Assembly votes to send Evers bill changing absentee voting regulations for nursing homes
The Assembly today voted 60-38 along party lines to send to Gov. Tony Evers’ a bill that would change regulations on absentee voting in...
Assembly backs bill to cut aid payments to municipalities that reduce police funding, now...
The Assembly today voted to send to Gov. Tony Evers’ desk a bill that would cut shared revenue payments to municipalities that cut funding...
Assembly passes on party lines a bill criminalizing certain clerk actions
The Assembly along party lines has sent to Gov. Tony Evers’ desk a bill that would create new criminal penalties for election officials.
The bill...
Assembly votes along party lines to push back redrawing city council, county board boundaries
The Assembly passed along party lines a bill today that would delay redrawing of boundaries for city councils and county boards until just before...
Assembly approves ban on COVID-19 vaccine passports
The Assembly today passed a bill banning businesses and government entities from requiring vaccination passports to prove people have been inoculated against COVID-19.
Rep. Mark...
Assembly passes series of bills to overhaul police policies, sends four to Evers’ desk
The Assembly today approved a series of bills to overhaul police policies, including one to ban chokeholds except in self-defense or when an officer’s...
Assembly passes bills banning trans students from playing women’s school sports
The Assembly passed along party lines two bills that would ban transgender student-athletes from participating in girl’s or women’s school sports.
One of the bills...
Senate approves overhaul of absentee ballot procedures, ban on use of private money for...
Wisconsin would overhaul its policies for absentee ballots, indefinitely confined voters and the use of drop boxes under bills that cleared the state Senate...
Both houses vote to end enhanced federal unemployment benefits
Both houses of the Legislature today voted along party lines to end enhanced federal unemployment benefits even as Gov. Tony Evers has signaled he...
Senate Republicans vote to punish communities that cut law enforcement spending
The state Senate voted today to punish communities that reduce their spending on law enforcement, restrict the use of chokeholds by police officers and...
Evers calls special session on Medicaid expansion, proposes economic development projects with additional federal...
Gov. Tony Evers, rebuffed multiple times by Republican lawmakers over expanding Medicaid, today announced a special session to take up covering an additional 90,000...
Senate passes police reform bills
The Senate voted to rework the makeup of police and fire commissions in the state's two largest cities and changed reporting requirements for use-of-force...
Assembly passes bill to stop local governments using private money to pay for elections
The Assembly passed today a bill that would bar local governments from using private money to cover election costs.
The bill passed along party lines...
Assembly passes bill expanding school voucher eligibility
-- The Assembly passed in a 60-36 vote a bill that would qualify more students for school vouchers.
The bill, now in the Senate, would...
Assembly passes bill requiring the national anthem be played at certain sporting events
The Assembly has passed a bill requiring the playing or singing of the national anthem at sporting events where at least some taxpayer money...
