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Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

AB 300

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Relating to: requiring political subdivisions and Marquette University to pay health insurance premiums for survivors of a law enforcement officer who dies in the line of duty and making an appropriation. (FE)

Colleges and universities County Family Insurance — Health Municipality Police Public service commission

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, 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 a political subdivision (a city, village, town, or county) and

Marquette University to pay health insurance premiums for the surviving spouse

and dependent children of a law enforcement officer who dies in the line of duty if the

political subdivision or university paid such premiums for the law enforcement

officer while he or she was employed by the political subdivision or university. The

requirement does not apply to a surviving spouse who remarries or reaches the age

of 65, or to a surviving child after he or she reaches the age of 26. Current law

provides similar benefits to the surviving spouse and dependent children of a fire

fighter who dies, or has died, in the line of duty if the municipality (city, village, or

town) paid such premiums for the fire fighter while he or she was employed by the

municipality.

Also, under the bill, if a political subdivision or Marquette University pays such

health insurance premiums, the political subdivision or university must file a

request for reimbursement for its costs with the Public Service Commission, which

is required to provide reimbursement. The bill allows the PSC to contract with the

Department of Revenue to administer the reimbursements. The reimbursement

payments are funded by a fee called the “police and fire protection fee,” which current

law requires communications providers and prepaid wireless retailers to collect from

their customers.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Billings (D) , Born (R) , Bowen (D) , Brandtjen (R) , Brooks (R) , Brostoff (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Dittrich (R) , Doyle (D) , Duchow (R) , Edming (R) , Emerson (D) , Goyke (D) , Hebl (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Hintz (D) , Horlacher (R) , Jagler (R) , James (R) , Kerkman (R) , Kitchens (R) , Kolste (D) , Krug (R) , Kulp (R) , Kurtz (R) , L. Myers (D) , Macco (R) , Milroy (D) , Murphy (R) , Mursau (R) , Neubauer (D) , Novak (R) , Nygren (R) , Ohnstad (D) , Ott (R) , Petryk (R) , Pope (D) , Pronschinske (R) , Quinn (R) , Ramthun (R) , Riemer (D) , Rodriguez (R) , Rohrkaste (R) , Sanfelippo (R) , Sargent (D) , Schraa (R) , Shankland (D) , Sinicki (D) , Skowronski (R) , Snyder (R) , Spiros (R) , Spreitzer (D) , Stafsholt (R) , Steffen (R) , Stubbs (D) , Stuck (D) , Subeck (D) , Summerfield (R) , Swearingen (R) , Tauchen (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Tittl (R) , Tranel (R) , Tusler (R) , Vorpagel (R) , Vruwink (D) , Wichgers (R) , Wittke (R) , Zimmerman (R)

30 cosponsors

Bernier (R) , Bewley (D) , Carpenter (D) , Darling (R) , Erpenbach (D) , Feyen (R) , Fitzgerald (R) , Hansen (D) , Haywood (D) , Jacque (R) , Johnson (D) , Katsma, B. Meyers and Gruszynski , Kooyenga (R) , L. Taylor (D) , Larson (D) , Loudenbeck (R) , Marklein (R) , McGuire (D) , Olsen (R) , Petrowski (R) , Ringhand (D) , Risser (D) , Roth (R) , Schachtner (D) , Smith (D) , Testin (R) , Vining (D) , Wanggaard (R) , Wirch (D) , Zamarripa (D)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Insurance, Ayes 11, Noes 0

Passed 11–0 Oct 1, 2019 official source full page

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

Assembly: Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Insurance, Ayes 11, Noes 0

Passed 11–0 Oct 1, 2019 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 Insurance, Ayes 11, Noes 0

Passed 11–0 Oct 1, 2019 official source full page

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

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

Passed 15–0 Oct 4, 2019 official source full page

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

Assembly: Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

Passed 15–0 Oct 4, 2019 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 Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

Passed 15–0 Oct 4, 2019 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. Jun 20, 2019 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Spiros, Doyle, Anderson, Billings, Bowen, Brandtjen, Brostoff, Dittrich, Duchow, Edming, Emerson, Goyke, Hebl, Hesselbein, Hintz, Horlacher, James, Kitchens, Kolste, Krug, Kulp, Kurtz, Macco, Milroy, Murphy, Mursau, L. Myers, Neubauer, Novak, Nygren, Ohnstad, Ott, Petryk, Pope, Pronschinske, Quinn, Ramthun, Riemer, Rodriguez, Rohrkaste, Sanfelippo, Sargent, Schraa, Shankland, Sinicki, Skowronski, Snyder, Spreitzer, Stafsholt, Steffen, Stubbs, Stuck, Subeck, Summerfield, Swearingen, Tauchen, C. Taylor, Thiesfeldt, Tittl, Tranel, Tusler, Vorpagel, Vruwink, Wichgers, Zimmerman, Kerkman, Brooks, Jagler, Wittke and Born; cosponsored by Senators Wanggaard, Bewley, Bernier, Carpenter, Erpenbach, Feyen, Fitzgerald, Hansen, Jacque, Johnson, Marklein, Olsen, Petrowski, Ringhand, Risser, Roth, Schachtner, Smith, L. Taylor, Testin and Wirch

  2. Jun 20, 2019 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance

  3. Jul 3, 2019 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Jul 9, 2019 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Jul 9, 2019 · Assembly

    Senator Kooyenga added as a cosponsor

  6. Jul 11, 2019 · Assembly

    Representative McGuire added as a coauthor

  7. Jul 11, 2019 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Spiros

  8. Aug 15, 2019 · Assembly

    Senator Larson added as a cosponsor

  9. Aug 29, 2019 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Spiros

  10. Sep 10, 2019 · Assembly

    Senator Darling added as a cosponsor

  11. Sep 12, 2019 · Assembly

    Representative Loudenbeck added as a coauthor

  12. Sep 17, 2019 · Assembly

    Representatives Katsma, B. Meyers and Gruszynski added as coauthors

  13. Sep 17, 2019 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  14. Sep 19, 2019 · Assembly

    Representative Haywood added as a coauthor

  15. Sep 30, 2019 · Assembly

    Representative Vining added as a coauthor

  16. Oct 1, 2019 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  17. Oct 1, 2019 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Committee on Insurance

  18. Oct 1, 2019 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Insurance, Ayes 11, Noes 0

  19. Oct 1, 2019 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Insurance, Ayes 11, Noes 0

  20. Oct 1, 2019 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Insurance, Ayes 11, Noes 0

  21. Oct 1, 2019 · Assembly

    Referred to joint committee on Finance

  22. Oct 2, 2019 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  23. Oct 4, 2019 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

  24. Oct 4, 2019 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

  25. Oct 4, 2019 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

  26. Oct 4, 2019 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  27. Oct 8, 2019 · Assembly

    Representative Zamarripa added as a coauthor

  28. Oct 8, 2019 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 10-10-2019 by Committee on Rules

  29. Oct 10, 2019 · Assembly

    Laid on the table

  30. Apr 1, 2020 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1