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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 529

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Relating to: creating an Office of Civil Service. (FE)

Administration, department of — Boards and other subdivisions Civil service Discrimination in employment Governor Governor — Appointments

  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

The 2015-17 biennial budget act,

2015 Wisconsin Act 55

, restructured the

Office of State Employment Relations (OSER) into a Division of Personnel

Management in the Department of Administration (DOA) and restructured the

Division of Merit Recruitment and Selection in OSER into a Bureau of Merit

Recruitment and Selection in the Division of Personnel Management. This bill

restructures the Division of Personnel Management into the Office of Civil Service

and attaches it to DOA for administrative purposes, restructures the Bureau of Merit

Recruitment and Selection as a division in the Office of Civil Service, and creates the

Division of Labor Relations and the Division of Affirmative Action in the Office of

Civil Service.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Barca (D) , Barnes (D) , Berceau (D) , Billings (D) , Bowen (D) , Brostoff (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Considine (D) , Genrich (D) , Goyke (D) , Hebl (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Johnson (D) , Jorgensen (D) , Kahl (D) , Kessler (D) , Mason (D) , Milroy (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Riemer (D) , Sargent (D) , Shankland (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Subeck (D) , Wachs (D) , Young (D) , Zamarripa (D) , Zepnick (D)

10 cosponsors

C. Larson (D) , Carpenter (D) , Erpenbach (D) , Hansen (D) , Harris Dodd (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Ringhand (D) , Risser (D) , Shilling (D) , Wirch (D)

Votes

Suspending the rules (to take a vote immediately) needs a two-thirds majority — a higher bar than passing the bill, which needs a simple majority. That's why a suspension motion can show more Ayes than the passage vote that follows it. Glossary

Assembly: Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on State Affairs and Government Operations and take up, Ayes 35, Noes 61

Failed 35–61 Jan 12, 2016 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. Nov 18, 2015 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Barnes, Mason, Johnson, Young, Hesselbein, Billings, Kahl, Goyke, Brostoff, Sargent, Bowen, Berceau, Sinicki, Pope, Riemer, Zamarripa, Wachs, Shankland, Considine, Ohnstad, Barca, Jorgensen, Hebl, Genrich, Milroy, Kessler, Spreitzer, C. Taylor, Zepnick and Subeck; cosponsored by Senators C. Larson, Shilling, Wirch, Risser, Harris Dodd, Carpenter, Ringhand, Hansen, Erpenbach and L. Taylor

  2. Nov 18, 2015 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs and Government Operations

  3. Jan 12, 2016 · Assembly

    Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on State Affairs and Government Operations and take up, Ayes 35, Noes 61

  4. Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1