Current law requires the governor to prepare and submit to the legislature an
executive budget bill or bills that contain the governor's recommendations for
appropriations in the succeeding fiscal biennium. The governor may submit these
appropriation recommendations in a single bill or in a multitude of bills. In recent
history, the practice has been for the governor to submit a single executive budget
bill. This bill requires the governor to prepare and submit to the legislature multiple
executive budget bills. Each bill may contain only the governor's recommendations
for appropriations for the succeeding biennium from a single fund. In other words,
an executive budget bill may not appropriate moneys from more than one fund.

The bill also creates a legislative rule of proceeding that provides that no house
of the legislature may pass a bill that transfers money from one fund to another fund
unless the bill is approved by two-thirds of those members present and voting.

Current law requires each executive branch state agency to submit its biennial
budget request to the Department of Administrative and the Legislative Fiscal

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Bureau no later than September 15 of the even-numbered year. These requests are
used for the purpose of preparing the executive budget bill. This bill provides that
each executive branch state agency must submit its biennial budget requests
prepared using the principles of results-based budgeting for each of its activities,
units, and programs. Under the bill, "results-based budgeting" is defined as the
compilation of a budget of a state agency in which objectives are established for each
of the state agency's activities, units, and programs; in which resources are allocated
specifically to achieving the objectives; in which objective performance indicators are
developed to determine whether the state agency has achieved the objectives; and
in which an evaluation is undertaken to determine whether the objectives have been
achieved using the performance indicators.

2009 Wisconsin Act 28, the biennial budget act, eliminated a program that
required, every fiscal biennium, one-third of all state agencies to prepare a base
budget review report that contains a description of each programmatic activity of the
state agency; an accounting of all expenditures in each of the prior three fiscal years,
arranged by revenue source and expenditure category for that state agency; and, for
each programmatic activity of the state agency, an accounting of all expenditures,
arranged by revenue source and expenditure category in the last two quarters in
each of the prior three fiscal years. This bill recreates the requirement for state
agencies to prepare base budget review reports.