2012 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
20. Appropriations and budget management.
20.285 University of Wisconsin System.
20.285 University of Wisconsin System. There is appropriated to the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin System for the following programs:
(1) University education, research and public service.
(a) General program operations. The amounts in the schedule for the purpose of educational programs and related programs. The board of regents may not encumber amounts appropriated under this paragraph for groundwater research without the approval of the secretary of administration.
(d) Principal repayment and interest. A sum sufficient to do all of the following:
1. Reimburse s. 20.866 (1) (u) for the payment of principal and interest costs incurred in financing the acquisition, construction, development, enlargement, or improvement of university academic facilities.
2. Reimburse s. 20.866 (1) (u) for any amounts advanced to meet principal and interest costs on self-amortizing university facilities whenever the amount appropriated under par. (gj) is insufficient, as determined by the department of administration, to make such reimbursement.
3. Make payments under an agreement or ancillary arrangement entered into under s. 18.06 (8) (a).
(fd) State laboratory of hygiene; general program operations. The amounts in the schedule for general program operations of the state laboratory of hygiene.
(fj) Veterinary diagnostic laboratory. The amounts in the schedule for general program operations of the veterinary diagnostic laboratory.
(gb) General program operations. All moneys received from the operation of educational programs and related programs to carry out the purposes for which received, including the transfer of funds to par. (gj). In each fiscal year, the Board of Regents shall transfer no more than $20,338,500 from this appropriation account to the medical assistance trust fund.
(ge) Gifts and nonfederal grants and contracts. All moneys received as gifts, bequests, or devises or nonfederal grants or contracts to carry out the purposes for which received.
(gj) Self-amortizing facilities principal and interest. From revenues credited under par. (gb), a sum sufficient to reimburse s. 20.866 (1) (u) for any amounts advanced to meet principal and interest costs on self-amortizing university facilities and to make payments under an agreement or ancillary arrangement entered into under s. 18.06 (8) (a). For projects authorized by the building commission on or after July 1, 2001, annually an amount equal to 40 percent of the principal and interest costs for maintenance of University of Wisconsin-Madison intercollegiate athletic facilities shall be paid from the appropriation under this paragraph.
(i) State laboratory of hygiene. All moneys received for or on account of the operation of the state laboratory of hygiene, to be used for general program operations of the laboratory of hygiene.
(ia) State laboratory of hygiene, drivers. All moneys transferred from the appropriation account under s. 20.435 (5) (hx) for the state laboratory of hygiene for costs associated with services for drivers.
(je) Veterinary diagnostic laboratory; fees. All moneys received under s. 36.58 (3), other than from state agencies, to be used for general program operations of the veterinary diagnostic laboratory and to reimburse s. 20.866 (1) (u) for the payment of principal and interest costs incurred in financing the construction of the veterinary diagnostic laboratory enumerated in 2001 Wisconsin Act 16, section 9107 (1) (m) 1., to make payments determined by the building commission under s. 13.488 (1) (m) that are attributable to the proceeds of obligations incurred in financing that facility, and to make payments under an agreement or ancillary arrangement entered into under s. 18.06 (8) (a).
(k) Funds transferred from other state agencies. All moneys received from other state agencies to carry out the purposes for which received.
(kg) Veterinary diagnostic laboratory; state agencies. All moneys received from other state agencies on account of the veterinary diagnostic laboratory to be used for general program operations of the veterinary diagnostic laboratory.
(Li) General fund interest. All interest earned in the general fund that is attributable to the appropriations under pars. (gb), (ge), (gj), and (k) for the purpose of the appropriation to which it is attributable.
(m) Federal aid. All federal moneys received to carry out the purposes for which received.
(mc) Veterinary diagnostic laboratory; federal funds. All moneys received from the federal government for the veterinary diagnostic laboratory to be used in accordance with the provisions of the federal grant or program.
(q) Telecommunications services. From the universal service fund, the amounts in the schedule to provide telecommunications services as specified in s. 196.218 (5) (a) 6.
(qe) Rural physician residency assistance program. Biennially, from the critical access hospital assessment fund, the amounts in the schedule for the department of family medicine in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health to establish and support physician residency positions under s. 36.63.
(qj) Physician and dentist and health care provider loan assistance programs; critical access hospital assessment fund. Biennially, from the critical access hospital assessment fund, the amounts in the schedule for loan repayments under ss. 36.60 and 36.61.
(qm) Grants for forestry programs. From the conservation fund, of the amounts in the schedule, $78,000 annually for the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point paper science program and the remaining balance for grants to forest cooperatives under s. 36.56.
(qr) Discovery farm grants. From the agricultural chemical cleanup fund, the amounts in the schedule for making grants under s. 36.25 (47).
(r) Environmental education; environmental assessments. From the environmental fund, as a continuing appropriation, an amount equal to 50% of the environmental assessments under s. 299.93 (1) (a) and 70% of the environmental assessments under s. 299.93 (1) (b) for environmental education grants under s. 36.54 (2).
(rc) Environmental education; forestry. From the conservation fund, the amounts in the schedule for environmental education grants related to forestry under s. 36.54 (2) and to administer environmental education grants.
(rm) Environmental program grants and scholarships. From the normal school fund, all income and interest for grants, scholarships, and environmental programs under s. 36.49.
(s) Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative. From the environmental fund, the amounts in the schedule to support research under the Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative into improved plant biomass, improved biomass processing, conversion of biomass into energy products, development of a sustainable energy economy, and development of enabling technologies for bioenergy research.
(tb) Extension recycling education. From the environmental fund, the amounts in the schedule for University of Wisconsin-Extension educational and technical assistance programs in recycling and recycling market development.
(tm) Solid waste research and experiments. From the environmental fund, the amounts in the schedule for research into alternative methods of solid waste management and for administering solid waste experiment centers.
(u) Trust fund income. All moneys received as trust fund income under s. 36.03, 1969 stats.
(w) Trust fund operations. All moneys available for trust fund operations pursuant to s. 36.03, 1969 stats.
(2) General provisions.
(c) Student employment funds. The board of regents, through the institutions' student financial aids offices, shall annually use at least 10% of its budgeted student employment funds that are unrelated to the college work-study program or to research and instruction for distribution on the basis of financial need.
(d) Fee and tuition remissions. The aggregate amount of nonresident remissions of tuition and fees for any fiscal year for the institutions formerly governed under ch. 36, 1971 stats., may not exceed the aggregate amount so remitted for those institutions in the 1970-71 fiscal year as adjusted for proportional increases in tuition charges since 1976-77, and for the institutions formerly governed under ch. 37, 1971 stats., the aggregate amount shall not exceed the aggregate amount so remitted for those institutions in the 1972-73 fiscal year as adjusted for proportional increases in tuition charges since 1976-77. The limits under this paragraph do not apply to fee remissions granted under s. 36.27 (3) (g). This paragraph does not restrict the granting of remissions when required under the terms of a contract or gift, or when such remissions are reimbursed as an indirect cost.
(e) Use of state funds for entertainment purposes. No general purpose revenues appropriated under this section may be used for entertainment by University of Wisconsin officials.
(h) University of Wisconsin college campus at Medford. Of the amounts appropriated to the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin System under sub. (1) (a), the board of regents may pay to the Taylor County board of supervisors, for outstanding debt service costs on the University of Wisconsin college campus at Medford facilities, up to $24,500 annually until the facilities are sold or an alternative use for the facilities is found. Payments shall be made on a schedule and in the manner the board determines. If the facilities are sold or an alternative use for the facilities is found, the Taylor County board of supervisors shall repay to the state all amounts received under this paragraph.
(j) Notwithstanding s. 20.001 (2) (c), annually, there shall lapse from the appropriation accounts under ss. 20.285 (1) (a), (gb), and (ge) an amount equal to the amount spent during that fiscal year from the appropriation account under s. 20.455 (1) (b) for legal advice regarding public broadcasting by the University of Wisconsin System, as determined by the secretary of administration.
(3) University system administration.
(a) General program operations. The amounts in the schedule for the general program operations of the university system administration.
History: 1971 c. 40 s. 93; 1971 c. 100 s. 23; 1971 c. 125, 215, 236; 1971 c. 323 s. 27; 1973 c. 90, 301, 333, 340; 1975 c. 39; 1975 c. 41 s. 52; 1975 c. 198 s. 63; 1975 c. 224; 1977 c. 29; 1977 c. 418 ss. 91 to 92, 924 (50), 929 (55); 1977 c. 422; 1977 c. 447 s. 206; 1979 c. 34, 221; 1981 c. 20; 1983 a. 27 ss. 213 to 215m, 2202 (20); 1983 a. 237; 1983 a. 333 s. 6; 1985 a. 29, 120, 339; 1987 a. 27, 399; 1989 a. 31; 1989 a. 56 s. 259; 1989 a. 269, 335, 353; 1991 a. 39, 167, 269; 1993 a. 16, 455; 1995 a. 27 ss. 600m to 615m, 1080b, 1085b, 1086b; 1995 a. 227, 228; 1997 a. 27 s. 257m, 263m, 271 to 281; 1997 a. 237, 252; 1999 a. 9, 32, 107; 1999 a. 150 s. 672; 2001 a. 16, 103, 109; 2003 a. 33, 176, 321; 2005 a. 25, 460; 2007 a. 20 ss. 248m to 262, 9121 (6) (a); 2009 a. 28 ss. 211, 215, 253m to 262m; 2009 a. 190, 265; 2011 a. 32.
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