Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB26 Compare Versions

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4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 26
5	5	February 10, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives KURTZ, SINICKI, ZIMMERMAN,
6	6	WITTKE, TUSLER, TITTL, SUBECK, STUBBS, SPIROS, SHANKLAND, ROZAR, RIEMER,
7	7	RATCLIFF, PETRYK, PETERSEN, ORTIZ-VELEZ, OHNSTAD, NOVAK, MURSAU, KNODL,
8	8	KITCHENS, JOERS, HAYWOOD, GUSTAFSON, EMERSON, EDMING, DONOVAN,
9	9	CONSIDINE, CONLEY, CABRERA, BRANDTJEN, BILLINGS, BALDEH, ARMSTRONG,
10	10	ANDRACA, C. ANDERSON and JACOBSON, cosponsored by Senators COWLES,
11	11	HESSELBEIN, WIRCH, WANGGAARD, TAYLOR, STAFSHOLT, SPREITZER, PFAFF,
12	12	LARSON, JAMES, FEYEN and CARPENTER. Referred to Committee on Veterans
13	13	and Military Affairs.
14	14	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
15	15	AN ACT to create 20.855 (4) (bg) of the statutes; relating to: the University of
16	16	Wisconsin Missing-in-Action Recovery and Identification Project and making
17	17	an appropriation.
18	18	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
19	19	Under this bill, the University of Wisconsin Missing-in-Action Recovery and
20	20	Identification Project (MIA Recovery Project) may request the Joint Committee on
21	21	Finance to provide $180,000 in each fiscal year of the 2023-25 fiscal biennium for
22	22	missions to recover and identify Wisconsin veterans who are missing in action. The
23	23	request must include a research prospectus and spending plan for the mission for
24	24	which the funding is requested and must be concurrently provided to the standing
25	25	committees of each house of the legislature dealing with veterans matters (veterans
26	26	committees), as well as the governor, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the
27	27	Department of Military Affairs. The veterans committees may submit to JCF a
28	28	written recommendation regarding the request. JCF considers the request under a
29	29	14-day passive review process and, upon JCF's express or implied approval of the
30	30	request, JCF must provide the requested amount of funding directed to the MIA
31	31	Recovery Project Fund. If JCF provides funding, by June 30, 2025, the MIA Recovery
32	32	Project must submit to JCF, each veterans committee, the governor, DVA, and DMA
33	33	a report on the mission's findings and accounting of expenditures, including specified
34	34	information. The bill also creates a miscellaneous appropriation of general purpose
35	35	revenue through which JCF provides the funding.
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41	41	For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
42	42	an appendix to this bill.
43	43	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
44	44	enact as follows:
45	45	SECTION 1. 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert
46	46	the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
47	47	2023-24 2024-25
48	48	20.855 Miscellaneous Appropriations
49	49	(4) TAX, ASSISTANCE AND TRANSFER PAYMENTS
50	50	(bg)Missing-in-Action Recovery
51	51	Project GPR C 180,000 180,000
52	52	SECTION 2. 20.855 (4) (bg) of the statutes is created to read:
53	53	20.855 (4) (bg) Missing-in-Action Recovery Project. As a continuing
54	54	appropriation, the amounts in the schedule for the joint committee on finance to
55	55	provide the funding under 2023 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), section 3 (1).
56	56	SECTION 3. 0Nonstatutory provisions.
57	57	(1) FUNDING FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MISSING-IN-ACTION RECOVERY
58	58	AND IDENTIFICATION PROJECT.
59	59	(a) In this subsection, “MIA Recovery Project” means the University of
60	60	Wisconsin Missing-in-Action Recovery and Identification Project.
61	61	(b) The MIA Recovery Project, acting through a designated representative, may
62	62	submit to the joint committee on finance a request for funding in fiscal year 2023-24
63	63	in the amount of $180,000 and for funding in fiscal year 2024-25 in the amount of
64	64	$180,000 for the MIA Recovery Project to perform a mission for the recovery and
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88	88	identification of Wisconsin veterans who are missing in action. Any request
89	89	submitted under this paragraph shall include a research prospectus and spending
90	90	plan for the mission for which the funding is requested, with a copy of the request,
91	91	the prospectus, and the spending plan concurrently provided to the standing
92	92	committees of each house of the legislature dealing with veterans matters, the
93	93	governor, the department of veterans affairs, and the department of military affairs.
94	94	(c) After receiving the request, prospectus, and spending plan specified in par.
95	95	(b), the standing committees of each house of the legislature dealing with veterans
96	96	matters may, within 7 working days of receiving the request, submit to the joint
97	97	committee on finance a written recommendation regarding the request.
98	98	(d) If, within 14 working days after receiving the request under par. (b), the
99	99	cochairpersons of the joint committee on finance do not notify the MIA Recovery
100	100	Project representative that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the purpose
101	101	of reviewing the request, the request is considered approved. If, within 14 working
102	102	days after the date of the request, the cochairpersons of the committee notify the MIA
103	103	Recovery Project representative that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the
104	104	purpose of reviewing the request, the request is approved only upon express approval
105	105	of the committee.
106	106	(e) Upon approval of the request under par. (d), the joint committee on finance
107	107	shall provide funding in the requested amount, from the appropriation account
108	108	under s. 20.855 (4) (bg), directed to the University of Wisconsin Missing-in-Action
109	109	Recovery and Identification Project Fund.
110	110	(f) If the joint committee on finance approves a request under par. (d), the MIA
111	111	Recovery Project, acting through its representative, shall submit, by June 30, 2025,
112	112	for which funds provided under par. (e) were expended, to the joint committee on
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140	140	finance, the standing committees of each house of the legislature dealing with
141	141	veterans matters, the governor, the department of veterans affairs, and the
142	142	department of military affairs, a report on the mission's findings and an accounting
143	143	of expenditures, including all of the following:
144	144	1. A detailed budget breakdown showing how all funding provided under par.
145	145	(e) was spent.
146	146	2. A statement of the number of cases identified.
147	147	3. A description of all cases during the time frame funds were received,
148	148	including current progress and future planned actions such as letters to the family
149	149	or missions abroad.
150	150	4. A calculation of the cost to continue with additional missions, identifying the
151	151	data and methodology used to make the calculation.
152	152	5. Identification of the amount and source of all funds raised for the cases that
153	153	were in addition to the funding provided under par. (e).
154	154	6. A detailed description of the involvement of the federal department of
155	155	defense in the mission, along with information identifying all other missions or cases
156	156	on which the MIA Recovery Project has worked with the federal department of
157	157	defense in the past and all missions or cases on which the MIA Recovery Project
158	158	expects to work with the federal department of defense in fiscal years 2025-26 and
159	159	2026-27, including what arrangements the MIA Recovery Project has made with the
160	160	federal department of defense to continue with future missions.
161	161	7. A detailed description of the role of University of Wisconsin System students
162	162	in the mission or in connection with the mission, including how students were
163	163	utilized to accomplish the objectives of the mission, whether involved students were
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192	192	paid or received academic credit or neither, and whether the MIA Recovery Project
193	193	provided any classroom instruction or coursework to involved students.
194	194	SECTION 4.0Effective date.
195	195	(1) This act takes effect on the day after publication, or on the 2nd day after
196	196	publication of the 2023 biennial budget act, whichever is later.
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