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2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
September 23, 2019 - Introduced by Senators Roth, Kooyenga, Risser, Miller,
Fitzgerald, Bernier, Bewley, Carpenter, Cowles, Darling, Erpenbach,
Feyen, Hansen, Kapenga, Larson, LeMahieu, Marklein, Nass, Olsen,
Petrowski, Ringhand, Schachtner, L. Taylor, Testin, Tiffany, Wanggaard
and Wirch, cosponsored by Representatives Skowronski, Sinicki, Allen,
Anderson, Billings, Bowen, Brandtjen, Brostoff, Considine, Doyle,
Duchow, Edming, Emerson, Fields, Gruszynski, Gundrum, Hebl,
Hesselbein, Horlacher, Jagler, James, Katsma, Knodl, Krug, Kulp, Kurtz,
Loudenbeck, Magnafici, B. Meyers, Milroy, Murphy, Ohnstad, Oldenburg,
Ott, Petersen, Petryk, Plumer, Pope, Ramthun, Riemer, Rodriguez,
Sargent, Shankland, Sortwell, Spiros, Spreitzer, Stubbs, Stuck, Subeck,
Summerfield, Tauchen, Thiesfeldt, Tittl, Tranel, Tusler, VanderMeer,
Vruwink, Wittke, Zamarripa, Zimmerman and Felzkowski. Referred to
Committee on Transportation, Veterans and Military Affairs.
SB446,1,3 1An Act to create 20.855 (4) (bg) of the statutes; relating to: the University of
2Wisconsin Missing-in-Action Recovery and Identification Project and making
3an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under this bill, the University of Wisconsin Missing-in-Action Recovery and
Identification Project (MIA Recovery Project) may request the Joint Committee on
Finance to provide $180,000 in each fiscal year of the 2019-21 fiscal biennium for
missions to recover and identify Wisconsin veterans who are missing in action. The
request must include a research prospectus and spending plan for the mission for
which the funding is requested and must be concurrently provided to the standing
committees of each house of the legislature dealing with veterans matters (veterans
committees), as well as the governor, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the
Department of Military Affairs. The veterans committees may submit to JCF a
written recommendation regarding the request. JCF considers the request under a
14-day passive review process and, upon JCF's express or implied approval of the
request, JCF must provide the requested amount of funding directed to the MIA
Recovery Project Fund. At the conclusion of the mission for which funding was
provided, the MIA Recovery Project must submit to JCF, each veterans committee,
the governor, DVA, and DMA a report on the mission's findings and an accounting
of expenditures for the mission. The bill also creates a miscellaneous appropriation
of general purpose revenue through which JCF provides the funding.

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:
SB446,1 1Section 1 . 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert
2the following amounts for the purposes indicated: - See PDF for table PDF
SB446,2 3Section 2 . 20.855 (4) (bg) of the statutes is created to read:
SB446,2,64 20.855 (4) (bg) Missing-in-Action Recovery Project. As a continuing
5appropriation, the amounts in the schedule for the joint committee on finance to
6provide the funding under 2019 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), section 3 (1 ).
SB446,3 7Section 3 . Nonstatutory provisions.
SB446,2,98 (1) Funding for the University of Wisconsin Missing-in-Action Recovery
9and Identification Project.
SB446,2,1110 (a) In this subsection, “MIA Recovery Project” means the University of
11Wisconsin Missing-in-Action Recovery and Identification Project.
SB446,3,612 (b) The MIA Recovery Project, acting through a designated representative, may
13submit to the joint committee on finance a request for funding in fiscal year 2019-20
14in the amount of $180,000 and for funding in fiscal year 2020-21 in the amount of
15$180,000 for the MIA Recovery Project to perform a mission for the recovery and

1identification of Wisconsin veterans who are missing in action. Any request
2submitted under this paragraph shall include a research prospectus and spending
3plan for the mission for which the funding is requested, with a copy of the request,
4the prospectus, and the spending plan concurrently provided to the standing
5committees of each house of the legislature dealing with veterans matters, the
6governor, the department of veterans affairs, and the department of military affairs.
SB446,3,107 (c) After receiving the request, prospectus, and spending plan specified in par.
8(b), the standing committees of each house of the legislature dealing with veterans
9matters may, within 7 working days of receiving the request, submit to the joint
10committee on finance a written recommendation regarding the request.
SB446,3,1811 (d) If, within 14 working days after receiving the request under par. (b), the
12cochairpersons of the joint committee on finance do not notify the MIA Recovery
13Project representative that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the purpose
14of reviewing the request, the request is considered approved. If, within 14 working
15days after the date of the request, the cochairpersons of the committee notify the MIA
16Recovery Project representative that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the
17purpose of reviewing the request, the request is approved only upon express approval
18of the committee.
SB446,3,2219 (e) Upon approval of the request under par. (d ), the joint committee on finance
20shall provide funding in the requested amount, from the appropriation account
21under s. 20.855 (4) (bg), directed to the University of Wisconsin Missing-in-Action
22Recovery and Identification Project Fund.
SB446,4,423 (f) If the joint committee on finance approves a request under par. (d ), the MIA
24Recovery Project, acting through its representative, shall submit at the conclusion
25of the mission for which the funds were expended, to the joint committee on finance,

1the standing committees of each house of the legislature dealing with veterans
2matters, the governor, the department of veterans affairs, and the department of
3military affairs, a report on the mission's findings and an accounting of expenditures
4for the mission.
SB446,4,55 (End)
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