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Bills · 2011-2012 Regular Session

SB 12

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allowing retailers the ability to offer discounts equal to the state and local sales taxes.

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Senate, completed
  3. Passes Assembly, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, a retailer may not advertise that any state or local sales tax

applicable to a transaction will be assumed or absorbed by the retailer or not added

to the price of goods and services. A retailer who violates this prohibition is guilty

of a misdemeanor. This bill eliminates the prohibition. Under the bill, a retailer who

advertises that the sales tax will be assumed by the retailer or not added to the sales

price is still responsible for paying the applicable sales tax.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Grothman (R) , Lazich (R) , Wanggaard (R)

5 cosponsors

Bies (R) , Kaufert (R) , Kooyenga (R) , Spanbauer (R) , Vos (R)

Votes

Suspending the rules (to take a vote immediately) needs a two-thirds majority — a higher bar than passing the bill, which needs a simple majority. That's why a suspension motion can show more Ayes than the passage vote that follows it. Glossary

Senate: Report passage recommended by committee on Workforce Development, Small Business, and Tourism, Ayes 3, Noes 0

Passed 3–0 Mar 8, 2011 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Read a third time and passed, Ayes 18, Noes 0

Passed 18–0 Mar 9, 2011 official source full page

Assembly: Report concurrence recommended by committee on Homeland Security and State Affairs, Ayes 8, Noes 0

Passed 8–0 Apr 7, 2011 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Refused to suspend rules to read a third time, Ayes 57, Noes 38

Passed 57–38 Apr 14, 2011 official source full page

Aye · 57

Nay · 38

Not voting · 1

Full history

  1. Jan 25, 2011 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Wanggaard, Lazich and Grothman;Cosponsored by Representatives Kooyenga, Spanbauer, Vos, Bies and Kaufert

  2. Jan 25, 2011 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Workforce Development, Small Business, and Tourism

  3. Mar 1, 2011 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  4. Mar 8, 2011 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  5. Mar 8, 2011 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by committee on Workforce Development, Small Business, and Tourism, Ayes 3, Noes 0

  6. Mar 8, 2011 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  7. Mar 8, 2011 · Senate

    Referred to joint committee on Finance by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 3, Noes 0

  8. Mar 8, 2011 · Senate

    Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and made Available for Scheduling by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 3, Noes 0

  9. Mar 8, 2011 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 3-9-2011 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  10. Mar 9, 2011 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  11. Mar 9, 2011 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  12. Mar 9, 2011 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 18, Noes 0

  13. Mar 9, 2011 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  14. Mar 9, 2011 · Senate

    Read a second time

  15. Mar 22, 2011 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  16. Mar 22, 2011 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Homeland Security and State Affairs

  17. Mar 31, 2011 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  18. Apr 7, 2011 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  19. Apr 7, 2011 · Assembly

    Report concurrence recommended by committee on Homeland Security and State Affairs, Ayes 8, Noes 0

  20. Apr 7, 2011 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  21. Apr 12, 2011 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 4-14-2011 by committee on Rules

  22. Apr 14, 2011 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up

  23. Apr 14, 2011 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  24. Apr 14, 2011 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  25. Apr 14, 2011 · Assembly

    Refused to suspend rules to read a third time, Ayes 57, Noes 38

  26. May 10, 2011 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 10:06 A.M. on 5-11-2011 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 9

  27. May 11, 2011 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  28. May 11, 2011 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  29. May 12, 2011 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  30. May 13, 2011 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled on 5-13-2011

  31. May 20, 2011 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 5-20-2011

  32. May 25, 2011 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 5-23-2011. 2011 Wisconsin Act 18

  33. May 26, 2011 · Senate

    Published 6-7-2011