Wis. Stat. § 13.099

13.099 Review of bills affecting housing. (1) DEFINI- cept as otherwise expressly provided by law, all matters before TIONS. In this section: the joint committee on finance which require the affirmative ac- tion of the committee, except those related to the receipt of re- (a) “Department” means the department of administration. ports for which no committee action is required and except those (b) “State housing strategy plan” means the plan developed related to the drafting, introduction, consideration, modification, under s. 16.302. adoption, rejection, enactment or defeat of any bill, resolution, (2) ANALYSIS OF BILLS AFFECTING HOUSING. (a) If any bill amendment, fiscal estimate or nomination, shall be considered by that is introduced in either house of the legislature may increase the committee according to the procedures under this section. or decrease, either directly or indirectly, the cost of the develop- The joint committee on finance shall hold regular quarterly meet- ment, construction, financing, purchasing, sale, ownership, or ings and shall hold special meetings upon call of the governor or availability of housing in this state, the department shall prepare upon call of the cochairpersons for the purposes of considering a housing impact analysis for the bill within 30 days after it is in- matters under this section.

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(2) Requests for an appropriation change under s. 13.101 in the fiscal biennium during which the committee takes the action an amount not exceeding $5,000 and requiring immediate com- to supplement the appropriation. mittee action may be resolved by mail ballot to be formally (4) The committee may transfer between appropriations and recorded at the next ensuing special or regular meeting. The programs if the committee finds that unnecessary duplication of committee may employ such assistants as it deems necessary and functions can be eliminated, more efficient and effective methods fix their compensation. For the purposes of this section the sec- for performing programs will result or legislative intent will be retary of administration, or a designated representative, shall more effectively carried out because of such transfer, if legislative serve as secretary of the committee. The state auditor and the di- intent will not be changed as the result of such transfer and the rector of the legislative fiscal bureau, or their designated repre- purposes for which the transfer is requested have been authorized sentatives, shall attend such meetings if the committee requests. or directed by the legislature. The authority to transfer between (3) All requests for action by the committee shall be filed appropriations includes the authority to transfer between 2 fiscal with the secretary of the committee in writing and shall contain a years of the same biennium, between 2 appropriations of the statement of the action requested, the purposes therefor, the statu- same agency and between an appropriation of one agency and an tory provision authorizing or directing the performance of the ac- appropriation of a different agency. No transfer between appro- tion, and such other information as the committee may require. priations or programs may be made to offset deficiencies arising The governor shall submit a recommendation on the request to from the lack of adequate expenditure controls by a department, the committee. The committee shall afford all such requests a board, institution, commission or agency. Except as provided in public hearing and the secretary of the committee shall give pub- sub. (4d), the authority to transfer between appropriations shall lic notice of the time and place of such hearing. not include the authority to transfer from sum sufficient appropri- (4) All actions under this section shall be determined by a roll ations as defined under s. 20.001 (3) (d) to other types of call vote. A copy of the minutes shall be signed by the secretary appropriations. and approved by the presiding officers and be transmitted to the (4d) During the public health emergency declared on March department of administration, the state auditor and the legislative 12, 2020, by executive order 72, and for a period of 90 days after reference bureau. All requests for action by the committee under termination of the emergency, the committee may transfer under this section may be approved in whole or in part by the governor sub. (4) an amount not to exceed $75,000,000 from sum suffi- and the part approved shall be so ordered, and the part objected to cient appropriations, as defined under s. 20.001 (3) (d), to be used shall be returned to the committee for reconsideration. If the gov- for expenditures related to the emergency. ernor neither approves nor objects to a request within 15 working (4m) The committee may make loans from the appropriation days after the committee takes action on the request, the request under s. 20.865 (4) (a) to any appropriation from the general fund is approved in whole. The cochairpersons of the committee shall or any state segregated fund. If a loan upon repayment is credited call a meeting or conduct a mail ballot within 15 working days af- to the appropriation under s. 20.865 (4) (a), the committee may ter receipt of the governor’s objection and if, after reconsidera- utilize the loan funds repaid as provided in this section and s. tion, two-thirds of the members of the committee by a roll call 20.865 (4) (a). vote or recorded ballot sustain the original action it shall be so or- (5) The committee may allot moneys under s. 20.865 (4) (a), dered by signature of the cochairpersons of the committee. (g) and (u) to any state activity to which a federal project has been (5) Appropriation changes approved by the joint committee granted. on finance shall be reported to the department of administration (6) (a) As an emergency measure necessitated by decreased and expenditures therefrom shall be shown in the state budget re- state revenues and to prevent the necessity for a state tax on gen- port as an additional cost of the state agency or programs to eral property, the committee may reduce any appropriation made which the changes were made. to any board, commission, department, or the University of Wis- History: 1981 c. 20 ss. 3b, 3c, 3e, 3g, 3m; 1983 a. 27; 1993 a. 184. consin System, or to any other state agency or activity, by such 13.101 Joint committee on finance; appropriation amount as it deems feasible, not exceeding 25 percent of the ap- and position changes. (1) Following the procedures under propriations, except appropriations made by ss. 20.255 (2) (ac), s. 13.10, the joint committee on finance may take action under (bc), (bh), (cg), and (cr), 20.395 (1), (2) (cq), (eq) to (ex) and (gq) this section. to (gx), (3), (4) (aq) to (ax), and (6) (af), (aq), (ar), and (au), 20.435 (4) (a) and (5) (da), and 20.437 (2) (a) and (dz) or for (2) A department, board, commission or agency may request forestry purposes under s. 20.370 (2), or any other moneys dis- the committee to create or abolish a full-time equivalent position tributed to any county, city, village, town, or school district. Ap- as defined in s. 230.03 (11) or portion thereof in the department, board, commission or agency. Upon receiving such a request, the propriations of receipts and of a sum sufficient shall for the pur- committee may change the authorized level of full-time equiva- poses of this section be regarded as equivalent to the amounts ex- lent positions in the department, board, commission or agency. pended under such appropriations in the prior fiscal year which The committee may approve a different authorized level of full- ended June 30. All functions of said state agencies shall be con- time equivalent positions than is requested by the department, tinued in an efficient manner, but because of the uncertainties of board, commission or agency. the existing situation no public funds should be expended or obli- gations incurred unless there shall be adequate revenues to meet (3) (a) The committee may supplement, from the appropria- the expenditures therefor. For such reason the committee may tions under s. 20.865 (4), the appropriation of any department, make reductions of such appropriations as in its judgment will se- board, commission or agency, which is insufficient because of cure sound financial operations of the administration for said unforeseen emergencies or insufficient to accomplish the pur- state agencies and at the same time interfere least with their ser- pose for which made, if the committee finds that: vices and activities. 1. An emergency exists; (b) No reduction in any such appropriation may be made un- 2. No funds are available for such purposes; and der authority of this section until an opportunity to be heard is 3. The purposes for which a supplemental appropriation is given, in writing or through publication in the official state paper, requested have been authorized or directed by the legislature. to the state agency to which such appropriation is made. Notice (b) The committee may supplement an appropriation only for of any reduction in appropriations shall be communicated to the

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state agency affected, and to the department of administration. biennial budget bill. (1) The joint committee on finance may Thereafter, the secretary of administration shall not release and not vote to recommend passage of a biennial budget bill or an shall not draw a warrant in payment of any amount exceeding the amendment thereto until the legislative fiscal bureau has distrib- reduced appropriations. uted a copy of an earmark transparency report on the biennial (7) Whenever in the statutes an appropriation or a portion of budget bill, as amended, prepared under s. 13.95 (1r) (b), to each an appropriation is available only upon release by the committee, member of the legislature and has made the report available on such moneys shall be made available by the committee at such the legislature’s Internet website. times and in such amounts as the committee may determine to be (2) If a member of the joint committee on finance makes a necessary to adequately provide for the purposes for which they motion during committee deliberations on a biennial budget bill are appropriated, with due regard for the whole amount available to remove an earmark, as defined in s. 13.95 (1r) (a), from the bi- for such purposes. If the provision relating to release by the com- ennial budget bill, the motion shall prevail on either a majority or mittee is invalid, the appropriation or portion of the appropriation a tie vote. which is subject to such release shall not be invalidated but shall History: 2011 a. 220; 2017 a. 365 s. 112. be considered to be made without any condition as to time or manner of release. 13.105 Marquette University Dental School reports to (8) No part of any appropriation which is made conditional governor and joint committee on finance. The Marquette upon approval by the committee shall be effective and available University School of Dentistry shall biennially report to the gov- until approval in writing signed by the governor and at least one ernor and the joint committee on finance on the: of the chairpersons of the committee has been filed with the de- (1) Number of faculty and nonfaculty positions at the dental partment of administration. school. (9) Releases made by the committee shall be effective only (2) Average faculty salaries compared to national averages. for the fiscal year for which made. (3) Costs per dental student. (10) The committee may approve expenditure of moneys re- (4) Student-faculty ratios of the dental school. ceived by this state as a part of a block grant under s. 16.54 (2) (a) (5) Placement of graduates of the dental program and their 2., and may approve a transfer of moneys allocated by the federal rate of retention in this state. government to this state as a part of a block grant for use as a part of another such grant made for different purposes. In this subsec- (6) Minority student recruitment policies and programs. tion, “block grant” has the meaning given under s. 16.54 (2) (a). (7) Programs and purposes for which funds appropriated by (11) The committee may approve a clean water fund program this state are spent. interest rate change as specified under s. 281.58 (12) (f) or a safe History: 1973 c. 333. drinking water loan program interest rate change as specified un- 13.106 Medical College of Wisconsin and UW-Madi- der s. 281.61 (11) (b). son Medical School reports. (2) The Medical College of (14) With the concurrence of the joint committee on informa- Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical tion policy and technology, direct the department of administra- School shall submit a biennial report containing financial sum- tion to report to the committee concerning any specific informa- maries for the college and school to the governor and the joint tion technology system project in accordance with s. 13.58 (5) (b) committee on finance, in a consistent format and methodology to 4. be developed in consultation with the medical education review (15) Notwithstanding sub. (3) (a), if the department of ad- committee under s. 39.16. ministration requests the joint committee on finance to supple- (3) By October 15 of each even-numbered year, the Medical ment the appropriation under s. 20.505 (1) (ku) from the appro- College of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison priation under s. 20.865 (4) (g), the committee may supplement Medical School shall submit a report to the governor, the joint the appropriation by not more than $500,000 in any fiscal year to committee on finance, and the chief clerk of each house of the provide a grant to one or more eligible counties if the committee finds that the proposed grantee or grantees are eligible to receive legislature for distribution to the legislature under s. 13.172 (2), a grant under s. 16.18. Notwithstanding sub. (3) (a), no finding of that provides information on all of the following: emergency is required for the committee to act in accordance (ac) Minority student recruitment policies and programs of with this subsection. each medical school, and the number of minority students (17) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (2) (gk), the enrolled. committee may approve expenditure of moneys received by the (ag) Number and percentages of Wisconsin residents state under s. 51.06 (6) only to support any state activity, includ- enrolled. ing by the department of veterans affairs, that is conducted or per- (aL) Average faculty salaries compared to national averages. formed on the property that is occupied or managed by the de- (ap) Development of cooperative educational programs with partment of health services or the department of corrections on other institutions throughout this state. December 30, 2003, at the Northern Center for the Developmen- (at) Placement of graduates of doctor of medicine and resi- tally Disabled. dency training programs. History: 1975 c. 39, 199, 224; 1977 c. 29 ss. 1649, 1656 (15); 1979 c. 1; 1979 c. 34 ss. 1b to 1g, 631j to 631s, 2102 (43) (a), (52) (a); 1979 c. 221; 1981 c. 20 ss. 3d to (ax) The financial status of the family practice residency sites. 3v; 1983 a. 27 ss. 5p to 7, 2202 (20) and (42); 1983 a. 538; 1985 a. 29 ss. 22, 3202 (b) The number of family practice residents choosing to prac- (51); 1987 a. 4; 1989 a. 31, 336, 366; 1991 a. 39, 309; 1993 a. 16, 184, 414; 1995 a. tice in medically underserved areas of the state upon graduation. 27, 132, 225, 227, 445; 1997 a. 27, 35, 113, 252; 1999 a. 9, 29; 2001 a. 16, 38, 109; 2003 a. 33, 64, 102; 2005 a. 25; 2007 a. 20 ss. 5, 9121 (6) (a); 2009 a. 28; 2015 a. 55; (c) The number of graduates entering family practice as a 2017 a. 59; 2019 a. 185. career. Appropriations may be made only by law. If the legislature appropriates money to the Joint Committee on Finance, the court lacks any legal basis to override the (4) (a) In this subsection, “rural or underserved urban legislature's appropriation and transfer it to a different recipient. Wisconsin State Legislature v. DPI, 2025 WI 27, 416 Wis. 2d 611, 22 N.W.3d 932, 24-1713. medicine program” includes the Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine, the Training in Urban Medicine and Public Health pro- 13.102 Joint committee on finance; consideration of gram, any community medical education program of the Medical

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College of Wisconsin, and any other rural or underserved urban to the speaker’s compensation, expenses and mileage as a medicine program established after July 2, 2013. member. (b) By October 15 of each even-numbered year, the Medical (4) INSURANCE. For the purpose of premium determinations College of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin School of under s. 40.05 (4) and (5) each member of the legislature shall ac- Medicine and Public Health shall submit a report to the governor crue sick leave at a rate equivalent to a percentage of time worked and to the chief clerk of each house of the legislature for distribu- recommended for such positions by the administrator of the divi- tion to the legislature under s. 13.172 (2) that provides informa- sion of personnel management in the department of administra- tion on all of the following: tion and approved by the joint committee on employment rela- 1. The number of students enrolled in rural or underserved tions in the same manner as compensation for such positions is urban medicine programs. determined under s. 20.923. This percentage of time worked 2. The medical specialties and residency locations of the stu- shall be applied to the sick leave accrual rate established under s. dents in rural or underserved urban medicine programs. 230.35 (2). The approved percentage shall be incorporated into 3. The initial postresidency practice locations for graduates the compensation plan under s. 230.12 (1). of rural or underserved urban medicine programs. History: 1973 c. 51, 243; 1977 c. 196 s. 131; 1981 c. 96 s. 67; 1983 a. 27 ss. 8, 9, 2202 (33); 1991 a. 316; 2003 a. 33 ss. 11, 12, 9160; 2005 a. 25; 2015 a. 55. History: 1973 c. 333; 1977 c. 418; 1983 a. 524; 1991 a. 39; 1995 a. 54; 2013 a. 20; 2015 a. 184. 13.123 Legislators’ expenses. (1) IN-SESSION EXPENSES. 13.11 Records of joint committee on finance. The joint (a) 1. Any member of the legislature who has signified, by affi- committee on finance shall keep a complete record of all legisla- davit filed with the department of administration, the necessity of tion referred to it, and of its proceedings thereon. At the close of establishing a temporary residence at the state capital for the pe- the session, such record shall be transmitted to the chief clerks riod of any regular or special legislative session shall be entitled and deposited by them with the secretary of state. The secretary to an allowance for expenses incurred for food and lodging for of state, upon request therefor, shall deliver any such records of each day that he or she is in Madison on legislative business, but previous sessions to the joint committee on finance. Records so not including any Saturday or Sunday unless the legislator is in delivered shall be returned to the secretary of state by the cochair- actual attendance on such day at a session of the legislature or a persons of the committee at or before the close of the session. meeting of a standing committee of which the legislator is a History: 1993 a. 184. member. The amount of the allowance for each biennial session shall be 90 percent of the per diem rate for travel for federal gov-