13.95(1)
(1) Duties of the bureau. The legislative fiscal bureau shall perform its services for the legislature objectively and impartially and to the limits of its facilities and staff. The bureau shall:
13.95(1)(a)
(a) Develop, and make available to the legislature and its standing, procedural, special or statutory legislative committees, such fiscal information as will assist the legislature or any legislative committee in its deliberations. As part of its fiscal analysis activity, the bureau shall study, and may recommend alternatives to the legislature and to any legislative committee, concerning the following:
13.95(1)(a)1.
1. The state budget and its long-range implications for every state fund.
13.95(1)(b)
(b) Perform fiscal and program analysis for the legislature and its appropriate committees.
13.95(1)(c)
(c) Review existing and proposed programs and present such alternatives to the governor's recommended programs and budgets as will assist the legislature or its appropriate committees.
13.95(1)(d)
(d) Review and evaluate requests for appropriations, including proposed plans and policies related to such requests, and make recommendations to the joint committee on finance and the legislature in relation thereto.
13.95(1)(e)
(e) At the direction of the legislature or its appropriate committees, or on its own initiative, conduct such other studies and perform such other duties as the legislature, its committees and members may require in dealing with the financial affairs of the state.
13.95(1)(g)
(g) In connection with the duties enumerated in this subsection, have access to any computerized databases of state agencies that are required to aid the bureau in the performance of its duties, except that any statutory requirements regarding privacy of individuals' records shall be observed in providing such access.
13.95(1m)
(1m) Duties of the bureau; biennial budget bill. 13.95(1m)(a)(a) In this subsection, "version of the biennial budget bill or bills" means the executive biennial budget bill or bills, as modified by an amendment offered by the joint committee on finance, as engrossed by the first house, as concurred in and amended by the 2nd house or as nonconcurred in by the 2nd house, or as reported by any committee on conference.
13.95(1m)(b)
(b) The legislative fiscal bureau shall prepare a statement of estimated general purpose revenue receipts and expenditures in the biennium following the succeeding biennium based on recommendations in each version of the biennial budget bill or bills. The statement shall contain all of the following:
13.95(1m)(b)1.
1. For the 2nd year of the succeeding biennium, a comparison of the following:
13.95(1m)(b)1.a.
a. The amount of moneys projected to be deposited in the general fund during the fiscal year that are designated as "Revenues and Transfers" in the summary in
s. 20.005 (1), as published in each version of the biennial budget bill or bills, less the amount designated as the "Opening Balance" in the summary, and adjusted by any one-time deposit of revenues in the general fund.
13.95(1m)(b)1.b.
b. The amount of moneys designated as "Total Expenditures" in the summary in
s. 20.005 (1), as published in each version of the biennial budget bill or bills, adjusted by any one-time expenditure of general purpose revenue in excess of $5,000,000.
13.95(1m)(b)2.
2. An estimate of the cost of any provision in each version of the biennial budget bill or bills that would, without the enactment of subsequent legislation, increase general purpose revenue expenditures or that would decrease the amount of revenues deposited in the general fund in the biennium following the succeeding biennium.
13.95(1m)(b)3.a.a. An estimate of the increase in general purpose revenue spending that will be required in the biennium following the succeeding biennium for all of the following: general equalization school aids; appropriations to the department of corrections; the medical assistance program under
subch. IV of ch. 49; the amount designated as "Compensation Reserves" in the summary under
s. 20.005 (1), as printed in the revised schedule that is approved under
s. 20.004 (2) for that fiscal biennium; and public debt contracted under
subchs. I and
IV of ch. 18.
13.95(1m)(b)3.b.
b. For the purpose of making the calculation under
subd. 3. a., the bureau shall assume that the increase in general purpose revenue spending between the succeeding biennium and the biennium following the succeeding biennium for each of the items identified in
subd. 3. a. is the same as that between the current biennium and the succeeding biennium for these items, as proposed in each version of the biennial budget bill or bills.
13.95(1m)(b)4.
4. An estimate of the difference between the amount of tax revenues that will be deposited in the general fund in the biennium following the succeeding biennium and the amount of tax revenues that are deposited in the general fund in the succeeding biennium. For the purpose of making this calculation, the bureau shall:
13.95(1m)(b)4.a.
a. Assume that the amount of tax revenues that are deposited in the general fund in the succeeding biennium is the amount designated as "Taxes" in the summary in
s. 20.005 (1), as published in each version of the biennial budget bill or bills.
13.95(1m)(b)4.b.
b. Assume that the annual increase in tax revenues that are deposited in the general fund in each fiscal year of the biennium following the succeeding biennium is the average of the annual increase for each of the 10 preceding fiscal years.
13.95(1m)(b)4.c.
c. Adjust the estimate of the amount of tax revenues that are deposited in the general fund in the biennium following the succeeding biennium by any provision in each version of the biennial budget bill or bills that would affect the amount of tax revenues that are deposited in the general fund in the biennium.
13.95(1m)(b)5.a.a. A comparison of the following: the amount of moneys that are designated as "Revenues and Transfers" in the summary in
s. 20.005 (1), as published in each version of the biennial budget bill or bills, and that are available for appropriation in the 2nd year of the succeeding biennium; and an amount that equals the sum of the amount of moneys designated as "Total Expenditures" in the summary in
s. 20.005 (1), as published in each version of the biennial budget bill or bills, for the 2nd year of the succeeding biennium and the amount required to fund the increase in general purpose revenue spending in the biennium following the succeeding biennium for each of the items identified in
subd. 3. a.
13.95(1m)(b)5.b.
b. The bureau shall present this comparison in the format used for the statement of the condition of the general fund in the statement prepared under
s. 20.005 (1).
13.95(1m)(b)6.
6. A summary of the amount of additional general purpose revenues that will be available in the biennium following the succeeding biennium for increased expenditures or tax reductions, other than the amount calculated in
subd. 4.
13.95(2)
(2) Duties of the director. The director of the legislative fiscal bureau shall:
13.95(2)(a)
(a) Supervise and train the personnel assigned to the director.
13.95(2)(b)
(b) Supervise all expenditures of the legislative fiscal bureau.
13.95(2)(c)
(c) Attend, or designate a representative who shall attend, all meetings of the joint committee on finance.
13.95(2)(e)
(e) Attend such midwest and national meetings as will benefit the operation of the bureau.
13.96
13.96
Legislative technology services bureau. There is created a service agency known as the "Legislative Technology Services Bureau", headed by a director. The legislative technology services bureau shall be strictly nonpartisan and shall at all times observe the confidential nature of the data and information originated, maintained or processed by electronic equipment supported by it.
13.96(1)
(1) Duties of the staff. The legislative technology services bureau shall provide and coordinate information technology support and services to the legislative branch.
13.96(2)
(2) Duties of the director. The director of the legislative technology services bureau shall:
13.96(2)(b)
(b) Employ, train and supervise the personnel assigned to the director.
13.96(2)(c)
(c) Supervise all expenditures of the legislative technology services bureau.
13.96(2)(d)
(d) Oversee the execution and completion of all contracts for legislative information technology-related equipment, software or services.
13.96(2)(e)
(e) Plan for and execute such electronic information programs and services as are needed within the legislative branch.
13.96(2)(f)
(f) Participate in such midwest and national meetings and organizations as will benefit the operations of the legislative technology services bureau.
13.96 History
History: 1997 a. 27,
237.
