SB111,580,15 20.923 (4) (c) 7. Administration, department of: director of Native American affairs.

SB111,523 Section 523 . 20.923 (4) (d) 3. of the statutes is created to read:

SB111,580,18 20.923 (4) (d) 3. Administration, department of; office of digital transformation: director.

SB111,524 Section 524. 20.923 (4) (e) 5m. of the statutes is renumbered 20.923 (4) (f) 6n.

SB111,525 Section 525 . 20.923 (6) (as) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB111,580,23 20.923 (6) (as) Each elective executive officer other than the state treasurer, secretary of state, attorney general, and superintendent of public instruction: a deputy or assistant.

SB111,526 Section 526 . 20.923 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB111,581,10 20.923 (8) Deputies. Salaries for deputies appointed pursuant to ss. 13.94 (3) (b), 15.04 (2), and 551.601 (1) shall be set by the appointing authority. The salary, other than the salary of the deputy secretary of the department of employee trust funds, shall not exceed the maximum of the salary range one range below the salary range of the executive salary group to which the department or agency head is assigned. The assistant secretary of state and associate director of the historical society shall be treated as an unclassified deputy deputies for pay purposes under this subsection. The salary of the deputy director of the office of business development in the department of administration is assigned to executive salary group 2.

SB111,527 Section 527. 20.9275 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB111,581,18 20.9275 (2) (intro.) No state agency or local governmental unit may authorize payment of funds of this state, of any local governmental unit or, subject to sub. (3m), of federal funds passing through the state treasury as a grant, subsidy or other funding that wholly or partially or directly or indirectly involves pregnancy programs, projects or services, that is a grant, subsidy or other funding under s. 48.481, 48.487, 48.545, 253.05, 253.07, 253.08, or 253.085 or 42 USC 701 to 710, if any of the following applies:

SB111,528 Section 528 . 20.9315 of the statutes is created to read:

SB111,581,20 20.9315 False claims; actions by or on behalf of state. (1) In this section:

SB111,582,8 (b) “Claim” means any request or demand, whether under a contract or otherwise, for money or property and whether the state has title to the money or property, that is presented to an officer, employee, agent, or other representative of the state or to a contractor, grantee, or other person if the money or property is to be spent or used on the state's behalf or to advance a state program or interest, and if the state provides any portion of the money or property which is requested or demanded, or if the state will reimburse directly or indirectly such contractor, grantee, or other person for any portion of the money or property which is requested or demanded. “Claim” includes a request or demand for services from a state agency or as part of a state program. “Claim” does not include requests or demands for money or property that the state has paid to an individual as compensation for state employment or as an income subsidy with no restriction on that individual's use of the money or property.

SB111,582,12 (d) “Knowingly" means, with respect to information, having actual knowledge of the information, acting in deliberate ignorance of the truth or falsity of the information, or acting in reckless disregard of the truth or falsity of the information. “Knowingly" does not mean specifically intending to defraud.

SB111,582,14 (de) “Material” means having a natural tendency to influence, or be capable of influencing, the payment or receipt of money or property or the receipt of services.

SB111,582,15 (dm) “Medical assistance" has the meaning given under s. 49.43 (8).

SB111,582,16 (dr) “Obligation” has the meaning given in 31 USC 3729 (b) (3).

SB111,582,17 (dt) “Original source” has the meaning given in 31 USC 3730 (e) (4) (B).

SB111,582,20 (e) “Proceeds" includes damages, civil penalties, surcharges, payments for costs of compliance, and any other economic benefit realized by this state as a result of an action or settlement of a claim.

SB111,582,25 (2) Except as provided in sub. (3), any person who does any of the following is liable to this state for 3 times the amount of the damages that were sustained by the state or would have been sustained by the state,whichever is greater, because of the actions of the person, and shall forfeit, for each violation, an amount within the range specified under 31 USC 3729 (a):

SB111,583,2 (a) Knowingly presents or causes to be presented a false or fraudulent claim to a state agency, including a false or fraudulent claim for medical assistance.

SB111,583,5 (b) Knowingly makes, uses, or causes to be made or used, a false record or statement material to a false or fraudulent claim to a state agency, including a false or fraudulent claim for medical assistance.

SB111,583,10 (dg) Knowingly makes, uses, or causes to be made or used, a false record or statement material to an obligation to pay or transmit money or property to the Medical Assistance program, or knowingly conceals or knowingly and improperly avoids or decreases an obligation to pay or transmit money or property to the Medical Assistance program.

SB111,583,14 (dm) Knowingly makes, uses, or causes to be made or used a false record or statement material to an obligation to pay or transmit money or property to a state agency, or knowingly conceals or knowingly and improperly avoids or decreases an obligation to pay or transmit money or property to a state agency.

SB111,583,15 (dr) Conspires to commit a violation under par. (a), (b), (dg), or (dm).

SB111,583,19 (3) The court may assess against a person who violates sub. (2) not less than 2 nor more than 3 times the amount of the damages sustained by the state because of the acts of the person, and shall not assess any forfeiture, if the court finds all of the following:

SB111,583,22 (a) The person who commits the acts furnished the attorney general with all information known to the person about the acts within 30 days after the date on which the person obtained the information.

SB111,583,23 (b) The person fully cooperated with any investigation of the acts by this state.

SB111,584,2 (c) At the time that the person furnished the attorney general with information concerning the acts, no criminal prosecution or civil or administrative enforcement action had been commenced with respect to any such act, and the person did not have actual knowledge of the existence of any investigation into any such act.