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Bills from the 2009–10 session

Assembly Bill 441

Factors considered in binding interest arbitration under the Municipal Employment Relations Act

Topics: Collective bargaining, Public employee, School: Employee, Teacher: Contract

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.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Sep 25, 2009

  2. Committee, stopped here

    Stopped here. No public hearing was held.

  3. Assembly vote, not reached

  4. Senate vote, not reached

  5. Governor, not reached

  6. 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 Rules pursuant to Assembly Rule 42 (3)(c). See every bill that never got a hearing this session.

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What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Under the Municipal Employment Relations Act, in local government employment other than law enforcement and fire fighting, if a dispute relating to the terms of a proposed collective bargaining agreement has not been settled after a reasonable period of negotiation and after mediation by the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (WERC), either party, or the parties jointly, may petition WERC to initiate compulsory, final, and binding arbitration with respect to any dispute relating to wages, hours, and conditions of employment. An arbitrator's decision is then incorporated into the collective bargaining agreement. In reaching a decision, the arbitrator must give weight to factors. Unless the decision involves a collective bargaining unit consisting of school district employees, the arbitrator must give the greatest weight to any state law or directive that places expenditure or revenue limitations on an employer and must give greater weight to economic conditions in the jurisdiction of the employer than to other factors. For decisions involving a collective bargaining unit consisting of any municipal employees the arbitrator has to give weight to various factors including the authority of the municipal employer; the interests and welfare of the public and the ability of the unit of government to meet the costs of the proposed agreement; comparison of wages, hours, and conditions of employment with those of other employees; and the cost of living. This bill eliminates this distinction between school district employees and other municipal employees, so that, for a decision involving a collective bargaining unit consisting of school district employees as well as for a collective bargaining unit consisting of other municipal employees, the arbitrator must give the greatest weight to the factors given the greatest weight under current law to all municipal employees except school district employees and must give greater weight to the factors given greater weight under current law to all municipal employees except school district employees.

Who's behind it

30 lawmakers are its ⁠. 29 are Republicans and 1 is a Independent.

10 more lawmakers ⁠.

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Authors (30)

Signed on in support (10)

What it would cost

State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

What happened

  1. Apr 28, 2010

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Apr 13, 2010

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Rules.

  3. Oct 15, 2009

    1 more senator signed on in support.

  4. Oct 6, 2009

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  5. Sep 25, 2009

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Labor.

  6. Sep 25, 2009

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Sep 25, 2009 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Gottlieb, Davis, Ballweg, Brooks, Gunderson, Honadel, Huebsch, Kerkman, Kestell, Knodl, LeMahieu, Lothian, Meyer, Montgomery, Nass, Nerison, Nygren, A. Ott, J. Ott, Petersen, Petrowski, Rhoades, Ripp, Strachota, Suder, Townsend, Van Roy, Vos, M. Williams and Ziegelbauer;Cosponsored by Senators Olsen, Darling, Cowles, Harsdorf, Kedzie, A. Lasee, Lazich, Leibham and Sullivan

  2. Sep 25, 2009 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Labor

  3. Oct 6, 2009 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Oct 15, 2009 · Assembly

    Senator Grothman added as a cosponsor

  5. Apr 13, 2010 · Assembly

    Withdrawn from committee on Labor and referred to committee on Rules pursuant to Assembly Rule 42 (3)(c)

  6. Apr 28, 2010 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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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

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Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary

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Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

More in the glossary

Public hearing

A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.

More in the glossary

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

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Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor

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Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor

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Cost estimate

A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.

Official term: Fiscal estimate

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