s. 36.27 (3n) or (3p), the number of credits for which those fees or that nonresident tuition has been remitted, and the amount of fees and nonresident tuition remitted. If the board approves the information certified under this subsection, the board, from the appropriation account under s. 20.235 (1) (fz), shall reimburse the board of regents for the amount of fees and nonresident tuition remitted. The board of regents shall credit any amounts received under this subsection to the appropriation under s. 20.285 (1) (k) and shall expend those amounts received for degree credit instruction.

SB40,484,3 (2) Technical colleges. At the end of each semester, each technical college district board shall certify to the board the number of students enrolled in the technical college governed by the district board to whom any fees have been remitted under s. 38.24 (7) or (8), the number of credits for which those fees have been remitted, and the amount of those fees remitted. If the board approves the information certified under this subsection, the board, from the appropriation account under s. 20.235 (1) (fz), shall reimburse the district board for the amount of fees remitted.

SB40, s. 750 Section 750. 40.02 (17) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB40,484,20 40.02 (17) (intro.) "Creditable service" means the creditable current and prior service, expressed in years and fractions of a year to the nearest one-hundredth, for which a participating employee receives or is considered to receive earnings under sub. (22) (e) or (em) and for which contributions have been made as required by s. 40.05 (1) and (2) and creditable military service, service credited under s. 40.285 (2) (b) and service credited under s. 40.29, expressed in years and fractions of years to the nearest one-hundredth. How much service in any annual earnings period is the full-time equivalent of one year of creditable service shall be determined by rule by the department and the rules may provide for differing equivalents for different types of employment, except that the full-time equivalent of one year of creditable service for an educational support personnel employee is 1,320 hours. Except as provided under s. 40.285 (2) (e) and (f), the amount of creditable service for periods prior to January 1, 1982, shall be the amount for which the participant was eligible under the applicable laws and rules in effect prior to January 1, 1982. No more than one year of creditable service shall be granted for any annual earnings period. Creditable service is determined in the following manner for the following persons:

SB40, s. 751 Section 751. 40.02 (20) of the statutes is renumbered 40.02 (20) (intro.) and amended to read:

SB40,484,23 40.02 (20) (intro.) "Dependent" means the:

SB40,485,5 (a) Except as provided in par. (b), the spouse, minor child, including stepchildren of the current marriage dependent on the employee for support and maintenance, or child of any age, including stepchildren of the current marriage, if handicapped to an extent requiring continued dependence. For group insurance purposes only, the department may promulgate rules with a different definition of "dependent" than the one otherwise provided in this subsection paragraph for each group insurance plan.

SB40, s. 752 Section 752. 40.02 (20) (b) of the statutes is created to read:

SB40,485,13 40.02 (20) (b) For a state employee or for an annuitant who was employed by a state agency on the day on which he or she terminated covered employment, the spouse, domestic partner, minor child, including stepchildren of the current marriage or children of a domestic partner dependent on the employee for support and maintenance, or child of any age, including stepchildren of the current marriage or children of a domestic partner, if handicapped to an extent requiring continued dependence.

SB40, s. 753 Section 753. 40.02 (21c) of the statutes is created to read:

SB40,485,15 40.02 (21c) "Domestic partner" means an individual in a domestic partnership.

SB40, s. 754 Section 754. 40.02 (21d) of the statutes is created to read:

SB40,485,18 40.02 (21d) "Domestic partnership" means a relationship between 2 individuals that satisfies all of the following:

SB40,485,20 (a) Each individual is at least 18 years old and otherwise competent to enter into a contract.

SB40,485,22 (b) Neither individual is married to, or in a domestic partnership with, another individual.

SB40,485,24 (c) The 2 individuals are not related by blood in any way that would prohibit marriage under s. 765.03.

SB40,486,2 (d) The 2 individuals consider themselves to be members of each other's immediate family.

SB40,486,4 (e) The 2 individuals agree to be responsible for each other's basic living expenses.

SB40, s. 755 Section 755. 40.02 (25) (b) 8. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB40,486,8 40.02 (25) (b) 8. Any other state employee for whom coverage is authorized under a collective bargaining agreement pursuant to subch. I or, V, or VI of ch. 111 or under s. 230.12 or 233.10.