Amendment SA5-SSA2-SB45

SB45-SSA2-SA5,62,3 1. Expenditures related to annexation or service consolidation.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,62,4 2. Unreimbursed emergency expenditures.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,62,7 (3) (a) Beginning in 2026, each political subdivision that is eligible under sub. (2) on the basis of its property tax levy imposed in the immediately preceding December shall receive a payment calculated as follows:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,62,9 1. Multiply the political subdivision’s property tax levy for the year of the payment by 0.03.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,62,11 2. If the political subdivision received a payment under this subsection in the immediately preceding year, multiply the amount of the payment by 1.03.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,62,12 3. Add the amounts determined under subds. 1. and 2.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,62,15 (b) For purposes of calculating the amount of a payment under par. (a), a political subdivision’s property tax levy excludes all expenditures excluded under sub. (2) (b).

SB45-SSA2-SA5,62,19 (c) The department of revenue shall certify the amount of the payment due each taxing jurisdiction under par. (a) to the department of administration, and the department of administration shall make the payment on or before the first Monday in May.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,62,21 (4) The department of revenue may promulgate rules to implement this section.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,106 Section 106. 84.01 (35) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,63,4 84.01 (35) (b) Except as provided in par. (d) (c), and notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or ch. 82, 83, or 85, the department shall give due consideration to establishing ensure that bikeways and pedestrian ways are established in all new highway construction and reconstruction projects funded in whole or in part from state funds or federal funds appropriated under s. 20.395 or 20.866.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,107 Section 107. 84.01 (35) (c) of the statutes is created to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,63,8 84.01 (35) (c) The department shall promulgate rules identifying exceptions to the requirement under par. (b), but these rules may provide for an exception only if any of the following applies:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,63,16 2. The cost of establishing bikeways or pedestrian ways would be excessively disproportionate to the need or probable use of the bikeways or pedestrian ways. For purposes of this subdivision, cost is excessively disproportionate if it exceeds 20 percent of the total project cost. The rules may not allow an exception under this subdivision to be applied unless the secretary of transportation, or a designee of the secretary who has knowledge of the purpose and value of bicycle and pedestrian accommodations, reviews the applicability of the exception under this subdivision to the particular project at issue.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,63,18 3. Establishing bikeways or pedestrian ways would have excessive negative impacts in a constrained environment.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,63,20 4. There is an absence of need for the bikeways or pedestrian ways, as indicated by sparsity of population, traffic volume, or other factors.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,63,22 5. The community where pedestrian ways are to be located refuses to accept an agreement to maintain them.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,108 Section 108. 84.01 (35) (d) (intro.) and 2. of the statutes are repealed.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,109 Section 109. 84.01 (35) (d) 1. of the statutes is renumbered 84.01 (35) (c) 1.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,110 Section 110. 85.064 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,64,10 85.064 (1) (b) “Political subdivision” means any city, village, town, county, or transit commission organized under s. 59.58 (2) or 66.1021 or recognized under s. 66.0301, or transit authority created under s. 66.1039 within this state.

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SB45-SSA2-SA5,111 Section 111. 85.09 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,65,19 85.09 (2) (a) The department of transportation shall have the first right to acquire, for present or future transportational or recreational purposes, any property used in operating a railroad or railway, including land and rails, ties, switches, trestles, bridges, and the like located on that property, that has been abandoned. The department of transportation may, in connection with abandoned rail property, assign this right to a state agency, the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin System, any county or municipality, or any transit commission. Acquisition by the department of transportation may be by gift, purchase, or condemnation in accordance with the procedure under s. 32.05, except that the power of condemnation may not be used to acquire property for the purpose of establishing or extending a recreational trail; a bicycle way, as defined in s. 340.01 (5s); a bicycle lane, as defined in s. 340.01 (5e); or a pedestrian way, as defined in s. 346.02 (8) (a). In addition to its property management authority under s. 85.15, the department of transportation may, subject to any prior action under s. 13.48 (14) (am) or 16.848 (1), lease and collect rents and fees for any use of rail property pending discharge of the department’s duty to convey property that is not necessary for a public purpose. No person owning abandoned rail property, including any person to whom ownership reverts upon abandonment, may convey or dispose of any abandoned rail property without first obtaining a written release from the department of transportation indicating that the first right of acquisition under this subsection will not be exercised or assigned. No railroad or railway may convey any rail property prior to abandonment if the rail property is part of a rail line shown on the railroad’s system map as in the process of abandonment, expected to be abandoned, or under study for possible abandonment unless the conveyance or disposal is for the purpose of providing continued rail service under another company or agency. Any conveyance made without obtaining such release is void. The first right of acquisition of the department of transportation under this subsection does not apply to any rail property declared by the department to be abandoned before January 1, 1977. The department of transportation may acquire any abandoned rail property under this section regardless of the date of its abandonment.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,112 Section 112. 104.001 of the statutes is repealed.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,113 Section 113. 104.01 (1g) of the statutes is created to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,66,2 104.01 (1g) “Consumer price index” means the average of the consumer price index over each 12-month period for all urban consumers, U.S. city average, all items, not seasonally adjusted, as determined by the bureau of labor statistics of the U.S. department of labor.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,114 Section 114. 104.01 (5g) of the statutes is repealed.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,115 Section 115. 104.01 (7m) of the statutes is repealed.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,116 Section 116. 104.035 of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,66,7 104.035 Minimum wage; established. (1) Employees generally. Except as provided in subs. (2) and (3), the minimum wage is $15 per hour.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,66,9 (2) Minimum wage established by department. The department shall promulgate rules establishing the minimum wage for all of the following:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,66,10 (a) Opportunity employees.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,66,11 (b) Agricultural employees.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,66,12 (c) Camp counselors.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,66,13 (d) Golf caddies.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,66,15 (e) An employee or worker with a disability covered under a license under s. 104.07.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,66,16 (f) A student learner.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,66,18 (g) A student employed by an independent college or university for less than 20 hours per week.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,66,21 (3) Employment exempted by department. The department shall promulgate rules exempting from the minimum wage requirements under subs. (1) and (2) all of the following:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,66,23 (a) A person engaged in casual employment in and around an employer’s home on an irregular or intermittent basis for not more than 15 hours per week.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,67,4 (b) A person who resides in the home of an employer who, due to advanced age or physical or mental disability, cannot care for his or her own needs for the purpose of companionship and who spends not more than 15 hours per week on general household work for the employer.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,67,6 (c) An elementary or secondary school student performing student work-like activities in the student’s school.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,67,18 (4) Department to revise. (a) Subject to par. (b), by the first day of the 12th month following the effective date of this paragraph .... [LRB inserts date], and annually thereafter, the department shall revise the minimum wage under sub. (1) by calculating the percentage difference between the consumer price index for the 12-month period ending on the last day of the last month for which that information is available and the consumer price index for the 12-month period ending on the last day of the month that is 12 months prior to that month, adjusting the minimum wage then in effect by that percentage difference, and rounding that result to the nearest multiple of 5 cents. The department shall annually send a notice of the revised amount to the legislative reference bureau for publication in the Wisconsin Administrative Register and shall annually publish the revised amount on the department’s website.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,67,22 (b) Paragraph (a) does not apply if the consumer price index for the 12-month period ending on the last day of the last month for which that information is available has not increased over the consumer price index for the 12-month period ending on the last day of the month that is 12 months prior to that month.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,68,2 (5) Gender-specific minimum wage prohibited. The department may not establish a different minimum wage for men and women.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,117 Section 117. 104.045 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,68,4 104.045 (title) Tips, meals, Meals, lodging, and hours worked.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,118 Section 118. 104.045 (1) of the statutes is repealed.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,119 Section 119. 108.02 (26m) of the statutes is repealed.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,120 Section 120. 108.04 (3) of the statutes is repealed.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,121 Section 121. 108.04 (11) (bm) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,68,17 108.04 (11) (bm) The department shall apply any ineligibility under par. (be) against benefits and weeks of eligibility for which the claimant would otherwise be eligible after the week of concealment and within 6 years after the date of an initial determination issued under s. 108.09 finding that a concealment occurred. The claimant shall not receive waiting period credit under sub. (3) for the period of ineligibility applied under par. (be). If no benefit rate applies to the week for which the claim is made, the department shall use the claimant’s benefit rate for the claimant’s next benefit year beginning after the week of concealment to determine the amount of the benefit reduction.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,122 Section 122. 115.28 (69) of the statutes is created to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,68,21 115.28 (69) Mentor Greater Milwaukee. From the appropriation under s. 20.255 (3) (fw), award grants to Mentor Greater Milwaukee, Inc., to expand access to quality youth mentoring in Milwaukee County.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,123 Section 123. 196.504 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,69,4 196.504 (2) (a) To make broadband expansion grants to eligible applicants for the purpose of constructing broadband infrastructure in unserved areas designated under par. (e). Grants awarded under this section shall be paid from the appropriations under ss. 20.155 (3) (a), (r), and (rm) and 20.866 (2) (z), in the amount allocated under s. 20.866 (2) (z) 5.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,124 Section 124. 227.01 (13) (Lw) of the statutes is created to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,69,6 227.01 (13) (Lw) Adjusts the minimum wage under s. 104.035 (4).

SB45-SSA2-SA5,1 Section 1. 234.45 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,69,15 234.45 (4) Allocation limits. In any calendar year, the aggregate amount of all state tax credits for which the authority certifies persons in allocation certificates issued under sub. (3) in that year may not exceed $42,000,000 $100,000,000, including all amounts each person is eligible to claim for each year of the credit period, plus the total amount of all unallocated state tax credits from previous calendar years and plus the total amount of all previously allocated state tax credits that have been revoked or cancelled or otherwise recovered by the authority.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,125 Section 125. 234.66 (1) (b) of the statutes is renumbered 234.66 (1) (b) (intro.) and amended to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,69,19 234.66 (1) (b) (intro.) “Developer” means a person other than a governmental unit that constructs or creates residential housing. and that is any of the following:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,126 Section 126. 234.66 (1) (b) 1. of the statutes is created to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,69,21 234.66 (1) (b) 1. A person other than a governmental unit.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,127 Section 127. 234.66 (1) (b) 2. of the statutes is created to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,69,23 234.66 (1) (b) 2. A tribal housing authority created by a tribal council.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,128 Section 128. 234.66 (1) (cm) of the statutes is created to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,70,2 234.66 (1) (cm) “Governmental unit” means a city, village, town, county, or federally recognized American Indian tribe or band in this state.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,129 Section 129. 234.66 (1) (e) 2. of the statutes is created to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,70,6 234.66 (1) (e) 2. The housing is not subject to taxation under ch. 70 because it is designated as reservation lands, as defined in s. 165.92 (1) (a), or as trust lands, as defined in s. 165.92 (1) (d).

SB45-SSA2-SA5,130 Section 130. 234.66 (1) (g) (intro.) and 1. of the statutes are consolidated, renumbered 234.66 (1) (g) and amended to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,70,13 234.66 (1) (g) “Residential housing” means new single-family or multifamily housing for rent or sale that satisfies all of the following: 1. Is is subject to taxation under ch. 70 or is not subject to taxation under ch. 70 because it is designated as reservation lands, as defined in s. 165.92 (1) (a), or trust lands, as defined in s. 165.92 (1) (d).

SB45-SSA2-SA5,131 Section 131. 234.66 (1) (g) 2. of the statutes is repealed.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,132 Section 132. 234.66 (1) (g) 3. of the statutes is repealed.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,133 Section 133. 234.66 (4) (a) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,71,7 234.66 (4) (a) 5. The eligible governmental unit has reduced the cost of residential housing in connection with the eligible project by voluntarily revising zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations, or other land development regulations to increase development density, expedite approvals, reduce impact, water connection, and inspection fees, or reduce parking, building, or other development costs with respect to the development of residential housing supported by the project. For purposes of this subdivision, the governmental unit in cooperation with the developer shall submit to the authority a cost reduction analysis in a form prescribed by the authority and signed by the developer and the head of the governmental unit’s governing body that shows the cost reduction measures, including time saving measures, undertaken by the governmental unit on or after January 1, 2023 2015, that have reduced the cost of residential housing in connection with the eligible project. The signed analysis shall clearly show for each time saving or cost reduction measure the estimated time or dollar amount saved by the developer and the estimated percentage reduction in housing costs.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,134 Section 134. 234.66 (4) (a) 7. of the statutes is repealed.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,135 Section 135. 234.66 (4) (c) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,71,12 234.66 (4) (c) 2. No loan awarded under this subsection may exceed 20 33 percent of the total cost of development, including land purchase, of the residential housing supported by the eligible project.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,136 Section 136. 234.66 (4) (cm) of the statutes is created to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,71,17 234.66 (4) (cm) The developer may use up to 25 percent of loan moneys for private infrastructure that is not and will not be owned, maintained, or provided to or by a governmental unit and is not in a rural area and transferred to public use but that otherwise meets the definition of housing infrastructure under sub. (1) (e).

SB45-SSA2-SA5,137 Section 137. 234.66 (5) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,71,21 234.66 (5) (c) No loan awarded under this subsection may exceed 10 25 percent of the amount of the total cost of development of the residential housing supported by the eligible project.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,138 Section 138. 234.661 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45-SSA2-SA5,72,2 234.661 (1) (b) “Eligible political subdivision” governmental unit” means the city, village, town, or county governmental unit having jurisdiction over an eligible project, as determined by the authority.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,139 Section 139. 234.661 (1) (c) 5. of the statutes is repealed.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,140 Section 140. 234.661 (1) (c) 6. of the statutes is repealed.

SB45-SSA2-SA5,141 Section 141. 234.661 (1) (e) of the statutes is renumbered 234.661 (1) (e) (intro.) and amended to read: