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Bills from the 2011–12 session

Assembly Bill 641

Making the transitional jobs program permanent, increasing audit and compliance positions in the Department of Revenue, and making appropriations

Topics: Children and Families, Department of, Public employee, Revenue, Department of, Wisconsin Works

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

    Feb 28, 2012

  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, Mar 23, 2012: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

It never got a hearing in the joint committee on Finance. 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.

Current law requires the Department of Children and Families (DCF) to conduct a transitional jobs demonstration project to the extent that DCF obtains federal funds for the cost of operating the project. The transitional jobs demonstration project may provide up to 2,500 transitional jobs to low-income adults who have been unemployed for at least four weeks, are ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits, are ineligible for the Wisconsin Works program (W-2), and have annual household incomes below 150 percent of the poverty level.

The biennial budget act eliminates this demonstration project on July 1, 2013.

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Under this bill, instead of being eliminated, the transitional jobs demonstration project is converted into a permanent program, effective July 1, 2012. The bill appropriates $9,300,000 general purpose revenue for the program in fiscal year 2012-13, removes the limit on the number of transitional jobs that DCF may provide, specifies that the jobs must be provided on a statewide basis, and specifies that DCF must use the allocation of W-2 participants as a factor when determining how to allocate the transitional jobs throughout the state.

The bill also increases full-time equivalent positions for auditors, audit supervisors, and agents in the Department of Revenue related to the administration of all state taxes and to county sales and use taxes.

Who's behind it

18 lawmakers are its ⁠. All 18 are Democrats.

3 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 21 names

Authors (18)

Signed on in support (3)

What happened

  1. Mar 23, 2012

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Feb 28, 2012

    Sent to the Joint Committee on Finance.

  3. Feb 28, 2012

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Feb 28, 2012 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Pasch, Grigsby, Molepske Jr, Roys, Fields, Mason, Sinicki, Berceau, Hebl, Toles, Turner, Bewley, Pocan, Pope-Roberts, C. Taylor, Clark, Steinbrink and E. Coggs;Cosponsored by Senators Taylor, C. Larson and Risser

  2. Feb 28, 2012 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to joint committee on Finance

  3. Mar 23, 2012 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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Senate Joint Resolution 1

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Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary

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Signed on in support

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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.

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

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

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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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