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6/11/2009
Dems maneuvering in closed caucus
Courtesy of the guys over at WisPolitics keeping us up to date via their Budget Blog, we’ve got good information (well, as much as the closed door Assembly Dem caucus makes public) about the goings-on with AB 75, the state Budget Bill. You’ve read about some of these changes via recent articles linked in FP News; perhaps having it in one place here is helpful, going into today’s floor session. The caucus broke up after midnight this morning; Majority Leader Tom Nelson announced yesterday that the Assembly will be on the floor at 10 a.m. and will take up both SB 232 and AB 75.
SB 232 is an accounting maneuver necessary as a fix to the current budget, essentially advancing federal stimulus money to help pay state aids to schools before the end of the current 2-year budget, June 30.
Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) papers published this week have been helpful to onlookers (well, to you and me!) as well as legislators.
Of much interest is LFB’s projection of shared revenue for municipalities. Find your community here. Municipalities are listed by county, with municipalities in more than one county listed in the county containing the largest portion of taxable property.
Net tax and fee increases over the 2-year period of the 2009 – 11 budget (including “enhanced collection measures”) total $2,245,673,000. The breakdown of those increases is here.
LFB projects the structural deficit heading into the 2011-13 budget to be $2.3 billion, up from $1.6 million projected as a result of Doyle’s budget proposal.
Changes to the 2009 – 2011 Budget Bill this week
Any changes so far have been made by Assembly Democrats alone – no Republicans involved in the process yet. The word is Dems are still struggling to get to the 50 votes they need to pass the budget without Republican help, hence amendment after amendment. Word also is that if the Dems didn’t have their 50 votes, they’d wait until next week to take up the budget, and be up in Green Bay today at the Obama fete. So… those 50 votes may be there now.
Updates come (again, via WisPolitics Budget Blog) from Speaker Mike Sheridan’s office, as reporters are not present in the closed caucus.
- Dems have come to an agreement on language that would create RTAs in the Fox Valley and Chippewa Valley
- Amendments are reportedly forthcoming for “targeted investments” (earmarks) for various Assembly districts – seeminglyly for Dems who need a little convincing.
- Fox Valley Dem Reps Hintz, Nelson , Soletski and Zigmunt sponsored an amendment that would reduce the tipping fee increases for the paper mill industry ‘during this difficult time’ in the economy
- Dems voted to remove $47M nursing school (last-minute earmark) from budget
- Dems voted to delete requiring school districts to provide transportation for pregnant students.
- Dems voted to fully index the Homestead Tax Credit to inflation.
- Dems voted to provide legislative oversight to Dept. of Health Services plan to find $550 million in unspecified savings in Medicaid program.
- Dems voted for minimum coverage standards for autism ($50,000 intensive care for minimum 4 years). Amendment may mean that Rep. Cullen (D) has removed his threat to possibly not vote for the budget.
- Dems voted to modify the oil profits tax so wholesalers would be allowed to pass on a maximum of 4 cents per gallon.
- Dems voted to keep repeal of the QEO in budget.
- Dems voted to keep primary enforcement of seatbelts.
- Milwaukee-area officials pan JFC’s cobbled together RTA plans
- Dems voted to restore $5.4M in cuts to DOJ; the cuts were seen as political – and AG Van Hollen went on the road to protest them.
- Dems voted to pull controversial change in threshold for joint and several liability from the budget
- Dems voted to keep enhanced prevailing wage provisions
- Dems voted to add 24 DNR service centers back to the budget
- Dems voted to disallow tax exemptions for certain higher value non-profit retirement housing.
Republican amendments so far, readied for drafting
- Restore public access to most Stewardship Fund-purchased lands
- Restore LearnFare program, requiring children of W-2 parent to attend school
- Delete joint and several liability changes from budget
- Remove auto insurance minimum increases from budget
- Restore Jobs Tax Credit to budget
Jo Egelhoff, FoxPolitics.net
COMMENTS
So, is joint and several liability going to be expunged if not put in again by Diamond Jim?
emily matthews (Thu Jun 11 15:03:13 2009)
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