WI: Budget Update 6-19-09

The Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) released their memo comparing the differences between the Senate and Assembly versions of the budget on Thursday, June 18th.

As of the morning of Friday, June 19th, there have been no announcements by either the Senate or the Assembly with the specifics on the conference committee, but they are expected to meet next week. Reports are that Sen. Decker has been meeting with JFC Co-Chair Sen. Miller already this week.

To view the entire memo, please click link below:

http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lfb/2009-11Budget/2009_06_18Assembly_Senate.pdf

Below is The Wheeler Report summary on the differences between the budgets:

Education and Building Program:

Budget Management

--Increase lapse or transfer amount

--Agency mission statements and performance standards

Building Commission

--Sale of UW System properties

Building Program

--Delete UW-Madison School of Nursing building project

--Marquette University School of Engineering building

--Study of state role in expanding dental education

Public Instruction

--Low revenue ceiling

--Repeal QEO provisions

--Equalization aid calculation for consolidated districts

--Grant for school district consolidation

--Sparsity aid

--Four-year-old kindergarten grants

--School district grants

--Milwaukee Parental Choice Program enrollment limit

--Milwaukee Parental Choice Program required bilingual/bicultural education program

--Open enrollment hold harmless payments

--Limit on open enrollment pupils and per pupil amounts for pupils from Milwaukee Public Schools

--Milwaukee Public Schools construction projects

--Private school transportation provided through parent contracts

--Youth safety grant

--Special Olympics

--Adult literacy grants

University of Wisconsin System

--UW Stevens Point: Director for WI Institute for Sustainable Technology (federal funds offset)

--UW Stevens Point bachelor of science in nursing program

--UW System & WI Technical College System. Require veterans to use federal education benefits before state tuition and fee remissions

--Income from normal school fund for environmental programs

--Nonresident tuition exemptions for certain undocumented persons

--Conflict of interest for UW System employees

Wisconsin Technical College System

--Training program grants

General Government and Justice:

Department of Administration

--Low-income heating assistance and weatherization

--Use of private contractors during a hiring freeze

--Division of Legal Services

--Teach data line access for business

--Grant to Restorative Justice Programs, Inc.

--Management assistance grants

Circuit Courts

--Expunging record of conviction

--Increased court fees

Corrections

--Sentence modifications

--Conversion of unit supervisor positions

District Attorneys

--Public benefits fees for district attorneys

Employee Trust Funds

--Actuarial study

--Deductions of voluntary payments from retirement annuities

--Treatment of survivor benefits for federal tax purposes

Employment Relations Commission

--Additional arbitration weight factor

--Fund balances not to be weighted in school district arbitration decisions

General Provisions

--Postings in the official state newspaper

--Payment of a Milwaukee police officer's salary after discharge

--Recording of time-share licenses

Government Accountability Board

--Reimbursement of certain local election adminstration costs

--Conversion of investigations GPR sum sufficient appropriation

Investment Board

--Investment Board use of interns

Justice

--Agency 5.135% budget reductions

--ADA and assistant public defender compensation

--Crime victim and witness assistance surcharge

Legislature

--Protective occupation normal form actuarial study

Military Affairs

--Tax check-off for military families

Office of State Employment Relations

--Collective bargaining rights of UW System research assistants

Health Services and Insurance:

Health Services-Medical Assistance

--Require DHS to submit plan to implement unspecified MA efficiencies and reductions

--Delivery of MA dental services in Southeast Wisconsin

--Coverage of podiatry services for BadgerCare Plus childless adults

--Disability ombudsman advocacy services for IRIS participants

--County nursing homes supplemental payments

--County share of costs of care for children and elderly patients at the mental health institutes

--Nursing home supplemental payment for Trempealeau County

--Family Care expansion to Langlade County

--Create new eligibility category for coverage under BadgerCare Plus Benchmark Plan

--Require DHS to implement quality of care improvements

--FoodShare employment and training plan

Health Services-Public Health

--Marquette Dental School and dental services

--Definition of retail tobacco store

--Milwaukee Dental Clinic grant

--Diabetes prevention and control targeting Native American populations

--One-time grant for Human Concerns of South Milwaukee

--One-time grant for AIDS/HIV programs to Black Health Coalition of Wisconsin, Inc

--Patient health care records indexing fee

--Patient health care records access

--Maximum fee for expedited issuance of a marriage license

--Exemption from lifeguard staffing requirement

Insurance

--Insurance payment intercept and insurance agent appointment fees

--Minimum coverage requirements for treatment of autism spectrum disorder

--Independent review of coverage--denial determinations and recissions--insurer liability

--Health insurance coverage for dependents

Natural Resources and Commerce:

Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection

--Clean Sweep restoration

--Soil and water resource management appropriations

--Farmland Preservation Program Working Lands Initiative

--Fee for meat slaughtering and processing inspections

--Animal health staffing

Commerce

--Construction contractor registration

--Brownfields grant program

--Area development manager

Natural Resources

--Municipal and county recycling grant program

--Tipping fees from construction landfills

--Solid waste tipping fees for PCB contaminated sediment

--Disposal of ash after practice burms of structures

--Milwaukee Metro Sewerage District use of design-build process

--DNR service center walk-in service closure

--Conservation warden overtime

--Plum Creek/Union Township fire department equipment grant (Pierce County)

--Oneida County trail crossing

--Forest Crop Law parcel transfer

--Aquatic invasive voluntary contribution

--Petenwell and Castle Rock flowages monitoring program

--Koshkonong comprehensive lake management study

--Concentrated animal feeding operations wastewater permit fees

WI Housing and Economic Development Authority

--Household abuse victims emergency network

Tax Policy, Children & Families, Workforce Development

Children and Families

--Racine County child care facility pilot program

--Foster children and foster parent bills of rights

--Brighter Futures program

--American Indian tribal out-of-home care

--TANF revenue adjustments

--W-2 60-month time limit

--Retain LearnFare

--Subsidized private sector employment

--Maximum hours for child care subsidies

General Fund Taxes

--Individual income tax check-off for donations to food banks

--Individual income tax check-off for donations to military family relief fund

--Enterprise zones capital investment tax credit

--Individual and corporation income and franchise taxes jobs tax credit

--Financial records matching program

--Regulation of contractors--withholding and rulemaking authority

--Tobacco products tax

--Beer and wine provided by a non-profit organization during fundraising events

--Eliminate capital gains exclusion

--Individual income tax deduction for college savings account contributions

--Advance payment of earned income tax credits

--Individual and corporate income and franchise tax definition of air carrier

--Sales and use tax exemptions for biotechnology and manufacturing research

--Manufacturer and rectifier retail sales, winery permits and sampling of intoxicating liquor

--Tribal municipal beer and liquor permits

--Municipal liquor licenses (Dane County)

--Municipal liquor licenses--capital improvement areas

Public Service Commission

--Police and fire protection fee sunset

--911 grant program and surcharge

--Intervenor financing

--Fuel adjustment clause for electric public utilities

Workforce Development

--Rule-making authority for willful misclassification

--Penalty for failure to list deductions from wages

--Employment of apprentices on state public works projects

--Grant to Milwaukee Workforce Investment Board

--Prevailing Wage: modifications of provisions, definition of direct finance assistance for publicly-funded private construction projects, delete provision requiring coverage for certain employees that fabricate systems, collective bargaining agreements reporting, definition of bona fide economic benefit, remedies, Milwaukee Riverwalk exclusion

--Minimum wage indexing

Transportation and Property Tax Relief:

Transportation

--Oil company profits tax

--Petroleum Inspection Fund transfer to Transportation Fund

--Southeastern Regional Transit Authority

--Southeastern Regional Transity Authority prevailing wage requirements

--Milwaukee Transit Authority and Milwaukee County sales tax authority

--Chippewa Valley Regional Transit Authority

--Fox Valley Regional Transit Authority

--Chequamegon Bay Regional Transit Authority

--Dane County Regional Transit Authority: funding of highway projects and referendum requirements

--Transit authority and regional transit authority employees

--Freight rail preservation program report

--Feasibility study for passenger rail stop in Waterloo

--Railroad project bidding requirements

--Grant for railroad crossing improvements to Town of Stockton, Portage County

--Bicycle and pedestrian facilities incorporated into highway and street projects

--STH 102 bicycle and pedestrian path in the Village of Rib Lake

--Grant for bicycle lanes on CTH B in Douglas County

--Grant for Eisner Avenue project in Sheboygan County

--Design-build contracting for bridge projects

--Highway project design inventory requirement

--Exempt state transportation projects from conditional use permit requirements in farmland perservation districts

--Grant for Oak Creek for Drexel Avenue interchange on I-94

--Dane County CTH KP repaving project

--Gulf War Veterans Bridge (USH 41 over I-94 in Milwaukee County)

--Eliminate driver card provision

--Three-year registration of fleets

--Mandatory auto insurance

--Restore funding for state patrol posts in Spooner and Tomah

--DNR-DOT collaboration on Tomah facilities

--Primary seat belt enforcement

Shared Revenue and Tax Relief

--County and municipal aid funding from the police and fire protection fund

--Maintenance of effort for police and fire protection services

--Expenditure Restraint Program budget test

--Increase First Dollar Credit

--Homestead Tax Credit formula changes

--Property tax exemption for certain types of housing and student housing

--Definition of agricultural land for property tax purposes

--One-year extension of TIF districts for affordable housing purposes

--Burnett County temporary sales tax

General Provisions

--Regulations of fireworks

--Public works contracts and bids--responsible bidder

Summary from www.thewheelerreport.com