(g) The department shall withhold payment of at least 20 percent of a grant under this section until the recipient has complied with the conditions of the grant established by the department, including providing to the department information relating to the operation and performance of each idling reduction unit covered by the grant.

(5) Information. The department shall collect information from recipients of grants under this section relating to the operation and performance of idling reduction units. The department shall summarize the information collected and make it available to common motor carriers, contract motor carriers, and private motor carriers in an accessible and cost-effective manner, such as on department's Internet site.

(5m) Rules. The department shall promulgate rules for the administration of the program under this section.

(6) Sunset. Subsections (2) to (4) do not apply after December 31, 2012.

560.137 (2) (f) If the department awards a grant under this subsection, the department may contract directly with and pay grant proceeds directly to any person providing technical or management assistance to the grant recipient.

560.138 (6) If the department awards a grant under this section, the department may contract directly with and pay grant proceeds directly to any person providing technical or management assistance to the grant recipient.

26.40 (1m) From the appropriation under s. 20.143 (1) (t), the The department may award grants to nonprofit organizations to develop forestry educational programs and instructional materials for use in the public schools. The department may not award a grant unless it enters into a memorandum of understanding with the grant recipient and the director of the timber management program at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point regarding the use of the funds.

560.275 (2) (a) Early stage planning grants and loans. The department may make a grant or loan from the appropriation under s. 20.143 (1) (dk) or (ik) (c) or (ie) for the purpose of funding professional services related to completing an application to be submitted to the federal government for the purpose of obtaining early stage research and development funding or for the purpose of funding professional services that are required to accomplish specific tasks established as a condition of receiving early stage financing from 3rd parties that is necessary for business development.

(b) Matching grants and loans. 1. The department may make a grant or loan from the appropriation under s. 20.143 (1) (dk) or (ik) (c) or (ie) for the purpose of funding professional services related to developing a proposed technologically innovative product, process, or service, if the applicant has received a grant from the federal government for a substantially similar purpose.

2. The department may make a grant or loan from the appropriation under s. 20.143 (1) (dk) or (ik) (c) or (ie) for the purpose of funding professional services related to the accelerated commercialization of a technologically innovative product, process, or service, if the federal government has notified the applicant that the applicant will receive a grant from the federal government for a substantially similar purpose.

(c) Bridge grants and loans. The department may make a grant or loan from the appropriation under s. 20.143 (1) (dk) or (ik) (c) or (ie) to a person who has received early stage financing from 3rd parties or a grant from the federal government to fund early stage research and development and who has sought additional early stage financing from 3rd parties or applied for an additional grant from the federal government to fund early stage research and development. A grant or loan under this paragraph shall be for the purpose of funding professional services necessary to maintain the project research and management team and funding basic operations until the applicant's additional 3rd party financing request or federal grant application is approved or denied.

(d) Venture capital grants and loans. The department may make a grant or loan from the appropriation under s. 20.143 (1) (dk) or (ik) (c) or (ie) for the purpose of enhancing the applicant's ability to obtain early stage financing from 3rd parties.

(e) (intro.) Entrepreneurial and technology transfer center grants. The department may make a grant from the appropriation under s. 20.143 (1) (dk) or (ik) (c) or (ie) for the purpose of supporting any entrepreneurial and technology transfer center that satisfies all of the following criteria:

560.275 (8) Small businesses. The department shall award not less than 50 percent of the total amount of grants and loans made under this section to small businesses, as defined in 560.60 (15).

560.275 (9) Distressed Areas. The department shall award not less than 35 percent of the total amount of grants and loans made under this section to businesses in distressed areas, as defined in 560.605 (7) (b).

560.60 (15) (intro.) "Small business" means a business that is operating for profit, with 250 and to which any of the following apply:

(a) The business has 100 or fewer employees, including employees of any subsidiary or affiliated organization.

560.60 (15) (b) The business has annual gross receipts of $10,000,000 or less.

560.605 (1) (p) For an ethanol production facility on which construction begins after the effective date of this paragraph .... [revisor inserts date], a competitive bidding process is used for the construction of the ethanol production facility.

560.605 (7) (a) The board shall award not less than 50 percent of the total amount of grants and loans made under this subchapter to small businesses.

(b) The board shall award not less than 35 percent of the total amount of grants and loans made under this subchapter to businesses in distressed areas. In this paragraph, "distressed area" means an area to which any of the following apply:

1. The area has a high level of unemployment.

2. The area has a low median household income.

3. A significant number of workers in the area have been permanently laid off.

4. An employer in the area has given public notice of a plant closing or a substantial reduction in force that will result in a significant number of workers in the area being permanently laid off.

5. The area is designated as a development zone under s. 560.71 or an enterprise development zone under s. 560.797.

6. As determined by the board, the area is affected by another factor that indicates the area is a distressed area.

560.797 (2) (c) The department may not designate as an enterprise development zone, or as any part of an enterprise development zone, an area that is located within the boundaries of an area that is designated as a development zone under s. 560.71, or as a development opportunity zone under s. 560.795, the designation of which is in effect.

560.797 (2) (d) The department may not designate more than 7 9 8 5 enterprise development zones unless the department obtains the approval of the joint committee on finance to do so. Of the enterprise development zones that the department designates, at least 10 shall be designated under par. (bg).

560.797 (4) (a) Subject to par. (b), if If the department approves a project plan under sub. (3) and designates the area in which the person submitting the project plan conducts or intends to conduct the project as an enterprise development zone under the criteria under sub. (2), the department shall certify the person as eligible for tax benefits.

560.797 (4) (bm) Of the persons certified as eligible for tax benefits in the areas designated by the department as enterprise development zones after the effective date of this paragraph....[revisor inserts date], not less than one-half shall be businesses with 100 or fewer employees.

560.9810 (5) Nonapplication. This section does not apply to property that is authorized to be sold under s. 16.848.

562.01 (11g) "Race meeting" means the period during a calendar year for which a person has been issued a license under s. 562.05 (1) (b) or (bm).

562.02 (1) (L) Promulgate rules administering s. 562.058.

562.02 (5) The department may not impose a fee greater than $75 for renewal of a license issued under this chapter to operate a concession at a racetrack.

562.05 (1) (bm) The ownership and operation of a racetrack at which pari-mutuel wagering is conducted and the sponsorship and management of any race on which pari-mutuel wagering is conducted and which is not located at a fair.

562.05 (1g) A license issued under sub. (1) (a) or (bm) may authorize the ownership and operation of a racetrack where horse racing is conducted, the ownership and operation of a racetrack not at a fair where dog racing is conducted or the ownership and operation of a racetrack not at a fair where both horse racing and dog racing are conducted. A license issued under sub. (1) (b) or (bm) may authorize the sponsorship and management of horse races or dog races, or both horse races and dog races, at the same location.

562.05 (2m) In issuing a license to own and operate a racetrack not at a fair, the department shall consider the competitive effects on any other licensee under sub. (1) (a) or, (b), or (bm). These competitive effects shall include, but not be restricted to, the impact on the economic viability of existing licensed racetracks and the jobs that have been created by such licensed racetracks.

562.05 (3) No person may hold more than one license issued under sub. (1) (a) that authorizes ownership and operation of a racetrack at which pari-mutuel wagering is conducted and one license issued under sub. (1) (b) or (c) that authorizes sponsorship and management of any race on which pari-mutuel wagering is conducted. If the applicant for any of those licenses is a corporation, association, limited liability company or partnership, the department shall determine whether the applicant is the same person as another licensee for the purpose of applying this subsection. Nothing in this subsection prohibits any person with a license under sub. (1) from contracting for services with any other person with a license under sub. (1), subject to any rules promulgated by the department.

562.05 (3r) (a) The Except as provided under par. (b), the application for the first license under sub. (1) (a) or (bm) to be issued for any location shall be accompanied by a resolution, supporting the proposed location of the racetrack and its ownership and operation by the applicant, which has been adopted, after a public hearing, by the governing body of the city, village or town where the racetrack is proposed to be located. A common council may not adopt such a resolution if an ordinance prohibiting the location of a racetrack at the proposed location has been adopted under s. 9.20 before May 3, 1988, or a petition for such an ordinance has been filed, under s. 9.20, before May 3, 1988. Except as provided in this subsection, no ordinance adopted under s. 9.20 or 66.0101 may prohibit the location of a racetrack in any city or village.

562.05 (3r) (b) The requirements under par. (a) do not apply to an application for the first license under sub. (1) (bm) for a location if a license under sub. (1) (a) has been issued for the location.

562.05 (3wr) (a) The Except as provided under par. (b), the first license issued to each applicant under sub. (1) (a) or (bm) for each racetrack expires after 5 years. Any subsequent license issued to the same applicant for that racetrack expires after one year.

562.05 (3wr) (b) A first license issued to an applicant under sub. (1) (bm) for a racetrack expires after one year if the applicant held a license under sub. (1) (a) for the racetrack at the time of application for the license under sub. (1) (bm).

562.05 (3wt) In the first license issued to each applicant under sub. (1) (a) or (bm) for each racetrack, the department shall specify a date by which each of the types of racing authorized under the license shall begin at that racetrack. Upon request of the licensee, the department may change a specified date to an earlier or later date pursuant to rules of the department.

562.05 (4m) (c) The license will not create competition that will adversely affect any other licensee under sub. (1) (a) or, (b), or (bm).

562.05 (4r) Except as provided under subs. (3) to (3r) and (4), the department may issue a license under sub. (1) (bm) if the department determines that the conditions under subs. (3w) (a) to (d) and (4m) (a) to (c) are satisfied.

562.05 (5) (c) 2. Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, if after the application for a license is made or a license is issued any new officer, director, partner, member or owner subject to par. (a), as specified in par. (b), or any other new person with a present or future direct or indirect financial or management interest in the application or license joins the applicant or licensee, the applicant or licensee shall, within 5 working days, notify the department of the change and provide the affidavit under subd. 1. After an application for a license under sub. (1) (a) or, (b), or (bm) is made or after a license under sub. (1) (a) or, (b), or (bm) is issued, no ownership interest or right of ownership in the applicant or licensee may be transferred unless the applicant or licensee provides the affidavit under subd. 1. for the proposed new owner and the proposed new owner is approved by the department. The department shall conduct the background investigations required under sub. (7) of any new officer, director, partner, member, shareholder or proposed owner of an applicant or licensee named in a notice to the department under this subdivision.

562.05 (6m) (a) 1. An application for an intertrack wagering license shall identify each licensee under sub. (1) (b) or (bm) on whose races the applicant proposes to conduct intertrack wagering and, except as provided in subd. 2., shall be accompanied by a statement, signed by each licensee that is identified in the application, giving consent to the applicant to conduct intertrack wagering on all races that are simulcast by the licensee during the licensee's race meeting.

562.05 (6m) (a) 2. A licensee under sub. (1) (b) or (bm) who signs a statement specified in subd. 1. is considered to have given consent to all applicants for intertrack wagering licenses to conducting intertrack wagering on all races that are simulcast by the licensee during the licensee's race meeting, and no similar statements signed by that licensee need be filed by other applicants for intertrack wagering licenses who propose to conduct intertrack wagering on those races.

562.05 (6m) (b) 1. The applicant is licensed under sub. (1) (a) or, (b), or (bm).

562.05 (6m) (b) 2. At least 250 race performances were conducted at the racetrack for which the applicant is licensed under sub. (1) (a) or, (b) , or (bm) during the calendar year immediately preceding the year in which the applicant proposes to conduct intertrack wagering. The department may waive the requirement in this subdivision if the department determines that the waiver is in the public interest.