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WI Stat § 16.310 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 16 - Department of administration.|16.310 - Use of surplus state-owned real property.

16.310  Use of surplus state-owned real property. (1) Definitions. In this section “state agency" means an office, commission, department, or independent agency in the executive branch of state government. (2)  Transfer of real property to the department.  (a) The department shall petition the head of any state agency having jurisdiction over real property that the department determines to be suitable for surplus.(b) The head of the state agency having jurisdiction over the real property shall notify the department in writing whether or not the state agency considers the real property to be surplus.(c) If the state agency considers the real property to be surplus, if the department determines that the real property is suitable by, the state agency shall transfer the real property, without payment, to the department for purposes of transfer to an applicant under sub. (3). (3)  Transfer of real property. The department may transfer real property obtained under sub. (2) to an applicant under a written agreement that includes a provision that the applicant agrees to pay the department an amount to utilize the real property in conformance with the agreement. (4)  Recording. The department shall record the agreement under sub. (3) in the office of the register of deeds for the county in which the real property subject to the agreement is located. (5)  Nonapplication. This section does not apply to property that is authorized to be sold or leased as provided in s. 16.848 while an offer of sale, sale, or lease agreement is pending or while the property is leased. History:  1991 a. 39; 2001 a. 103; 2003 a. 33 s. 161; Stats. 2003 s. 560.9810; 2005 a. 25; 2011 a. 32 s. 3460m; Stats. 2011 s. 16.310; 2013 a. 20.
WI Stat § 16.313 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 16 - Department of administration.|16.313 - Employment grants.

16.313  Employment grants. (1) In this section, “municipality” means a county, city, village, or town. (2) (a) Any municipality may apply for a grant under this section.(b) The department may award a grant of up to $75,000 to a municipality that submits an application under par. (a). The grant and all moneys contributed by the municipality under sub. (3) shall be used for the purpose of connecting homeless individuals with permanent employment. (3) A municipality receiving a grant under sub. (2) shall itself contribute at least $10,000 for the purpose specified in sub. (2) (b). (4) In considering grant applications submitted under sub. (2) (a), the department shall give preference to a municipality that obtains an agreement from a nonprofit organization to provide additional employment and support services to homeless individuals participating in the grant program. (5) In considering grant applications submitted under sub. (2) (a), the department shall give preference to a municipality that places a priority on using the grant moneys and the moneys contributed by the municipality under sub. (3) for the purpose of paying the wages of homeless individuals participating in the grant program under this section.History:  2017 a. 59; 2021 a. 58.
WI Stat § 16.314 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 16 - Department of administration.|16.314 - Employability plans for public housing residents.

16.314  Employability plans for public housing residents. (1) In this section:(a) “Controlled substance" has the meaning given in s. 961.01 (4).(b) “Controlled substance abuse screening” means a questionnaire, a criminal background check, or any other controlled substance abuse screening mechanism identified by the department. (2) To the extent allowed under federal law, the department shall require that each housing authority do all of the following:(a) Conduct screening to determine whether each adult resident in public housing administered by the housing authority is able-bodied and either unemployed or underemployed.(b) For each resident the housing authority determines under par. (a) is able-bodied and either unemployed or underemployed, create an employability plan for the resident and require the resident to participate in the plan.(c)1. For each resident the housing authority determines under par. (a) is able-bodied and either unemployed or underemployed, require the resident to complete a controlled substance abuse screening. If, on the basis of the controlled substance abuse screening results, the housing authority determines that there is a reasonable suspicion that the resident is abusing a controlled substance, the housing authority shall require the resident to undergo a test for the use of a controlled substance.2. If a resident who undergoes a test under subd. 1. tests positive for the use of a controlled substance without presenting evidence satisfactory to the housing authority that the resident possesses a valid prescription for each controlled substance for which he or she tests positive, the housing authority shall offer the resident the opportunity to participate in substance abuse treatment. (3) The department may promulgate rules establishing standards for determining whether an individual is able-bodied and either unemployed or underemployed for purposes of this section.History:  2017 a. 265.
WI Stat § 16.315 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 16 - Department of administration.|16.315 - Federal housing assistance programs.

16.315  Federal housing assistance programs. Notwithstanding s. 16.54 (2) (a), the department shall administer federal funds made available to this state under the Stewart B. McKinney homeless assistance act housing assistance programs, 42 USC 11361 to 11402.History:  1991 a. 39; 2003 a. 33 s. 157; Stats. 2003 s. 560.9815; 2011 a. 32 s. 3462m; Stats. 2011 s. 16.315.
WI Stat § 16.405 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 16 - Department of administration.|16.405 - Requests for issuance of operating notes.

16.405  Requests for issuance of operating notes. (1) At any time the department determines that a deficiency will occur in the funds of the state which will not permit the state to meet its operating obligations in a timely manner, it may prepare a request for the issuance of operating notes under subch. III of ch. 18 and, subject to subs. (2) and (3), may submit the request to the building commission. (2) The department may not submit a request to the building commission under sub. (1) unless the request is signed by the secretary and the governor. (3) If the department proposes to submit a request to the building commission under sub. (1), the secretary shall notify the joint committee on finance in writing of the proposed action. If the cochairpersons of the committee do not notify the secretary that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the proposed submission within 14 working days after the date of the secretary's notification, the department may submit the request to the building commission as proposed. If, within 14 working days after the date of the secretary's notification, the cochairpersons of the committee notify the secretary that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the proposed submission, the department may submit the request to the building commission only upon approval of the committee.History:  1983 a. 3; 1985 a. 29; 1997 a. 27.
WI Stat § 16.41 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 16 - Department of administration.|16.41 - Agency and authority accounting; information; aid.

16.41  Agency and authority accounting; information; aid. (1) All agencies shall keep their accounts and other financial records as prescribed by the secretary under s. 16.40 (5), except as otherwise specifically directed by law. All agencies and authorities shall furnish to the secretary all information relating to their financial transactions which the secretary requests pursuant to this subchapter for such periods as the secretary requests, and shall render such assistance in connection with the preparation of the state budget report and the budget bill and in auditing accounts, as the secretary or the governor may require. (2) The secretary and his or her duly authorized employees shall have free access to all financial accounts of every agency and authority, and each agency and authority shall assist the secretary in preparing estimates of receipts and expenditures for inclusion in the state budget report. (3) Upon request of the secretary all agencies and authorities shall furnish such information concerning anticipated revenues and expenditures as the secretary requires for effective control of state finances. (4) In this section, “authority" means a body created under subch. II of ch. 114 or under ch. 231, 233, 234, 237, 238, or 279.History:  1977 c. 196 s. 130 (3); 1977 c. 272, 273; 1983 a. 27; 1987 a. 399; 1995 a. 27; 2001 a. 16; 2005 a. 74, 335; 2007 a. 20, 97; 2009 a. 28; 2011 a. 7, 10; 2013 a. 20.
WI Stat § 16.412 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 16 - Department of administration.|16.412 - Agency payments.

16.412  Agency payments. At the request of any agency, the secretary may authorize the processing of specified regular periodic payments through the use of money transfer techniques including, without limitation because of enumeration, direct deposit, electronic funds transfer, and automated clearinghouse procedures.History:  1981 c. 20; 2003 a. 33.
WI Stat § 16.415 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 16 - Department of administration.|16.415 - Certification of payrolls.

16.415  Certification of payrolls. (1) Neither the secretary nor any other fiscal officer of this state may draw, sign, or issue, or authorize the drawing, signing, or issuing of any warrant on any disbursing officer of the state to pay any compensation to any person in the classified service of the state unless an estimate, payroll, or account for such compensation, containing the names of every person to be paid, bears the certificate of the appointing authority that each person named in the estimate, payroll, or account has been appointed, employed, or subject to any other personnel transaction in accordance with, and that the pay for the person has been established in accordance with, the law, compensation plan, or applicable collective bargaining agreement, and applicable rules of the administrator of the division of personnel management in the department and the director of the bureau of merit recruitment and selection in the department then in effect. (2) Any person entitled to be certified as described in sub. (1), as having been appointed or employed in pursuance of law and of the rules pursuant thereto, and refused such certificate, may maintain an action of mandamus to compel the appointing authority to issue such certificate. (3) Any sums paid contrary to this section may be recovered from any appointing authority making such appointments in contravention of law or of the rules promulgated pursuant thereto, or from any appointing authority signing or countersigning or authorizing the signing or countersigning of any warrant for the payment of the same, or from the sureties on the official bond of any such appointing authority, in an action in the circuit court for any county within the state, maintained by the administrator of the division of personnel management in the department, or by a citizen resident therein, who is assessed for, and liable to pay, or within one year before the commencement of the action has paid, a state, city or county tax within this state. All moneys recovered in any action brought under this section when collected, shall be paid into the state treasury except that if a citizen taxpayer is plaintiff in any such action he or she shall be entitled to receive for personal use the taxable cost of such action and 5 percent of the amount recovered as attorney fees.History:  1971 c. 270 ss. 67, 68; 1973 c. 12; 1977 c. 196 ss. 63, 65, 130 (5), 131; 1977 c. 272 s. 98; 1977 c. 273; 1983 a. 27; 1985 a. 332 s. 251 (1); 1989 a. 31; 2003 a. 33 ss. 169 to 171, 9160; 2003 a. 320; 2015 a. 55.
WI Stat § 16.423 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 16 - Department of administration.|16.423 - Base budget review reports.

16.423  Base budget review reports. (1) In this section, “state agency" has the meaning given in s. 20.001 (1). (2) (a) During the 2017-19 fiscal biennium, the secretary shall require that all state agencies submit a report no later than September 15, 2018, and then no later than May 15 in the even-numbered year in every biennium thereafter, that contains the information specified in sub. (3).(b) Beginning in the 2019-21 fiscal biennium, the secretary shall require that any state agency created after May 15, 2018, submit a report no later than the May 15 in the even-numbered year that first occurs after the state agency is created, and then no later than May 15 in the even-numbered year in every biennium thereafter, that contains the information specified in sub. (3). (3) A report submitted under this section shall contain at least all of the following:(a) A description of each appropriation of the state agency.(b) For each appropriation of the state agency, an accounting of all expenditures in every quarter in each of the prior 3 fiscal years.(c) For each appropriation of the state agency, an analysis of whether the appropriation contributes to the mission of the [state] agency and whether the objectives of the appropriation justify its expenditures.NOTE:  A missing word is shown in brackets. Corrective legislation is pending.(d) For each appropriation of the state agency, a determination of the minimum level of funding to achieve its objectives, but not to exceed the prior fiscal year's base funding, and an accounting of its current funding.(e) A description of the state agency mission or guiding principles. If a state agency does not have an agency mission or guiding principles, the state agency shall adopt an agency mission or guiding principles and describe the mission or principles in the report. (3m) A report filed under this section shall be in a form that is consistent with the form used by a state agency that filed a base budget review report under s. 16.423, 2007 stats.History:  2017 a. 212.
WI Stat § 16.425 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 16 - Department of administration.|16.425 - Summary of tax exemption devices.

16.425  Summary of tax exemption devices. (1) Declaration of policy. Because state policy objectives are sought and achieved by both governmental expenditures and tax exemption, and because both have an impact on the government's capacity to lower tax rates or raise expenditures, both should receive regular comprehensive review by the governor and the legislature in the budgetary process. This section seeks to facilitate such comprehensive review by providing for the generation of information concerning tax exemptions and other similar devices comparable to expenditure information. (2)  Definition. For the purposes of this section “tax exemption device" means any tax provision which exempts, in whole or in part, certain persons, income, goods, services, or property from the impact of established taxes, including, but not limited because of failure of enumeration, to those devices known as tax deductions, tax allowances, tax exclusions, tax credits and tax exemptions. (3)  Report on tax exemption devices. The department of revenue shall, in each even-numbered year on the date prescribed for it by the secretary, furnish to the secretary a report detailing the approximate costs in lost revenue, the policy purposes and to the extent possible, indicators of effectiveness in achieving such purposes, for all state tax exemption devices, including those based on the internal revenue code, in effect at the time of the report. The report need relate only to chs. 71, 76 and 77 tax exemption devices and to property tax exemptions for which reports are required under s. 70.337. The report shall be prepared in such a manner as to facilitate the making of comparisons with the information reported in s. 16.46 (1) to (6).History:  1973 c. 90; 1981 c. 20; 1983 a. 27; 1991 a. 39; 1993 a. 490.
WI Stat § 16.43 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 16 - Department of administration.|16.43 - Budget compiled.

16.43  Budget compiled. The secretary shall compile and submit to the governor or the governor-elect and to each person elected to serve in the legislature during the next biennium, not later than November 20 of each even-numbered year, a compilation giving all of the data required by s. 16.46 to be included in the state budget report, except the recommendations of the governor and the explanation thereof. The secretary shall not include in the compilation any provision for the development or implementation of an information technology development project for an executive branch agency that is not consistent with the strategic plan of the agency, as approved under s. 16.976. The secretary may distribute the budget compilation in printed or optical disc format. History:  1977 c. 29; 1981 c. 20; 2001 a. 16; 2003 a. 33; 2005 a. 25; 2015 a. 196.
WI Stat § 16.44 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 16 - Department of administration.|16.44 - Budget hearings.

16.44  Budget hearings. After the filing of the compilation required under s. 16.43, the governor or governor-elect shall consider all requests and all other information which may be of value in understanding the issues and problems to be dealt with in the executive budget. The governor or governor-elect may hold public hearings determined to be necessary to gather further information from agencies, interested citizens and others. The department of administration and all other agencies shall cooperate fully with the governor or governor-elect in providing information and analyses as requested.History:  1973 c. 333; 1977 c. 196 s. 130 (3); 1977 c. 273.
WI Stat § 16.45 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 16 - Department of administration.|16.45 - Budget message to legislature.

16.45  Budget message to legislature. In each regular session of the legislature, the governor shall deliver the budget message to the 2 houses in joint session assembled. Unless a later date is requested by the governor and approved by the legislature in the form of a joint resolution, the budget message shall be delivered on or before the last Tuesday in January of the odd-numbered year. With the message the governor shall transmit to the legislature, as provided in ss. 16.46 and 16.47, the biennial state budget report and the executive budget bill or bills together with suggestions for the best methods for raising the needed revenues. The governor may distribute the biennial state budget report in printed or optical disc format or post the biennial state budget report on the Internet, except that, if requested by a member of the legislature, the governor shall provide the member with a printed copy of the biennial state budget report. History:  1971 c. 2; 1973 c. 333; 1987 a. 4, 186; 1993 a. 16; 2005 a. 25; 2009 a. 28; 2015 a. 196.
WI Stat § 16.461 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 16 - Department of administration.|16.461 - Biennial budget, summary of funds.

16.461  Biennial budget, summary of funds. After the governor has submitted all budget recommendations, the secretary shall prepare a summary of the recommendations of all funds, to be distributed to the members of the legislature.
WI Stat § 16.465 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 16 - Department of administration.|16.465 - Budget stabilization fund reallocations.

16.465  Budget stabilization fund reallocations. The secretary may reallocate moneys in the budget stabilization fund to other funds in the manner provided in s. 20.002 (11). No interest may be assessed to the general fund on account of such a reallocation.History:  1985 a. 120.
WI Stat § 16.47 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 16 - Department of administration.|16.47 - Budget bill.

16.47  Budget bill. (1) Except as provided in s. 16.529 (2), the executive budget bill or bills shall incorporate the governor's recommendations for appropriations for the succeeding biennium. The appropriation method shown in the bill or bills shall in no way affect the amount of detail or manner of presentation which may be requested by the joint committee on finance. Appropriation requests may be divided into 3 allotments: personal services, other operating expenses and capital outlay or such other meaningful classifications as may be approved by the joint committee on finance. (1m) Immediately after the delivery of the budget message, the budget bill or bills shall be introduced without change into either house by the joint finance committee and when introduced shall be referred to that committee. (2) No bill containing an appropriation or increasing the cost of state government or decreasing state revenues in an annual amount exceeding $10,000 shall be passed by either house until the budget bill has passed both houses; except that the governor or the joint committee on finance may recommend such bills to the presiding officer of either house, in writing, for passage and the legislature may enact them, and except that the senate or assembly committee on organization may recommend to the presiding officer of its respective house any such bill not affecting state finances by more than $100,000 biennially. Such bills shall be accompanied by a statement to the effect that they are emergency bills recommended by the governor, the joint committee on finance, or the senate or assembly committee on organization. Such statement by the governor or joint committee on finance shall be sufficient to permit passage prior to the budget bill. Such statement by the senate or assembly committee on organization shall be effective only to permit passage by its respective house.History:  1971 c. 125; 1979 c. 34, 221; 1981 c. 20; 1983 a. 27; 1987 a. 4; 2003 a. 33.