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2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 3,
TO ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1,
TO ASSEMBLY BILL 56
June 25, 2019 - Offered by Representatives Pope,
Considine, L. Myers, Sinicki,
Zamarripa, Hebl, Anderson, Billings, Bowen, Brostoff, Cabrera, Crowley,
Doyle, Emerson, Fields, Goyke, Gruszynski, Haywood, Hesselbein, Hintz,
Kolste, McGuire, B. Meyers, Milroy, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Riemer, Sargent,
Shankland, Spreitzer, Stubbs, Stuck, Subeck, C. Taylor, Vining and
Vruwink.
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413.94 Legislative audit bureau. (intro.) There is created a bureau to be
5known as the “Legislative Audit Bureau," headed by a chief known as the “State
6Auditor." The bureau shall be strictly nonpartisan and shall at all times observe the
7confidential nature of any audit currently being performed. Subject to s. 230.35 (4)
8(a) and (f), the state auditor or designated employees shall at all times with or
9without notice have access to all departments and to any books, records
, or other
10documents maintained by the departments and relating to their expenditures,
11revenues, operations
, and structure, including specifically any such books, records,
12or other documents that are confidential by law, except as provided in sub. (4) and
1except that access to documents of counties, cities, villages, towns
, or school districts
2is limited to work performed in connection with audits authorized under sub. (1) (m)
3and except that access to documents of the opportunity schools and partnership
4programs under s. 119.33, subch. IX of ch. 115, and subch. II of ch. 119 is limited to
5work performed in connection with audits authorized under sub. (1) (os). In the
6discharge of any duty imposed by law, the state auditor may subpoena witnesses,
7administer oaths and take testimony and cause the deposition of witnesses to be
8taken as prescribed for taking depositions in civil actions in circuit courts.
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13.94
(1) (b) At the state auditor's discretion or as the joint legislative audit
11committee directs, audit the records of each department. Audits of the records of a
12county, city, village, town, or school district may be performed only as provided in par.
13(m).
Audits of the records of the opportunity schools and partnership programs
14under s. 119.33, subch. IX of ch. 115, and subch. II of ch. 119 may be performed only
15as provided in par. (os). After completion of any audit under this paragraph, the
16bureau shall file with the chief clerk of each house of the legislature, the governor,
17the department of administration, the legislative reference bureau, the joint
18committee on finance, the legislative fiscal bureau, and the department audited, a
19detailed report of the audit, including the bureau's recommendations for
20improvement and efficiency and including specific instances, if any, of illegal or
21improper expenditures. The chief clerks shall distribute the report to the joint
22legislative audit committee, the appropriate standing committees of the legislature,
23and the joint committee on legislative organization.
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24Section
34. 13.94 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
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113.94
(1) (e) Make such special examinations of the accounts and financial
2transactions of any department, agency
, or officer as the legislature, joint legislative
3audit committee
, or joint committee on legislative organization directs.
4Examinations of the accounts and transactions of a county, city, village, town, or
,
5subject to par. (os), of a school district
, may be performed only as authorized in par.
6(m).
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8Section
36. 13.94 (1s) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
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13.94
(1s) (a) Except as otherwise provided in par. (c), the legislative audit
10bureau may charge any department for the reasonable cost of auditing services
11performed at the request of a department or at the request of the federal government
12that the bureau is not required to perform under sub. (1) (b) or (c) or any other law.
13This paragraph does not apply to counties, cities, villages, towns, or school districts
14or to the opportunity schools and partnership programs under sub. (1) (os).”.
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16“
Section
41. 15.253 (3) of the statutes is renumbered 15.374 (2) and amended
17to read:
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15.374
(2) Office of school safety. There is created an office of school safety
19in the department of public instruction. The director of the office shall be appointed
20by the
attorney general state superintendent of public instruction in the classified
21service.”.
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223. Page 38, line 4: increase the dollar amount for fiscal year 2019-20 by
23$53,000 and increase the dollar amount for fiscal year 2020-21 by $70,700 for the
24purpose of increasing the authorized FTE positions for the public service commission
1by 1.0 PR position to assist in administering the broadband expansion grant program
2under s. 196.504.
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20.155
(3) (a)
Broadband expansion grants; general purpose revenue. 9Biennially, the amounts in the schedule for broadband expansion grants under s.
10196.504.”.
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20.255
(1) (ep)
Mental health
and school climate training program programs
15and grants. The amounts in the schedule for the mental health
and school climate
1training
program programs under s.
115.28 (63) 115.362 (1) and to award grants
2under s. 115.362 (2).
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20.255
(1) (hg)
Personnel licensure, teacher supply, information and analysis
5and teacher improvement. The amounts in the schedule to fund licensure
6administrative costs under
s. ss. 115.28 (7) (d) and 118.19 (10), teacher supply,
7information and analysis costs under s. 115.29 (5), and teacher improvement under
8s. 115.41.
Ninety percent of all All moneys received from the licensure of school and
9public library personnel under s. 115.28 (7) (d)
, and all moneys received under s.
10115.41
, shall be credited to this appropriation.
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20.255
(1) (kt)
Tribal language revitalization grant program operations. The
13amounts in the schedule to pay operational and administrative costs incurred by the
14Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, Inc., to implement and administer the tribal
15language revitalization grant programs under s. 115.745. All moneys transferred
16from the appropriation account under s. 20.505 (8) (hm) 5m. shall be credited to this
17appropriation account. Notwithstanding s. 20.001 (3) (a), the unencumbered
18balance on June 30 of each year shall revert to the appropriation account under s.
1920.505 (8) (hm).
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20.255
(2) (ac)
General equalization aids. The amounts in the schedule A sum
22sufficient for the payment of educational aids under ss. 121.08, 121.09, 121.095,
and 23121.105
, 121.137 and subch. VI of ch. 121
equal to the amount determined by the joint
24committee on finance under s. 121.15 (3m) (c) in the 2020-21 fiscal year and
1biennially thereafter, and equal to the amount determined by law in the 2021-22
2fiscal year and biennially thereafter.
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20.255
(2) (ag)
Hold harmless aid. A sum sufficient for hold harmless aid to
5school districts under s. 121.10.
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20.255
(2) (ah)
Mathematics partnership grant. The amounts in the schedule
8for aid to a 1st class city school district under s. 119.313.
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20.255
(2) (az)
Special Needs Scholarship Program. A sum sufficient to make
12the payments under s. 115.7915 (4m) (a)
, (cm), and (e) and (4p).
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20.255
(2) (bd)
Additional special education aid. The amounts in the schedule
15for A sum sufficient for the payment of aid under s. 115.881.
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20.255
(2) (cb)
Bilingual-bicultural education; grants. The amounts in the
19schedule for bilingual-bicultural education grants under s. 115.958.
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20.255
(2) (cc)
Bilingual-bicultural education aids. The amounts in the
22schedule for bilingual-bicultural education programs under
subch. VII of ch. 115 s.
23115.995.
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120.255
(2) (cd)
Bilingual-bicultural education supplemental aid. The amounts
2in the schedule for bilingual-bicultural education aid
under s. 115.957
.
