AB68: Bill Text

AB68,223,3 13.48 (26) Environmental improvement annual finance plan approval. The building commission shall review the versions of the biennial finance plan and any amendments to the biennial finance plan submitted to it by the department of natural resources and the department of administration under s. 281.59 (3) (bm) and the recommendations of the joint committee on finance and the standing committees to which the versions of the biennial finance plan and any amendments were submitted under s. 281.59 (3) (bm). The building commission shall consider the extent to which that version of the biennial finance plan that is updated to reflect the adopted biennial budget act will maintain the funding for the clean water fund program and the safe drinking water loan program, in the environmental improvement fund, in perpetuity. The building commission shall consider the extent to which the implementation of the clean water fund program, and the safe drinking water loan program and the land recycling loan program, as set forth in the biennial finance plan updated to reflect the adopted biennial budget act, implements legislative intent on the clean water fund program, and the safe drinking water loan program and the land recycling loan program. The building commission shall, no later than 60 days after the date of enactment of the biennial budget act, either approve or disapprove the biennial finance plan that is updated to reflect the adopted biennial budget act. If the building commission disapproves the version of the biennial finance plan that is updated to reflect the adopted biennial budget act, it must notify the department of natural resources and the department of administration of its reasons for disapproving the plan, and those departments must revise that version of the biennial finance plan and submit the revision to the building commission.

AB68,48 Section 48 . 13.48 (26m) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,223,10 13.48 (26m) Lead service line replacement. The legislature finds and determines that the prevalence of lead service lines in connections to public water systems poses a public health hazard and that processes for reducing lead entering drinking water from such pipes requires additional treatment of wastewater. It is therefore in the public interest, and it is the public policy of this state, to assist private users of public water systems in replacing lead service lines.

AB68,49 Section 49 . 13.56 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,223,20 13.56 (2) Participation in certain proceedings. The cochairpersons of the joint committee for review of administrative rules or their designated agents shall accept service made under ss. 227.40 (5) and 806.04 (11). If the committee determines that the legislature should be represented in the proceeding, it shall request the joint committee on legislative organization to intervene in designate the legislature's representative for the proceeding as provided under s. 806.04 (11). The costs of participation in the proceeding shall be paid equally from the appropriations under s. 20.765 (1) (a) and (b), except that such costs incurred by the department of justice shall be paid from the appropriation under s. 20.455 (1) (d).

AB68,50 Section 50. 13.75 (1g) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,223,22 13.75 (1g) (b) Filing the principal registration form under s. 13.64, $375 $430.

AB68,51 Section 51. 13.75 (1g) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,223,24 13.75 (1g) (d) Filing an authorization statement under s. 13.65, $125 $180.

AB68,52 Section 52 . 13.90 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,224,11 13.90 (2) The cochairpersons of the joint committee on legislative organization or their designated agent shall accept service made under ss. s. 806.04 (11) and 893.825 (2). If the committee, the senate organization committee, or the assembly organization committee determines that the legislature should intervene be represented in the proceeding as provided under s. 803.09 (2m), the assembly shall represent the assembly, the senate shall represent the senate, and the joint committee on legislative organization shall represent the legislature , that committee shall designate the legislature's representative for the proceeding. The costs of participation in the proceeding shall be paid equally from the appropriations under s. 20.765 (1) (a) and (b), except that such costs incurred by the department of justice shall be paid from the appropriation under s. 20.455 (1) (d).

AB68,53 Section 53. 13.94 (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,225,4 13.94 Legislative audit bureau. (intro.) There is created a bureau to be known as the “Legislative Audit Bureau," headed by a chief known as the “State Auditor." The bureau shall be strictly nonpartisan and shall at all times observe the confidential nature of any audit currently being performed. Subject to s. 230.35 (4) (a) and (f), the state auditor or designated employees shall at all times with or without notice have access to all departments and to any books, records , or other documents maintained by the departments and relating to their expenditures, revenues, operations, and structure, including specifically any such books, records, or other documents that are confidential by law, except as provided in sub. (4) and except that access to documents of counties, cities, villages, towns , or school districts is limited to work performed in connection with audits authorized under sub. (1) (m) and except that access to documents of the opportunity schools and partnership programs under s. 119.33, subch. IX of ch. 115, and subch. II of ch. 119 is limited to work performed in connection with audits authorized under sub. (1) (os). In the discharge of any duty imposed by law, the state auditor may subpoena witnesses, administer oaths and take testimony and cause the deposition of witnesses to be taken as prescribed for taking depositions in civil actions in circuit courts.

AB68,54 Section 54. 13.94 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,225,19 13.94 (1) (b) At the state auditor's discretion or as the joint legislative audit committee directs, audit the records of each department. Audits of the records of a county, city, village, town, or school district may be performed only as provided in par. (m). Audits of the records of the opportunity schools and partnership programs under s. 119.33, subch. IX of ch. 115, and subch. II of ch. 119 may be performed only as provided in par. (os). After completion of any audit under this paragraph, the bureau shall file with the chief clerk of each house of the legislature, the governor, the department of administration, the legislative reference bureau, the joint committee on finance, the legislative fiscal bureau, and the department audited, a detailed report of the audit, including the bureau's recommendations for improvement and efficiency and including specific instances, if any, of illegal or improper expenditures. The chief clerks shall distribute the report to the joint legislative audit committee, the appropriate standing committees of the legislature, and the joint committee on legislative organization.

AB68,55 Section 55. 13.94 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,226,2 13.94 (1) (e) Make such special examinations of the accounts and financial transactions of any department, agency, or officer as the legislature, joint legislative audit committee, or joint committee on legislative organization directs. Examinations of the accounts and transactions of a county, city, village, town, or, subject to par. (os), of a school district, may be performed only as authorized in par. (m).

AB68,56 Section 56. 13.94 (1) (os) of the statutes is repealed.

AB68,57 Section 57. 13.94 (1s) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,226,10 13.94 (1s) (a) Except as otherwise provided in par. (c), the legislative audit bureau may charge any department for the reasonable cost of auditing services performed at the request of a department or at the request of the federal government that the bureau is not required to perform under sub. (1) (b) or (c) or any other law. This paragraph does not apply to counties, cities, villages, towns, or school districts or to the opportunity schools and partnership programs under sub. (1) (os).

AB68,58 Section 58 . 14.46 of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,226,17 14.46 Assistant secretary of state. The secretary of state may appoint an assistant secretary of state who may perform and execute any duty or power of the secretary of state, except duties and powers the secretary of state performs as a member of the board of commissioners of public lands. The assistant secretary of state shall take and file the official oath and shall file an official bond in the sum and with the conditions as the secretary of state prescribes.

AB68,59 Section 59. 15.01 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,227,5 15.01 (6) “Division," “bureau," “section," and “unit" means the subunits of a department or an independent agency, whether specifically created by law or created by the head of the department or the independent agency for the more economic and efficient administration and operation of the programs assigned to the department or independent agency. The office of credit unions and the office of the student loan ombudsman in the department of financial institutions, the office of the inspector general in the department of children and families, the office of the inspector general in the department of health services, and the office of children's mental health in the department of health services have the meaning of “division" under this subsection. The office of the long-term care ombudsman under the board on aging and long-term care and the office of educational accountability in the department of public instruction have the meaning of “bureau" under this subsection.

AB68,60 Section 60. 15.02 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,227,10 15.02 (1) Separate constitutional offices. The governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, and state treasurer each head a staff to be termed the “office" of the respective constitutional officer. Each of those offices shall be attached to the department of administration under s. 15.03.

AB68,61 Section 61. 15.02 (3) (c) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,227,19 15.02 (3) (c) 1. The principal subunit of the department is the “division". Each division shall be headed by an “administrator". The office of credit unions and the office of the student loan ombudsman in the department of financial institutions and the office of children's mental health in the department of health services have the meaning of “division" and the director of credit unions in the department of financial institutions and the director of the office of children's mental health in the department of health services have the meaning of “administrator" under this subdivision.

AB68,62 Section 62. 15.03 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,228,11 15.03 Attachment for limited purposes. Any division, office, commission, council, or board attached under this section to a department or independent agency or a specified division thereof or constitutional office shall be a distinct unit of that department, independent agency, or specified division or constitutional office. Any division, office, commission, council, or board so attached shall exercise its powers, duties, and functions prescribed by law, including rule making, licensing and regulation, and operational planning within the area of program responsibility of the division, office, commission, council, or board, independently of the head of the department or independent agency, but budgeting, program coordination , and related management functions shall be performed under the direction and supervision of the head of the department or independent agency, except that with respect to the office of the commissioner of railroads, all personnel and biennial budget requests by the office of the commissioner of railroads shall be provided to the department of transportation as required under s. 189.02 (7) and shall be processed and properly forwarded by the public service commission without change except as requested and concurred in by the office of the commissioner of railroads.

AB68,63 Section 63 . 15.07 (1) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,228,15 15.07 (1) (a) 3. Members of the employee trust funds board appointed or elected under s. 15.16 (1) (a), (b), (d) and (f) (cm) 1. a. to e., 2. a. to d., and 3. shall be appointed or elected as provided in that section.

AB68,64 Section 64. 15.07 (1) (b) 15m. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,228,18 15.07 (1) (b) 15m. The members of the state fair park board appointed under s. 15.445 (4) 15.105 (38r) (a) 3. to 5.

AB68,65 Section 65. 15.07 (1) (b) 20. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,228,21 15.07 (1) (b) 20. The 3 members of the Kickapoo reserve management board appointed under s. 15.445 (2) 15.105 (38) (b) 3.

AB68,66 Section 66. 15.07 (2) (h) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,228,25 15.07 (2) (h) The chairperson of the state fair park board shall be designated annually by the governor from among the members appointed under s. 15.445 (4) 15.105 (38r) (a) 3., 4. and 5.

AB68,67 Section 67. 15.07 (3) (bm) 7. of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,229,3 15.07 (3) (bm) 7. The prescription drug affordability review board shall meet at least 4 times each year.

AB68,68 Section 68 . 15.07 (5) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,229,8 15.07 (5) (f) Members of the teachers retirement board, appointive members of the Wisconsin retirement board, appointive Appointive members of the group insurance board, members of the deferred compensation board, and members of the employee trust funds board, $25 per day.

AB68,69 Section 69 . 15.105 (34) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,229,14 15.105 (34) Office of environmental justice. There is created in the department of administration an office to be known as the office of environmental justice. The office shall be under the direction and supervision of a director, who shall be appointed by the secretary of administration to serve at the pleasure of the secretary.

AB68,70 Section 70 . 15.105 (35) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,229,18 15.105 (35) Office of sustainability and clean energy. There is created in the department of administration an office to be known as the office of sustainability and clean energy.

AB68,71 Section 71 . 15.105 (38s) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,229,23 15.105 (38s) Office of digital transformation. There is created in the department of administration an office of digital transformation. The office shall be under the direction and supervision of a director who shall be appointed by the secretary of administration to serve at his or her pleasure.

AB68,72 Section 72 . 15.16 (1) of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:

AB68,229,25 15.16 (1) Employee trust funds board. (am) Definitions. In this subsection:

AB68,230,2 1. “Annuitant” has the meaning given for purposes other than group life insurance under s. 40.02 (4).

AB68,230,4 2. “Educational support personnel employee” has the meaning given in s. 40.02 (22m).

AB68,230,5 3. “Elected official” has the meaning given in s. 40.02 (24).

AB68,230,6 4. “Governing body” has the meaning given in s. 40.02 (36).

AB68,230,7 5. “Municipal employer” has the meaning given in s. 40.02 (41n).

AB68,230,8 6. “Participating employee” has the meaning given in s. 40.02 (46).

AB68,230,9 7. “Participating employer” has the meaning given in s. 40.02 (47).

AB68,230,10 8. “Protective occupation participant” has the meaning given in s. 40.02 (48).

AB68,230,11 9. “Teacher” has the meaning given in s. 40.02 (55).

AB68,230,15 (bm) Board member status. Any member of the employee trust funds board who loses the status upon which the appointment or election was based shall cease to be a member of the board upon appointment or election to the board of a qualified successor.

AB68,230,20 (cm) Membership. The employee trust funds board shall consist of the governor or the governor's designee on the group insurance board, the administrator of the division of personnel management in the department of administration or the administrator's designee, and 11 individuals appointed or elected for 4-year terms as follows:

AB68,230,22 1. To represent the interests of annuitants and participating employees, the following individuals:

AB68,231,2 a. One member who is a participating employee and who is a public school teacher, elected by participating employees meeting the same criteria. The member elected under this subd. 1. a. may not be from the same county as the member appointed under subd. 2. e.

AB68,231,4 b. One member who is an annuitant and who retired from covered service, elected by annuitants meeting the same criteria.

AB68,231,6 c. One member who is an annuitant and who retired from covered service as a public school teacher, elected by annuitants.

AB68,231,9 d. One member who is a protective occupation participant or who retired from a protective occupation, elected by protective occupation participants meeting the same criteria.

AB68,231,12 e. One member who is a participating employee and who is an educational support personnel employee, elected by participating employees meeting the same criteria.

AB68,231,15 2. To represent the interests of participating employers, elected officials, municipal employers, and administrators, the following individuals, appointed by the governor:

AB68,231,17 a. One member who is a participating employee and who is an employee of the University of Wisconsin System or a state employee.

AB68,231,19 b. One member who is a participating employee and who is an administrator of a public school in this state.

AB68,231,21 c. One member who is a participating employee and who is an elected member of the governing body of a municipal employer that is a participating employer.

AB68,231,24 d. One member who is a participating employee as an administrator of a municipal employer that is a participating employer and who is not employed by a public school district.

AB68,232,3 e. One member who is a participating employee and who is a public school teacher. The member appointed under this subd. 2. e. may not be from the same county as the member appointed under subd. 1. a.

AB68,232,10 3. One member who is elected by participating employees and is a public member and who is not a participant in or beneficiary of the Wisconsin Retirement System, with experience in actuarial analysis, audit functions, or finance related to an employee benefit plan or experience with significant administrative responsibility for a major insurer. It is the intent of the legislature that the member elected under this subdivision shall represent the interests of the taxpayers of this state and shall not be representative of public employee or employer interests.

AB68,73 Section 73 . 15.165 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,232,12 15.165 (title) Same; attached boards and offices.

AB68,74 Section 74 . 15.165 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,232,17 15.165 (1) (b) For purposes of this section, annuitants are deemed to be employees in the last position in which they were covered by the Wisconsin retirement system, except that annuitants may not be elected, appointed or vote under sub. (3) (a) 1., 2., 4. or 7.

AB68,75 Section 75 . 15.165 (3) of the statutes is repealed.

AB68,76 Section 76 . 15.165 (5) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,232,24 15.165 (5) Office of internal audit. There is created an office of internal audit that is attached to the department of employee trust funds under s. 15.03. The office shall be under the direction and supervision of an internal auditor who shall be appointed by the employee trust funds board in the classified service. The internal auditor shall report directly to the employee trust funds board.

AB68,77 Section 77 . 15.185 (4) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,233,4 15.185 (4) Small business retirement savings board. (a) There is created a small business retirement savings board that is attached to the department of financial institutions under s. 15.03. The board shall consist of the following members:

AB68,233,5 1. The state treasurer or his or her designee.

AB68,233,6 2. The secretary of financial institutions or his or her designee.

AB68,233,9 3. One member who has a favorable reputation for skill, knowledge, and experience in the field of retirement saving and investments, appointed by the governor.

AB68,233,11 4. One member who has a favorable reputation for skill, knowledge, and experience relating to small business, appointed by the governor.

AB68,233,15 5. One member who is a representative of an association representing employees or who has a favorable reputation for skill, knowledge, and experience in the interests of employees in retirement saving, appointed by the speaker of the assembly.