THU AM Update: JFC to meet on capital budget

From WisPolitics … — The Joint Finance Committee will meet today for the second time this week in a session that includes the capital budget.  Gov. Tony Evers proposed a $4.3 billion plan that included more than $3.8 million in

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WED AM Update: Assembly, Senate meet today 

From WisPolitics … — The Assembly today is set to take up a variety of bills, including a plan to create a new certification for advanced practice registered nurses and a measure aiming to help gig workers. Under AB 257,

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FRI AM Update: Bill would bar health insurers from mandating providers accept virtual credit card payments

From WisPolitics … — Circulating legislation would prevent health insurers from requiring care providers to accept reimbursement through “virtual credit card payments,” a financial tool used for business-to-business transactions.  Sen. Rachael Cabral-Guevara, R-Appleton, and Rep. Clint Moses, R-Menomonie, recently sent a cosponsorship memo to other lawmakers seeking support for the

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THU AM Update: JFC to meet on capital budget

From WisPolitics … — The Joint Finance Committee will meet today for the second time this week in a session that includes the capital budget.  Gov. Tony Evers proposed a $4.3 billion plan that included more than $3.8 million in new bonding. The Building Commission deadlocked on Evers’ proposal in

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WED AM Update: Assembly, Senate meet today 

From WisPolitics … — The Assembly today is set to take up a variety of bills, including a plan to create a new certification for advanced practice registered nurses and a measure aiming to help gig workers. Under AB 257, APRNs, with the exception of certified nurse-midwives, would be required

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TUE News Summary: State Supreme Court sides with Kaul in lame duck lawsuit; Baldwin, Pocan and Moore named in writings by alleged Minnesota shooter

TOP STORIES Wisconsin Supreme Court unanimously sides with AG on power to settle some lawsuitsCase challenged part of lame-duck law passed by GOP-controlled state Legislature … concluded that the attorney general should have authority over resolving lawsuits if those lawsuits have to do with “core executive powers.” … “The settlement

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