TUE AM Update: Senate, Assembly to take up COVID-related bills today

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Both houses of the Legislature will take up COVID-related bills when they hit the floor today. Both plan to take up legislation that would give the Joint Finance Committee a say in how the state spends some $3.2

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WED AM Update: GOP Building Commission members signal they may send capital budget to JFC without recommendation

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The GOP members of the Building Commission are signaling they’ll move at today’s meeting to send Gov. Tony Evers’ capital budget to the Joint Finance Committee without a recommendation. Republican lawmakers on the commission tried a similar tactic

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FRI AM Update: DPI candidates disagree over tying increases in school funding to in-person instruction

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Association of Wisconsin Lobbyists From WisPolitics.com … — The state superintendent candidates disagreed during a forum last night on tying pandemic-related school funding to opening schools for in-person classes. In a Public Education Network and League of Women Voters virtual event, former Brown Deer School

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THU AM Update: State would see additional $1B in GPR savings with Medicaid expansion under federal COVID-19 bill

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Expanding Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act would generate an additional $1 billion in general purpose revenue savings thanks to provisions in the COVID relief bill that cleared Congress this week, according to a new Legislative Fiscal Bureau

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MON AM Update: Agard, Stroebel debate GOP election bills on ‘UpFront’

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — A Republican senator sponsoring legislation to change state election laws says he’s trying to preserve integrity in elections, while a Dem lawmaker calls it an attempt at voter suppression. Sen. Duey Stroebel, R-Cedarburg, and Sen. Melissa Agard, D-Madison,

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FRI AM Update: DPI candidates call for quickly reopening schools, 90% funding for special education

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Both state superintendent candidates said they want to reopen schools to in-person instruction as soon as possible now that teachers are getting vaccinated. Pecatonica School District Superintendent Jill Underly and former Brown Deer School District Superintendent Deborah Kerr

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THU AM Update: JCRAR motion would require Elections Commission to issue emergency rule before providing guidance on special voting deputies

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Association of Wisconsin Lobbyists From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules is voting on a motion that would require the Elections Commission to issue an emergency rule before providing clerks new guidance on special voting deputies. Co-chair Steve Nass, R-Whitewater,

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WED AM Update: Assembly committee to hear testimony on COVID-19 bills; Assembly Dem JFC members to hold first of five budget hearings

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — An Assembly committee will take public testimony today on bills that would ban mandatory COVID-19 vaccines and strip the powers of state and local officials to restrict meetings at houses of worship during the pandemic. The provisions were

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MON AM Update: State superintendent candidates on ‘UpFront’; Republicans release more elections bills

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Association of Wisconsin Lobbyists From WisPolitics.com … — In a weekend TV appearance, the candidates for state schools superintendent clashed over voucher schools and their own district leadership during the pandemic. Deborah Kerr, former superintendent of the Brown Deer Schools, and Jill Underly, superintendent of

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THU AM Update: Evers announces $322 million in help for rent, utilities

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers announced today Wisconsinites who have lost income as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic may be eligible for more than $322 million in funding to help cover rent, utilities, home energy costs and other services.

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WED AM Update: Legislative hearings include testimony on campus free speech

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Senate Universities and Technical Colleges Committee has an informational hearing planned today at UW-Whitewater on campus free speech. The hearing will be limited to invited speakers, who include Polly Olsen. She sued Northeast Wisconsin Technical College after

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TUE AM Update: Assembly to take up amended unemployment bill today

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Association of Wisconsin Lobbyists From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly is set to be on the floor today to take up an amended unemployment special session bill. The Senate approved the amended version of Gov. Tony Evers’ bill to include liability protections for businesses. Evers

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