Assembly Bill 972
Creation of the Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and Oversight Commission to investigate waste, fraud, and abuse in state government and make recommendations to the Joint Committee on Finance
Topics: Budget bills and process, Governor, Legislature, Legislature: Finance, Joint Committee on, State agencies
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
Apr 22, 2010
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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, Jun 10, 2010: “Fiscal estimate received”
It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on State Affairs and Homeland Security. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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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
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
This bill creates a committee to be known as the Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and Oversight Commission (commission), consisting of the governor; two majority party senators; two minority party senators; two majority party representatives to the assembly; two minority party representatives to the assembly; and a public member appointed by the governor. The commission must examine all areas of state government and state programs for evidence of waste, fraud, and abuse. No later than March 1, 2011, the commission must submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the cochairpersons of the Joint Committee on Finance (JCF).
The report must specify the amount of savings to the state that would occur if the recommendations contained in the report were implemented.
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The bill further provides that, in budget deliberations for the 2011-13 fiscal biennium, JCF must consider the recommendations of the commission contained in the report.
Who's behind it
14 representatives are its . All 14 are Republicans.
2 more lawmakers .
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Authors (14)
- Edward Brooks · Republican, Assembly
- Dean Kaufert · Republican, Assembly
- Samantha Kerkman · Republican, Assembly
- Steve Kestell · Republican, Assembly
- Joel Kleefisch · Republican, Assembly
- Bill Kramer · Republican, Assembly
- Mary Williams · Republican, Assembly
- Phil Montgomery · Republican, Assembly
- John Nygren · Republican, Assembly
- Richard Spanbauer · Republican, Assembly
- Pat Strachota · Republican, Assembly
- Scott Suder · Republican, Assembly
- John Townsend · Republican, Assembly
- Robin Vos · Republican, Assembly
Signed on in support (2)
- Mary Lazich · Republican, Senate
- Dale Schultz · Republican, Senate
What it would cost
State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.
What happened
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Jun 10, 2010
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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Apr 28, 2010
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Apr 22, 2010
Sent to the Assembly Committee on State Affairs and Homeland Security.
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Apr 22, 2010
Introduced in the Assembly.
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- Apr 22, 2010 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives M. Williams, Vos, Kestell, Montgomery, Strachota, Kerkman, Suder, Townsend, Spanbauer, Kaufert, Brooks, Kramer, Nygren and Kleefisch;Cosponsored by Senators Schultz and Lazich
- Apr 22, 2010 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to committee on State Affairs and Homeland Security
- Apr 28, 2010 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
- Jun 10, 2010 · Assembly
Fiscal estimate received
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