This bill provides and adjusts levels of funding for various state programs. The
bill also creates and revises programs and makes changes in various laws, lapses
funds from program revenue appropriations, and transfers funds from segregated
funds to the general fund. The descriptions that follow relate to the most significant
changes in the law proposed in the bill. In most cases, changes in the amounts of
existing spending authority, changes in the amounts of bonding authority under
existing bonding programs, and lapses and transfers of funds are not discussed.

For additional information concerning this bill, see the department of
administration's publication Budget Reform Bill Summary 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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The sections of this bill that affect statutes are organized in ascending
numerical order of the statutes affected.

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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 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 Appropriation changes.

93XX Initial applicability.

94XX Effective dates.

The remaining two digits indicate the state agency to which the provision
relates:

XX01 Administration.

XX02 Adolescent pregnancy prevention and pregnancy services
board.

XX03 Aging and long-term care board.

XX04 Agriculture, trade and consumer protection.

XX05 Arts board.

XX06 Boundary area commission, Minnesota-Wisconsin.

XX07 Building commission.

XX08 Child abuse and neglect prevention board.

XX09 Circuit courts.

XX10 Commerce.

XX11 Corrections.

XX12 Court of appeals.

XX13 District attorneys.

XX14 Educational communications board.

XX15 Elections board.

XX16 Employee trust funds.

XX17 Employment relations commission.

XX18 Employment relations department.

XX19 Ethics board.

XX20 Financial institutions.

XX21 Governor.

XX22 Health and Educational Facilities Authority.

XX23 Health and family services.

XX24 Higher educational aids board.

XX25 Historical society.

XX26 Housing and Economic Development Authority.

XX27 Insurance.

XX28 Investment board.

XX29 Joint committee on finance.

XX30 Judicial commission.