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AB 2

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Relating to: statewide FoodShare employment and training program requirement for able-bodied adults. (FE)

  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 requires the Department of Health Services to require all able-bodied

adults to participate in the FoodShare employment and training program, known as

FSET, except for able-bodied adults who are caretakers of a child under the age of

six and able-bodied adults who are at least half-time students. FoodShare is also

known as the food stamp program and the federal Supplemental Nutrition

Assistance Program and is administered by DHS. An able-bodied adult is 18 years

of age or older but younger than 50 years of age, not pregnant, not exempt from a

work requirement under federal regulations, and not determined to be medically

certified as physically or mentally unfit for employment. Currently, able-bodied

adults without dependents are required to comply with certain work requirements

as a condition of FoodShare eligibility, though the FSET program is voluntary. The

2017 Biennial Budget Act,

2017 Wisconsin Act 59

, specified that DHS may require

able-bodied adults to participate in FSET and allowed DHS to require a subset of,

instead of all, able individuals who are 18 to 60 years of age and who are not

Wisconsin Works participants to participate in FSET, to the extent allowed by the

federal government.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

12 cosponsors

Cowles (R) , Craig (R) , Darling (R) , Edming (R) , Feyen (R) , Kapenga (R) , Kulp (R) , LeMahieu (R) , Nass (R) , Stroebel (R) , Vukmir (R) , Wanggaard (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Public Benefit Reform, Ayes 5, Noes 3

Passed 5–3 Feb 13, 2018 official source full page

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

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Public Benefit Reform, Ayes 5, Noes 3

Passed 5–3 Feb 13, 2018 official source full page

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

Assembly: PASSAGE

Passed 62–35 Feb 15, 2018 official source full page

Aye · 62

Not voting · 1

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Feb 16, 2018 official source full page

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

Senate: CONCURRENCE

Passed 18–14 Feb 20, 2018 official source full page

Full history

  1. Jan 26, 2018 · Assembly

    Introduced by Committee on Assembly Organization, Representatives Vos, Felzkowski, Thiesfeldt, Jagler, Sanfelippo, Tusler, Petersen, Duchow, Petryk, Kuglitsch, Tittl, Knodl, Brandtjen, Murphy, Neylon, Spiros, Wichgers, Bernier, Krug, Kleefisch, Rohrkaste, Katsma, Born, Kremer and Swearingen; cosponsored by Senators Kapenga, Craig, Cowles, Darling, Feyen, LeMahieu, Nass, Stroebel, Vukmir and Wanggaard, by request of Governor Scott Walker

  2. Jan 26, 2018 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Public Benefit Reform

  3. Jan 31, 2018 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Jan 31, 2018 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Jan 31, 2018 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. Feb 2, 2018 · Assembly

    Representative Kulp added as a coauthor

  7. Feb 2, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Vos

  8. Feb 6, 2018 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  9. Feb 13, 2018 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Public Benefit Reform, Ayes 5, Noes 3

  10. Feb 13, 2018 · Assembly

    Referred to calendar of 2-15-2018 pursuant to Assembly Rule 93

  11. Feb 13, 2018 · Assembly

    Representative Edming added as a coauthor

  12. Feb 13, 2018 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Public Benefit Reform, Ayes 5, Noes 3

  13. Feb 15, 2018 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  14. Feb 15, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 adopted

  15. Feb 15, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Loudenbeck

  16. Feb 15, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 adopted

  17. Feb 15, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 3 offered by Representative Vos

  18. Feb 15, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 3 adopted

  19. Feb 15, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 4 offered by Representatives Rodriguez and Loudenbeck

  20. Feb 15, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 4 adopted

  21. Feb 15, 2018 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  22. Feb 15, 2018 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  23. Feb 15, 2018 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 62, Noes 35

  24. Feb 15, 2018 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  25. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  26. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

  27. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  28. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0

  29. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-20-2018 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  30. Feb 19, 2018 · Senate

    Printed engrossed by the direction of the Senate Chief Clerk-5542

  31. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Read a second time

  32. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  33. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  34. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 18, Noes 14

  35. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  36. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  37. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    LRB correction (Assembly Amendment 3)

  38. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    LRB correction

  39. Mar 1, 2018 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 3-1-2018

  40. Apr 9, 2018 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 4-9-2018

  41. Apr 11, 2018 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 4-10-2018. 2017 Wisconsin Act 264

  42. Apr 11, 2018 · Assembly

    Published 4-11-2018