Wis. Stat. § 16.40 — WI Code / Chapter 16 / Section 16.40
Department of administration, duties, powers.
Status: in_force

The department of administration shall:

(1) Prepare budget. Discharge all duties in connection with the compilation of the biennial state budget report imposed by ss. 16.42 to 16.46 .

(2) Attend finance committee. Attend all public hearings of the joint committee on finance and such executive meetings as the committee may desire, answer questions and give information called for by the committee relative to the financial operations of the state and its several agencies.

(3) Prepare annual financial statement. Prepare at the end of each fiscal year not later than October 15, a condensed, and popular account of the finances of the state, showing the sources of the state’s revenue and the purposes of its expenditures, including a comparison with the prior year; prepare at the end of each fiscal year not later than October 15, a statement of the condition of the general fund showing the cash balance, the accounts receivable, the accounts payable and the continuing unexpended and unencumbered appropriation balances; and prepare not earlier than January 1 nor later than February 1 in each year a tentative statement of the estimated receipts and disbursements of the general fund for the biennium in progress, showing also the estimated condition of the general fund at the end of the current biennium. A copy of each of such statements shall be filed in the legislative reference bureau and shall be sent to each member of the legislature.

(4) Furnish information. Furnish such other information regarding the finances of the state and the financial operations of agencies as may be called for by the governor, the governor-elect, the legislature or either house thereof, or any member thereof.

(5) Bookkeeping forms. Prescribe the forms of accounts and other financial records to be used by all agencies. Such accounts shall be as nearly uniform as is practical, and as simple as is consistent with an accurate and detailed record of all receipts and disbursements and of all other transactions affecting the acquisition, custodianship and disposition of value. The secretary may call upon the state auditor for advice and suggestions in prescribing such forms.

(6) Take testimony. In the discharge of any duty imposed by law, administer oaths and take testimony and cause the deposition of witnesses to be taken in the manner prescribed for taking depositions in civil actions in circuit courts.

(7) Collect revenue information. Collect from any available source and correlate information concerning any and all anticipated state revenues, including program revenues and segregated revenues from program receipts.

(8) Collect information on disbursements. Collect and correlate information from all agencies concerning any agency disbursements and the proper time thereof.

(9) Forecast revenues and expenditures. Forecast all revenues and expenditures of the state.

(10) Determine minimum cash balances. Determine the minimum cash balances needed in public depositories in which operating accounts are maintained at all times to meet the operating requirements of all agencies.

(11) Advise investment board director on surplus moneys. Advise the executive director of the investment board daily concerning surplus moneys available for investment from each of the various state funds.

(12) Advise investment board director on cash needs. Advise the executive director of the investment board concerning the date when invested funds will be required in the form of cash. Said director shall furnish such reports of investments as may be required by the department of administration.

(13) Cooperate in improvements of state fund management. Cooperate with the executive director of the investment board, the state treasurer, the department of revenue and other revenue agencies for the purpose of effecting improvements in the management and investment of state funds.

(14) Committees. Perform administrative services required to properly account for the finances of committees created by law or executive order. The governor may authorize each committee to make expenditures from the appropriation under s. 20.505 (1) (ka) not exceeding $2,000 per fiscal year. The governor shall report such authorized expenditures to the joint committee on finance at the next quarterly meeting of the committee. If the governor desires to authorize expenditures of more than $2,000 per fiscal year by a committee, the governor shall submit to the joint committee on finance for its approval a complete budget for all expenditures made or to be made by the committee. The budget may cover a period encompassing more than one fiscal year or biennium during the governor’s term of office. If the joint committee on finance approves a budget authorizing expenditures of more than $2,000 per fiscal year by such a committee, the governor may authorize the expenditures to be made within the limits of the appropriation under s. 20.505 (1) (ka) in accordance with the approved budget during the period covered by the budget. If after the joint committee on finance approves a budget for such a committee the governor desires to authorize expenditures in excess of the authorized expenditures under the approved budget, the governor shall submit a modified budget for the committee to the joint committee on finance. If the joint committee on finance approves a modified budget, the governor may authorize additional expenditures to be made within the limits of the appropriation under s. 20.505 (1) (ka) in accordance with the modified budget during the period covered by the modified budget.

(16) Maintain an accounting for operating notes. Maintain an accounting of, forecast and administer those moneys pledged for the repayment of operating notes issued under subch. III of ch. 18 , in accordance with agreements entered into by the secretary under s. 16.004 (9) .

(17) Interstate bodies. Perform administrative services required to properly account for dues and related expenses for state participation in national or regional interstate governmental bodies specified in s. 20.505 (1) (ka) or determined by the governor.

(18) Require agencies to provide copies. Require each state agency, at the time that the agency submits a request to the department for an increased appropriation to be provided in an executive budget bill which is necessitated by the compensation plan under s. 230.12 or a collective bargaining agreement approved under s. 111.92 , to provide a copy of the request to the administrator of the division of personnel management in the department and the joint committee on employment relations.

(19) State-owned rental housing. Require each agency as defined in s. 16.52 (7) which has a program revenue or segregated revenue appropriation for deposit of housing receipts to deposit all revenues received from rentals established under s. 16.004 (8) for state-owned housing in that appropriation account, or if the appropriation is for more than one purpose, in a separate subaccount within that appropriation, and to pay all expenses for maintenance of the housing from that account or subaccount.

(20) Public debt service costs projection. Prepare in each odd-numbered year for inclusion in the report submitted by the building commission under s. 13.48 (7) a projection of the long-term trends in principal and interest costs on public debt contracted under subchs. I and IV of ch. 18 as a proportion of all tax revenues that are deposited or are expected to be deposited in the general fund. The projection shall take account of the recommendations adopted by the building commission for the long-range building program under s. 13.48 (7) for the succeeding fiscal biennium and all proposed general obligation bonding contained in the executive budget bill or bills, including bonding for the authorized state building program as well as for other borrowing purposes.

(21) Administrative services provided to the board of commissioners of public lands. Render an accounting to the board of commissioners of public lands for the costs of all administrative services provided by the department and other state agencies, as defined in s. 20.001 (1) , to the board. All moneys received from the board under s. 24.64 for the costs of administrative services provided by the department and other state agencies shall be deposited in the general fund.

(22) Sale of forest products at Fort McCoy.

(a) Annually distribute an amount equal to 50 percent of the amount appropriated under s. 20.505 (1) (ng) to the school districts located in whole or in part in Monroe County in proportion to the number of pupils in each such school district’s membership, as defined in s. 121.004 (5) , in the previous school year who were residents of that county in the previous school year.

(b) Annually distribute an amount equal to 50 percent of the amount appropriated under s. 20.505 (1) (ng) to Monroe County for the benefit of the public roads in Monroe County.

(23) University of Wisconsin-Green Bay programming. Provide funding from the appropriation under s. 20.505 (1) (km) to finance programming at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay that is jointly developed by the Oneida Tribe and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

History: 1971 c. 125 ; 1977 c. 196 s. 130 (3) ; 1977 c. 272 ; 1979 c. 1 , 34 , 221 ; 1981 c. 20 , 27 , 317 ; 1981 c. 390 s. 252 ; 1983 a. 27 , 368 , 524 ; 1985 a. 29 ; 1987 a. 4 , 27 ; 1989 a. 31 , 359 ; 1991 a. 39 ; 1993 a. 16 ; 1999 a. 9 , 24 , 185 ; 2001 a. 16 , 109 ; 2003 a. 33 ss. 164 , 9160 ; 2005 a. 25 ; 2007 a. 20 ; 2015 a. 55 .