Senate Bill 342
The exemption of bona fide administrative, executive, and professional employees from the overtime pay requirements of the wage and hours laws, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
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 bill.
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Introduced, passed
Oct 19, 2015
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Senate vote, not reached
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Apr 13, 2016: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
It never got a hearing in the Senate Committee on Workforce Development, Public Works, and Military Affairs. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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Committee
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Public hearing
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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
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Author
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Signed on in support
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Cost estimate
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What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
Under current administrative rules promulgated by the Department of Workforce Development (DWD), employers are generally required to pay employees 1.5 times their regular rates of pay for all hours worked in excess of 40 hours per week (overtime pay). Those rules, however, exempt from the overtime pay requirement employees whose primary duty consists of administrative, executive, or professional work (exempt employees). Currently, those rules generally define an administrative, executive, or professional employee, in part, as an employee who does not devote more than 20 percent of his or her hours of work to activities that are not administrative, executive, or professional in nature (20 percent rule) and who is compensated on a salary basis at a rate of not less than $700 per month or, in the case of a professional employee, $750 per month (compensation threshold).
This bill requires DWD, for purposes of defining an exempt employee, to set the compensation threshold at $970 per week and to replace the 20 percent rule with a requirement that employee's "primary duty" be administrative, executive, or professional work. The bill provides that, by the first day of the 18th month beginning after the bill's effective date, and annually thereafter, DWD must promulgate emergency rules to revise that compensation threshold by calculating the percentage change in the consumer price index for the 12-month period ending on the last day of the last month for which that information is available and adjusting the rate then in effect by that percentage difference.
Who's behind it
10 senators are its . All 10 are Democrats.
20 more lawmakers .
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Authors (10)
- Chris Larson · Democrat, Senate
- Tim Carpenter · Democrat, Senate
- Dave Hansen · Democrat, Senate
- Nikiya Harris Dodd · Democrat, Senate
- Lena Taylor · Democrat, Senate
- Julie M. Lassa · Democrat, Senate
- Mark Miller · Democrat, Senate
- Fred A. Risser · Democrat, Senate
- Kathleen Vinehout · Democrat, Senate
- Bob Wirch · Democrat, Senate
Signed on in support (20)
- Mandela Barnes · Democrat, Assembly
- Terese Berceau · Democrat, Assembly
- Jill Billings · Democrat, Assembly
- David Bowen · Democrat, Assembly
- Jonathan Brostoff · Democrat, Assembly
- Chris Taylor · Democrat, Assembly
- Eric Genrich · Democrat, Assembly
- Evan Goyke · Democrat, Assembly
- Dianne Hesselbein · Democrat, Senate
- LaTonya Johnson · Democrat, Senate
- Andy Jorgensen · Democrat, Assembly
- Frederick Kessler · Democrat, Assembly
- Cory Mason · Democrat, Assembly
- Tod Ohnstad · Democrat, Assembly
- Sondy Pope · Democrat, Assembly
- Melissa Sargent · Democrat, Assembly
- Christine Sinicki · Democrat, Assembly
- Mark Spreitzer · Democrat, Senate
- Lisa Subeck · Democrat, Assembly
- JoCasta Zamarripa · Democrat, Assembly
What it would cost
State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.
What happened
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Apr 13, 2016
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Dec 18, 2015
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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Oct 19, 2015
Sent to the Senate Committee on Workforce Development, Public Works, and Military Affairs.
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Oct 19, 2015
Introduced in the Senate.
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- Oct 19, 2015 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Lassa, Hansen, Harris Dodd, Carpenter, Wirch, Miller, Vinehout, C. Larson, L. Taylor and Risser; cosponsored by Representatives Jorgensen, Sargent, Subeck, Hesselbein, Billings, Sinicki, C. Taylor, Ohnstad, Spreitzer, Genrich, Pope, Barnes, Johnson, Kessler, Goyke, Mason, Bowen, Zamarripa, Berceau and Brostoff
- Oct 19, 2015 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Workforce Development, Public Works, and Military Affairs
- Dec 18, 2015 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
- Apr 13, 2016 · Senate
Failed to pass 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
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate. 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
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate