June 25, 2019 - Offered by Representatives Pope, Considine, L. Myers, Sinicki,
Zamarripa, Hebl, Anderson, Billings, Bowen, Brostoff, Cabrera, Crowley,
Doyle, Emerson, Fields, Goyke, Gruszynski, Haywood, Hesselbein, Hintz,
Kolste, McGuire, B. Meyers, Milroy, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Riemer, Sargent,
Shankland, Spreitzer, Stubbs, Stuck, Subeck, C. Taylor, Vining and
Vruwink.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,2,8 413.94 Legislative audit bureau. (intro.) There is created a bureau to be
5known as the “Legislative Audit Bureau," headed by a chief known as the “State
6Auditor." The bureau shall be strictly nonpartisan and shall at all times observe the
7confidential nature of any audit currently being performed. Subject to s. 230.35 (4)
8(a) and (f), the state auditor or designated employees shall at all times with or
9without notice have access to all departments and to any books, records , or other
10documents maintained by the departments and relating to their expenditures,
11revenues, operations, and structure, including specifically any such books, records,
12or other documents that are confidential by law, except as provided in sub. (4) and

1except that access to documents of counties, cities, villages, towns, or school districts
2is limited to work performed in connection with audits authorized under sub. (1) (m)
3and except that access to documents of the opportunity schools and partnership
4programs under s. 119.33, subch. IX of ch. 115, and subch. II of ch. 119 is limited to
5work performed in connection with audits authorized under sub. (1) (os). In the
6discharge of any duty imposed by law, the state auditor may subpoena witnesses,
7administer oaths and take testimony and cause the deposition of witnesses to be
8taken as prescribed for taking depositions in civil actions in circuit courts.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,2,2310 13.94 (1) (b) At the state auditor's discretion or as the joint legislative audit
11committee directs, audit the records of each department. Audits of the records of a
12county, city, village, town, or school district may be performed only as provided in par.
13(m). Audits of the records of the opportunity schools and partnership programs
14under s. 119.33, subch. IX of ch. 115, and subch. II of ch. 119 may be performed only
15as provided in par. (os). After completion of any audit under this paragraph, the
16bureau shall file with the chief clerk of each house of the legislature, the governor,
17the department of administration, the legislative reference bureau, the joint
18committee on finance, the legislative fiscal bureau, and the department audited, a
19detailed report of the audit, including the bureau's recommendations for
20improvement and efficiency and including specific instances, if any, of illegal or
21improper expenditures. The chief clerks shall distribute the report to the joint
22legislative audit committee, the appropriate standing committees of the legislature,
23and the joint committee on legislative organization.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,3,6

113.94 (1) (e) Make such special examinations of the accounts and financial
2transactions of any department, agency, or officer as the legislature, joint legislative
3audit committee, or joint committee on legislative organization directs.
4Examinations of the accounts and transactions of a county, city, village, town, or,
5subject to par. (os), of a school district, may be performed only as authorized in par.
6(m).

AB56-ASA1-AA3,3,149 13.94 (1s) (a) Except as otherwise provided in par. (c), the legislative audit
10bureau may charge any department for the reasonable cost of auditing services
11performed at the request of a department or at the request of the federal government
12that the bureau is not required to perform under sub. (1) (b) or (c) or any other law.
13This paragraph does not apply to counties, cities, villages, towns, or school districts
14or to the opportunity schools and partnership programs under sub. (1) (os).”.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,3,2118 15.374 (2) Office of school safety. There is created an office of school safety
19in the department of public instruction. The director of the office shall be appointed
20by the attorney general state superintendent of public instruction in the classified
21service.”.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,4,2 223. Page 38, line 4: increase the dollar amount for fiscal year 2019-20 by
23$53,000 and increase the dollar amount for fiscal year 2020-21 by $70,700 for the
24purpose of increasing the authorized FTE positions for the public service commission

1by 1.0 PR position to assist in administering the broadband expansion grant program
2under s. 196.504.