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Bills · 2011-2012 Regular Session

SB 86

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permitting an educational agency to refuse to employ or to terminate from employment an unpardoned felon.

  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

Current law, subject to certain exceptions, prohibits discrimination in

employment based on conviction record. Current law specifies, however, that it is not

employment discrimination because of conviction record to refuse to employ or to

terminate from employment an individual who has been convicted of a felony,

misdemeanor, or other offense, the circumstances of which substantially relate to the

circumstances of the particular job. This bill specifies that it is not employment

discrimination because of conviction record for an educational agency to refuse to

employ or to terminate from employment an individual who has been convicted of a

felony and who has not been pardoned for that felony, whether or not the

circumstances of the felony substantially relate to the circumstances of the

particular job.

Under the bill, an "educational agency" is defined as a school district, a

cooperative educational service agency, a county children with disabilities education

board, a state prison, a juvenile correctional facility, a secured residential care center

for children and youth, the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired,

the Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, the

Mendota Mental Health Institute, the Winnebago Mental Health Institute, a state

center for the developmentally disabled, a private school, a charter school, an agency

under contract with a school board to provide a program for children at risk, or a

nonsectarian private school or agency under contract with the Milwaukee Public

Schools board to provide educational programs for children enrolled in the school

district.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Darling (R) , Galloway (R) , Lazich (R) , Leibham (R) , Schultz (R) , Wanggaard (R)

26 cosponsors

A. Ott (R) , August (R) , Bernier (R) , Bies (R) , Brooks (R) , Endsley (R) , Jacque (R) , Kerkman (R) , Kestell (R) , Kleefisch (R) , Kramer (R) , LeMahieu (R) , Mursau (R) , Nass (R) , Nygren (R) , Petersen (R) , Petrowski (R) , Pridemore (R) , Spanbauer (R) , Steineke (R) , Stone (R) , Tauchen (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Vos (R) , Williams (R) , Ziegelbauer (I)

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 Labor, Public Safety, and Urban Affairs, Ayes 4, Noes 1

Passed 4–1 Jun 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: Senate amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 17, Noes 14

Passed 17–14 Oct 27, 2011 official source full page

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

Senate: Senate amendment 3 laid on table, Ayes 16, Noes 15

Passed 16–15 Oct 27, 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 62, Noes 34

Passed 62–34 Nov 1, 2011 official source full page

Aye · 62

Not voting · 2

Assembly: Assembly amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 61, Noes 35

Passed 61–35 Nov 1, 2011 official source full page

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

Assembly: Assembly substitute amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 65, Noes 31

Passed 65–31 Nov 1, 2011 official source full page

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

Full history

  1. May 4, 2011 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Darling, Schultz, Galloway, Leibham, Lazich and Wanggaard;Cosponsored by Representatives Thiesfeldt, Petrowski, Kestell, Ziegelbauer, Jacque, Spanbauer, Endsley, A. Ott, Nygren, Bernier, Kerkman, Steineke, Brooks, Mursau, Kleefisch, LeMahieu, Kramer, Nass, Williams, Bies, Tauchen, Stone, Petersen, Pridemore and Vos

  2. May 4, 2011 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Labor, Public Safety, and Urban Affairs

  3. May 11, 2011 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. May 19, 2011 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. May 19, 2011 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. May 23, 2011 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  7. Jun 7, 2011 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  8. Jun 7, 2011 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  9. Jun 8, 2011 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by committee on Labor, Public Safety, and Urban Affairs, Ayes 4, Noes 1

  10. Jun 8, 2011 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  11. Aug 19, 2011 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  12. Oct 26, 2011 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 10-27-2011 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  13. Oct 27, 2011 · Senate

    Read a second time

  14. Oct 27, 2011 · Senate

    Senate amendment 1 offered by Senators Vinehout, Taylor and Hansen

  15. Oct 27, 2011 · Senate

    Senate amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 17, Noes 14

  16. Oct 27, 2011 · Senate

    Senate amendment 2 offered by Senator S. Coggs

  17. Oct 27, 2011 · Senate

    Senate amendment 2 withdrawn and returned to author

  18. Oct 27, 2011 · Senate

    Senate amendment 3 offered by Senators Taylor, Holperin, Miller, Lassa and Hansen

  19. Oct 27, 2011 · Senate

    Senate amendment 3 laid on table, Ayes 16, Noes 15

  20. Oct 27, 2011 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  21. Oct 27, 2011 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  22. Oct 27, 2011 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  23. Oct 27, 2011 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  24. Oct 28, 2011 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  25. Oct 28, 2011 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to calendar

  26. Nov 1, 2011 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up

  27. Nov 1, 2011 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  28. Nov 1, 2011 · Assembly

    Assembly substitute amendment 1 offered by Representatives C. Taylor, Kessler, Young, E. Coggs, Grigsby, Sinicki, Berceau, Bernard Schaber, Pocan, Milroy, Roys, Pope-Roberts and Turner

  29. Nov 1, 2011 · Assembly

    Assembly substitute amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 65, Noes 31

  30. Nov 1, 2011 · Assembly

    Assembly amendment 1 offered by Representatives C. Taylor, Kessler, Young, E. Coggs, Grigsby, Sinicki, Berceau, Bernard Schaber, Pocan, Roys, Seidel, Pope-Roberts and Turner

  31. Nov 1, 2011 · Assembly

    Assembly amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 61, Noes 35

  32. Nov 1, 2011 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  33. Nov 1, 2011 · Assembly

    Refused to suspend rules to read a third time, Ayes 62, Noes 34

  34. Nov 1, 2011 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 11:05 A.M. on 11-03-2011 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 18

  35. Nov 3, 2011 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  36. Nov 3, 2011 · Assembly

    Representative August added as a cosponsor

  37. Nov 3, 2011 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  38. Nov 4, 2011 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  39. Nov 7, 2011 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled on 11-7-2011

  40. Nov 22, 2011 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 11-22-2011

  41. Nov 23, 2011 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 11-23-2011. 2011 Wisconsin Act 83

  42. Nov 28, 2011 · Senate

    Published 12-8-2011