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Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

SB 405

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Relating to: membership of a task force studying issues relating to the operation, use, and construction of state veterans home and other facilities for veterans.

Veteran — Hospitals and home Veteran — Organization Veterans affairs, department of

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, 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

2013 Wisconsin Act 20

(the 2013-15 biennial budget act) created a task force

to study various issues relating to the operation, use, and construction of state

veterans homes and facilities, the issues including whether to enter into contracts

for an operational manager to assume management responsibility for the homes and

whether to construct correctional facilities to house incarcerated veterans. The task

force has ten members, two members each from the Department of Veterans Affairs

(DVA), the Department of Corrections, the Department of Health Services, the

Department of Military Affairs, and the Department of Administration. This bill

adds six members to the task force that are appointed by the Council on Veterans

Programs, which is attached to DVA and which advises DVA on solutions and policy

alternatives relating to the problems of veterans. Each of the six members have to

represent a veterans organization that is eligible to have a representative on the

Council. The veterans organizations include organizations that represent disabled

veterans, that represent veterans from specific wars or military conflicts, and whose

membership is based on race, gender or religion.

Sponsors

Introduced by: C. Larson (D) , Carpenter (D) , Erpenbach (D) , Hansen (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Lassa (D) , Lehman (D) , Olsen (R) , Risser (D) , Shilling (D) , Vinehout (D) , Wirch (D)

5 cosponsors

Kolste (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Sinicki (D) , Vruwink (D) , Wright (D)

Full history

  1. Nov 11, 2013 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Lassa, Lehman, Shilling, Vinehout, Hansen, Wirch, C. Larson, Risser, Olsen, Erpenbach, L. Taylor and Carpenter; cosponsored by Representatives Kolste, Vruwink, Wright, Ohnstad, Sinicki and Pridemore

  2. Nov 11, 2013 · Senate

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

  3. Nov 18, 2013 · Senate

    Representative Pridemore withdrawn as a cosponsor

  4. Apr 8, 2014 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1