Assembly Joint Resolution 116
Requiring the Joint Committee on Legislative Organization to immediately appoint a committee to study and report on certain impacts of professional licensure requirements
Stopped in committee
It never got a , so it never came up for a vote. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new proposal.
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Introduced, passed
Feb 18, 2016
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Senate vote, not reached
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Adopted, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Apr 13, 2016: “Failed to adopt pursuant to ”
It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Workforce Development. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
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.
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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.
Who's behind it
14 lawmakers are its . All 14 are Democrats.
3 more lawmakers .
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Authors (14)
- Terese Berceau · Democrat, Assembly
- Chris Taylor · Democrat, Assembly
- Gordon Hintz · Democrat, Assembly
- LaTonya Johnson · Democrat, Senate
- Andy Jorgensen · Democrat, Assembly
- Frederick Kessler · Democrat, Assembly
- Cory Mason · Democrat, Assembly
- Nick Milroy · Democrat, Assembly
- Tod Ohnstad · Democrat, Assembly
- Sondy Pope · Democrat, Assembly
- Christine Sinicki · Democrat, Assembly
- Mark Spreitzer · Democrat, Senate
- Lisa Subeck · Democrat, Assembly
- JoCasta Zamarripa · Democrat, Assembly
Signed on in support (3)
- Nikiya Harris Dodd · Democrat, Senate
- Lena Taylor · Democrat, Senate
- Mark Miller · Democrat, Senate
What happened
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Apr 13, 2016
The session ended, and the proposal died with it.
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Feb 18, 2016
Sent to the Assembly Committee on Workforce Development.
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Feb 18, 2016
Introduced in the Assembly.
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- 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
- Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly
Read and referred to Committee on Workforce Development
- Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly
Failed to adopt pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor