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2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
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                    2021 SENATE BILL 119
    February 18, 2021 - Introduced by Senators WANGGAARD, DARLING, BRADLEY,
        COWLES, FEYEN, JACQUE, NASS, ROTH and TESTIN, cosponsored by
        Representatives    SPIROS,    SANFELIPPO,     ARMSTRONG, BRANDTJEN,
        CABRAL-GUEVARA, HORLACHER, MAGNAFICI, MOSES, ROZAR and WICHGERS.
        Referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety.
1   AN ACT to amend 79.035 (5); to repeal and recreate 79.035 (5); and to create
2        79.035 (9) of the statutes; relating to: decreasing shared revenue payments to
3        municipalities based on decreased funding for law enforcement officers.
                    Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
          Under this bill, if in any year a municipality decreases the amount of its
    municipal budget dedicated to hiring, training, and retaining law enforcement
    officers so that it is less than the amount dedicated to that purpose in the previous
    year, the municipality will receive a county and municipal aid payment that is
    reduced by the amount of that decrease. The bill provides that the amount of all such
    reductions will be distributed to the municipalities that did not reduce their law
    enforcement budgets in proportion to each municipality's share of the total amount
    of county and municipal aid payments. Furthermore, the amount of the reduced
    payment that the municipality receives becomes the amount of county and municipal
    aid that the municipality will receive in subsequent years.
          The reductions under the bill do not apply to a municipality that transfers
    responsibility for providing law enforcement to another local unit of government or
    that enters into a cooperative agreement to share law enforcement responsibilities
    with another local unit of government.
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          For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
     printed as an appendix to this bill.
     The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
         enact as follows:
 1        SECTION 1. 79.035 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
 2        79.035 (5)    Except as provided in subs. (6), (7), and (8), and (9) for the
 3   distribution in 2013 and subsequent years, each county and municipality shall
 4   receive a payment under this section that is equal to the amount of the payment
 5   determined for the county or municipality under this section for 2012.
 6        SECTION 2. 79.035 (5) of the statutes, as affected by 2019 Wisconsin Act 19,
 7   section 18, and 2019 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is repealed and recreated to read:
 8        79.035 (5) Except as provided in subs. (7), (8), and (9) for the distribution in
 9   2013 and subsequent years, each county and municipality shall receive a payment
10   under this section that is equal to the amount of the payment determined for the
11   county or municipality under this section for 2012.
12        SECTION 3. 79.035 (9) of the statutes is created to read:
13        79.035 (9) (a) For the distribution in 2021 and subsequent years, if in any year
14   a municipality decreases the amount of its municipal budget dedicated to hiring,
15   training, and retaining law enforcement officers, as defined in s. 165.85 (2) (c), so that
16   the amount is less than the amount so dedicated in the previous year, the department
17   of administration shall reduce the municipality's payment under this section by the
18   amount of the decrease in the municipality's budget dedicated to hiring, training,
19   and retaining law enforcement officers. The amount of the most recent reduced
20   payment that the municipality receives under this paragraph shall be the amount
21   of the municipality's payment under this section in subsequent years.                This
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 1   subsection does not apply to a municipality that transfers responsibility for
 2   providing law enforcement to another local unit of government or that enters into a
 3   cooperative agreement to share law enforcement responsibilities with another local
 4   unit of government.
 5        (b) The amount of all reductions under par. (a) in the year of distribution shall
 6   be distributed to the municipalities that are not subject to a reduction under par. (a)
 7   in proportion to their share of all payments under this section.
 8        SECTION 4.0Effective dates. This act takes effect on the day after publication,
 9   except as follows:
10        (1) The repeal and recreation of s. 79.035 (5) takes effect on June 30, 2036.
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Statutes affected: 
Text as Enrolled: 79.035(5), 79.035
Bill Text: 79.035(5), 79.035