Gov. Jim Doyle proposes bringing back a series of provisions that he has proposed in previous budgets only to see lawmakers take them out. They include:

*Extending the amount of time W-2 participants can stay at home with newborns to 26 weeks, up from the current 12 weeks.

*Providing monthly cash benefits to pregnant women on W-2 with no other children who are in the third trimester and not able to work because of a medically-verified at-risk pregnancy.

*Collective bargaining for UW faculty and academic staff.

*Allowing undocumented citizens who graduate from a Wisconsin high school or get a GED to pay nonresident tuition if they have lived in the state for at least three years since starting high school and promise to apply for permanent residency as soon as they're eligible.

*Expanding a family planning waiver to include men, who would be eligible to receive contraception, counseling on family planning, and testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases.

Other tidbits from the document include:

*Increasing the nursing home bed assessment from $75 per bed per month to $150 in the first year to the biennium and $170 in the second year. Some of the money would be used to pay for an increase in reimbursement rates for nursing homes with the rest going into the state MA program.

*Allowing tech college district boards to do up to $1.5 million in capital building projects without public referendums. The current limit is $1 million.

*Increasing the elk hunting permit fee to $10 from $3; there currently isn't an elk hunt.

*Create a second endangered species license plate. The budget calls for purchasing the design for the state of Minnesota, which is also now creating a new plate of its own. The two plates would not have the same design. Wisconsin and Minnesota officials are looking for ways to collaborate under an initiative signed by Doyle and Gov. Tim Pawlenty. The state also would create a new Milwaukee Brewers license plate with the proceeds going to help pay off debt on the team's stadium.

*Recommends using the universal service fund, funded by fees imposed on telecommunication providers, to cover an increase in aid to state schools for library service contracts.

*Recommends expanding the prevailing wage law to include private projects that receive public financing.

*Allowing the Department of Corrections to move sex offenders from active to passive tracking after 12 months. Republicans who supported requiring GPS tracking for sex offenders criticized the move for watering down the program.

-- By WisPolitics staff