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Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

AB 501

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Relating to: funding the public defender pay progression and making an appropriation. (FE)

Public defender

  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

The bill provides $1,404,400 GPR in fiscal year 2019-20 and $2,550,200 in

fiscal year 2020-21 to fund the assistant state public defender pay progression plan,

which is a plan in current law that consists of 17 hourly salary steps, with each step

equal to one-seventeenth of the difference between the lowest hourly salary and the

highest hourly salary for the salary range for the assistant state public defender

positions.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Born (R) , Bowen (D) , Brostoff (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Dittrich (R) , Doyle (D) , Duchow (R) , Edming (R) , Fields (D) , Goyke (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Jagler (R) , James (R) , Knodl (R) , Loudenbeck (R) , McGuire (D) , Murphy (R) , Neubauer (D) , Nygren (R) , Ohnstad (D) , Riemer (D) , Schraa (R) , Sinicki (D) , Spiros (R) , Spreitzer (D) , Summerfield (R) , Tranel (R) , Tusler (R) , VanderMeer (R) , Vorpagel (R) , Zamarripa (D) , Zimmerman (R)

19 cosponsors

Bewley (D) , Cabrera (D) , Carpenter (D) , Darling (R) , Feyen (R) , Jacque (R) , Johnson (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Larson (D) , Miller (D) , Milroy (D) , Olsen (R) , Petrowski (R) , Ringhand (D) , Risser (D) , Testin (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Wanggaard (R) , Wirch (D)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0

Passed 16–0 Mar 26, 2020 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 16, Noes 0

Passed 16–0 Mar 26, 2020 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. Oct 1, 2019 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Loudenbeck, Born, Tusler, McGuire, Goyke, Anderson, Bowen, Brostoff, Dittrich, Doyle, Duchow, Edming, Fields, Jagler, James, Murphy, Neubauer, Nygren, Ohnstad, Riemer, Schraa, Sinicki, Spiros, Spreitzer, Tranel, VanderMeer, Vorpagel, Zamarripa, Zimmerman, Summerfield, C. Taylor, Knodl and Hesselbein; cosponsored by Senators Petrowski, Carpenter, Wanggaard, Bewley, Darling, Feyen, Johnson, Miller, Olsen, Ringhand, Risser, L. Taylor, Wirch, Testin and Larson

  2. Oct 1, 2019 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Joint Committee on Finance

  3. Oct 8, 2019 · Assembly

    Representative Thiesfeldt added as a coauthor

  4. Oct 22, 2019 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Oct 30, 2019 · Assembly

    Representative Milroy added as a coauthor

  6. Oct 31, 2019 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  7. Jan 21, 2020 · Assembly

    Senator Jacque added as a cosponsor

  8. Jan 22, 2020 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Loudenbeck

  9. Feb 12, 2020 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  10. Feb 14, 2020 · Assembly

    Representative Cabrera added as a coauthor

  11. Mar 26, 2020 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0

  12. Mar 26, 2020 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0

  13. Mar 26, 2020 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  14. Apr 1, 2020 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1