Assembly Bill 337
Payment of employee required contributions under the Wisconsin Retirement System
Topics: Legislature: Retirement Systems, Joint Survey Committee on, Public employee, Retirement System, Wisconsin
Stopped in committee
It never got a , so it never came up for a vote. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.
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Introduced, passed
Jun 30, 2009
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Senate vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Apr 28, 2010: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Urban and Local Affairs. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
Under current law, required employer and employee contributions under the Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS), and the earnings on these contributions, fund the cost of providing retirement annuities to public employees who are covered under the WRS. Current law permits the employer, on behalf of its employees, to pay all or part of the employee required contributions.
This bill provides that, beginning on January 1, 2010, a participating employer in the WRS who is covered by the Municipal Employment Relations Act (MERA) may not pay, on behalf of any employee, the first 3 percent of earnings that the participating employee is required to pay as employee required contributions under the WRS. Employers covered by MERA generally include any city, county, village, town, metropolitan sewerage district, school district, family care district, or any other political subdivision of the state, or instrumentality of one or more political subdivisions of the state.
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Because this bill relates to public employee retirement or pensions, it may be referred to the Joint Survey Committee on Retirement Systems for a report to be printed as an appendix to the bill.
Who's behind it
14 lawmakers are its . All 14 are Republicans.
5 more lawmakers .
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Authors (14)
- Alvin Ott · Republican, Assembly
- Edward Brooks · Republican, Assembly
- Mark Gottlieb · Republican, Assembly
- Mark Honadel · Republican, Assembly
- Jim Ott · Republican, Assembly
- Steve Kestell · Republican, Assembly
- Dan Knodl · Republican, Assembly
- Daniel LeMahieu · Republican, Assembly
- Phil Montgomery · Republican, Assembly
- Richard Spanbauer · Republican, Assembly
- Pat Strachota · Republican, Assembly
- John Townsend · Republican, Assembly
- Robin Vos · Republican, Assembly
- Rich Zipperer · Republican, Senate
Signed on in support (5)
- Rob Cowles · Republican, Senate
- Alberta Darling · Republican, Senate
- Mary Lazich · Republican, Senate
- Joe Leibham · Republican, Senate
- Lena Taylor · Democrat, Senate
What it would cost
State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.
What happened
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Apr 28, 2010
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Jul 13, 2009
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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Jun 30, 2009
Sent to the Assembly Committee on Urban and Local Affairs.
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Jun 30, 2009
Introduced in the Assembly.
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- Jun 30, 2009 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Gottlieb, Strachota, Knodl, Brooks, Honadel, Kestell, LeMahieu, Montgomery, A. Ott, J. Ott, Spanbauer, Townsend, Vos and Zipperer;Cosponsored by Senators Lazich, Cowles, Darling, Leibham and Taylor
- Jun 30, 2009 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to committee on Urban and Local Affairs
- Jul 13, 2009 · Assembly
Fiscal estimate received
- Apr 28, 2010 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary
From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate