The JFC is getting started by re-voting on a number of previously approved items, including the film tax credit, UW System and a number of health services programs.

"This is a fiscal emergency," Co-chair Sen. Mark Miller said.

"For many of us, these will be unhappy votes," he said.

On the film tax credit, the motion is to limit the refundable film production tax credits to $1.5 million GPR in each fiscal year, rather than the $3 million that was previously approved.

The motion also proposes that the transfer to the UW System auxiliary reserves be increased by $7 million, from $16.25 million to $23.25 million. A corresponding $7 million reduction in funding for the WHEG-UW for 2009-10 is included in the motion.

Also, funding for the Medigap Helpline in the Board on Aging and Long-Term Care will be reduced by $62,100 in 2009-10 and $76,200 in 2010-11, with funding also reduced by corresponding amounts for the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance. One position is eliminated under the motion, and the reduced funding will be lapsed into the general fund.

There is also a reduction of $8,700 in funding annually for the Marquette Dental School, and $25,000 annually each for the Lakes Community and La Crosse Community dental centers. Also cut by $25,000 annually is funding for health care for the homeless in Milwaukee and the Racine Infant Mortality Program.

In addition, $2 million is lapsed from unallocated vital records fee revenue to the general fund in 2010-11.

Funding for the AIDS Support Network is cut by $25,000 annually, and Community Health Services Grants are reduced by $255,000 annually, with the money then lapsed to the general fund.

Also lapsed is $102,100 annually from the poison control program, $77,800 for the Foster Care Public Information program, and $150,400 for maternal and child health.

And funding for the Mike Johnson Life Care Grants is reduced by $120,000 annually.

There is also this on the Dane County RTA: "Specify that only those municipalities that were wholly or partly included in the Madison metropolitan planning area on Jan. 1, 2003, would be members of the Dane County RTA. Specify that the jurisdictional area of the Dane County RTA would not include any territory that is within the territorial boundaries of a municipality that was not located in whole or in part within the Madison metropolitan planning area on Jan. 1, 2003, unless the municipalities joins the RTA. Provide that for the purposes of determining territorial boundaries on Jan. 1, 2003, that annexed territory subject to an unresolved challenge on that date would not be considered part of the annexing municipality."

The motion cuts $12.74 million in GPR spending, increases program revenue spending by $5.2 million, and increases segregated spending by $2.5 million.

UPDATE: Motion passes 16-0.

-- By Greg Bump