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Bills · January 2018 Special Session

SB 2

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

  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

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

26 cosponsors

Bernier (R) , Born (R) , Brandtjen (R) , Duchow (R) , Edming (R) , Felzkowski (R) , Jagler (R) , Katsma (R) , Kleefisch (R) , Knodl (R) , Kremer (R) , Krug (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Murphy (R) , Neylon (R) , Petersen (R) , Petryk (R) , Rohrkaste (R) , Sanfelippo (R) , Spiros (R) , Swearingen (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Tittl (R) , Tusler (R) , Vos (R) , Wichgers (R)

Votes

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Public Benefits, Licensing and State-Federal Relations, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Feb 15, 2018 official source full page

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

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Amendment 3 recommended by Committee on Public Benefits, Licensing and State-Federal Relations, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Feb 15, 2018 official source full page

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

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Amendment 4 recommended by Committee on Public Benefits, Licensing and State-Federal Relations, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Feb 15, 2018 official source full page

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

Senate: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Public Benefits, Licensing and State-Federal Relations, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Feb 15, 2018 official source full page

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

Full history

  1. Jan 26, 2018 · Senate

    Introduced by Committee on Senate Organization, Senators Kapenga, Craig, Cowles, Darling, Feyen, LeMahieu, Nass, Stroebel, Vukmir and Wanggaard; cosponsored by 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, by request of Governor Scott Walker

  2. Jan 26, 2018 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Public Benefits, Licensing and State-Federal Relations

  3. Jan 31, 2018 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  4. Feb 1, 2018 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Feb 1, 2018 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Feb 5, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Kapenga

  7. Feb 13, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 2 offered by Senator Olsen

  8. Feb 13, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 3 offered by Senator Kapenga

  9. Feb 13, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 4 offered by Senator Olsen

  10. Feb 13, 2018 · Senate

    Representative Edming added as a cosponsor

  11. Feb 14, 2018 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  12. Feb 15, 2018 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Public Benefits, Licensing and State-Federal Relations, Ayes 3, Noes 2

  13. Feb 15, 2018 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Amendment 3 recommended by Committee on Public Benefits, Licensing and State-Federal Relations, Ayes 3, Noes 2

  14. Feb 15, 2018 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Amendment 4 recommended by Committee on Public Benefits, Licensing and State-Federal Relations, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  15. Feb 15, 2018 · Senate

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Public Benefits, Licensing and State-Federal Relations, Ayes 3, Noes 2

  16. Feb 15, 2018 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  17. Feb 27, 2018 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1