Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AJR15 Compare Versions

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4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTIO N 15
5	5	March 8, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives SORTWELL, BEHNKE, BRANDTJEN,
6	6	DONOVAN, MICHALSKI, MURPHY and MURSAU, cosponsored by Senator JACQUE.
7	7	Referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety.
8	8	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
9	9	To create section 9 (3) of article IV and section 12 of article VIII of the constitution;
10	10	relating to: creation of a police and fire fund, and deposit of moneys into the
11	11	police and fire fund (first consideration).
12	12	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
13	13	Under current law, a communications provider is required to collect from each
14	14	subscriber of a communications service a monthly fee of 75 cents on each
15	15	communications service connection with an assigned telephone number, including
16	16	a communications service provided via a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP)
17	17	connection. The communications provider must identify the fee as a “charge for
18	18	funding countywide 911 systems plus police and fire protection fee.” The fee is
19	19	commonly referred to as the “police and fire protection fee.” The fee is administered
20	20	by the Public Service Commission, and the revenue from the fee is deposited in the
21	21	police and fire protection fund. Under current law, most of the revenue from the
22	22	police and fire protection fund is used to make county and municipal aid payments.
23	23	This constitutional amendment, proposed to the 2023 legislature on first
24	24	consideration, requires that revenues from a police and fire protection fee be
25	25	deposited into a police and fire fund and used only for expenses related to updating
26	26	the 911 service infrastructure. The amendment also requires the Department of
27	27	Military Affairs to administer the fee.
28	28	A proposed constitutional amendment requires adoption by two successive
29	29	legislatures, and ratification by the people, before it can become effective.
30	30	Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That:
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39	39	SECTION 1. Section 9 (3) of article IV of the constitution is created to read:
40	40	[Article IV] Section 9 (3) The legislature shall provide by law for the
41	41	establishment of a police and fire fund and shall create the department of military
42	42	affairs to administer the fund.
43	43	SECTION 2. Section 12 of article VIII of the constitution is created to read:
44	44	[Article VIII] Section 12. All funds collected by the state from fees levied or
45	45	imposed on subscribers of active retail communications services and collected by
46	46	communications providers on each communications service connection with an
47	47	assigned telephone number, including a communications service provided via a voice
48	48	over Internet protocol connection, shall be designated the police and fire protection
49	49	fee and shall be deposited only into the police and fire fund. The police and fire
50	50	protection fee shall be used only for expenses related to updating the 911 service
51	51	infrastructure, including the emergency services Internet protocol network, cost
52	52	recovery by originating service providers and the third-party providers they use to
53	53	connect to an emergency services Internet protocol network, public safety answering
54	54	point grants, and geographic information systems data grants. Public safety
55	55	answering point grants under this section may include grants for the advanced
56	56	training of telecommunicators, for equipment or software expenses, and for
57	57	incentives to consolidate some or all of the functions of two or more public safety
58	58	answering points. No grant funds provided under this section shall be used for
59	59	overhead or staffing costs or costs for providing emergency services or emergency
60	60	services equipment. None of the funds collected or received by the state from any
61	61	source and deposited into the police and fire fund shall be lapsed, further transferred,
62	62	or appropriated to any program that is not directly administered in furtherance of
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91	91	SECTION 3
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93	93	SECTION 3. Numbering of new provision. If another constitutional
94	94	amendment ratified by the people creates the number of any provision created in this
95	95	joint resolution, the chief of the legislative reference bureau shall determine the
96	96	sequencing and the numbering of the provisions whose numbers conflict.
97	97	Be it further resolved, That this proposed amendment be referred to the
98	98	legislature to be chosen at the next general election and that it be published for three
99	99	months previous to the time of holding such election.
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