The Senate voted 18-14 along party lines Tuesday to ease permitting requirements for some urban and rural wetlands, sending the bill to the guv. Dems, all of whom opposed the bill, slammed the legislation as a sop to developers that

The Senate unanimously approved legislation that would limit the number of sexually violent offenders placed into distant rural communities. The bill, which cleared the Assembly in January, now heads to the guv. The legislation would require counties, through the formation

The state Senate voted 18-14 along party lines to ban the state from offering its employees health plans that cover abortion except in cases of rape, incest or the life of the mother. The Senate voted on the bill without

The Senate voted 23-9 Tuesday to approve the guv’s plan to create a reinsurance program for those Wisconsinites who purchase their health care through the federal individual marketplace. The vote clears the way for the bill to head to the

The state’s historic rehabilitation credit would be boosted to $3.5 million per project starting July 1, instead of $500,000, under legislation the Senate approved Tuesday 29-3. The state program, which is a supplement to the federal credit, can equal up

The state would have to obtain a conviction before police could keep and then sell property taken from those accused of a crime under legislation the Senate approved 22-10. The bill, which now goes to the Assembly, also would require

The state Senate today signed off along party lines on all but one of the guv’s welfare bills, clearing the way for the nine pieces of legislation to head to his desk. The package, backed by Republicans, includes: *SSAB 1,

State agencies would have to provide lawmakers a detailed accounting of their spending every two years under legislation the Senate approved today via voice vote. That report would include the minimum level of funding required for each appropriation to achieve

Both houses of the Legislature will be in session today with loaded calendars as lawmakers begin the final sprint before adjourning for the year. That includes both houses taking up Gov. Scott Walker’s $200 million reinsurance plan. The Senate’s calendar

The Assembly today signed off on a bill to roll back permitting requirements for certain urban and rural wetlands on a 58-39 vote. The chamber also approved a new substitute amendment on a voice vote aligning it with the Senate

The Assembly approved a bill that would up the penalties for having sex with an animal, sending it to the Senate. The bill would make sex with an animal a class H felony. Currently, it’s a misdemeanor. It passed the

A bill that would provide merit scholarships to students at UW schools cleared the Assembly shortly after the chamber moved back into regular session. The bill, by Rep. Tyler August, R-Lake Geneva, and Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, would require the

The Assembly today signed off on a bill 58-34 that would make sweeping changes to landlord-tenant laws over a series of Dem objections the legislation sought to appeal to wealthy developers over low-income renters. The bill would increase limits on fees