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Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

AB 23

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Relating to: funding postretirement health care benefits of local government employees.

Appropriation Milwaukee — School Milwaukee county Municipality — Finance Public employee Public employee — Group insurance Retirement — Public Retirement — Teacher School — Board School — Employee School — Evaluation and testing Technical college

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Currently, cities, villages, towns, counties, school districts, and technical

college districts (local governments) provide health care benefits for their employees.

Some also provide postretirement health care benefits for their employees.

This bill prohibits a local government from providing health care benefits to any

employee hired on or after January 1, 2014, for use upon the employee's retirement,

including compensated absences but excluding the implicit rate subsidy, unless the

cost of the benefit is fully funded in a segregated account on an actuarial basis or

other method that complies with generally accepted accounting principles.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Bernier (R) , Craig (R) , Kapenga (R) , Kleefisch (R) , Kooyenga (R) , LeMahieu (R) , Nass (R) , Sanfelippo (R) , Stone (R) , Strachota (R) , Stroebel (R) , T. Larson (R) , Thiesfeldt (R)

3 cosponsors

Grothman (R) , Petrowski (R) , Vukmir (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Urban and Local Affairs, Ayes 6, Noes 3

Passed 6–3 Apr 25, 2013 official source full page

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

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Urban and Local Affairs, Ayes 6, Noes 3

Passed 6–3 Apr 25, 2013 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. Feb 15, 2013 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Thiesfeldt, Nass, LeMahieu, Kapenga, Kooyenga, T. Larson, Stroebel, Craig, Bernier, Strachota, Stone, Kleefisch and Sanfelippo; cosponsored by Senators Vukmir, Grothman, Harris and Petrowski

  2. Feb 15, 2013 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Urban and Local Affairs

  3. Feb 20, 2013 · Assembly

    Senator Harris withdrawn as a cosponsor

  4. Mar 6, 2013 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Thiesfeldt

  5. Mar 12, 2013 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. Mar 20, 2013 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Thiesfeldt

  7. Apr 23, 2013 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  8. Apr 25, 2013 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Urban and Local Affairs, Ayes 6, Noes 3

  9. Apr 25, 2013 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Urban and Local Affairs, Ayes 6, Noes 3

  10. Apr 25, 2013 · Assembly

    Referred to Committee on Rules

  11. Apr 8, 2014 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1