2021 WISCONSIN ACT 11
An Act to renumber and amend 36.115 (1); to amend 36.115 (5) (b) and (c); and to create 36.115 (1) (b), 36.115 (8) (c) and (d), 36.65 (2) (dn) and 36.65 (6) (c) of the statutes; relating to: monitoring extension and outreach hours of certain University of Wisconsin System faculty and academic staff who provide extension services in applied agricultural research.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
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Section 1
. 36.115 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 36.115 (1) (intro.) and amended to read:
36.115 (1) (intro.) In this section, “chancellor":
(a) “Chancellor” means the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Section 2
. 36.115 (1) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
36.115 (1) (b) “State specialists” means faculty or academic staff at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, or University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences with appointments partially or fully funded through the division of extension at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the field of applied agricultural research.
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Section 3
. 36.115 (5) (b) and (c) of the statutes are amended to read:
36.115 (5) (b) The board may not implement the personnel system developed under sub. (2) unless it has been approved by the joint committee on employment relations. This paragraph does not apply to revisions made under sub. (8) (b) or (d).
(c) The chancellor may not implement the personnel system developed under sub. (3) unless it has been approved by the joint committee on employment relations. This paragraph does not apply to revisions made under sub. (8) (b) or (d).
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Section 4
. 36.115 (8) (c) and (d) of the statutes are created to read:
36.115 (8) (c) No later than the first day of the 6th month beginning after the effective date of this paragraph .... [LRB inserts date], the board shall develop and implement a plan that includes policies for monitoring extension and outreach workloads of state specialists, including requirements for individual state specialists to report their extension and outreach hours to the system administration.
(d) The board and the chancellor shall revise the personnel systems developed under subs. (2) and (3) and the employment relations policies and practices established under sub. (7) as necessary to ensure that the systems, policies, and practices are consistent with the plan required under par. (c).
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Section 5
. 36.65 (2) (dn) of the statutes is created to read:
36.65 (2) (dn) Extension and outreach hours. Aggregate data on extension and outreach hours of state specialists, as defined in s. 36.115 (1) (b).
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Section 6
. 36.65 (6) (c) of the statutes is created to read:
36.65 (6) (c) The board shall publish on the accountability dashboard aggregate data on extension and outreach hours of state specialists, as defined in s. 36.115 (1) (b).
