113.90 (2) The cochairpersons of the joint committee on legislative organization
2or their designated agent shall accept service made under ss. s. 806.04 (11) and
3893.825 (2). If the committee, the senate organization committee, or the assembly
4organization committee determines that the legislature should intervene be
5represented in the proceeding as provided under s. 803.09 (2m), the assembly shall
6represent the assembly, the senate shall represent the senate, and the joint
7committee on legislative organization shall represent the legislature , that
8committee shall designate the legislature's representative for the proceeding. The
9costs of participation in the proceeding shall be paid equally from the appropriations
10under s. 20.765 (1) (a) and (b), except that such costs incurred by the department of
11justice shall be paid from the appropriation under s. 20.455 (1) (d).

AB68,225,4 1313.94 Legislative audit bureau. (intro.) There is created a bureau to be
14known as the “Legislative Audit Bureau," headed by a chief known as the “State
15Auditor." The bureau shall be strictly nonpartisan and shall at all times observe the
16confidential nature of any audit currently being performed. Subject to s. 230.35 (4)
17(a) and (f), the state auditor or designated employees shall at all times with or
18without notice have access to all departments and to any books, records , or other
19documents maintained by the departments and relating to their expenditures,
20revenues, operations, and structure, including specifically any such books, records,
21or other documents that are confidential by law, except as provided in sub. (4) and
22except that access to documents of counties, cities, villages, towns , or school districts
23is limited to work performed in connection with audits authorized under sub. (1) (m)
24and except that access to documents of the opportunity schools and partnership
25programs under s. 119.33, subch. IX of ch. 115, and subch. II of ch. 119 is limited to

1work performed in connection with audits authorized under sub. (1) (os). In the
2discharge of any duty imposed by law, the state auditor may subpoena witnesses,
3administer oaths and take testimony and cause the deposition of witnesses to be
4taken as prescribed for taking depositions in civil actions in circuit courts.

AB68,225,196 13.94 (1) (b) At the state auditor's discretion or as the joint legislative audit
7committee directs, audit the records of each department. Audits of the records of a
8county, city, village, town, or school district may be performed only as provided in par.
9(m). Audits of the records of the opportunity schools and partnership programs
10under s. 119.33, subch. IX of ch. 115, and subch. II of ch. 119 may be performed only
11as provided in par. (os). After completion of any audit under this paragraph, the
12bureau shall file with the chief clerk of each house of the legislature, the governor,
13the department of administration, the legislative reference bureau, the joint
14committee on finance, the legislative fiscal bureau, and the department audited, a
15detailed report of the audit, including the bureau's recommendations for
16improvement and efficiency and including specific instances, if any, of illegal or
17improper expenditures. The chief clerks shall distribute the report to the joint
18legislative audit committee, the appropriate standing committees of the legislature,
19and the joint committee on legislative organization.

AB68,226,221 13.94 (1) (e) Make such special examinations of the accounts and financial
22transactions of any department, agency, or officer as the legislature, joint legislative
23audit committee, or joint committee on legislative organization directs.
24Examinations of the accounts and transactions of a county, city, village, town, or,

1subject to par. (os), of a school district, may be performed only as authorized in par.
2(m).

AB68,226,105 13.94 (1s) (a) Except as otherwise provided in par. (c), the legislative audit
6bureau may charge any department for the reasonable cost of auditing services
7performed at the request of a department or at the request of the federal government
8that the bureau is not required to perform under sub. (1) (b) or (c) or any other law.
9This paragraph does not apply to counties, cities, villages, towns, or school districts
10or to the opportunity schools and partnership programs under sub. (1) (os).

AB68,226,17 1214.46 Assistant secretary of state. The secretary of state may appoint an
13assistant secretary of state who may perform and execute any duty or power of the
14secretary of state, except duties and powers the secretary of state performs as a
15member of the board of commissioners of public lands. The assistant secretary of
16state shall take and file the official oath and shall file an official bond in the sum and
17with the conditions as the secretary of state prescribes.

AB68,227,519 15.01 (6) “Division," “bureau," “section," and “unit" means the subunits of a
20department or an independent agency, whether specifically created by law or created
21by the head of the department or the independent agency for the more economic and
22efficient administration and operation of the programs assigned to the department
23or independent agency. The office of credit unions and the office of the student loan
24ombudsman in the department of financial institutions, the office of the inspector
25general in the department of children and families, the office of the inspector general

1in the department of health services, and the office of children's mental health in the
2department of health services have the meaning of “division" under this subsection.
3The office of the long-term care ombudsman under the board on aging and long-term
4care and the office of educational accountability in the department of public
5instruction have the meaning of “bureau" under this subsection.

AB68,227,107 15.02 (1) Separate constitutional offices. The governor, lieutenant governor,
8secretary of state, and state treasurer each head a staff to be termed the “office" of
9the respective constitutional officer. Each of those offices shall be attached to the
10department of administration under s. 15.03.

AB68,227,1912 15.02 (3) (c) 1. The principal subunit of the department is the “division". Each
13division shall be headed by an “administrator". The office of credit unions and the
14office of the student loan ombudsman in the department of financial institutions and
15the office of children's mental health in the department of health services have the
16meaning of “division" and the director of credit unions in the department of financial
17institutions and the director of the office of children's mental health in the
18department of health services have the meaning of “administrator" under this
19subdivision.

AB68,228,11 2115.03 Attachment for limited purposes. Any division, office, commission,
22council, or board attached under this section to a department or independent agency
23or a specified division thereof or constitutional office shall be a distinct unit of that
24department, independent agency, or specified division or constitutional office. Any
25division, office, commission, council, or board so attached shall exercise its powers,

1duties, and functions prescribed by law, including rule making, licensing and
2regulation, and operational planning within the area of program responsibility of the
3division, office, commission, council, or board, independently of the head of the
4department or independent agency, but budgeting, program coordination , and
5related management functions shall be performed under the direction and
6supervision of the head of the department or independent agency, except that with
7respect to the office of the commissioner of railroads, all personnel and biennial
8budget requests by the office of the commissioner of railroads shall be provided to the
9department of transportation as required under s. 189.02 (7) and shall be processed
10and properly forwarded by the public service commission without change except as
11requested and concurred in by the office of the commissioner of railroads.