Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — The Senate Natural Resources Committee plans to exec several bills by paper ballot today, including one that would require the DNR to create a biennial plan setting goals
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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — The co-chairs of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee are accusing DOA of withholding documents from the Legislative Audit Bureau as it reviewed how the agency used federal COVID-19
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WEDC would have to find $4 million in its existing appropriations to cover efforts to attract and retain talent, under a motion the Joint Finance Committee approved along party lines.
The Joint Finance Committee voted along party lines to pay for new technology at the Department of Revenue to improve delinquent tax collections. The committee also passed on Gov. Tony Evers’ call to add auditor positions at the agency’s debt collection operation. Also, the committee decided to keep 38 auditors as project positions rather than making them permanent jobs.
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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee today will consider whether to sign off on a package that would give a manufacturer $5.6 million in refundable tax credits to help expand
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Legislative Audit Bureau found DHS failed during the pandemic to execute appropriate agreements on ventilators it loaned providers and didn’t properly track the equipment. The LAB found six ventilators — worth
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The Joint Finance Committee voted today to require the Department of Veterans Affairs to hire an outside contractor to study the troubled State Veterans Home at King to find ways to improve residents’ quality of life.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — A co-author of a GOP shared revenue proposal today at a hearing encouraged compromise on the bill, while Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson called for lawmakers to eliminate provisions restricting diversity, equity and
The Joint Finance Committee voted along party lines to increase state funding for youth apprenticeship grants and career and technical education programs in school districts to help address the state’s workforce shortage.
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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Hospital Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee will be in today or the first of two executive sessions this week on the budget. The budget areas on today’s agenda are: Workforce
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Sen. Dan Knodl, chair of the Senate’s Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection Committee, tells WisPolitics he’s keeping an open mind on whether to require Milwaukee County and the city to get
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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — Ben Wikler will be unopposed at next month’s state convention for a third two-year term as state Dem Party chair after no one else filed to run by
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — The Senate Natural Resources Committee plans to exec several bills by paper ballot today, including one that would require the DNR to create a biennial plan setting goals and priorities for habitat work on agency lands. SB 159
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The state’s largest business group is threatening to go to court to block regulations that would force stricter limits on surface water pollution. Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce says it may take legal action if DNR doesn’t address it and other groups’ charge
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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — The co-chairs of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee are accusing DOA of withholding documents from the Legislative Audit Bureau as it reviewed how the agency used federal COVID-19 funds. But Administration Secretary Kathy Blumenfeld wrote to the lawmakers
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — WEDC would have to find $4 million in its existing appropriations to cover efforts to attract and retain talent, under a motion the Joint Finance Committee approved along party lines. The GOP motion, approved 12-4, would require half of that money to
WEDC would have to find $4 million in its existing appropriations to cover efforts to attract and retain talent, under a motion the Joint Finance Committee approved along party lines.
The Joint Finance Committee voted along party lines to pay for new technology at the Department of Revenue to improve delinquent tax collections. The committee also passed on Gov. Tony Evers’ call to add auditor positions at the agency’s debt collection operation. Also, the committee decided to keep 38 auditors as project positions rather than making them permanent jobs.
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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee today will consider whether to sign off on a package that would give a manufacturer $5.6 million in refundable tax credits to help expand its Milton plan. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. submitted the
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Legislative Audit Bureau found DHS failed during the pandemic to execute appropriate agreements on ventilators it loaned providers and didn’t properly track the equipment. The LAB found six ventilators — worth a combined $122,300 — were missing as of January and
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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) From WisPolitics.com … — There will be no primary for the 24th AD special election in suburban Milwaukee after only one Dem and one Republican filed by the deadline. On the GOP side, Ozaukee County Supv. Paul Melotik filed by
The Joint Finance Committee voted today to require the Department of Veterans Affairs to hire an outside contractor to study the troubled State Veterans Home at King to find ways to improve residents’ quality of life.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — A co-author of a GOP shared revenue proposal today at a hearing encouraged compromise on the bill, while Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson called for lawmakers to eliminate provisions restricting diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, last week declared “we
The Joint Finance Committee voted along party lines to increase state funding for youth apprenticeship grants and career and technical education programs in school districts to help address the state’s workforce shortage.
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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Hospital Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee will be in today or the first of two executive sessions this week on the budget. The budget areas on today’s agenda are: Workforce Development, Insurance, Veterans Affairs, Higher Educational Aids Board and the
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Sen. Dan Knodl, chair of the Senate’s Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection Committee, tells WisPolitics he’s keeping an open mind on whether to require Milwaukee County and the city to get voter permission to impose new sales taxes. The Germantown Republican
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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — Ben Wikler will be unopposed at next month’s state convention for a third two-year term as state Dem Party chair after no one else filed to run by the deadline. Wikler, who has been a prolific fundraiser, also