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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AJR 116

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Relating to: requiring the Joint Committee on Legislative Organization to immediately appoint a committee to study and report on certain impacts of professional licensure requirements.

Crime and criminals Legislature — Committees Legislature — Employment relations, joint committee on Legislature — Legislative organization, joint committee on Safety and professional services, department of Trades and occupations

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

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This resolution requires the Joint Committee on Legislative Organization to

immediately appoint a committee consisting of two members of the majority and the

minority parties in the assembly; two members of the majority and the minority

parties in the senate; four representatives of licensed professionals; one

representative of the Department of Safety and Professional Services; and four

representatives of those formerly convicted of a crime.

The committee must study the impact of the fact of an individual's past criminal

conviction on his or her ability to obtain a professional license when the

circumstances of the offense do not substantially relate to the circumstances of the

particular licensed activity. The committee must investigate whether Wisconsin's

professional licensing laws are narrowly tailored to protect the public welfare and

whether they place an undue burden on formerly convicted individuals seeking to

become licensed professionals.

Under the resolution, the committee must deliver its findings to the assembly

and the senate majority and minority leaders and to the cochairpersons of the Joint

Committee on Finance before January 3, 2017.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Berceau (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Hintz (D) , Johnson (D) , Jorgensen (D) , Kessler (D) , Mason (D) , Milroy (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Subeck (D) , Zamarripa (D)

3 cosponsors

Harris Dodd (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Miller (D)

Full history

  1. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Zamarripa, Mason, Berceau, Hintz, Johnson, Jorgensen, Kessler, Ohnstad, Pope, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Subeck, Milroy and C. Taylor; cosponsored by Senators Miller, L. Taylor and Harris Dodd

  2. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Read and referred to Committee on Workforce Development

  3. Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Failed to adopt pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1