16.255(1)(e)
(e) The ability and willingness of the person to accept electronic contributions.
16.255(1)(f)
(f) The ability of the person to augment the college savings program with additional, beneficial services related to the program.
16.255(2)
(2) The department shall solicit competitive sealed proposals under
s. 16.75 (2m) from nongovernmental persons to serve as vendor of the college savings program. The department shall select the vendor based upon factors determined by the department under
sub. (1).
16.255(3)
(3) The contract between the department and the vendor shall ensure all of the following:
16.255(3)(a)
(a) That the vendor reimburses the state for all administrative costs that the state incurs for the college savings program.
16.255(3)(b)
(b) That a firm of certified public accountants selected by the vendor annually audits the college savings program and provides a copy of the audit to the college savings program board.
16.255(3)(c)
(c) That each account owner receives a quarterly statement that identifies the contributions to the college savings account during the preceding quarter, the total contributions to and the value of the college savings account through the end of the preceding quarter and any distributions made during the preceding quarter.
16.255(3)(d)
(d) That the vendor communicate to the beneficiary and account owner the requirements of
s. 14.64 (8).
16.255 History
History: 1999 a. 44;
2001 a. 38 s.
12.
16.257
16.257
Postsecondary education promotion. For the purpose of promoting attendance at nonprofit postsecondary institutions in this state, the department shall do all of the following:
16.257(1)
(1) Serve as the state's liaison agency between the higher educational aids board, the department of public instruction, the University of Wisconsin System, the technical college system, and other public and private organizations that are interested in promoting postsecondary education in this state.
16.257(2)
(2) Contract with The Wisconsin Covenant Foundation, Inc., if the secretary determines it appropriate, to establish and implement a campaign to promote attendance at nonprofit postsecondary educational institutions in this state.
16.257(3)
(3) Coordinate the postsecondary education promotional activities of the department, the persons specified in
sub. (1), and The Wisconsin Covenant Foundation, Inc., and prevent duplication of effort in conducting those activities.
16.257(5)
(5) On or before July 1, 2009, and every July 1 thereafter, submit to the chief clerk of each house of the legislature, for distribution to the appropriate standing committees under
s. 13.172 (3), a report on the postsecondary education promotional activities conducted by The Wisconsin Covenant Foundation, Inc., using funds provided under
s. 20.505 (4) (bm).
16.257 History
History: 2007 a. 20.
16.257 Cross-reference
Cross-reference: See also ch.
Adm 80, Wis. adm. code.
16.26
16.26
Weatherization assistance. Notwithstanding
s. 16.54 (2) (a), the department shall administer federal funds available to this state under the weatherization assistance for low-income persons program, as amended,
42 USC 6861 to
6873. The department shall administer the funds in accordance with
42 USC 6861 to
6873 and regulations adopted under
42 USC 6861 or
6873.
16.26 History
History: 1991 a. 39;
1995 a. 27,
289,
432;
2003 a. 33 s.
163; Stats. 2003 s. 16.26.
16.27
16.27
Low-income energy assistance. 16.27(1)
(1)
Definitions. In this section:
16.27(1)(am)
(am) "Crisis assistance" means a benefit that is given to a household experiencing or at risk of experiencing a heating-related emergency.
16.27(1)(b)
(b) "Dwelling" means the residence of a low-income warm room program volunteer.
16.27(1)(bm)
(bm) "Heating assistance" means a benefit, other than crisis assistance, that is given to a household to assist in meeting the cost of home heating.
16.27(1)(c)
(c) "Household" means any individual or group of individuals who are living together as one economic unit for whom residential energy is customarily purchased in common or who make undesignated payments for energy in the form of rent.
16.27(1)(d)
(d) "Low-income warm room program materials" include a removable, insulated radiator blanket, a portable remote control thermostat and other cost-efficient materials or repairs necessary to achieve maximum heating efficiency in a dwelling.
16.27(1)(e)
(e) "Low-income warm room program volunteer" means a person who is eligible for assistance under
42 USC 8621 to
8629, whose dwelling, in comparison to the dwellings of other persons eligible for assistance under
42 USC 8621 to
8629, has a high ratio of space to occupant, and who volunteers to take the training under
sub. (2) (b) and to cooperate with the department in the installation and operation of low-income warm room program materials in his or her dwelling.
16.27(1)(em)
(em) "Utility allowance" means the amount of utility costs paid by those individuals in subsidized housing who pay their own utility bills, as averaged from total utility costs for the housing unit by the housing authority.
16.27(2)(a)(a) The department shall administer low-income energy assistance as provided in this section to assist an eligible household to meet the costs of home energy with low-income home energy assistance benefits authorized under
42 USC 8621 to
8629.
16.27(2)(b)
(b) The department shall administer a low-income warm room program to install low-income warm room program materials in the dwellings of low-income warm room program volunteers and to train the low-income warm room program volunteers and the members of each low-income warm room program volunteer's household in the operation of the low-income warm room program materials to achieve maximum health and heating efficiency.
16.27(3)(b)
(b) By October 1 of every year from the appropriation under
s. 20.505 (1) (mb), determine the total amount available for payment of heating assistance under
sub. (6) and determine the benefit schedule.
16.27(3)(c)
(c) From the appropriation under
s. 20.505 (1) (mb), allocate $1,100,000 in each federal fiscal year for the department's expenses in administering the funds to provide low-income energy assistance.
16.27(3)(d)
(d) From the appropriation under
s. 20.505 (1) (n), allocate $2,900,000 in each federal fiscal year for the expenses of a county department, another local governmental agency or a private nonprofit organization in administering under
sub. (4) the funds to provide low-income energy assistance.
16.27(3)(e)1.
1. Allocate and transfer to the appropriation under
s. 20.505 (1) (n), 15% of the moneys received under
42 USC 8621 to
8629 in each federal fiscal year under the priority of maintaining funding for the geographical areas on July 20, 1985, and, if funding is reduced, prorating contracted levels of payment, for the weatherization assistance program administered by the department under
s. 16.26.
16.27(3)(e)3.
3. Except as provided under
subd. 6., allocate the balance of funds received under
42 USC 8621 to
8629 in a federal fiscal year, after making the allocations under
pars. (c) and
(d) and
subd. 1., for the payment of heating assistance or for the payment of crisis assistance under
sub. (6).
16.27(3)(e)6.
6. If federal funds received under
42 USC 8621 to
8629 in a federal fiscal year total less than 90% of the amount received in the previous federal fiscal year, submit a plan of expenditure under
s. 16.54 (2) (b).
16.27(3)(e)7.
7. By October 1 of each year, allocate funds budgeted but not spent and any funds remaining from previous fiscal years to heating assistance under
sub. (6) or to the weatherization assistance program under
s. 16.26.
16.27(4)(a)(a) A household may apply after September 30 and before May 16 of any year for heating assistance from the county department under
s. 46.215 (1) (n) or
46.22 (1) (b) 4m. a. to
e. or from another local governmental agency or a private nonprofit organization with which the department contracts to administer the heating assistance program, and shall have the opportunity to do so on a form prescribed by the department for that purpose.
16.27(4)(b)
(b) If by February 1 of any year the number of households applying under
par. (a) substantially exceeds the number anticipated, the department may reduce the amounts of payments made under
sub. (6) made after that date. The department may suspend the processing of additional applications received until the department adjusts benefit amounts payable.
16.27(5)
(5) Eligibility. Subject to the requirements of
subs. (4) (b) and
(8), the following shall receive low-income energy assistance under this section:
16.27(5)(b)
(b) A household with income which is not more than 60 percent of the statewide median household income.
16.27(5)(c)
(c) A household entirely composed of persons receiving aid to families with dependent children under
s. 49.19, food stamps under
7 USC 2011 to
2036, or supplemental security income or state supplemental payments under
42 USC 1381 to
1383c or
s. 49.77.
16.27(5)(d)
(d) A household with income within the limits specified under
par. (b) that resides in housing that is subsidized or administered by a municipality, a county, the state or the federal government in which a utility allowance is applied to determine the amount of rent or the amount of the subsidy.
16.27(5)(e)
(e) A household that is not eligible under
par. (c) that includes at least one person who is eligible for food stamps under
7 USC 2011 to
2036, excluding any household in an institution, as defined by the department of health services by rule. Notwithstanding
sub. (6), a household under this paragraph shall be eligible for a heating assistance benefit of not more than $1.
16.27(6)
(6) Benefits. Within the limits of federal funds allocated under
sub. (3) and subject to the requirements of
sub. (4) (b) and
s. 16.54 (2) (b), heating assistance shall be paid under this section according to a benefit schedule established by the department based on household income, family size and energy costs.
16.27(7)
(7) Individuals in state prisons or secured juvenile facilities. No payment under
sub. (6) may be made to a prisoner who is imprisoned in a state prison under
s. 302.01 or to a person placed at a juvenile correctional facility, as defined in
s. 938.02 (10p), or a secured residential care center for children and youth, as defined in
s. 938.02 (15g).
16.27(8)
(8) Crisis assistance program. A household eligible for heating assistance under
sub. (6) may also be eligible for a crisis assistance payment to meet a weather-related or fuel supply shortage crisis. The department shall define the circumstances constituting a crisis for which a payment may be made and shall establish the amount of payment to an eligible household or individual. The department may delegate a portion of its responsibility under this subsection to a county department under
s. 46.215 or
46.22 or to another local governmental agency or a private nonprofit organization.
16.27(9)
(9) Notice of utility disconnection required. Any public utility, as defined in
s. 196.01 (5), or any fuel distributor furnishing heat, light or power to a residential customer shall provide written notice of intent to disconnect or discontinue service during the months of November to April and shall include information concerning any federal, state or local program that provides assistance for fuel or home heating bills. The department shall provide printed information at no cost upon request to any fuel distributor serving residential customers except public utilities. The information shall describe the nature and availability of any federal, state or local program that provides assistance for fuel or home heating bills.
FINANCE
16.40
16.40
Department of administration, duties, powers. The department of administration shall:
16.40(1)
(1) Prepare budget. Discharge all duties in connection with the compilation of the biennial state budget report imposed by
ss. 16.42 to
16.46.
16.40(2)
(2) Attend finance committee. Attend all public hearings of the joint committee on finance and such executive meetings as the committee may desire, answer questions and give information called for by the committee relative to the financial operations of the state and its several agencies.
16.40(3)
(3) Prepare annual financial statement. Prepare at the end of each fiscal year not later than October 15, a condensed, and popular account of the finances of the state, showing the sources of the state's revenue and the purposes of its expenditures, including a comparison with the prior year; prepare at the end of each fiscal year not later than October 15, a statement of the condition of the general fund showing the cash balance, the accounts receivable, the accounts payable and the continuing unexpended and unencumbered appropriation balances; and prepare not earlier than January 1 nor later than February 1 in each year a tentative statement of the estimated receipts and disbursements of the general fund for the biennium in progress, showing also the estimated condition of the general fund at the end of the current biennium. A copy of each of such statements shall be filed in the legislative reference bureau and shall be sent to each member of the legislature.
16.40(4)
(4) Furnish information. Furnish such other information regarding the finances of the state and the financial operations of agencies as may be called for by the governor, the governor-elect, the legislature or either house thereof, or any member thereof.
16.40(5)
(5) Bookkeeping forms. Prescribe the forms of accounts and other financial records to be used by all agencies. Such accounts shall be as nearly uniform as is practical, and as simple as is consistent with an accurate and detailed record of all receipts and disbursements and of all other transactions affecting the acquisition, custodianship and disposition of value. The secretary may call upon the state auditor for advice and suggestions in prescribing such forms.
16.40(6)
(6) Take testimony. In the discharge of any duty imposed by law, administer oaths and take testimony and cause the deposition of witnesses to be taken in the manner prescribed for taking depositions in civil actions in circuit courts.
16.40(7)
(7) Collect revenue information. Collect from any available source and correlate information concerning any and all anticipated state revenues, including program revenues and segregated revenues from program receipts.
16.40(8)
(8) Collect information on disbursements. Collect and correlate information from all agencies concerning any agency disbursements and the proper time thereof.
16.40(9)
(9) Forecast revenues and expenditures. Forecast all revenues and expenditures of the state.
16.40(10)
(10) Determine minimum cash balances. Determine the minimum cash balances needed in public depositories in which operating accounts are maintained at all times to meet the operating requirements of all agencies.
16.40(11)
(11) Advise investment board director on surplus moneys. Advise the executive director of the investment board daily concerning surplus moneys available for investment from each of the various state funds.
16.40(12)
(12) Advise investment board director on cash needs. Advise the executive director of the investment board concerning the date when invested funds will be required in the form of cash. Said director shall furnish such reports of investments as may be required by the department of administration.
16.40(13)
(13) Cooperate in improvements of state fund management. Cooperate with the executive director of the investment board, the state treasurer, the department of revenue and other revenue agencies for the purpose of effecting improvements in the management and investment of state funds.
16.40(14)
(14) Committees. Perform administrative services required to properly account for the finances of committees created by law or executive order. The governor may authorize each committee to make expenditures from the appropriation under
s. 20.505 (1) (ka) not exceeding $2,000 per fiscal year. The governor shall report such authorized expenditures to the joint committee on finance at the next quarterly meeting of the committee. If the governor desires to authorize expenditures of more than $2,000 per fiscal year by a committee, the governor shall submit to the joint committee on finance for its approval a complete budget for all expenditures made or to be made by the committee. The budget may cover a period encompassing more than one fiscal year or biennium during the governor's term of office. If the joint committee on finance approves a budget authorizing expenditures of more than $2,000 per fiscal year by such a committee, the governor may authorize the expenditures to be made within the limits of the appropriation under
s. 20.505 (1) (ka) in accordance with the approved budget during the period covered by the budget. If after the joint committee on finance approves a budget for such a committee the governor desires to authorize expenditures in excess of the authorized expenditures under the approved budget, the governor shall submit a modified budget for the committee to the joint committee on finance. If the joint committee on finance approves a modified budget, the governor may authorize additional expenditures to be made within the limits of the appropriation under
s. 20.505 (1) (ka) in accordance with the modified budget during the period covered by the modified budget.
16.40(16)
(16) Maintain an accounting for operating notes. Maintain an accounting of, forecast and administer those moneys pledged for the repayment of operating notes issued under
subch. III of ch. 18, in accordance with agreements entered into by the secretary under
s. 16.004 (9).
16.40(17)
(17) Interstate bodies. Perform administrative services required to properly account for dues and related expenses for state participation in national or regional interstate governmental bodies specified in
s. 20.505 (1) (ka) or determined by the governor.
16.40(18)
(18) Require agencies to provide copies. Require each state agency, at the time that the agency submits a request to the department for an increased appropriation to be provided in an executive budget bill which is necessitated by the compensation plan under
s. 230.12 or a collective bargaining agreement approved under
s. 111.92, to provide a copy of the request to the director of the office of state employment relations and the joint committee on employment relations.
16.40(19)
(19) State-owned rental housing. Require each agency as defined in
s. 16.52 (7) which has a program revenue or segregated revenue appropriation for deposit of housing receipts to deposit all revenues received from rentals established under
s. 16.004 (8) for state-owned housing in that appropriation account, or if the appropriation is for more than one purpose, in a separate subaccount within that appropriation, and to pay all expenses for maintenance of the housing from that account or subaccount.
16.40(20)
(20) Public debt service costs projection. Prepare in each odd-numbered year for inclusion in the report submitted by the building commission under
s. 13.48 (7) a projection of the long-term trends in principal and interest costs on public debt contracted under
subchs. I and
IV of ch. 18 as a proportion of all tax revenues that are deposited or are expected to be deposited in the general fund. The projection shall take account of the recommendations adopted by the building commission for the long-range building program under
s. 13.48 (7) for the succeeding fiscal biennium and all proposed general obligation bonding contained in the executive budget bill or bills, including bonding for the authorized state building program as well as for other borrowing purposes.
16.40(21)
(21) Administrative services provided to the board of commissioners of public lands. Render an accounting to the board of commissioners of public lands for the costs of all administrative services provided by the department and other state agencies, as defined in
s. 20.001 (1), to the board. All moneys received from the board under
s. 24.64 for the costs of administrative services provided by the department and other state agencies shall be deposited in the general fund.
16.40(22)
(22) Sale of forest products at Fort McCoy. 16.40(22)(a)(a) Annually distribute an amount equal to 50% of the amount appropriated under
s. 20.505 (1) (ng) to the school districts located in whole or in part in Monroe County in proportion to the number of pupils in each such school district's membership, as defined in
s. 121.004 (5), in the previous school year who were residents of that county in the previous school year.
16.40(22)(b)
(b) Annually distribute an amount equal to 50% of the amount appropriated under
s. 20.505 (1) (ng) to Monroe County for the benefit of the public roads in Monroe County.
16.40(23)
(23) University of Wisconsin-Green Bay programming. Provide funding from the appropriation under
s. 20.505 (1) (km) to finance programming at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay that is jointly developed by the Oneida Tribe and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
16.40 History
History: 1971 c. 125;
1977 c. 196 s.
130 (3);
1977 c. 272;
1979 c. 1,
34,
221;
1981 c. 20,
27,
317;
1981 c. 390 s.
252;
1983 a. 27,
368,
524;
1985 a. 29;
1987 a. 4,
27;
1989 a. 31,
359;
1991 a. 39;
1993 a. 16;
1999 a. 9,
24,
185;
2001 a. 16,
109;
2003 a. 33 ss.
164,
9160;
2005 a. 25;
2007 a. 20.
16.401
16.401 Treasury management. The department shall:
16.401(1)
(1) Have custody of moneys. Receive and have charge of all moneys paid into the treasury and any other moneys received by officers and employees of state agencies, and pay out the moneys as directed by law, except as provided in
ss. 16.52 (7),
20.907 (5) (b),
20.920, and
20.929.
16.401(2)
(2) Issue receipts. Issue receipts for all money paid to the department.
16.401(3)
(3) Pay claims as presented. Pay all claims authorized to be paid out of the treasury in the order in which they are presented, giving a preference to no one.
16.401(4)
(4) Pay on warrants sums authorized by law. 16.401(4)(a)(a) Pay out of the treasury, on demand, upon the warrants of the department, except as provided in
s. 20.929, such sums only as are authorized by law to be so paid, if there are appropriate funds therein to pay the same, and, when any sum is required to be paid out of a particular fund, pay it out of such fund only; and upon each such warrant, when payment is made in currency, take the receipt endorsed on or annexed thereto, of the payee therein named or an authorized agent or assignee. The secretary shall accept telephone advice believed by him or her to be genuine from any public depository, as defined in
s. 34.01 (5), stating that a specified amount of money has been deposited with such public depository for the credit of the state, and shall act upon such telephone advice as though it had been in writing.
16.401(4)(b)
(b) When in the judgment of the secretary balances in state public depository accounts are temporarily in excess of that required under
par. (a), the secretary may transfer the excess balance to the investment fund for the purpose of investment only. The earnings attributable to the investment of temporary excess balances shall be distributed as provided in
sub. (14).
16.401(5)
(5) Account for interest. Pay into the treasury and account for all sums directly or indirectly received by the secretary by virtue of the secretary's office, or as interest or compensation for the use, deposit, or forbearance of any state moneys in the secretary's hands or under the secretary's control.
