Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 20 - Appropriations and budget management.
20.003 - Appropriation acts and bills.

20.003 Appropriation acts and bills.
(2) Legislative reference bureau authority. All appropriations made by the legislature shall be listed in this chapter. The legislative reference bureau shall assign numbers in this chapter to any appropriation not so numbered and if appropriation laws are enacted which are not numbered to correspond with the numbering system of this chapter as outlined in sub. (3), the legislative reference bureau shall renumber such laws accordingly.
(3) Numbering system.
(a) In the schedule of s. 20.005 and in the text in ss. 20.115 to 20.875, all state agencies shall be arranged within functional areas. Each functional area is assigned a subchapter and each state agency shall be assigned a section within that subchapter. Each subsection constitutes a program, and each paragraph constitutes an appropriation.
(b) Except as provided under par. (c), all appropriations are identified according to their source of funds, as defined in s. 20.001, by the paragraph letters assigned as follows:
1. Appropriations from general purpose revenues shall be assigned paragraph letters (a) to (fz).
2. To the extent feasible, appropriations from program revenues shall be assigned paragraph letters (g) to (jz) and (L) to (pz).
3. To the extent feasible, appropriations from program revenue — service shall be assigned paragraph letters (k) to (kz).
4. Appropriations from segregated revenues shall be assigned paragraph letters (q) to (zz).
5. To the extent feasible, federal program revenues shall be assigned paragraph letters (m) to (pz).
6. To the extent feasible, federal segregated revenues shall be assigned paragraph letters (x) to (zz).
(c) All appropriations under ss. 20.370 and 20.395 shall be identified by 2 letters, the first letter indicating a subprogram and the 2nd letter indicating the source of funds, as defined in s. 20.001. To the extent feasible, the 2nd paragraph letters shall be assigned as follows:
1. Appropriations from general purpose revenues shall be shown with a 2nd paragraph letter of “a" to “f".
2. Appropriations from program revenues shall be shown with a 2nd paragraph letter of “g" to “j" or “L" to “p".
3. Appropriations from program revenue — service shall be shown with a 2nd paragraph letter of “k".
4. Appropriations from segregated revenues shall be shown with a 2nd paragraph letter of “q" to “z".
5. Federal program revenues shall be shown with a 2nd paragraph letter of “m" to “p".
6. Federal segregated revenues shall be shown with a 2nd paragraph letter of “x" to “z".
7. Appropriations from segregated revenues — local shall be shown with a 2nd paragraph letter of “v" to “z".
(e) The legislative reference bureau shall adhere to such standard numbering system and format when creating, repealing or amending the appropriation statutes.
(4) Required general fund balance. No bill directly or indirectly affecting general purpose revenues as defined in s. 20.001 (2) (a) may be enacted by the legislature if the bill would cause the estimated general fund balance on June 30 of any fiscal year specified in this subsection, as projected under s. 20.005 (1), to be an amount equal to less than the following amounts for that fiscal year or percentage of the total general purpose revenue appropriations for that fiscal year plus any amount from general purpose revenue designated as “Compensation Reserves" for that fiscal year in the summary under s. 20.005 (1):
(ft) For fiscal year 2007-08, $65,000,000.
(fv) For fiscal year 2008-09, $65,000,000.
(fw) For fiscal year 2009-10, $65,000,000.
(fx) For fiscal year 2010-11, $65,000,000.
(gc) For fiscal year 2011-12, $65,000,000.
(gh) For fiscal year 2012-13, $65,000,000.
(gk) For fiscal year 2013-14, $65,000,000.
(gL) For fiscal year 2014-15, $65,000,000.
(gm) For fiscal year 2015-16, $65,000,000.
(gn) For fiscal year 2016-17, $65,000,000.
(L) For fiscal year 2017-18 and each fiscal year thereafter, an amount equal to the prior fiscal year's required statutory balance plus $5,000,000, but not to exceed 2 percent.
(4m) Required general fund structural balance. No bill may be adopted by the legislature if the bill would cause in the 2nd year of any fiscal biennium the amount of moneys designated as “Total Expenditures" in the summary under s. 20.005 (1) for that fiscal year, less any amounts transferred to the budget stabilization fund in that fiscal year, to exceed the sum of the amount of moneys designated as “Taxes" and “Departmental Revenues" in the summary under s. 20.005 (1) for that fiscal year.
(5) Required lottery fund balance.
(a) The legislature may not enact any bill directly or indirectly affecting the lottery fund if the bill would cause the estimated lottery fund balance on June 30 of any fiscal year, as projected under s. 20.005 (1), to be less than 2 percent of the estimated gross lottery revenues, as defined in s. 25.75 (1) (b), for that fiscal year, as projected under s. 20.005 (1).
(b) Beginning with the summary under s. 20.005 (1) that is included in the 1991-93 biennial budget bill, the summary under s. 20.005 (1) shall separately list estimated lottery fund balances and estimated gross lottery revenues, as defined in s. 25.75 (1) (b).
History: 1977 c. 29; 1979 c. 34; 1981 c. 1, 20; 1981 c. 314 s. 146; 1981 c. 390; 1983 a. 27, 212; 1985 a. 29, 76, 120; 1985 a. 135 s. 85; 1985 a. 332 s. 253; 1987 a. 27; 1989 a. 336; 1993 a. 16; 1995 a. 27; 1999 a. 9, 83; 2001 a. 16, 106, 109; 2003 a. 33; 2005 a. 2, 25; 2007 a. 20; 2009 a. 28; 2011 a. 32; 2013 a. 20; 2013 a. 168 s. 21; 2015 a. 55.

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