Amendment SSA1-AB68

AB68-SSA1,168 Section 168 . 16.969 (2) of the statutes is renumbered 196.492 (2), and 196.492 (2) (intro.), as renumbered, is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,77,10 196.492 (2) (intro.) The department commission shall promulgate rules that require a person who is issued a certificate of public convenience and necessity by the commission under s. 196.491 (3) for a high-voltage transmission line to pay the department commission the following fees:

AB68-SSA1,169 Section 169 . 16.969 (3) of the statutes is renumbered 196.492 (3), and 196.492 (3) (a) and (b) 1. and 2., as renumbered, are amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,77,17 196.492 (3) (a) The department commission shall distribute the fees that are paid by a person under the rules promulgated under sub. (2) (a) to each town, village and city that is identified by the commission under s. 196.491 (3) (gm) in proportion to the amount of investment that is allocated by the commission under s. 196.491 (3) (gm) to each such town, village and city.

AB68-SSA1,77,21 (b) 1. The department commission shall pay 50 percent of the fee to each county that is identified by the commission under s. 196.491 (3) (gm) in proportion to the amount of investment that is allocated by the commission under s. 196.491 (3) (gm) to each such county.

AB68-SSA1,77,25 2. The department commission shall pay 50 percent of the fee to each town, village and city that is identified by the commission under s. 196.491 (3) (gm) in proportion to the amount of investment that is allocated by the commission under s. 196.491 (3) (gm) to each such town, village and city.

AB68-SSA1,170 Section 170. 16.969 (4) of the statutes is renumbered 196.492 (4).

AB68-SSA1,171 Section 171. 16.971 (2) (o) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SSA1,78,5 16.971 (2) (o) Assist the elections commission with information technology systems development for purposes of facilitating the registration of eligible electors under s. 6.256.

AB68-SSA1,172 Section 172. 16.978 of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SSA1,78,8 16.978 Enterprise data management and analytics. (1) In this section, “office” means the office of digital transformation.

AB68-SSA1,78,11 (2) The office may establish an enterprise data management and analytics program to gather, combine, and analyze data provided by one or more agencies to do any of the following:

AB68-SSA1,78,12 (a) Evaluate the outcomes of state-funded programs.

AB68-SSA1,78,14 (b) Develop and implement policies and strategies that promote the effective, efficient, and best use of state resources.

AB68-SSA1,78,16 (c) Identify, prevent, or eliminate the fraudulent use of state funds, resources, and programs.

AB68-SSA1,78,19 (3) (a) At the office's request, an agency shall provide data for use under the program. Each agency that provides data under the program shall comply with the data-sharing protocols established under sub. (4).

AB68-SSA1,78,22 (b) An agency's provision of data to the office under par. (a) is considered a permitted use of the data for all purposes and may not be construed as a violation of law.

AB68-SSA1,79,2 (c) An agency that provides data to the office under par. (a) remains the custodian of the data while it is in the custody of the office, and access to the data by that agency or any other person shall be determined by that agency in accordance with applicable law.

AB68-SSA1,79,7 (d) 1. All confidential data an agency provides to the office under par. (a) remains confidential while in the custody of the office, and the same requirements that apply to the agency and its agents or employees with respect to the confidentiality of the data apply equally to the office and its agents or employees, including penalties for breach of confidentiality.

AB68-SSA1,79,14 2. The office shall compare the results of any data analysis conducted with respect to confidential data against the confidentiality laws applicable to the source data to determine if the results retain any attributes of the source data that bring the results within the scope of any confidentiality requirement that applies to the source data. If so, the results are subject to all applicable confidentiality requirements, and, in the event of a conflict between applicable confidentiality requirements, the most stringent of those requirements shall control.

AB68-SSA1,79,18 (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-SSA1,79,20 (a) How participating agencies may use confidential data in accordance with confidentiality laws applicable to the data provided.

AB68-SSA1,79,21 (b) Who has authority to access data gathered under the program.

AB68-SSA1,79,23 (c) How participating agencies shall make, verify, and retain corrections to personally identifying information gathered under the program.

AB68-SSA1,173 Section 173. 16.99 (3b) of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:

AB68-SSA1,80,3 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-SSA1,174 Section 174. 16.9945 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,80,19 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-SSA1,175 Section 175. 16.9945 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,80,25 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-SSA1,176 Section 176. 16.9945 (2m) (a) 1m. of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SSA1,81,3 16.9945 (2m) (a) 1m. “Rural territory” means any territory located outside of urban areas.

AB68-SSA1,177 Section 177. 16.9945 (2m) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,178 Section 178. 16.9945 (2m) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,81,8 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-SSA1,179 Section 179. 16.9945 (2m) (b) (intro.) of the statutes is renumbered 16.9945 (2m) (b) and amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,81,16 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-SSA1,180 Section 180. 16.9945 (2m) (b) 1. to 3. of the statutes are repealed.

AB68-SSA1,181 Section 181. 16.9945 (3m) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,81,21 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-SSA1,182 Section 182. 16.9945 (3m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,81,25 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-SSA1,183 Section 183. 16.9945 (3m) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,82,4 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-SSA1,184 Section 184. 16.9945 (4) of the statutes is renumbered 16.9945 (4) (a) and amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,82,9 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-SSA1,185 Section 185. 16.9945 (4) (b) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SSA1,82,14 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-SSA1,186 Section 186. 16.9945 (4m) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SSA1,82,18 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-SSA1,187 Section 187. 16.9945 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,82,21 16.9945 (5) Sunset. The department may not award grants under this section after June 30, 2021 2025.

AB68-SSA1,188 Section 188. 16.995 (2) of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,189 Section 189. 16.997 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,83,5 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-SSA1,190 Section 190. 16.997 (2) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,83,11 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-SSA1,191 Section 191. 16.997 (2) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,83,16 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-SSA1,192 Section 192. 16.997 (2g) of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,193 Section 193. 16.997 (2r) of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,194 Section 194 . 17.18 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,83,23 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-SSA1,195 Section 195. 18.04 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,84,5 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-SSA1,196 Section 196. 18.08 (1) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,84,11 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-SSA1,197 Section 197. 18.08 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,84,16 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-SSA1,198 Section 198. 18.08 (1m) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 18.08 (1m) (am) and amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,84,23 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-SSA1,199 Section 199. 18.08 (1m) (ag) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SSA1,85,4 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-SSA1,200 Section 200. 18.08 (1m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,85,10 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-SSA1,201 Section 201. 18.08 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,85,18 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-SSA1,202 Section 202. 18.16 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,85,22 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-SSA1,203 Section 203. 18.16 (1) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 18.16 (1) (ah).

AB68-SSA1,204 Section 204. 18.16 (1) (ae) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SSA1,86,2 18.16 (1) (ae) “Disability-owned financial adviser" means a financial adviser certified by the department of administration under s. 16.289 (3).

AB68-SSA1,205 Section 205. 18.16 (1) (af) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SSA1,86,5 18.16 (1) (af) “Disability-owned investment firm" means an investment firm certified by the department of administration under s. 16.289 (3).

AB68-SSA1,206 Section 206. 18.16 (1) (br) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SSA1,86,9 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-SSA1,207 Section 207. 18.16 (1) (bs) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SSA1,86,13 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-SSA1,208 Section 208. 18.16 (2) (c) of the statutes is created to read: