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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 108

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Relating to: requiring a local governmental unit to create a civil service system with a just cause standard of discipline for its employees. (FE)

Civil service Municipality Public employee Public employee — Group insurance Sanitation and sewerage management School

  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 local governmental unit (which includes a city, village,

town, county, school district, and sewerage district) may establish a civil service

system that governs issues related to the selection, tenure, and status of most of its

governmental employees. A local governmental unit that does not have a civil service

system must have a grievance system that addresses employee termination and

discipline and workplace safety.

Under this bill, local governmental units, other than a sewerage commission

established by a first class city (currently only Milwaukee), must establish a civil

service system by January 1, 2017, that provides that an employee with permanent

status in class may be removed, suspended without pay, discharged, reduced in base

pay, or demoted, or has his or her contract nonrenewed, only for just cause. This

provision is similar to a provision in current law that applies to state employees in

the classified service with permanent status in class and to certain assistant district

attorneys. The bill also requires that the civil service system include a grievance

procedure that provides for a hearing before an impartial hearing officer mutually

agreed to by the parties.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Berceau (D) , Bowen (D) , Danou (D) , Genrich (D) , Hebl (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Johnson (D) , Jorgensen (D) , Kessler (D) , Kolste (D) , Milroy (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Sargent (D) , Sinicki (D) , Subeck (D) , Wachs (D) , Zamarripa (D)

6 cosponsors

Carpenter (D) , Erpenbach (D) , Harris Dodd (D) , Miller (D) , Vinehout (D) , Wirch (D)

Full history

  1. Mar 20, 2015 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Hesselbein, Wachs, Ohnstad, Johnson, Sargent, Bowen, Zamarripa, Kessler, Pope, Subeck, Genrich, Berceau, Danou, Milroy, Jorgensen, Kolste, Hebl and Sinicki; cosponsored by Senators Erpenbach, Wirch, Carpenter, Miller, Harris Dodd and Vinehout

  2. Mar 20, 2015 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Labor

  3. Apr 13, 2015 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1