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LFB: Just 7 Policy Provisions in JFC Budget
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | June 24, 2019
From WisPolitics.com …
The Legislative Fiscal Bureau identified just seven policy provisions in the budget that emerged from the Joint Finance Committee.
That’s down from 69 items in the 2017-19 budget approved by the JFC.
Republican lawmakers looked to limit policy added to the proposed budget to avoid giving Gov. Tony Evers room to use his veto pen.
Of the seven included in the proposed budget, four are related to restricting local regulations for quarries, which were added as part of a JFC transportation package.
Another of the identified non-fiscal policy items was also included in the JFC transportation package. It included new requirements for designing highway projects.
The other two items identified in a memo released Friday, include: requiring a report on security around the state Capitol grounds; and deleting a three-year contract limit for the sale of wholesale electricity by a merchant plant to a utility. The provision would apply if the merchant plant has a financial interest in the utility, according to LFB.
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