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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

SB 111

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Relating to: requiring a local governmental unit to create a civil service system with a just cause standard of discipline for its employees. (FE)

Civil service Municipality Public employee Sanitation and sewerage management School

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

Under this bill, a local governmental unit, which includes a city, village, town,

county, school district, and sewerage district, other than a sewerage commission

established by a first class city (currently only Milwaukee), must establish a civil

service system by January 1, 2019, that provides that an employee with permanent

status in class may be removed, suspended without pay, discharged, reduced in base

pay, or demoted, or has his or her contract nonrenewed, only for just cause. This

provision is similar to a provision in current law that applies to state employees in

the classified service with permanent status in class and to certain assistant district

attorneys. The bill also requires that the civil service system include a grievance

procedure that provides for a hearing before an impartial hearing officer mutually

agreed to by the parties.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: C. Larson (D) , Carpenter (D) , Erpenbach (D) , Ringhand (D) , Risser (D) , Shilling (D) , Wirch (D)

20 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Berceau (D) , Billings (D) , Bowen (D) , Brostoff (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Considine (D) , Fields (D) , Genrich (D) , Hebl (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Kessler (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Sargent (D) , Shankland (D) , Sinicki (D) , Subeck (D) , Wachs (D) , Zamarripa (D)

Full history

  1. Mar 16, 2017 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Erpenbach, Wirch, Carpenter, Ringhand, C. Larson, Shilling and Risser; cosponsored by Representatives Hesselbein, Wachs, Hebl, Kessler, Pope, Sargent, Berceau, Brostoff, Fields, Billings, Considine, C. Taylor, Sinicki, Ohnstad, Subeck, Genrich, Shankland, Zamarripa, Anderson and Bowen

  2. Mar 16, 2017 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development, Commerce and Local Government

  3. Mar 28, 2017 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Apr 11, 2017 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Mar 28, 2018 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1