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

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers, U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, D-La Crosse, and state Rep. Katrina Shankland, D-Stevens Point, will be on the UW-Stevens Point campus today for a town hall on improving healthcare access and expanding Medicaid. Evers has continued

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — Efforts by the state crime lab to trim a backlog of untested sexual assault kits led to delays in testing DNA in nearly 350 active cases, a new Department of Justice report says. The state began to clear

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement WHCA / WiCAL and LeadingAge Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — UW President Ray Cross slammed the GOP proposal to fund the university over the next two years, calling it a missed opportunity for the Legislature. The GOP proposal, approved 12-4 along party lines Tuesday evening,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges & Universities From WisPolitics.com … — Conservative Justice Daniel Kelly officially kicked off his bid for a full 10-year term on the state Supreme Court, promising today he will remain faithful to the Wisconsin Constitution while serving on the court.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement WHCA / WiCAL and LeadingAge Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers used this week’s Dem radio address to rally support for his plan to boost public school spending by $1.4 billion and special education funding by $600 million. The former Wisconsin Superintendent of

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges & Universities From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee will take up K-12 funding today after Assembly Republicans put a $500 million plan on the table. Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said after the Assembly GOP presentation that