AB 21

Introduction

This bill is the "executive budget bill" under section 16.47 (1) of the statutes.

It contains the governor's recommendations for appropriations for the 2015-2017

fiscal biennium.

The bill repeals and recreates the appropriation schedule in chapter 20 of the

statutes, thereby setting the appropriation levels for the 2015-2017 fiscal biennium.

The descriptions that follow relate to the most significant changes in the law that are

proposed in the bill. In most cases, changes in the amounts of existing spending

authority and changes in the amounts of bonding authority under existing bonding

programs are not discussed.

For additional information concerning this bill, see the Department of

Administration's publication

Budget in Brief

and the executive budget books, the

Legislative Fiscal Bureau's summary document, and the Legislative Reference

Bureau's drafting files, which contain separate drafts on each policy item. In most

cases, the policy item drafts contain a more detailed analysis than is printed with this

bill.

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Guide to the bill

As is the case for all other bills, the sections of the budget bill that affect statutes

are organized in ascending numerical order of the statutes affected.

Treatments of prior session laws (styled "laws of [year], chapter ...." from 1848

to 1981, and "[year] Wisconsin Act ...." beginning with 1983) are displayed next by

year of original enactment and by act number.

The remaining sections of the budget bill are organized by type of provision and,

within each type, alphabetically by state agency. The first two digits of the four-digit

section number indicate the type of provision:

91XX

Nonstatutory provisions.

92XX

Fiscal changes.

93XX

Initial applicability.

94XX

Effective dates.

The remaining two digits indicate the state agency or subject area to which the

provision relates:

XX01 Administration.

XX02 Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.