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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 872

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Relating to: garnishment fees.

Garnishment

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Assembly, completed
  3. Passes Senate, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill clarifies the way certain wage garnishment fees are collected. The

state budget act,

2015 Wisconsin Act 55

, created a $3 fee, to be paid by a creditor to

the garnishee for each garnishment payment delivered to the creditor after the first

payment. The act added the $3 fee to the initial $15 fee paid by the creditor upon

commencement of a garnishment action.

This bill clarifies that the additional $3 fee is deducted from the moneys

delivered to the creditor and is not paid at the commencement of the garnishment

action by the creditor.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Nygren (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 12, Noes 3

Passed 12–3 Feb 11, 2016 official source full page

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

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Mar 14, 2016 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 concurred in, Ayes 21, Noes 11

Passed 21–11 Mar 15, 2016 official source full page

Not voting · 1

Full history

  1. Feb 5, 2016 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representative Nygren

  2. Feb 5, 2016 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Joint Committee on Finance

  3. Feb 10, 2016 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Feb 10, 2016 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  5. Feb 11, 2016 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 12, Noes 3

  6. Feb 11, 2016 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  7. Feb 16, 2016 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 2:10 PM on 2-18-2016 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 29

  8. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  9. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  10. Feb 18, 2016 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  11. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  12. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  13. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  14. Feb 23, 2016 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Revenue, Financial Institutions, and Rural Issues

  15. Mar 7, 2016 · Senate

    Withdrawn from committee on Revenue, Financial Institutions, and Rural Issues and rereferred to committee on Senate Organization pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)

  16. Mar 7, 2016 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  17. Mar 14, 2016 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

  18. Mar 14, 2016 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 3-15-2016 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  19. Mar 15, 2016 · Senate

    Read a second time

  20. Mar 15, 2016 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  21. Mar 15, 2016 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  22. Mar 15, 2016 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 21, Noes 11

  23. Mar 15, 2016 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  24. Mar 16, 2016 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  25. Mar 24, 2016 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 3-24-2016

  26. Mar 29, 2016 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 3-29-2016

  27. Mar 31, 2016 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 3-30-2016. 2015 Wisconsin Act 337

  28. Mar 31, 2016 · Assembly

    Published 3-31-2016