The Joint Finance Committee voted 13-3 Tuesday to change the guv’s plan to create a reinsurance program in the federal marketplace under the Affordable Care Act. That includes stripping out the state funding of $50 million for the $200 million plan in 2018-19. Backers said that’s because a payment would

GOP Rep. Travis Tranel, the lead author of legislation to create a $50 million rural economic development fund that Gov. Scott Walker wants, pitched the Joint Finance Committee on Monday to re-work the bill. Walker’s proposal seeks $50 million distributed annually through the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. The money would

Groups representing Wisconsin’s hospitals, doctors and insurers today backed the guv’s plan to create a reinsurance plan for the individual market under the Affordable Care Act. Still, Dems questioned why the guv was willing to rely on additional federal money to pay for the program when he cited the uncertainty

The Joint Finance Committee unanimously approved a plan to boost state aid for small, rural school by $6.5 million and allow low-spending districts to collect more in property taxes. While members voted 16-0 for the bill, the debate became a series of exchanges over education funding since the end of

The Joint Finance Committee voted 12-4 to approve two of the guv’s welfare bills, including one that would create a pilot program to send monthly payments to recipients of the Earned Income Tax Credit instead of a lump sum after their file their taxes. The bill would direct the Department

A bill that would spend $6.8 million on an effort to attract workers to Wisconsin cleared the Joint Finance Committee on a 11-3 party-line vote.  Dem committee members, though, argued the bill was a misuse of resources and that it was Republican policies in the first place that have made

Joint Finance Committee members voted 14-1 to boost the historic rehabilitation credit to $3.5 million per project starting July 1, instead of $500,000. Only Sen. Duey Stroebel, R-Saukville, voted against it, while Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, was out sick and did not vote. The state program, which is a supplement to

School officials lined up in support of a bill to boost sparsity aid and raise low-revenue caps, saying the changes would help them recruit and retain teachers while providing a higher-quality education to students. Still, Joint Finance Committee Dems sought to rehash the budget negotiations of 2017 as they raised

The co-chairs of the Joint Finance Committee said today they’re considering changes to the guv’s proposal to create a new tax credit of $100 per child, but declined to get into specifics. The guv has proposed the $100 credit kick in this year as a sales tax rebate for parents

The Legislative Fiscal Bureau today upped its projected ending balance for the 2017-19 budget by $137.5 million with revenue projections for the two-year period improving slightly. That’s less than 0.4 percent of the overall GPR spending projected for the full two-year budget. Along with the increase of $76.3 million in

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald today appointed Sen. Duey Stroebel to the Joint Finance Committee. The Saukville Republican, who was elected to the Senate in 2015, replaces Sheila Harsdorf, who last month became DATCP secretary. He also was one of three Republicans who issued a series of veto demands to Gov.

Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz is appointing Rep. Chris Taylor to his spot on the Joint Finance Committee. Taylor, D-Madison, was a member of the committee until former Dem leader Peter Barca named Rep. Katrina Shankland, D-Stevens Point, to one of the two Dem Assembly seats on the committee. Shankland

Gov. Scott Walker today announced 99 vetoes, including a plan lawmakers inserted in the budget to boost low-spending school districts. The provision would have adjusted the revenue limits for low-spending districts, now at $9,100 per student, to increase spending to $9,300 per student in 2017-18 and $9,400 in 2018-19. The

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said he expressed frustration to Scott Walker that the guv enabled three senators to hijack the budget by promising them vetoes in exchange for their support. Still, the speaker said he expects to sign off on the budget tomorrow, a step needed before Walker can add

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos wants to talk with Scott Walker about the veto promises he issued to win Senate passage before sending the budget to the guv, a move that could delay the timetable for signing it. Walker has said he wants to sign the budget before fall begins, which

Gov. Scott Walker has promised to use his veto pen to immediately move up a repeal of the prevailing wage on state projects and cut off school districts from an exemption to spending caps for energy efficiency projects, according to three GOP senators who sought the changes to the budget

State tax collections in 2016-17 came in $14 million higher than had been expected in January, a bump of 0.1 percent, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. The nearly $15.2 billion collected in 2016-17 was up 2.8 percent compared to the previous year. The final individual income tax collections of

The Assembly will be on the floor Sept. 13 to take up the budget and Sept. 14 for the Foxconn bill, according to an email from Majority Leader Jim Steineke. The start times will be announced next week, according to the email. Meanwhile, the Senate is set to vote on

Following are a list of motions adopted by the Joint Finance Committee beginning May 1, and broken down by agency: Final Motion and Adoption of the Substitute Amendments https://www.wispolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/170906JFCFinal.pdf Administration – Facilities https://www.wispolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/170524JFC241.pdf Administration – General Agency Provisions https://www.w… Please log in to access subscriber content. If you don’t have