Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges & Universities From WisPolitics.com … — A drug-pricing transparency bill championed by U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin has passed the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and now heads for a vote in the full Senate. According to a

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Edge Messaging From WisPolitics.com … — One of the items included in the Republican version of the state budget would remove a three-year limit on certain wholesale electricity contracts that is “no longer relevant” to the state’s current energy environment, according to Wisconsin Utilities Association

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — It’s onto the state Senate for the state budget after the Assembly signed off on the GOP’s version 60-39. The Senate is scheduled to convene at 10 a.m. today with a calendar that also includes: four transportation bills;

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — Three years after ruling the Department of Public Instruction doesn’t have to submit proposed administrative rules to the guv for review, the state Supreme Court reversed course today and found the agency is subject to the requirement just

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges & Universities From WisPolitics.com … — The Legislative Fiscal Bureau identified just seven policy provisions in the budget that emerged from the Joint Finance Committee. That’s down from 69 items in the 2017-19 budget approved by the JFC. Republican lawmakers

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — A split state Supreme Court today upheld the Legislature’s power to meet in extraordinary session and rejected a challenge to the actions Republicans took in December to undercut powers of the incoming Dem guv and AG. In a

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges & Universities From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly is scheduled to return to the floor today to take up a bill modifying a law passed last session that restructured the state’s juvenile justice program. The bill, which received a

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Edge Messaging From WisPolitics.com … — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg praised retiring Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Shirley Abrahamson as “the very best, the most courageous and sage, the least self-regarding” judge she had encountered. “As lawyer, law teacher and judge, she has

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly is scheduled to today take up a bill that would address step therapy, a cost-saving method employed by insurance companies. The practice makes patients try a number of drugs recommended by the insurer before “stepping” up

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said he’s confident the budget that came out of Joint Finance last week will pass his chamber, but he didn’t venture an opinion as to what the Senate or Democratic Gov. Tony Evers will

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers is scheduled to attend the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Governors & Premiers 2019 Leadership Summit that kicks off today in Milwaukee. According to the agenda, Evers will take questions at a news conference alongside other

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement WHCA / WiCAL and LeadingAge Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — Joint Finance is set today to take up a proposal from Sen. Dale Kooyenga that would use tax revenue from online sales to reduce taxes on income in the state’s the second lowest bracket as

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges & Universities From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee approved a nearly $1.9 billion capital budget, paring back nearly $600 million that Gov. Tony Evers originally wanted to spend on building projects. More than $1 billion of the GOP

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Edge Messaging From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee kicks off its final sprint with an agenda today that includes taxes and the capital budget. The full agenda for the committee, which is scheduled to convene at 1 p.m., includes: Appropriation Obligation Bonds Building

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — A coalition of conservative groups is warning lawmakers against trying to add new regulations of wedding barns to the state budget. The Evers administration earlier this year said it planned to continue the existing policy of not

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges & Universities From WisPolitics.com … — Republicans on the Legislature’s budget committee last night approved jacking up fees and eliminating breaks for retailers to help pump $483.7 million of new revenue into transportation over the next two years while borrowing

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Edge Messaging From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee is scheduled to take up transportation funding and taxes today as it pushes towards its goal of finishing the budget by the end of next week. This comes after Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald told reporters

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — A group of Senate Republicans today will announce plans to pump more than $130 million into local road funding, according to sources with knowledge of the plan. The 10 Senate Republicans expected to attend today’s news conference includes

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee is scheduled to take up the Medicaid program today as it begins the sprint toward its goal of finishing the budget by the end of next week. Today’s agenda includes: Health Services –Medical Assistance

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement WHCA / WiCAL and LeadingAge Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — New Dem Party Chair Ben Wikler says his first order of business will be getting the state party more involved in the fight to expand Medicaid in Wisconsin. Gov. Tony Evers had proposed in his