MADISON, WI – The Assembly passed historic legislation yesterday during a busy floor session. Rep. Plumer released the following statement:
“After months of negotiation, we delivered wins for local communities, families, law enforcement, and small businesses all over the state. We also delivered common sense conservative wins that will help move our state forward.
I’m proud of what was accomplished with this shared revenue deal. Some of the provisions include:
- Communities receive a minimum 20% increase in their shared revenue, with many of them getting a much higher bump. Under the old formula, smaller and more rural areas did more poorly. This package helps fix that.
- Permanently repeals the personal property tax, which helps small businesses
- Helps prevent communities from defunding their police
- Prohibits race-based or sexual-orientation based (DEI) hiring in ALL Wisconsin municipalities
- Expands and strengthens School Choice in Wisconsin, giving more families and students the ability to choose the education option the works best for them
- Requires law-enforcement officers in Milwaukee schools
- Prohibits local health officials from indefinitely closing down businesses or picking which ones are “essential” or “non-essential”
- Prohibits tax-dollars from being used to expand the Milwaukee street-car (trolley)
- Requires all school districts to track crimes that occur on school grounds and provide an accountability report
- Provides the city and county of Milwaukee the ability to fix their massive unfunded pension liability, avoiding a default and bankruptcy.”
