2021 Wisconsin Act 66

  Date of enactment: July 8, 2021
2021 Senate Bill 70   Date of publication*: July 9, 2021

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication."

2021 WISCONSIN ACT 66

An Act to create 73.03 (75) of the statutes; relating to: disclosure of information regarding state revenue.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

66,1 Section 1. 73.03 (75) of the statutes is created to read:

73.03 (75) To create and maintain a web page on its Internet site to display information relating to general purpose revenues, as defined in s. 20.001 (2) (a). The information shall be presented in readily understandable formats that the department determines will provide taxpayers of this state with a useful overview of the amounts of general purpose revenue collected and the purposes for which the amounts are spent. The information shall include visual representations of data relating to the amounts of revenue collected by source and the general purposes for which the amounts are spent. The information shall also include a breakdown of the sources of general purpose revenue by year and other information the department determines is useful for taxpayers in understanding where and how the amounts collected are spent. The department may include information relating to other revenue types defined in s. 20.001 (2) if the department determines the information is useful in meeting the purpose of this subsection. The department may work with the department of administration to gather the information described in this subsection.

66,2 Section 2 . Nonstatutory provisions.

(1) The department of revenue shall display a prominent link on the web page maintained by the department for the electronic filing of individual income tax returns to the web page created under s. 73.03 (75) and to the local government dashboard Internet site that is maintained by the department to present information collected under s. 73.10 (2) (a) 1. The department of revenue shall display a prominent link on the web page created under s. 73.03 (75) to the Internet site created under s. 16.413 and to the local government dashboard Internet site that is maintained by the department to present information collected under s. 73.10 (2) (a) 1.

66,3 Section 3. Effective date.

(1) This act takes effect on the first day of the 6th month beginning after publication.