AB56: Bill Text

AB56,28 Section 28. 13.49 of the statutes is created to read:

AB56,118,11 13.49 Redistricting advisory commission. (1) Definitions. In this section:

AB56,118,12 (a) “Chief election officer" means the elections commission administrator.

AB56,118,13 (b) “Four selecting authorities" means all of the following:

AB56,118,14 1. The majority leader of the senate.

AB56,118,15 2. The minority leader of the senate.

AB56,118,16 3. The speaker of the assembly.

AB56,118,17 4. The minority leader of the assembly.

AB56,118,18 (c) “Partisan public office" means any of the following:

AB56,118,20 1. The office of governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, attorney general, state senator, or state representative to the assembly.

AB56,118,22 2. A county office that is filled by an election process involving nomination and election of candidates on a partisan basis.

AB56,118,24 (d) “Political party office" means an elective office in a political party, as defined in s. 11.0101 (26), or in a national political party.

AB56,119,6 (e) “Relative" means an individual who is related to the person in question as father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, grandfather, grandmother, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, or half sister.

AB56,119,15 (2) General provisions. (a) Not later than February 15 of the first year following the decennial federal census, a temporary redistricting advisory commission is created consisting of 5 members. Each of the 4 selecting authorities shall certify to the chief election officer the selecting authority's appointment of a person to serve on the commission. Within 30 days after the last selecting authority has certified his or her appointment, but not later than February 15 of the first year following the decennial federal census, the 4 commission members so appointed shall select, by a vote of at least 3 members, and certify to the chief election officer the 5th commission member, who shall serve as chairperson.

AB56,119,17 (b) No individual may be appointed to the redistricting advisory commission who satisfies any of the following:

AB56,119,19 1. The individual is not an eligible elector of this state at the time of the appointment.

AB56,119,20 2. The individual holds partisan public office or political party office.

AB56,119,22 3. The individual is a relative of or is employed by a member of the legislature or of Congress or is employed directly by the legislature or Congress.

AB56,120,4 (c) Members of the redistricting advisory commission appointed by a selecting authority shall be reimbursed from the appropriation account under s. 20.765 (1) (a) or (b), depending upon the house in which that member's appointing authority holds office, for actual and necessary expenses incurred in performance of duties as a commission member. The member who is not appointed by a selecting authority shall be reimbursed from the appropriation under s. 20.765 (1) (a) for actual and necessary expenses incurred in performance of duties as a commission member.

AB56,120,6 (d) A vacancy on the redistricting advisory commission shall be filled as provided in s. 17.20 (1) within 15 days after the vacancy occurs.

AB56,120,8 (e) Each redistricting advisory commission terminates upon complying with sub. (3).

AB56,120,9 (3) Duties. The redistricting advisory commission shall do all of the following:

AB56,120,13 (a) If requested to do so by the legislative reference bureau, provide direction to the legislative reference bureau concerning any decision the legislative reference bureau must make in preparing a redistricting plan under subch. I of ch. 4 for which no clearly applicable guideline is provided under s. 4.007.

AB56,120,20 (b) Oversee the work of legislative reference bureau employees engaged in preparing a redistricting plan under subch. I of ch. 4 and may enter into contracts for hiring experts to assist in the preparing of such plans. The commission may enter into a contract to retain experts for preparing a redistricting plan only with the approval of three-fourths of the members of the commission and may terminate a contract employee only with the approval of three-fourths of the members of the commission.

AB56,120,23 (c) Upon delivery by the legislative reference bureau of a bill embodying a redistricting plan as required under s. 4.006, make available to the public at the earliest feasible time all of the following information:

AB56,120,24 1. Copies of the bill.

AB56,120,25 2. Maps illustrating the plan.

AB56,121,2 3. A summary of the standards prescribed under s. 4.007 for development of the plan.

AB56,121,4 4. A statement of the population of each district included in the plan and the relative deviation of each district population from the ideal district population.

AB56,121,6 (d) Upon delivery by the legislative reference bureau of an initial bill embodying a redistricting plan as required under s. 4.006 (1), do all of the following:

AB56,121,11 1. As expeditiously as reasonably possible, schedule and conduct public hearings, in different geographic regions of the state, on the plan embodied in the bill. No more than one public hearing may be held in the city of Madison, and at least one public hearing shall be held in each congressional district of the state. The commission shall hold public hearings on weekends whenever it is practicable.

AB56,121,18 2. Following the hearings held under subd. 1., promptly prepare and submit to the legislature in the manner provided under s. 13.172 (2) a report summarizing information and testimony received by the commission in the course of the hearings. The report may include any comments and conclusions that the commission's members deem appropriate concerning the information and testimony received at the hearings or otherwise presented to the commission. The report shall be treated in the same manner as a report submitted under s. 13.172 (2).

AB56,121,22 (4) Confidentiality. (a) Except as provided in par. (b), the redistricting advisory commission may establish policies limiting the information that the legislative reference bureau may provide to persons outside of the bureau staff concerning any redistricting plan prepared under subch. I of ch. 4.

AB56,122,5 (b) Any policy established under par. (a) does not apply to a redistricting plan after a bill embodying that plan is delivered by the legislative reference bureau as required under s. 4.006 or to population data furnished to the legislative reference bureau by the U.S. bureau of the census. Notwithstanding s. 13.92 (1) (c), any draft maps, along with the data sets used to create them, that are produced by the legislative reference bureau in the course of its work in preparing a bill under s. 4.006 shall be open to public inspection and copying under s. 19.35 (1) and made available on the Internet site of the legislative reference bureau as soon as they are produced.

AB56,29 Section 29 . 13.56 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,122,15 13.56 (2) Participation in certain proceedings. The cochairpersons of the joint committee for review of administrative rules or their designated agents shall accept service made under ss. 227.40 (5) and 806.04 (11). If the committee determines that the legislature should be represented in the proceeding, it shall request the joint committee on legislative organization to intervene in designate the legislature's representative for the proceeding as provided under s. 806.04 (11). The costs of participation in the proceeding shall be paid equally from the appropriations under s. 20.765 (1) (a) and (b), except that such costs incurred by the department of justice shall be paid from the appropriation under s. 20.455 (1) (d).

AB56,30 Section 30 . 13.90 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,123,2 13.90 (2) The cochairpersons of the joint committee on legislative organization or their designated agent shall accept service made under ss. s. 806.04 (11) and 893.825 (2). If the committee, the senate organization committee, or the assembly organization committee determines that the legislature should intervene be represented in the proceeding as provided under s. 803.09 (2m), the assembly shall represent the assembly, the senate shall represent the senate, and the joint committee on legislative organization shall represent the legislature , that committee shall designate the legislature's representative for the proceeding. The costs of participation in the proceeding shall be paid equally from the appropriations under s. 20.765 (1) (a) and (b), except that such costs incurred by the department of justice shall be paid from the appropriation under s. 20.455 (1) (d).

AB56,31 Section 31 . 13.91 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,123,5 13.91 (1) (c) Perform the functions prescribed in ch. 227 s. 227.15 for the review and resolution of problems relating to administrative rules and guidance documents.

AB56,32 Section 32. 13.94 (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,123,23 13.94 Legislative audit bureau. (intro.) There is created a bureau to be known as the “Legislative Audit Bureau," headed by a chief known as the “State Auditor." The bureau shall be strictly nonpartisan and shall at all times observe the confidential nature of any audit currently being performed. Subject to s. 230.35 (4) (a) and (f), the state auditor or designated employees shall at all times with or without notice have access to all departments and to any books, records , or other documents maintained by the departments and relating to their expenditures, revenues, operations, and structure, including specifically any such books, records, or other documents that are confidential by law, except as provided in sub. (4) and except that access to documents of counties, cities, villages, towns , or school districts is limited to work performed in connection with audits authorized under sub. (1) (m) and except that access to documents of the opportunity schools and partnership programs under s. 119.33, subch. IX of ch. 115, and subch. II of ch. 119 is limited to work performed in connection with audits authorized under sub. (1) (os). In the discharge of any duty imposed by law, the state auditor may subpoena witnesses, administer oaths and take testimony and cause the deposition of witnesses to be taken as prescribed for taking depositions in civil actions in circuit courts.

AB56,33 Section 33. 13.94 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,124,14 13.94 (1) (b) At the state auditor's discretion or as the joint legislative audit committee directs, audit the records of each department. Audits of the records of a county, city, village, town, or school district may be performed only as provided in par. (m). Audits of the records of the opportunity schools and partnership programs under s. 119.33, subch. IX of ch. 115, and subch. II of ch. 119 may be performed only as provided in par. (os). After completion of any audit under this paragraph, the bureau shall file with the chief clerk of each house of the legislature, the governor, the department of administration, the legislative reference bureau, the joint committee on finance, the legislative fiscal bureau, and the department audited, a detailed report of the audit, including the bureau's recommendations for improvement and efficiency and including specific instances, if any, of illegal or improper expenditures. The chief clerks shall distribute the report to the joint legislative audit committee, the appropriate standing committees of the legislature, and the joint committee on legislative organization.

AB56,34 Section 34. 13.94 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,124,21 13.94 (1) (e) Make such special examinations of the accounts and financial transactions of any department, agency, or officer as the legislature, joint legislative audit committee, or joint committee on legislative organization directs. Examinations of the accounts and transactions of a county, city, village, town, or, subject to par. (os), of a school district, may be performed only as authorized in par. (m).

AB56,35 Section 35. 13.94 (1) (os) of the statutes is repealed.

AB56,36 Section 36. 13.94 (1s) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,125,4 13.94 (1s) (a) Except as otherwise provided in par. (c), the legislative audit bureau may charge any department for the reasonable cost of auditing services performed at the request of a department or at the request of the federal government that the bureau is not required to perform under sub. (1) (b) or (c) or any other law. This paragraph does not apply to counties, cities, villages, towns, or school districts or to the opportunity schools and partnership programs under sub. (1) (os).

AB56,37 Section 37. 15.105 (15) of the statutes is renumbered 15.225 (1) and amended to read:

AB56,125,13 15.225 (1) Labor and industry review commission. There is created a labor and industry review commission which is attached to the department of administration workforce development under s. 15.03, except the budget of the labor and industry review commission shall be transmitted by the department to the governor without change or modification by the department, unless agreed to by the labor and industry review commission. The governor shall appoint an individual to serve at the pleasure of the governor as general counsel for the commission.

AB56,38 Section 38. 15.105 (34) of the statutes is created to read:

AB56,125,18 15.105 (34) Office of sustainability and clean energy. There is created in the department of administration an office to be known as the office of sustainability and clean energy. The office shall be under the direction and supervision of a director who shall be appointed by the governor to serve at the governor's pleasure.

AB56,39 Section 39. 15.207 (3) of the statutes is repealed.

AB56,40 Section 40. 15.225 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,125,21 15.225 (title) Same; attached boards and commission commissions .

AB56,41 Section 41. 15.253 (3) of the statutes is renumbered 15.374 (2) and amended to read:

AB56,126,2 15.374 (2) Office of school safety. There is created an office of school safety in the department of public instruction. The director of the office shall be appointed by the attorney general state superintendent of public instruction in the classified service.

AB56,42 Section 42 . 15.315 (title) of the statutes is repealed.

AB56,43 Section 43 . 15.315 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 15.467 (1), and 15.467 (1) (a), as renumbered, is amended to read:

AB56,126,7 15.467 (1) (a) There is created an interoperability council, attached to the department of military affairs transportation under s. 15.03.

AB56,44 Section 44 . 15.315 (2) of the statutes is renumbered 15.467 (2), and 15.467 (2) (a) (intro.), as renumbered, is amended to read:

AB56,126,14 15.467 (2) (a) (intro.) There is created a 911 subcommittee of the interoperability council, attached to the department of military affairs transportation under s. 15.03. The 911 subcommittee consists of one member serving a 3-year term who is appointed by the adjutant general secretary of transportation and the following members serving 3-year terms who are appointed by the governor:

AB56,45 Section 45. 15.345 (9) of the statutes is created to read:

AB56,126,19 15.345 (9) Bureau of natural resources science. There is created in the division responsible for fish, wildlife, and parks in the department of natural resources a bureau of natural resources science. The bureau director shall report to, and serve as the science advisor to, the secretary of natural resources.

AB56,46 Section 46 . 15.405 (6) (am) of the statutes is created to read:

AB56,126,21 15.405 (6) (am) Two dental therapists who are licensed under ch. 447.

AB56,47 Section 47. 16.004 (25) of the statutes is created to read:

AB56,127,3 16.004 (25) Procurement and risk management services. The department may provide technical assistance and other services relating to procurement and risk management, including conducting educational seminars, courses, or conferences, to local governmental units, as defined in s. 16.97 (7), and private organizations. The department shall charge and collect fees sufficient to recover the costs of activities authorized under this subsection.

AB56,48 Section 48. 16.009 (2) (em) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,127,9 16.009 (2) (em) Monitor, evaluate, and make recommendations concerning long-term community support services received by clients of the long-term support community options program under s. 46.27 the self-directed services option, the family care program, the Family Care Partnership Program, and the program of all-inclusive care for the elderly.

AB56,49 Section 49. 16.047 (2) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 16.047 (2).

AB56,50 Section 50. 16.047 (2) (b) of the statutes is repealed.

AB56,51 Section 51. 16.047 (3) of the statutes is repealed.

AB56,52 Section 52. 16.047 (4m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,127,18 16.047 (4m) (b) The department shall establish a program to award grants of settlement funds from the appropriation under s. 20.855 (4) (h) to eligible applicants for the replacement of public transit vehicles or the installation of charging stations for vehicles with an electric motor. Any eligible applicant may apply for a grant under the program.

AB56,53 Section 53. 16.047 (4m) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,127,24 16.047 (4m) (c) The department shall award grants under this subsection on a competitive basis and shall give preference to the replacement of public transit vehicles or the installation of charging stations for vehicles with an electric motor in communities or on routes that the department determines are critical for the purpose of connecting employees with employers.

AB56,54 Section 54. 16.047 (4m) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,128,4 16.047 (4m) (d) An eligible applicant may use settlement funds awarded under this subsection only for the payment of costs incurred by the eligible applicant to replace public transit vehicles or install charging stations for vehicles with an electric motor in accordance with the settlement guidelines.

AB56,55 Section 55. 16.047 (4m) (e) of the statutes is repealed.

AB56,56 Section 56 . 16.3077 of the statutes is created to read:

AB56,128,9 16.3077 Housing quality standards grants. From the appropriation under s. 20.505 (7) (bp), the department shall award grants to owners of rental housing units in this state for purposes of satisfying applicable housing quality standards.

AB56,57 Section 57. 16.313 of the statutes is repealed.

AB56,58 Section 58. 16.5185 (1) of the statutes is repealed.

AB56,59 Section 59 . 16.5185 (2m) of the statutes is renumbered 16.5185 and amended to read: