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AB 750

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Relating to: preemption of local ordinances that require employees of a local governmental unit, employees of a contractor of a local governmental unit, or employees who perform work funded by a local governmental unit to be paid at a minimum wage rate specified in the ordinance and preemption of residency requirements for laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers employed on local projects of public works to which the prevailing wage law applies. (FE)

Ordinance Public employee Public works Wage — Minimum Wage — Payment

  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

Under current law, a city, village, town, or county may not enact and administer

an ordinance establishing a living wage, which is defined under current law as

compensation sufficient to enable an employee to maintain himself or herself under

conditions consistent with his or her welfare. Current law, however, exempts from

that prohibition an ordinance that requires an employee of a county, city, village, or

town, an employee who performs work under a contract for the provision of services

to a county, city, village, or town, or an employee who performs work that is funded

by financial assistance from a county, city, village, or town to be paid at a minimum

wage rate specified in the ordinance.

This bill eliminates that exemption, thereby prohibiting a city, village, town, or

county from enacting and administering an ordinance that requires an employee of

the county, city, village, or town, an employee who performs work under a contract

for the provision of services to the county, city, village, or town, or an employee who

performs work that is funded by financial assistance from the county, city, village,

or town to be paid at a minimum wage rate specified in the ordinance.

Under current law, no local governmental unit may require, as a condition of

employment, that any employee or prospective employee reside within any

jurisdictional limit.

This bill prohibits a local governmental unit from requiring that any laborer,

worker, mechanic, or truck driver employed on a project of public works to which the

prevailing wage law applies whose wages are paid, in whole or in part, with funds

of this state or federal funds passing through the state treasury reside within any

jurisdictional limit. Generally, the prevailing wage law applies to any single-trade

project of public works for which the estimated project cost of completion is $48,000

or more and to any multiple-trade project of public works for which the estimated

project cost of completion is $100,000 or more.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Kapenga (R)

2 cosponsors

Craig and Schraa , Grothman (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Labor, Ayes 6, Noes 3

Passed 6–3 Feb 18, 2014 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 Labor, Ayes 6, Noes 3

Passed 6–3 Feb 18, 2014 official source full page

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

Assembly: Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 57, Noes 36

Passed 57–36 Feb 20, 2014 official source full page

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

Assembly: Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 57, Noes 37

Passed 57–37 Feb 20, 2014 official source full page

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

Assembly: Assembly Amendment 3 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 57, Noes 37

Passed 57–37 Feb 20, 2014 official source full page

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

Assembly: Assembly Amendment 4 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 57, Noes 37

Passed 57–37 Feb 20, 2014 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 adopted, Ayes 57, Noes 36

Passed 57–36 Feb 20, 2014 official source full page

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

Assembly: Read a third time and passed, Ayes 56, Noes 37

Passed 56–37 Feb 20, 2014 official source full page

Aye · 56

Assembly: Refused to refer to joint committee on Finance, Ayes 37, Noes 56

Failed 37–56 Feb 20, 2014 official source full page

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

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Labor, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Mar 7, 2014 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 11, 2014 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representative Kapenga; cosponsored by Senator Grothman

  2. Feb 11, 2014 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Labor

  3. Feb 11, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Kapenga

  4. Feb 12, 2014 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Feb 13, 2014 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Feb 13, 2014 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  7. Feb 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Labor, Ayes 6, Noes 3

  8. Feb 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Labor, Ayes 6, Noes 3

  9. Feb 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Referred to Committee on Rules

  10. Feb 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 1:08 AM on 2-20-2014 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 25

  11. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    LRB correction (Assembly Substitute Amendment 1)

  12. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  13. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Sargent, Hesselbein, Barnes, Young, Kahl, C. Taylor, Billings, Bernard Schaber, Berceau, Jorgensen, Sinicki, Hebl, Barca, Pope, Pasch, Wright, Vruwink, Kessler, Bewley, Ohnstad and Goyke

  14. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 57, Noes 36

  15. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Sinicki, Sargent and Goyke

  16. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 57, Noes 37

  17. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 3 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Barca, Pasch and Hebl

  18. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 3 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 57, Noes 37

  19. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 4 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Jorgensen and C. Taylor

  20. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 4 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 57, Noes 37

  21. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Barca

  22. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 withdrawn and returned to author

  23. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Refused to refer to joint committee on Finance, Ayes 37, Noes 56

  24. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted, Ayes 57, Noes 36

  25. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  26. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  27. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 56, Noes 37

  28. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Representatives Craig and Schraa added as coauthors

  29. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  30. Feb 21, 2014 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  31. Feb 24, 2014 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary and Labor

  32. Mar 3, 2014 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  33. Mar 5, 2014 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Risser

  34. Mar 6, 2014 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  35. Mar 7, 2014 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Labor, Ayes 3, Noes 2

  36. Mar 7, 2014 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  37. Apr 8, 2014 · Senate

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1