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A co-author of a GOP shared revenue proposal encouraged compromise on the bill during a hearing Tuesday, while Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson called for lawmakers to eliminate provisions restricting diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Sen. Dan Knodl, chair of the Senate’s Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection Committee, tells WisPolitics he’s keeping an open mind on whether to require Milwaukee County and the city to get voter permission to impose new sales taxes.
Wisconsin GOP U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson called the debt limit deadline “a phony crisis” while Dem Sen. Tammy Baldwin said, “We cannot default.”
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest in the negotiations over the GOP shared revenue bill, Joint Finance Committee approval of pay raises for state prosecutors and public defenders, along with $125 million to fight PFAS, and new GOP legislation to tackle the state’s housing shortage.
Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu said today his caucus will likely drop a requirement that Milwaukee County and the city approve a new sales tax via referendum as part of the GOP shared revenue bill.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to “Marsy’s Law,” finding the constitutional amendment was properly presented to voters as they expanded the rights of crime victims.
One of Wisconsin’s largest dairy farms has agreed to stop spreading liquid manure in exchange for avoiding groundwater monitoring standards.
Jim Palmer, executive director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, said Gov. Tony Evers and GOP leaders need to “resolve their differences” and pass a shared revenue bill.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss new laws Gov. Tony Evers signed to crack down on reckless driving and carjacking, committee shuffling with the new Senate GOP supermajority, shared revenue negotiations, the UW System eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion statements for employment, and more.
An Assembly committee has OK’d along party lines a GOP-authored shared revenue bill, even as Republicans noted the legislation will be revised before it hits the floor next week.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, is knocking Gov. Tony Evers for appointing former Dem U.S. Senate candidate Alex Lasry to the Wisconsin Technical College System Board.
Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu has appointed Sen. Dan Knodl to lead a new committee as he reworks membership on others to reflect the GOP’s new supermajority in the chamber. Knodl, who was sworn in last week, will chair the newly created Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection Committee.
A Dane County judge says he will order the Wisconsin Elections Commission to rehear a complaint against Republicans who presented a false slate of electors in 2020.
Dem state Sen. LaTonya Johnson said Gov. Tony Evers should veto the shared revenue bill if dramatic changes aren’t made, a move he promised last week. Meanwhile, GOP state Rep. Tony Kurtz, one of the authors of the shared revenue legislation, says “the bill as written will be changing.”
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Republicans’ shared revenue bill and Gov. Tony Evers’ veto threat, the Joint Finance Committee nixing 545 items from Evers’ budget, the lawsuit challenging the state 1849 abortion ban and more.
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson argued the Common Council should vote on the proposed 2 percent sales tax bump in the GOP shared revenue bill rather than sending the question to voters in a referendum.
Republicans’ shared revenue bill would allow municipalities to cite the number of citations for moving violations or arrests for breaking local ordinances in the previous year to meet requirements for additional state aid. That’s even though state law bars state agencies or municipalities from requiring a law enforcement officer to meet a quota for traffic violation citations.
The two main architects of legislation to significantly boost shared revenue while allowing Milwaukee County and the city to add new sales taxes told WisPolitics talks on final details are ongoing.
A recent draft of an Assembly GOP plan to pump more money into shared revenue didn’t yet include details on how to divvy up $227 million in new aid for counties and municipalities or language for a full repeal of the personal property tax.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says full details of a shared revenue agreement, still being negotiated with the Senate throughout the weekend, will be released as early as today.
A co-author of a GOP shared revenue proposal encouraged compromise on the bill during a hearing Tuesday, while Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson called for lawmakers to eliminate provisions restricting diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Sen. Dan Knodl, chair of the Senate’s Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection Committee, tells WisPolitics he’s keeping an open mind on whether to require Milwaukee County and the city to get voter permission to impose new sales taxes.
Wisconsin GOP U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson called the debt limit deadline “a phony crisis” while Dem Sen. Tammy Baldwin said, “We cannot default.”
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest in the negotiations over the GOP shared revenue bill, Joint Finance Committee approval of pay raises for state prosecutors and public defenders, along with $125 million to fight PFAS, and new GOP legislation to tackle the state’s housing shortage.
Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu said today his caucus will likely drop a requirement that Milwaukee County and the city approve a new sales tax via referendum as part of the GOP shared revenue bill.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to “Marsy’s Law,” finding the constitutional amendment was properly presented to voters as they expanded the rights of crime victims.
One of Wisconsin’s largest dairy farms has agreed to stop spreading liquid manure in exchange for avoiding groundwater monitoring standards.
Jim Palmer, executive director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, said Gov. Tony Evers and GOP leaders need to “resolve their differences” and pass a shared revenue bill.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss new laws Gov. Tony Evers signed to crack down on reckless driving and carjacking, committee shuffling with the new Senate GOP supermajority, shared revenue negotiations, the UW System eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion statements for employment, and more.
An Assembly committee has OK’d along party lines a GOP-authored shared revenue bill, even as Republicans noted the legislation will be revised before it hits the floor next week.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, is knocking Gov. Tony Evers for appointing former Dem U.S. Senate candidate Alex Lasry to the Wisconsin Technical College System Board.
Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu has appointed Sen. Dan Knodl to lead a new committee as he reworks membership on others to reflect the GOP’s new supermajority in the chamber. Knodl, who was sworn in last week, will chair the newly created Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection Committee.
A Dane County judge says he will order the Wisconsin Elections Commission to rehear a complaint against Republicans who presented a false slate of electors in 2020.
Dem state Sen. LaTonya Johnson said Gov. Tony Evers should veto the shared revenue bill if dramatic changes aren’t made, a move he promised last week. Meanwhile, GOP state Rep. Tony Kurtz, one of the authors of the shared revenue legislation, says “the bill as written will be changing.”
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Republicans’ shared revenue bill and Gov. Tony Evers’ veto threat, the Joint Finance Committee nixing 545 items from Evers’ budget, the lawsuit challenging the state 1849 abortion ban and more.
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson argued the Common Council should vote on the proposed 2 percent sales tax bump in the GOP shared revenue bill rather than sending the question to voters in a referendum.
Republicans’ shared revenue bill would allow municipalities to cite the number of citations for moving violations or arrests for breaking local ordinances in the previous year to meet requirements for additional state aid. That’s even though state law bars state agencies or municipalities from requiring a law enforcement officer to meet a quota for traffic violation citations.
The two main architects of legislation to significantly boost shared revenue while allowing Milwaukee County and the city to add new sales taxes told WisPolitics talks on final details are ongoing.
A recent draft of an Assembly GOP plan to pump more money into shared revenue didn’t yet include details on how to divvy up $227 million in new aid for counties and municipalities or language for a full repeal of the personal property tax.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says full details of a shared revenue agreement, still being negotiated with the Senate throughout the weekend, will be released as early as today.