Assembly Bill 127
Preparation of zero-based biennial budget requests by executive branch agencies, preparation and passage of biennial budget bill or bills, state budget deficit, and generally accepted accounting principles
Topics: Administration, Department of: Budget and fiscal issues, Budget bills and process, Federal aid, Legislature, State agencies
Stopped in committee
It never got a , so it never came up for a vote. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.
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Introduced, passed
Mar 9, 2009
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Senate vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Apr 28, 2010: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on State Affairs and Homeland Security. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
The bill provides that the Department of Administration (DOA), beginning with the 2011-13 fiscal biennium, must require 20 percent of executive branch agencies to submit their biennial budget requests prepared using the principles of zero-based budgeting for each of their activities, units, and programs. In each fiscal biennium thereafter, DOA must require a different 20 percent of executive branch agencies to submit their biennial budget requests prepared using the principles of zero-based budgeting, except that DOA must require each state agency to do this at least once during any five consecutive fiscal biennia. Under the bill, "zero-based budgeting" is defined as the compilation of a budget in which each component is justified on the basis of cost, need, and relation to the statutory responsibilities of the state agency for which the budget is made.
In addition, under current law, DOA is required to submit, as part of the biennial budget report, a comparison of the state's budgetary surplus or deficit according to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), as reported in any audited financial report prepared by DOA for the most recent fiscal year, and the estimated change in the surplus or deficit based on recommendations in the biennial budget bill or bills. GAAP are those principles for state and local governments adopted by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). Organized in 1984, GASB is an independent organization founded to establish standards of financial accounting and reporting for state and local governmental entities. Its standards generally guide the preparation of external financial reports of those entities.
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This bill provides that the legislature may not pass any biennial budget bill or bills for the 2015-17 and succeeding fiscal biennia that would produce a state budget deficit according to GAAP. The bill further requires that, beginning on January 1, 2011, the executive budget bill or bills must be prepared according to GAAP and that the bill or bills may not contain recommendations for the succeeding biennium that create a state budget deficit, according to GAAP.
Finally, the bill provides that neither house of the legislature may pass the executive budget bill for the 2009-11 fiscal biennium, if that bill appropriates federal economic stimulus funds, unless the governor submits a plan to the legislature to eliminate the state's structural deficit by the end of the 2015-16 fiscal year. Under the bill, "federal economic stimulus funds" is defined to mean federal moneys received by the state, pursuant to federal legislation enacted during the 111th Congress for the purpose of reviving the economy of the United States.
Who's behind it
11 lawmakers are its . All 11 are Republicans.
6 more lawmakers .
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Authors (11)
- Brett Davis · Republican, Assembly
- Scott Gunderson · Republican, Assembly
- Joel Kleefisch · Republican, Assembly
- Bill Kramer · Republican, Assembly
- Daniel LeMahieu · Republican, Assembly
- Thomas Lothian · Republican, Assembly
- John Murtha · Republican, Assembly
- Kevin Petersen · Republican, Assembly
- Roger Roth · Republican, Senate
- Pat Strachota · Republican, Assembly
- Leah Vukmir · Republican, Senate
Signed on in support (6)
- Alberta Darling · Republican, Senate
- Randy Hopper · Republican, Senate
- Theodore Kanavas · Republican, Senate
- Mary Lazich · Republican, Senate
- Joe Leibham · Republican, Senate
- Luther S. Olsen · Republican, Senate
What it would cost
State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.
What happened
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Apr 28, 2010
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Mar 31, 2009
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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Mar 9, 2009
Sent to the Assembly Committee on State Affairs and Homeland Security.
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Mar 9, 2009
Introduced in the Assembly.
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- Mar 9, 2009 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Vukmir, Davis, Kramer, Lothian, Petersen, Roth, LeMahieu, Murtha, Gunderson, Strachota and Kleefisch;Cosponsored by Senators Kanavas, Olsen, Lazich, Hopper, Darling and Leibham
- Mar 9, 2009 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to committee on State Affairs and Homeland Security
- Mar 31, 2009 · Assembly
Fiscal estimate received
- Apr 28, 2010 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary
From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate