Amendment SSA1-AB68

AB68-SSA1,1604,4 10. One representative of a health plan.

AB68-SSA1,1604,6 (b) The representative from the office of the commissioner of insurance shall be the chairperson of the task force.

AB68-SSA1,1604,11 (c) Based on consultation with the task force, and review of the actuarial report required under Section 9113 (6 ) of this act, the commissioner of insurance and the secretary of employee trust funds shall develop an implementation plan, which, if enacted, would require all school districts in this state to participate in a group health insurance program offered by the group insurance board by January 1, 2024.

AB68-SSA1,1604,14 (d) The commissioner of insurance and the secretary of employee trust funds shall submit the implementation plan to the governor and the joint committee of finance by December 31, 2022.

AB68-SSA1,1604,20 (7) Prescription drug affordability review board. Notwithstanding the length of terms specified for the members of the board under s. 15.735 (1) (b) to (e), 2 of the initial members shall be appointed for terms expiring on May 1, 2023; 2 of the initial members shall be appointed for terms expiring on May 1, 2024; 2 of the initial members shall be appointed for terms expiring on May 1, 2025, and 2 of the initial members shall be appointed for terms expiring on May 1, 2026.

AB68-SSA1,9124 Section 9124. Nonstatutory provisions; Investment Board.

AB68-SSA1,9125 Section 9125. Nonstatutory provisions; Joint Committee on Finance.

AB68-SSA1,9126 Section 9126. Nonstatutory provisions; Judicial Commission.

AB68-SSA1,9127 Section 9127. Nonstatutory provisions; Justice.

AB68-SSA1,1605,9 (1) Sexual assault kits. Within 180 days of the effective date of this subsection, the department of justice shall promulgate emergency rules under s. 227.24 to implement s. 165.775 for the period before the effective date of the permanent rules but not to exceed the period authorized under s. 227.24 (1) (c), subject to extension under s. 227.24 (2). Notwithstanding s. 227.24 (1) (a), (2) (b), and (3), the department is not required to provide evidence that promulgating a rule under this subsection as an emergency rule is necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health, safety, or welfare and is not required to provide a finding of emergency for a rule promulgated under this subsection.

AB68-SSA1,1605,13 (2) Sentencing review council; report. No later than July 1, 2022, the sentencing review council shall submit a report on its findings and recommendations under s. 165.27 (1) to (4) to the attorney general under s. 15.09 (7) and to the appropriate standing committees of the legislature under s. 13.172 (3).

AB68-SSA1,9128 Section 9128. Nonstatutory provisions; Legislature.

AB68-SSA1,1605,15 (1) Redistricting.

AB68-SSA1,1605,16 (a) Definitions. In this subsection:

AB68-SSA1,1605,18 1. “Commission” means the People's Maps Commission created by the governor on January 27, 2020, under executive order 66.

AB68-SSA1,1605,19 2. “Legislature” means the legislature instituted on January 5, 2021.

AB68-SSA1,1605,25 (b) Preparation of legislation. The legislative reference bureau shall prepare in proper form legislation that gives effect to the congressional redistricting plan proposed by the commission for consideration by the legislature and separate legislation that gives effect to the state assembly and senate redistricting plan proposed by the commission for consideration by the legislature. The bureau shall deliver the legislation to the governor for approval.

AB68-SSA1,1606,1 (c) Introduction, consideration, and vote.

AB68-SSA1,1606,5 1. The governor shall deliver the bills prepared under par. (b) to the joint committee on legislative organization, which shall introduce the bills without change in each house of the legislature. The bills shall then be referred to the appropriate standing committees of each house.

AB68-SSA1,1606,8 2. The legislature shall take final action on either the assembly version or the senate version of the bills introduced under subd. 1 . no later than the 60th day after the bill is introduced.

AB68-SSA1,1606,12 3. The legislature may not take action on congressional redistricting legislation not introduced under subd. 1. until after either the assembly version or the senate version of the congressional redistricting bill introduced under subd. 1. has been voted on by each house of the legislature.

AB68-SSA1,1606,16 4. The legislature may not take action on legislative redistricting legislation not introduced under subd. 1. until after either the assembly version or the senate version of the legislative redistricting bill introduced under subd. 1. has been voted on by each house of the legislature.

AB68-SSA1,1606,17 (d) Public records.

AB68-SSA1,1606,21 1. Notwithstanding s. 16.61 (2) (b) 1., all public records, as defined in s. 16.61 (2) (b), created or maintained by each house, committee, and member of the legislature that relate to congressional or legislative redistricting may not be destroyed until after December 31, 2030.

AB68-SSA1,1607,3 2. Notwithstanding ss. 13.91 to 13.96, 19.36 (1), and 905.03, all records, as defined in s. 19.32 (2), created or maintained by each house, committee, and member of the legislature that relate to congressional or legislative redistricting are subject to inspection and copying under s. 19.35 and may not be withheld from public access on the basis of any claim of confidentiality or privilege, except for records containing communications that are privileged under s. 905.03 and that concern a previously drafted congressional or legislative redistricting plan.

AB68-SSA1,1607,8 (e) Open meetings. Notwithstanding ss. 13.91 to 13.96 and 905.03, each meeting related to congressional or legislative redistricting shall be preceded by public notice, as provided in s. 19.84, and shall be held in a place reasonably accessible to members of the public and open to all citizens at all times, if the meeting includes any of the following:

AB68-SSA1,1607,9 1. Two or more members of the legislature.

AB68-SSA1,1607,10 2. Members of the partisan staff of 2 or more legislative offices.

AB68-SSA1,1607,11 3. A member of the legislature and nonpartisan legislative staff.

AB68-SSA1,1607,13 4. A member of the legislature and a person retained by the legislature to assist with congressional or legislative redistricting.

AB68-SSA1,1607,19 (2) Joint legislative council study. The joint legislative council shall study the implementation of the marijuana tax and regulation provided under subch. IV of ch. 139 and identify uses for the revenues generated by the tax. The joint legislative council shall report its findings, conclusions, and recommendations to the joint committee on finance no later than 2 years after the effective date of this subsection.

AB68-SSA1,9129 Section 9129. Nonstatutory provisions; Lieutenant Governor.

AB68-SSA1,9130 Section 9130. Nonstatutory provisions; Local Government.

AB68-SSA1,1608,2 (1) Levy limit exception for regional planning commission charges. For the purposes of a levy imposed by a city, village, town, or county in December 2021, the base amount to which s. 66.0602 (2) applies does not include any amount that the city, village, town, or county levied in the immediately preceding year to pay for the city's, village's, town's, or county's share of a regional planning commission's budget as charged by the commission under s. 66.0309 (14) (a) to (c).

AB68-SSA1,9131 Section 9131. Nonstatutory provisions; Military Affairs.

AB68-SSA1,1608,13 (1) Truax Field electrical micro grid system. In fiscal year 2022-23, the department of military affairs shall conduct a study to determine whether construction of an electrical micro grid system at Truax Field is feasible. The department may expend from the appropriation under s. 20.465 (1) (b) in fiscal year 2022-23 not more than $64,000 to support the study under this subsection. If, based on the study, the adjutant general determines that construction of an electrical micro grid system at Truax Field is feasible, the department may expend from the appropriation under s. 20.465 (1) (b) in fiscal year 2022-23 not more than $296,000 for schematic designs related to the construction of an electrical micro grid system at Truax Field.

AB68-SSA1,9132 Section 9132. Nonstatutory provisions; Natural Resources.

AB68-SSA1,1609,2 (1) Emergency rule-making authority; Great Lakes erosion control program. The department of natural resources may use the procedure under s. 227.24 to promulgate emergency rules under s. 23.199 for the period before the date on which permanent rules under s. 23.199 take effect. Notwithstanding s. 227.24 (1) (c) and (2), emergency rules promulgated under this subsection remain in effect until the first day of the 25th month beginning after the effective date of the emergency rules, the date on which the permanent rules take effect, or the effective date of the repeal of the emergency rules, whichever is earlier. Notwithstanding s. 227.24 (1) (a) and (3), the department of natural resources is not required to provide evidence that promulgating a rule under this subsection as emergency rules is necessary for the preservation of public peace, health, safety, or welfare and is not required to provide a finding of emergency for a rule promulgated under this subsection.

AB68-SSA1,1609,6 (2) Transfer of land recycling loan program balance. All moneys appropriated for the land recycling loan program under s. 281.60, 2019 stats., that are unallocated on the effective date of this subsection shall be transferred to the environmental improvement fund for the clean water fund program under s. 281.58.

AB68-SSA1,1609,17 (3) Emergency rules for PFAS municipal grant program. The department of natural resources may use the procedure under s. 227.24 to promulgate emergency rules relating to the municipal grant program under s. 292.66. Notwithstanding s. 227.24 (1) (a) and (3), when promulgating emergency rules under this subsection, the department is not required to provide evidence that promulgating a rule under this subsection as an emergency rule is necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health, safety, or welfare and is not required to provide a finding of emergency for a rule promulgated under this subsection. Notwithstanding s. 227.24 (1) (e) 1d. and 1g., for emergency rules promulgated under this subsection, the department is not required to prepare a statement of scope of the rules or to submit the proposed rules in final draft form to the governor for approval.

AB68-SSA1,1609,19 (4) Emergency rules for PFAS in drinking water, groundwater, surface water, solid waste, beds of navigable waters, and contaminated soil and sediment.

AB68-SSA1,1609,25 (a) The department of natural resources shall promulgate emergency rules under s. 227.24 establishing acceptable levels and standards, performance standards, monitoring requirements, and required response actions for any perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance or group or class of such substances that the department determines may be harmful to human health or the environment in the following:

AB68-SSA1,1610,1 1. Drinking water under s. 281.17 (8).

AB68-SSA1,1610,2 2. Groundwater under ss. 160.07 (5) and 160.15.

AB68-SSA1,1610,4 3. Surface water from point sources under ss. 283.11 (4) and 283.21 and from nonpoint sources under s. 281.16.

AB68-SSA1,1610,6 4. Air under s. 285.27 (2) (bm), if the standards are needed to provide adequate protection for public health or welfare.

AB68-SSA1,1610,7 5. Solid waste and solid waste facilities under chs. 289 and 291.

AB68-SSA1,1610,8 6. Beds of navigable waters under s. 30.20.

AB68-SSA1,1610,9 7. Soil and sediment under chs. 289 and 292.

AB68-SSA1,1610,11 (b) The department of natural resources shall promulgate emergency rules under s. 227.24 to do all of the following:

AB68-SSA1,1610,15 1. Add any perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance or group or class of such substances that the department determines may be harmful to human health or the environment to the list of toxic pollutants under s. 283.21 (1) (a) for purposes of setting toxic effluent standards or prohibitions under s. 283.11 (4).

AB68-SSA1,1610,19 2. Add to the list of hazardous constituents under s. 291.05 (4) any perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance or group or class of such substances for which the department determines that the listing is necessary to protect public health, safety, or welfare.

AB68-SSA1,1610,21 3. Administer and enforce ch. 292 in relation to remedial actions involving perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances or a group or class of such substances.

AB68-SSA1,1611,2 (c) Notwithstanding any finding required under par. (a) or (b), emergency rules promulgated under pars. (a) and (b) shall include, at a minimum, perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, perfluorooctanoic acid, perfluorohexane sulfonic acid, perfluorononanoic acid, and perfluorobutane sulfonic acid and shall include provisions for enforcing these standards, including requiring sampling, monitoring, testing, and response actions.

AB68-SSA1,1611,9 (d) Notwithstanding s. 227.24 (1) (c) and (2), emergency rules promulgated under pars. (a) and (b) remain in effect until July 1, 2022, or the date on which permanent rules take effect, whichever is sooner. Notwithstanding s. 227.24 (1) (a) and (3), the department of natural resources is not required to provide evidence that promulgating a rule under this subsection as an emergency rule is necessary for the preservation of public peace, health, safety, or welfare and is not required to provide a finding of emergency for a rule promulgated under this subsection.

AB68-SSA1,1611,16 (5) Water quality standards for PFAS. The department of natural resources shall promulgate, under s. 281.15, water quality standards for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, perfluorooctanoic acid, perfluorohexane sulfonic acid, perfluorononanoic acid, and perfluorobutane sulfonic acid and any other perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance or group or class of such substances that the department determines may be harmful to human health and necessary to protect a water's designated use.

AB68-SSA1,1611,22 (6) List of groundwater contaminants. The department of natural resources shall add to the list of groundwater contaminants under s. 160.05 any perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substance or group or class of such substances that is shown to involve public health concerns and that has a reasonable probability of entering the groundwater and shall categorize and rank those substances according to the provisions of s. 160.05.

AB68-SSA1,1611,23 (7) Testing laboratories; emergency rules.

AB68-SSA1,1612,9 (a) The department of natural resources shall promulgate emergency rules under s. 227.24 establishing criteria for certifying laboratories to test for any perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances, including the standards and methods for such testing, and shall certify laboratories that meet these criteria. Notwithstanding s. 227.24 (1) (c) and (2), emergency rules promulgated under this subsection remain in effect until July 1, 2022, or the date on which permanent rules take effect, whichever is sooner. Notwithstanding s. 227.24 (1) (a) and (3), the department of natural resources is not required to provide evidence that promulgating a rule under this subsection as an emergency rule is necessary for the preservation of public peace, health, safety, or welfare and is not required to provide a finding of emergency for a rule promulgated under this subsection.

AB68-SSA1,1612,12 (b) Before emergency rules are promulgated under par. (a), the department of natural resources may require testing for a perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance to be done according to any nationally recognized procedures.

AB68-SSA1,1612,17 (8) Municipal flood control aid. Notwithstanding eligibility requirements for receiving aid or limitations on the amount and use of aid provided under s. 281.665, from the appropriation under s. 20.370 (6) (dq), the department of natural resources shall award $1,000,000 in fiscal year 2021-22 and $1,000,000 in fiscal year 2022-23 for the preparation of flood insurance studies and other flood mapping projects.

AB68-SSA1,1613,4 (9) Emergency rules for fire fighting foam. The department of natural resources may use the procedure under s. 227.24 to promulgate emergency rules relating to the collection and disposal of fire fighting foams that contain perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Notwithstanding s. 227.24 (1) (a) and (3), when promulgating emergency rules under this subsection, the department is not required to provide evidence that promulgating a rule under this subsection as an emergency rule is necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health, safety, or welfare and is not required to provide a finding of emergency for a rule promulgated under this subsection. Notwithstanding s. 227.24 (1) (e) 1d. and 1g., for emergency rules promulgated under this subsection, the department is not required to prepare a statement of scope of the rules or to submit the proposed rules in final draft form to the governor for approval.

AB68-SSA1,1613,8 (10) Land conservation and recreation grants. From the appropriation under s. 20.370 (1) (ma), in fiscal year 2021-22 the department of natural resources shall fund all of the following conservation and recreational projects in the following amounts:

AB68-SSA1,1613,10 (a) A grant to West Wisconsin Land Trust to acquire land in the town of Peru in the county of Dunn, $706,045.

AB68-SSA1,1613,12 (b) A grant to West Wisconsin Land Trust to acquire land in the town of Maxville in the county of Buffalo, $460,545.

AB68-SSA1,1613,13 (c) A grant to the city of Milwaukee to redevelop Modrzejewski Park, $773,910.

AB68-SSA1,1613,14 (d) A grant to the city of Ashland to redevelop Kreher Park, $601,000.

AB68-SSA1,1613,16 (e) Department of natural resources' acquisition of land for the Jefferson Marsh Wildlife Area, $325,000.

AB68-SSA1,1613,18 (f) A grant to Jefferson County to develop an interurban recreation trail between Watertown and Oconomowoc, $655,252.

AB68-SSA1,1613,19 (g) A grant to the city of West Bend to develop the Riverwalk South, $617,208.

AB68-SSA1,1613,21 (h) A grant to the village of Sister Bay to acquire land on the bay of Green Bay, $785,185.

AB68-SSA1,1613,23 (i) A grant to the village of Egg Harbor to acquire land on the bay of Green Bay, $470,250.

AB68-SSA1,9133 Section 9133. Nonstatutory provisions; Public Defender Board.

AB68-SSA1,1614,6 (1) Assistant state public defender merit-based pay raises. Notwithstanding s. 230.12 (11) (c), from the appropriation under s. 20.550 (1) (a), the public defender board may provide merit-based pay raises under the assistant state public defender pay progression plan under s. 230.12 (11) to increase the base pay of assistant public defenders who were employed by the public defender board before July 1, 2021, in fiscal year 2022.

AB68-SSA1,9134 Section 9134. Nonstatutory provisions; Public Instruction.

AB68-SSA1,1614,11 (1) Special adjustment aid in the 2021-22 school year. Notwithstanding s. 121.105 (2), in the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years, the department of public instruction shall calculate the aid adjustment under s. 121.105 using 90 percent instead of 85 percent in s. 121.105 (2) (am) 1. and 2.

AB68-SSA1,1614,19 (2) Per pupil aid; additional aid for economically disadvantaged pupils. Notwithstanding s. 115.437 (2) (a) 2., in the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years, for purposes of the calculation under s. 115.437 (2) (a) 2., the department of public instruction shall multiply the number of pupils enrolled in a school district by the school district's rate of economically disadvantaged pupils, as defined in s. 115.437 (1) (d), in the 2019-20 school year instead of by the school district's rate of economically disadvantaged pupils, as defined in s. 115.437 (1) (d), in the previous school year.

AB68-SSA1,1614,25 (3) Parental choice programs; transferring applicants between programs; rule-making. The department of public instruction may promulgate emergency rules under s. 227.24 to implement the pupil counting exceptions specified under ss. 118.60 (11) (e) and 119.23 (11) (e). Notwithstanding s. 227.24 (1) (c) and (2), emergency rules promulgated under this section remain in effect until July 1, 2024, or the date on which permanent rules take effect, whichever is sooner.

AB68-SSA1,1615,4 (4) Secondary guarantee. Notwithstanding s. 121.07 (7) (b), for the purpose of setting the secondary guaranteed valuation per member in the 2021-22 school year, the department of public instruction shall treat the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (ac) as if $75,000,000 less had been appropriated for that year.

AB68-SSA1,9135 Section 9135. Nonstatutory provisions; Public Lands, Board of Commissioners of.

AB68-SSA1,9136 Section 9136. Nonstatutory provisions; Public Service Commission.

AB68-SSA1,9137 Section 9137. Nonstatutory provisions; Revenue.

AB68-SSA1,1615,13 (1) Community health centers. Notwithstanding s. 70.11 (intro.), an owner of property that is exempt from taxation under s. 70.11 (4) (a) 1m. may claim the exemption for the assessment as of January 1, 2022, if the property owner files the form described under s. 70.11 (intro.) with the assessor of the taxation district no later than 30 days after the effective date of this subsection.

AB68-SSA1,9138 Section 9138. Nonstatutory provisions; Safety and Professional Services.

AB68-SSA1,1615,16 (1) Dental therapist licensure.

AB68-SSA1,1615,20 (a) When the first individual becomes licensed as a dental therapist in this state under s. 447.04 (1m), the dentistry examining board shall send a notice to the legislative reference bureau for publication in the Wisconsin Administrative Register.

AB68-SSA1,1615,21 (b)

AB68-SSA1,1616,5 1. The dentistry examining board shall promulgate emergency rules under s. 227.24 that are necessary to implement the licensure of dental therapists under this act. Notwithstanding s. 227.24 (1) (c) and (2), emergency rules promulgated under this subdivision remain in effect for 2 years, or until the date on which permanent rules take effect, whichever is sooner. Notwithstanding s. 227.24 (1) (a) and (3), the board is not required to provide evidence that promulgating a rule under this subdivision as an emergency rule is necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health, safety, or welfare and is not required to provide a finding of emergency for a rule promulgated under this subdivision.

AB68-SSA1,1616,12 2. The dentistry examining board shall present a statement of scope for permanent and emergency rules required to implement the licensure of dental therapists under this act to the department of administration under s. 227.135 (2) no later than the 30th day after the effective date of this subdivision. Notwithstanding s. 227.135 (2), if the governor does not disapprove the statement of scope by the 30th day after the statement is presented to the department of administration, the statement is considered to be approved by the governor.