On November 13, 2025, the Assembly Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment met on the following: Executive Session: LRB-4813 Relating to: funding for identity verification under the unemployment insurance law and making an appropriation LRB-4187 Relating to: various changes to the worker’s compensation law, granting rulemaking authority, making an appropriation, and providing a […]
On October 14, 2025, the Wisconsin State Senate held a floor session on the following: SB 136: school bus back-up lamps; SB 159 / AB 179: requirements for lighting on police vehicles; SB 183 / AB 199: reimbursement of emergency services under the Medical Assistance program when a patient is not transported, reporting on changes […]
On September 11, 2025, the Wisconsin State Assembly held a floor session on the following: AB33 / SB33: representations depicting nudity and providing a penalty; AB39: requiring state employees to perform their work at the offices of their employer; AB 58: flags flown, hung, or displayed from a flagpole or the exterior of state and […]
On August 25, 2025, the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Unemployment Insurance Advisory Council met on the following agenda: 1. Call to order and introductions 2. Approval of minutes of the July 22, 2025 UIAC meeting 3. Department proposals to amend the unemployment insurance law D25-01 – Electronic Communication and Filing D25-02 – Worker Misclassification […]
On August 8, 2025, WisconsinEye’s Rewind Host and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk and WisPolitics.com Editor JR Ross reviewed this week in state politics. (Brought to you by the Wisconsin Realtors Association). On this week’s episode: Lobbying the Capitol A New Supreme Court Justice Texas Dem Lawmaker Protest Echoes Act 10 A “Setback” in Modernizing the Unemployment System Republicans Call […]
On August 8, 2025, WisconsinEye’s Rewind Host and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk and WisPolitics.com Editor JR Ross reviewed this week in state politics. (Brought to you by the Wisconsin Realtors Association). On this week’s episode: Lobbying the Capitol A New Supreme Court Justice Texas Dem Lawmaker Protest Echoes Act 10 A “Setback” in Modernizing the Unemployment System Republicans Call […]
On June 18, 2025, the Wisconsin State Assembly held a floor session on the following: AB 198: emergency medical services education, tuition and materials reimbursement for emergency medical responders and emergency medical services practitioners, and a live 911 pilot program; AB 201: extortion, sexual extortion, and providing a penalty; AB 232: transferring adjudicatory functions for worker’s […]
On June 12, 2025, the Assembly Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment held an executive session on the following: Assembly Bill 232 Relating to: transferring adjudicatory functions for worker’s compensation from the Division of Hearings and Appeals in the Department of Administration to the Department of Workforce Development Assembly Bill 235 Relating to: […]
On June 10, 2025, the Joint Committee on Finance met in executive session on the 2025-27 biennial budget to take action on the following sections of the budget: Circuit Courts Supreme Court Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection — Departmentwide Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection — Regulation and Training Historical Society Insurance — Agency Operations and […]
On May 21, 2025, the Assembly Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment will meet on the following: Executive Session: Assembly Bill 36 Relating to: law enforcement and firefighter annuitants in the Wisconsin Retirement System who are rehired by a participating employer. Assembly Bill 146 Relating to: requests for information from employers about unemployment […]
On May 6, 2025, the Senate Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development held a public hearing on the following: Senate Bill 196 / Assembly Bill 169 Relating to: various changes to the unemployment insurance law. Senate Bill 197 / Assembly Bill 164 Relating to: various changes to the unemployment insurance law and federal […]