Disability Budget Proposals

Budget Status

Governor Doyle introduced his 2007-09 state two-year budget in February 2007. The budget is for the period from July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2009. After much debate and delay the budget bill, Senate Bill 40 (SB 40), was signed into law by Gov. Doyle on October 26, 2007.

The Legislative Audit Bureau recently announced that the budget is out of balance and will experience a shortfall of about $527 million before June 30, 2009. The Wisconsin state constitution requires that the budget be in balance.

The legislature ended their regular session on March 13, 2008. But since this budget situation needs to be fixed, Gov. Doyle called the legislature back into special session to address it. Gov. Doyle and both houses of the legislature have proposed ideas on how to fix this budget shortfall. A new budget bill has been introduced, SS AB 1. There is some agreement among the plans but there is much disagreement too. Some plans find more revenue sources through a hospital tax and closing tax loopholes on businesses. Others cut state spending and delay payments to schools.

An agreement will have to be reached soon between the various plans or else the budget shortfall will probably get worse.

You can access the current budget information under the "Issue Summary" section and read how the budget changed through the process and what the "Final" result turned out to be.

Biennial Budget 2007-2009

• Issue Summary Of The 2007-2009 State Biennial Budget
• Survival Coalition 2007-2009 Budget Paper
• QEC Conference Committee Memo
• QEC Budget Recommendations
• Joint Finance Budget Hearings
• Overview of the Buget Process
• Autism Society of Wisconsin Budget Position
• Family Voices of Wisconsin
• Wis. Council on Children and Families Budget Essentials

Please  see this page for informatoion about the 2005-2007 budget.