AB68: Bill Text

AB68,269,23 (4) In consultation with other agencies, the office shall develop a data-sharing protocol and a security plan for the program. The security plan shall establish how the data is to be protected. The data-sharing protocol shall include all of the following:

AB68,269,25 (a) How participating agencies may use confidential data in accordance with confidentiality laws applicable to the data provided.

AB68,270,1 (b) Who has authority to access data gathered under the program.

AB68,270,3 (c) How participating agencies shall make, verify, and retain corrections to personally identifying information gathered under the program.

AB68,171 Section 171. 16.99 (3b) of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:

AB68,270,7 16.99 (3b) “Juvenile correctional facility" means a secured residential care center for children and youth, as defined in s. 938.02 (15g), operated by the department of corrections.

AB68,172 Section 172. 16.9945 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,270,23 16.9945 (1) Competitive grants. (intro.) In fiscal years 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, and 2020-21, the The department may annually award grants on a competitive basis to eligible school districts and to eligible public libraries for the purpose of improving information technology infrastructure. For purposes of awarding grants under this section, “improving information technology infrastructure” includes purchasing and installing on a bus a portable device that creates an area of wireless Internet coverage and purchasing for individuals to temporarily borrow from a school or for patrons to check out from a public library a portable device that creates an area of wireless Internet coverage. In awarding grants to eligible school districts under this section, the department shall give priority to applications for school districts in which the percentage of pupils who satisfy the income eligibility criteria under 42 USC 1758 (b) (1) for a free or reduced-price lunch is greater than in other applicant school districts. The department shall require an applicant for a grant under this section to provide all of the following:

AB68,173 Section 173. 16.9945 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,271,5 16.9945 (2) Eligible school districts. A school district is eligible for a grant under this section in a fiscal year biennium if the school district's membership in the previous most recent school year for which finalized school year data is available, as determined in the first year of the fiscal biennium, divided by the school district's area in square miles is 16 or less.

AB68,174 Section 174. 16.9945 (2m) (a) 1m. of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,271,8 16.9945 (2m) (a) 1m. “Rural territory” means any territory located outside of urban areas.

AB68,175 Section 175. 16.9945 (2m) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed.

AB68,176 Section 176. 16.9945 (2m) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,271,13 16.9945 (2m) (a) 3. “Urbanized “Urban area” means an urban area, as defined by the U.S. bureau of the census, with a population of 50,000 or more that is located in this state.

AB68,177 Section 177. 16.9945 (2m) (b) (intro.) of the statutes is renumbered 16.9945 (2m) (b) and amended to read:

AB68,271,21 16.9945 (2m) (b) A public library, including a library branch, is eligible for a grant under this section in a fiscal year biennium if the population of the municipality within which the public library or library branch is located, as determined in the first year of the fiscal biennium, is 20,000 or less and if the public library or library branch is located in one of the following areas of the state: a rural territory.

AB68,178 Section 178. 16.9945 (2m) (b) 1. to 3. of the statutes are repealed.

AB68,179 Section 179. 16.9945 (3m) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,272,3 16.9945 (3m) (a) If the population of the municipality within which the eligible public library or library branch, as defined in sub. (2m) (a) 1., is located is 2,000 or less, $5,000.

AB68,180 Section 180. 16.9945 (3m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,272,7 16.9945 (3m) (b) If the population of the municipality within which the eligible public library or library branch, as defined in sub. (2m) (a) 1., is located is at least 2,001 but less than 5,000, $7,500.

AB68,181 Section 181. 16.9945 (3m) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,272,11 16.9945 (3m) (c) If the population of the municipality within which the eligible public library or library branch, as defined in sub. (2m) (a) 1., is located is at least 5,000 but less than 20,001, $10,000.

AB68,182 Section 182. 16.9945 (4) of the statutes is renumbered 16.9945 (4) (a) and amended to read:

AB68,272,16 16.9945 (4) (a) The Except as provided in par. (b), the department cannot may not award grants under this section that total more than $3,000,000 in the 2019-20 or 2020-21 any fiscal year.

AB68,183 Section 183. 16.9945 (4) (b) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,272,21 16.9945 (4) (b) In the second fiscal year of a fiscal biennium, the department may increase the maximum amount under par. (a) by an amount equal to the difference between the maximum amount under par. (a) and the amount the department awarded in the first fiscal year of the fiscal biennium.

AB68,184 Section 184. 16.9945 (4m) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,272,25 16.9945 (4m) Notification. The department, at least annually, shall provide all school districts and public libraries located in this state that are eligible for grants under this section with information regarding how to apply for grants.

AB68,185 Section 185. 16.9945 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,273,3 16.9945 (5) Sunset. The department may not award grants under this section after June 30, 2021 2025.

AB68,186 Section 186. 16.995 (2) of the statutes is repealed.

AB68,187 Section 187. 16.997 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,273,12 16.997 (2) (b) Establish eligibility requirements for an educational agency to participate in the program established under sub. (1) and to receive additional telecommunications access under s. 16.998, including a requirement that a charter school sponsor use data lines to benefit pupils attending the charter school and a requirement that Internet access to material that is harmful to children, as defined in s. 948.11 (1) (b), is blocked on the computers of juvenile correctional facilities that are served by data links lines subsidized under this section.

AB68,188 Section 188. 16.997 (2) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,273,18 16.997 (2) (d) Require an educational agency to pay the department not more than $250 per month for each data line that is provided to the educational agency under the program established under sub. (1), except that the charge may not exceed $100 per month for each data line that relies on a transport medium that operates at a speed of 1.544 megabits less than one gigabit per second.

AB68,189 Section 189. 16.997 (2) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,273,23 16.997 (2) (f) Ensure that juvenile correctional facilities an educational agency that receive receives access under this section to data lines or that receive receives additional access under s. 16.998 to data lines and bandwidth use uses those data lines and that bandwidth only primarily for educational purposes.

AB68,190 Section 190. 16.997 (2g) of the statutes is repealed.

AB68,191 Section 191. 16.997 (2r) of the statutes is repealed.

AB68,192 Section 192. 17.18 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,274,5 17.18 Vacancies, U.S. senator and representative in congress; how filled. Vacancies in the office of U.S. senator or representative in congress from this state shall be filled by election, as provided in s. 8.50 (4) (b), for the residue of the unexpired term (4m).

AB68,193 Section 193. 18.04 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,274,11 18.04 (3) Each purpose enumerated in sub. (1) shall be construed to include any premium payable with respect thereto and the expenses of funding, refunding and acquiring public debt. Each purpose specified by the legislature under subs. (1) and (2) shall be construed to include the expenses of contracting and administering public debt.

AB68,194 Section 194. 18.08 (1) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,274,17 18.08 (1) (a) 3. Premiums required for deposit in reserve funds or those necessary to pay expenses incurred in contracting and administering public debt or to make cost of issuance and other ancillary payments may be credited to one or more of the sinking funds of the bond security and redemption fund or to the capital improvement fund, as determined by the commission.

AB68,195 Section 195. 18.08 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,274,22 18.08 (1) (b) Moneys within the capital improvement fund shall be segregated into separate and distinct accounts according to the program purposes defined under ch. 20 for which public debt has been authorized by the legislature or for the payment of expenses incurred in contracting and administering public debt.

AB68,196 Section 196. 18.08 (1m) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 18.08 (1m) (am) and amended to read:

AB68,275,5 18.08 (1m) (am) Premium proceeds not used under par. (ag) shall first be used for the purposes for which the bonds were issued in proportion to the par value of the bond issue. If the premiums are used for the purposes, the authorized bonding authorization for those purposes is reduced by the amount of premiums that are used.

AB68,197 Section 197. 18.08 (1m) (ag) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,275,10 18.08 (1m) (ag) Premium proceeds may be used for the payment of expenses incurred in contracting and administering public debt, as determined by the commission. The authorized bonding authorization is not reduced by the amount of premiums that are used for those expenses.

AB68,198 Section 198. 18.08 (1m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,275,16 18.08 (1m) (b) Any premiums premium proceeds not used for the purposes for which bonding was authorized under pars. (ag) and (am) may be used for other purposes, as determined by the commission. If the premiums are used for any other purposes, the authorized bonding authorization for those purposes is reduced by the amount of premiums that are used.

AB68,199 Section 199. 18.08 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,275,24 18.08 (2) The capital improvement fund may be expended, pursuant to appropriations, only for the purposes and in the amounts for which the public debts have been contracted, for the payment of principal and interest on loans or on notes, for the payment due, if any, under an agreement or ancillary arrangement entered into under s. 18.06 (8) (a) with respect to any such public debt, for the purposes identified under s. 20.867 (2) (v) and (4) (q), and for expenses incurred in contracting and administering public debt.

AB68,200 Section 200. 18.16 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,276,3 18.16 (title) Minority financial advisers and investment firms; disabled veteran-owned; lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender-owned; and disability-owned financial advisers and investment firms.

AB68,201 Section 201. 18.16 (1) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 18.16 (1) (ah).

AB68,202 Section 202. 18.16 (1) (ae) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,276,7 18.16 (1) (ae) “Disability-owned financial adviser" means a financial adviser certified by the department of administration under s. 16.289 (3).

AB68,203 Section 203. 18.16 (1) (af) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,276,10 18.16 (1) (af) “Disability-owned investment firm" means an investment firm certified by the department of administration under s. 16.289 (3).

AB68,204 Section 204. 18.16 (1) (br) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,276,14 18.16 (1) (br) “Lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender-owned financial adviser" means a financial adviser certified by the department of administration under s. 16.288 (3).

AB68,205 Section 205. 18.16 (1) (bs) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,276,18 18.16 (1) (bs) “Lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender-owned investment firm" means an investment firm certified by the department of administration under s. 16.288 (3).

AB68,206 Section 206. 18.16 (2) (c) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,276,23 18.16 (2) (c) Except as provided in sub. (7), in contracting public debt by competitive sale, the commission shall make efforts to ensure that at least 1 percent of the total public indebtedness contracted in each fiscal year is underwritten by lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender-owned investment firms.

AB68,207 Section 207. 18.16 (2) (d) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,277,4 18.16 (2) (d) Except as provided in sub. (7), in contracting public debt by competitive sale, the commission shall make efforts to ensure that at least 1 percent of the total public indebtedness contracted in each fiscal year is underwritten by disability-owned investment firms.

AB68,208 Section 208. 18.16 (3) (c) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,277,9 18.16 (3) (c) Except as provided under sub. (7), in contracting public debt by negotiated sale, the commission shall make efforts to ensure that at least 1 percent of total public indebtedness contracted in each fiscal year is underwritten by lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender-owned investment firms.

AB68,209 Section 209. 18.16 (3) (d) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,277,14 18.16 (3) (d) Except as provided under sub. (7), in contracting public debt by negotiated sale, the commission shall make efforts to ensure that at least 1 percent of total public indebtedness contracted in each fiscal year is underwritten by disability-owned investment firms.

AB68,210 Section 210. 18.16 (4) (c) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,277,20 18.16 (4) (c) Except as provided under sub. (7), in contracting public debt by competitive sale or negotiated sale, the commission shall make efforts to ensure that at least 1 percent of the total moneys expended in each fiscal year for the services of financial advisers are expended for the services of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender-owned financial advisers.

AB68,211 Section 211. 18.16 (4) (d) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,278,2 18.16 (4) (d) Except as provided under sub. (7), in contracting public debt by competitive sale or negotiated sale, the commission shall make efforts to ensure that at least 1 percent of the total moneys expended in each fiscal year for the services of financial advisers are expended for the services of disability-owned financial advisers.

AB68,212 Section 212. 18.16 (5) (c) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,278,8 18.16 (5) (c) Except as provided under s. 18.06 (9) and sub. (7), an individual underwriter or syndicate of underwriters shall make efforts to ensure that each bid or proposal, submitted by that individual or syndicate in a competitive or negotiated sale of public debt, provides for at least 1 percent of sales to lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender-owned investment firms.

AB68,213 Section 213. 18.16 (5) (d) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,278,14 18.16 (5) (d) Except as provided under s. 18.06 (9) and sub. (7), an individual underwriter or syndicate of underwriters shall make efforts to ensure that each bid or proposal, submitted by that individual or syndicate in a competitive or negotiated sale of public debt, provides for at least 1 percent of sales to disability-owned investment firms.

AB68,214 Section 214. 18.16 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,278,23 18.16 (6) The commission shall annually report to the department of administration the total amount of public indebtedness contracted with the underwriting services of minority investment firms and, disabled veteran-owned, lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender-owned, and disability-owned investment firms and the total amount of moneys expended for the services of minority financial advisers and, disabled veteran-owned, lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender-owned, and disability-owned financial advisers during the preceding fiscal year.

AB68,215 Section 215. 18.64 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,279,3 18.64 (title) Minority financial advisers and investment firms; disabled veteran-owned; lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender-owned; and disability-owned financial advisers and investment firms.

AB68,216 Section 216. 18.64 (1) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 18.64 (1) (ah).