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Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

SB 120

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Relating to: financial aid for service members and their immediate families and making an appropriation. (FE)

Military personnel National guard

  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, the Department of Military Affairs (DMA) is required to

provide financial aid from the military family relief fund to certain military family

members. The military family relief fund is funded by the voluntary donations of

Wisconsin taxpayers on state income tax returns. Under current law, a person may

be eligible to receive military family financial aid if he or she is a Wisconsin resident

who is part of the immediate family of a service member who is a member of a reserve

unit of the U.S. armed forces or of the Wisconsin national guard, is a Wisconsin

resident, and is serving on active duty in the U.S. armed forces. Service members

themselves are not eligible for military family financial aid.

This bill extends eligibility for military family financial aid to members of the

immediate family of a service member who is a Wisconsin resident and is a member

of the U.S. armed forces, including any reserve unit, or of the Wisconsin national

guard, regardless of whether that service member is on active duty in the U.S. armed

forces. The bill also extends eligibility for military family financial aid to a service

member who is a Wisconsin resident and is a member of he U.S. armed forces,

including any reserve unit, or of the Wisconsin national guard, regardless of whether

that service member is on active duty in the U.S. armed forces or has any immediate

family members who are eligible for the financial aid.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Carpenter (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Lassa (D) , Olsen (R) , Petrowski (R) , Schultz (R)

14 cosponsors

Berceau (D) , Bernier (R) , Bies (R) , Brooks (R) , Endsley (R) , Hansen (D) , Jacque (R) , Kahl (D) , Kestell (R) , Mursau (R) , Ohnstad (D) , Petryk (R) , Sinicki (D) , Strachota (R)

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation, Public Safety, and Veterans and Military Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Apr 11, 2013 official source full page

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

Senate: Referred to Joint Committee on Finance by Committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Apr 16, 2013 official source full page

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

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 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Apr 16, 2013 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 33, Noes 0

Passed 33–0 Apr 17, 2013 official source full page

Assembly: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Veterans, Ayes 15, Noes 0

Passed 15–0 May 13, 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. Apr 1, 2013 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Petrowski, Carpenter, Lassa, Olsen, Schultz and L. Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Petryk, Bies, Berceau, Bernier, Brooks, Endsley, Jacque, Kahl, Kestell, Mursau, Ohnstad, Sinicki and Strachota, by request of Department of Military Affairs

  2. Apr 1, 2013 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation, Public Safety, and Veterans and Military Affairs

  3. Apr 2, 2013 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Apr 4, 2013 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  5. Apr 11, 2013 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  6. Apr 11, 2013 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation, Public Safety, and Veterans and Military Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  7. Apr 11, 2013 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  8. Apr 16, 2013 · Senate

    Referred to Joint Committee on Finance by Committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0

  9. Apr 16, 2013 · 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 5, Noes 0

  10. Apr 16, 2013 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 4-17-2013 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  11. Apr 17, 2013 · Senate

    Read a second time

  12. Apr 17, 2013 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  13. Apr 17, 2013 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  14. Apr 17, 2013 · Senate

    Senator Hansen added as a coauthor

  15. Apr 17, 2013 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 33, Noes 0

  16. Apr 17, 2013 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  17. Apr 17, 2013 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  18. Apr 23, 2013 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Veterans

  19. May 9, 2013 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  20. May 9, 2013 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  21. May 13, 2013 · Assembly

    Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Veterans, Ayes 15, Noes 0

  22. May 13, 2013 · Assembly

    Referred to Committee on Rules

  23. Jun 4, 2013 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 6-6-2013 by Committee on Rules

  24. Jun 6, 2013 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  25. Jun 6, 2013 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  26. Jun 6, 2013 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  27. Jun 6, 2013 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  28. Jun 6, 2013 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  29. Jun 7, 2013 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  30. Jun 17, 2013 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  31. Aug 2, 2013 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 8-2-2013

  32. Aug 7, 2013 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 8-5-2013. 2013 Wisconsin Act 45

  33. Aug 7, 2013 · Senate

    Published 8-6-2013