Senate Bill 254
Requiring certain information in state agency budget requests
Topics: Budget bills and process, Federal aid, 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
Oct 21, 2011
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Senate vote, not reached
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Mar 23, 2012: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
It never got a hearing in the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Utilities, Commerce, and Government Operations. 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.
Currently, no later than September 15 of each even-numbered year, state agencies in the executive branch are required to submit to the Department of Administration and the Legislative Fiscal Bureau their budget requests. This bill requires that the budget requests contain an analysis of the implications for agency expenditures and operations in the event of federal government insolvency or substantially reduced federal payments to the agency. More specifically, the analyses must do all of the following:
1. Identify the risks to the agency if the federal government were unable to meet its financial or service commitments.
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2. Estimate the impact of the risks to the agency under item 1. in terms of the potential loss of federal revenue and its effect on agency operations.
3. Recommend strategies to better allow the agency to minimize the loss of federal revenue, to adjust to any loss of federal revenue, and to reduce the impact of any loss of federal revenue on agency operations without eliminating any programs or services.
4. Recommend a plan for monitoring indicators that track the federal government's inability to meet its financial obligations.
5. Include in the plan under item 4. specific steps that the agency must take in the event the indicators signal that the federal government may be unable to meet its financial obligations.
Who's behind it
Alberta Darling, a Republican, is its .
8 more lawmakers .
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Author (1)
- Alberta Darling · Republican, Senate
Signed on in support (8)
- Samantha Kerkman · Republican, Assembly
- Michelle Litjens · Republican, Assembly
- Roger Rivard · Republican, Assembly
- Erik Severson · Republican, Assembly
- Richard Spanbauer · Republican, Assembly
- Jim Steineke · Republican, Assembly
- Jeremy Thiesfeldt · Republican, Assembly
- Chad Weininger · Republican, Assembly
What it would cost
State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.
What happened
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Mar 23, 2012
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Nov 1, 2011
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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Oct 21, 2011
Sent to the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Utilities, Commerce, and Government Operations.
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Oct 21, 2011
Introduced in the Senate.
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- Oct 21, 2011 · Senate
Introduced by Senator Darling;Cosponsored by Representatives Severson, Litjens, Kerkman, Spanbauer, Steineke, Weininger, Rivard and Thiesfeldt
- Oct 21, 2011 · Senate
Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary, Utilities, Commerce, and Government Operations
- Nov 1, 2011 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
- Mar 23, 2012 · Senate
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