SB 59

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 2019-21 fiscal

biennium.

The bill sets the appropriation levels in chapter 20 of the statutes for the

2019-21 fiscal biennium. The descriptions that follow in this analysis relate to the

most significant changes in the law that are proposed in the bill.

For additional information concerning the 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.

Guide to the bill

The budget bill is organized like other bills. First, treatments of statutes

appear in ascending numerical order of the statute affected. Next, any treatments

of prior session laws appear ordered by the year of original enactment and then by

act number (for instance, a treatment of

2015 Wisconsin Act 15

would precede a

treatment of

2017 Wisconsin Act 6

).

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.

XX03 Arts Board.

XX04 Building Commission.