SB21: Bill Text

SB21,909 Section 909. 20.921 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,493,22 20.921 (1) (c) Written requests under this subsection shall be filed with the state agency, the University of Wisconsin System Authority, or the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority and shall constitute authority to the state agency or to the authority to make certification for each such officer or employee and for payment of the amounts so deducted or deferred.

SB21,910 Section 910. 20.921 (1) (d) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,494,12 20.921 (1) (d) 1. For the purpose of handling savings bond purchases, each state agency not on the central payroll system, the University of Wisconsin System Authority, and the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority shall designate an officer or employee thereof who shall serve as trustee. The trustee shall serve without compensation as such. The state agency or the authority shall furnish the trustee the necessary files, supplies and clerical and accounting assistance. Each trustee shall file with the state agency or the authority a bond in such amount as the state agency or the authority determines, with a corporation authorized to do surety business in this state as surety, which bond shall be conditioned upon the trustee's faithful execution of his or her trust. The trustee shall file another or additional bond whenever the state agency or the authority so determines. The cost of any bond required by a state agency shall be paid out of the appropriation made to the state agency for its administration. For those state agencies on the central payroll system, the trustee shall be a person designated by the secretary of administration.

SB21,911 Section 911. 20.921 (1) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,494,18 20.921 (1) (f) The office of the governor shall prepare a statement explaining the bond purchase plan and its purpose and transmit copies of such statement to each state agency, the University of Wisconsin System Authority, and to the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority for distribution to their officers and employees.

SB21,912 Section 912. 20.921 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,495,3 20.921 (2) (a) Whenever it becomes necessary in pursuance of any federal or state law or court-ordered assignment of income under s. 46.10 (14) (e), 49.345 (14) (e), 301.12 (14) (e), 767.225 (1) (L), 767.513 (3), or 767.75 to make deductions from the salaries of state officers or employees, employees of the University of Wisconsin System Authority, or employees of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority, the state agency or authority by which the officers or employees are employed is responsible for making those deductions and paying over the total of those deductions for the purposes provided by the laws or orders under which they were made.

SB21,913 Section 913. 20.921 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,495,10 20.921 (2) (b) The head of each state agency, the president of the University of Wisconsin System Authority, or the chief executive officer of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority shall deduct from the salary of any employee the amount certified under s. 7.33 (5) which is received by the employee for service as an election official while the employee is on a paid leave of absence under s. 7.33 (3).

SB21,914 Section 914. 20.923 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,495,17 20.923 (2) (b) The annual salary of each state senator , and representative to the assembly, justice of the supreme court, court of appeals judge and circuit judge shall be reviewed and established in the same manner as provided for positions in the classified service under s. 230.12 (3). The salary established for the chief justice of the supreme court shall be different than the salaries established for the associate justices of the supreme court.

SB21,915 Section 915. 20.923 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,496,2 20.923 (3) Justices and judges. The annual salary for any supreme court justice or judge of the court of appeals or circuit court shall be established under sub. (2), except that any reviewed and established in the same manner as provided for positions in the classified service under s. 230.12 (3), but shall be based on recommendations submitted to the joint committee on employment relations by the judicial compensation commission under s. 757.84 (2). The compensation adjustments granted under s. 230.12 shall not become effective until such time as any justice or judge takes the oath of office.

SB21,916 Section 916. 20.923 (4) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,497,4 20.923 (4) State agency positions. (intro.) State agency heads, the administrator of the division director of the bureau of merit recruitment and selection in the office of state employment relations department of administration and commission chairpersons and members shall be identified and limited in number in accordance with the standardized nomenclature contained in this subsection, and shall be assigned to the executive salary groups listed in pars. (a) to (h). Except for positions specified in pars. (c) 3m. and (g) 1e. and sub. (12), all unclassified division administrator positions enumerated under s. 230.08 (2) (e) shall be assigned, when approved by the joint committee on employment relations, by the director of the office administrator of the division of state employment relations personnel management in the department of administration to one of 10 executive salary groups. The joint committee on employment relations, by majority vote of the full committee, may amend recommendations for initial position assignments and changes in assignments to the executive salary groups submitted by the director of the office administrator of the division of state employment relations personnel management in the department of administration. All division administrator assignments and amendments to assignments of administrator positions approved by the committee shall become part of the compensation plan. Whenever a new unclassified division administrator position is created, the appointing authority may set the salary for the position until the joint committee on employment relations approves assignment of the position to an executive salary group. If the committee approves assignment of the position to an executive salary group having a salary range minimum or maximum inconsistent with the salary paid to the incumbent at the time of such approval, the incumbent's salary shall be adjusted by the appointing authority to conform with the committee's action, effective on the date of that action. Positions are assigned as follows:

SB21,917 Section 917. 20.923 (4) (c) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,497,7 20.923 (4) (c) 2. Administration Financial institutions and professional standards, department of; office of business development: director.

SB21,918 Section 918. 20.923 (4) (c) 3m. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,497,11 20.923 (4) (c) 3m. Administration, department of; office division of state employment relations; division personnel management; bureau of merit recruitment and selection: administrator.

SB21,919 Section 919. 20.923 (4) (f) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,497,14 20.923 (4) (f) 1. Administration, department of; office division of state employment relations: director personnel management: administrator.

SB21,920 Section 920. 20.923 (4) (f) 3d. of the statutes is created to read:

SB21,497,17 20.923 (4) (f) 3d. Financial institutions and professional standards, department of: secretary.

SB21,921 Section 921. 20.923 (4) (f) 3f. of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,922 Section 922. 20.923 (4) (f) 8m. of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,923 Section 923. 20.923 (6) (as) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,497,23 20.923 (6) (as) Each elective executive officer other than the state treasurer, secretary of state, attorney general and superintendent of public instruction: a deputy or assistant.

SB21,924 Section 924. 20.923 (6) (d) of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,925 Section 925. 20.923 (6) (Lm) of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,926 Section 926. 20.923 (6) (m) of the statutes, as affected by 2011 Wisconsin Act 32, is repealed.

SB21,927 Section 927. 20.923 (7) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,498,14 20.923 (7) Wisconsin Technical College System senior executive positions. (intro.) The salary range for the director and the executive assistant of the Wisconsin Technical College System shall be contained in the recommendations of the director of the office administrator of the division of state employment relations personnel management in the department of administration under s. 230.12 (3) (e). The board of the Wisconsin Technical College System shall set the salaries for these positions within the range to which the positions are assigned to recognize merit, to permit orderly salary progression, and to recognize competitive factors. The salary of any incumbent in the positions identified in pars. (a) and (b) may not exceed the maximum of the salary range for the group to which the position is assigned. The positions are assigned as follows:

SB21,928 Section 928. 20.923 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,498,24 20.923 (8) Deputies. Salaries for deputies appointed pursuant to ss. 13.94 (3) (b), 15.04 (2), 230.04 (16), and 551.601 (1) shall be set by the appointing authority. The salary shall not exceed the maximum of the salary range one range below the salary range of the executive salary group to which the department or agency head is assigned. The positions of assistant secretary of state, assistant state treasurer and associate director of the historical society shall be treated as an unclassified deputies deputy for pay purposes under this subsection. The salary of the deputy director of the office of business development in the department of administration is assigned to executive salary group 2.

SB21,929 Section 929 . 20.923 (8) of the statutes, as affected by 2015 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is amended to read:

SB21,499,10 20.923 (8) Deputies. Salaries for deputies appointed pursuant to ss. 13.94 (3) (b), 15.04 (2), and 551.601 (1) shall be set by the appointing authority. The salary shall not exceed the maximum of the salary range one range below the salary range of the executive salary group to which the department or agency head is assigned. The associate director of the historical society shall be treated as an unclassified deputy for pay purposes under this subsection. The salary of the deputy director of the office of business development in the department of administration financial institutions and professional standards is assigned to executive salary group 2.

SB21,930 Section 930. 20.923 (9) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,499,24 20.923 (9) Assistant deputy secretary and executive assistants. Salaries for assistant deputy secretaries and executive assistants appointed under ss. 15.05 (3) and 15.06 (4m) shall be set by the appointing authority. The salary for an assistant deputy secretary or an executive assistant appointed under s. 15.05 (3) or 15.06 (4m), other than the salary for the executive assistant to the director of the technical college system, may not exceed the maximum of the salary range 2 ranges below the salary range for the executive salary group to which the department or agency head is assigned. The position of administrative assistant to the lieutenant governor shall be treated as are executive assistants for pay purposes under this subsection. The salary for the executive assistant appointed under s. 230.04 (16) shall be set by the appointing authority. The salary for that position may not exceed the maximum of the salary range 2 ranges below the salary range for the executive salary group to which the appointing authority is assigned.

SB21,931 Section 931. 20.923 (12) of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,932 Section 932. 20.923 (14) (b) of the statutes, as affected by 2011 Wisconsin Act 32, is repealed.

SB21,933 Section 933. 20.923 (18) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,500,12 20.923 (18) (a) The office division of state employment relations personnel management in the department of administration shall determine what positions in the classified service are comparable positions to the unclassified positions of 3 sales representatives of prison industries and one sales manager of prison industries who are appointed under s. 303.01 (10). For each such unclassified position, the office division of state employment relations personnel management in the department of administration shall determine the minimum salary for each comparable position in the classified service and shall set an amount equal to that minimum salary as the salary for that unclassified position.

SB21,934 Section 934. 20.924 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,500,16 20.924 (1) (a) Shall authorize the design and construction of any building, structure or facility costing in excess of $760,000 $3,000,000 regardless of funding source, only if that project is enumerated in the authorized state building program.

SB21,935 Section 935. 20.924 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,500,24 20.924 (1) (b) Shall authorize the acquisition of land, or the repair, remodeling or improvement to any existing building, structure or facility costing in excess of $760,000 $3,000,000, regardless of funding source, only if that project is enumerated in the authorized state building program. This paragraph does not apply to the acquisition of land by the building commission in the city of Madison within a block number specified in s. 13.48 (18). This paragraph does not apply to projects authorized under s. 16.858.

SB21,936 Section 936. 20.924 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,501,7 20.924 (1) (d) Shall exercise considered judgment in supervising the implementation of the state building program, and may under s. 13.48 (2) (at) authorize limited changes in the project program, and in the project budget if the commission determines that unanticipated program conditions or bidding conditions require the change to effectively and economically construct the project. However, total state funds for major projects under the authorized state building program for each agency shall not be exceeded.

SB21,937 Section 937. 20.924 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,501,11 20.924 (1) (e) May under s. 13.48 (2) (at) authorize the application of federal grants or private gift funds or other moneys in addition to or in lieu of the projects and project funds enumerated in the authorized state building program.

SB21,938 Section 938. 20.924 (1) (em) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,501,16 20.924 (1) (em) May under s. 13.48 (2) (at) substitute any available source of funding in whole or in part for borrowing authority under s. 20.866 (2) (s) to (zm) and (zz) that is authorized to be used to fund a project enumerated under the authorized state building program.

SB21,939 Section 939 . 20.927 (1m) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,501,24 20.927 (1m) Except as provided under subs. (2) and (3), no funds of this state or of any county, city, village, town or long-term care district under s. 46.2895 or of any subdivision or agency of this state, including an authority created in ch. 36 or 233, or of any subdivision or agency of any county, city, village or town and no federal funds passing through the state treasury shall be authorized for or paid to a physician or surgeon or a hospital, clinic or other medical facility for the performance of an abortion.

SB21,940 Section 940 . 20.927 (1m) of the statutes, as affected by 2015 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is amended to read:

SB21,502,9 20.927 (1m) Except as provided under subs. (2) and (3), no funds of this state or of any county, city, village, or town or long-term care district under s. 46.2895 or of any subdivision or agency of this state, including an authority created in ch. 36 or 233, or of any subdivision or agency of any county, city, village or town and no federal funds passing through the state treasury shall be authorized for or paid to a physician or surgeon or a hospital, clinic or other medical facility for the performance of an abortion.

SB21,941 Section 941. 20.9275 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,502,13 20.9275 (1) (b) "Local governmental unit" means a city, village, town, or county or long-term care district under s. 46.2895 or an agency or subdivision of a city, village, town, or county.

SB21,942 Section 942. 20.9275 (1) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,502,19 20.9275 (1) (g) "State agency" means an office, department, agency, institution of higher education, association, society or other body in state government created or authorized to be created by the constitution or any law, which is entitled to expend moneys appropriated by law, including the legislature, the courts and an authority created in ch. 36, 231, or 233.

SB21,943 Section 943. 20.928 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,503,2 20.928 (1) Each state agency head shall certify to the department of administration, at such time and in such manner as the secretary of administration prescribes, the sum of money needed by the state agency from the appropriations under s. 20.865 (1) (c), (ci), (cj), (d), (i), (ic), (j), (s), (si), and (t). Upon receipt of the certifications together with such additional information as the secretary of administration prescribes, the secretary shall determine the amounts required from the respective appropriations to supplement state agency budgets.

SB21,944 Section 944. 20.928 (1m) of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,945 Section 945. 20.928 (4) of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,946 Section 946. 23.09 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,503,11 23.09 (3) (b) If the department and the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin System Authority enter into an agreement to create a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a forest landscape ecologist, the department and the University of Wisconsin-Madison shall develop an annual work plan for the ecologist. In developing the annual work plan, the department shall consult with the council on forestry.

SB21,947 Section 947. 23.09 (12) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,503,18 23.09 (12) (c) State aid under this subsection to any county shall be distributed by the department according to the procedures adopted in rules promulgated by the natural resources board department. State aid granted to any county under this subsection shall be matched by the county and the state's share may not exceed one-half of the actual cost of the project. Personnel, equipment, and materials furnished by the county may be included in computing the county share contribution.

SB21,948 Section 948. 23.09 (20m) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,503,25 23.09 (20m) (a) 3. "Nonprofit conservation organization" has the meaning given in s. 23.0955 (1) means a nonprofit corporation, a charitable trust, or other nonprofit association whose purposes include the acquisition of property for conservation purposes and that is described in section 501 (c) (3) of the internal revenue code and is exempt from federal income tax under section 501 (a) of the internal revenue code.

SB21,949 Section 949. 23.091 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,504,6 23.091 (2) Master plan. The department may designate a recreational area only after a master plan for use and management of the area is prepared, public hearings on the plan are held in the county where the largest portion of land in the project is located, the procedures prescribed in s. 1.11 are complied with, and the plan is approved by the natural resources board secretary.

SB21,950 Section 950. 23.0912 (1b) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,504,9 23.0912 (1b) (b) "Nonprofit conservation organization" has the meaning given in s. 23.0955 (1) 23.09 (20m) (a) 3.

SB21,951 Section 951. 23.0915 (2) (d) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,504,17 23.0915 (2) (d) (intro.) In a given fiscal year, in addition to expending the amount designated for a purpose under sub. (1) (a) or (c) to (k), or the amount equal to the expenditure limit for that purpose, as adjusted under pars. (a) and (b), whichever amount is applicable, the department may also expend for that purpose up to 50% of the designated amount for that purpose for the given fiscal year for a project or activity if the natural resources board secretary determines all of the following:

SB21,952 Section 952. 23.0916 (2) (b) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,504,23 23.0916 (2) (b) Authority to prohibit access; earlier acquisitions; trails. (intro.) Except as provided in par. (c), the person receiving a stewardship grant subject to par. (a) or (am) may prohibit public access for one or more nature-based outdoor activities only if the natural resources board secretary determines that it is necessary to do so in order to do any of the following:

SB21,953 Section 953. 23.0916 (2) (c) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,505,5 23.0916 (2) (c) Authority to prohibit access; later acquisitions. (intro.) For acquisitions of land or easements that are not for state trails or the ice age trail the person receiving a stewardship grant subject to par. (am) may prohibit public access for one or more nature-based outdoor activities only if the natural resources board secretary determines that it is necessary to do so in order to do any of the following:

SB21,954 Section 954. 23.0916 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,505,15 23.0916 (3) (b) Authority to prohibit access; earlier acquisitions; trails. The department may prohibit public access on land or an easement subject to par. (a) for one or more nature-based outdoor activities if the natural resources board secretary determines that it is necessary to do so to protect public safety, protect a unique animal or plant community, or accommodate usership patterns, as defined by rule by the department. This paragraph applies to all acquisitions of land in fee simple and easements on former managed forest land that occur on former managed forest land before July 1, 2011, and to the acquisition of easements on former managed forest land for state trails and the ice age trail that occur on or after July 1, 2011.

SB21,955 Section 955. 23.0916 (3) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,505,23 23.0916 (3) (c) Authority to prohibit access; later acquisitions. The department may prohibit public access on land or an easement subject to par. (a) for one or more nature-based outdoor activities only if the natural resources board secretary determines that it is necessary to do so to protect public safety or to protect a unique animal or plant community. This paragraph applies to acquisitions of land in fee simple and easements on former managed forest land for purposes other than for state trails and the ice age trail that occur on or after July 1, 2011.

SB21,956 Section 956. 23.0916 (3m) of the statutes is repealed.