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Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

AB 607

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Relating to: funding for service award payments and making an appropriation. (FE)

Administration department of — Budget and fiscal issues Fire department Medical service — Occupations

  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

Under current law, the Department of Administration administers a service

award program, which provides monetary length-of-service awards to volunteer fire

fighters, first responders, and volunteer emergency medical technicians. Under the

program, DOA pays a state match of up to $390 per service award per fiscal year

based on amounts contributed by municipalities. The appropriation for the state

match paid by DOA is currently capped at $2,500,000 per fiscal year.

This bill increases that amount to $2,805,700 in fiscal year 2019-20 and

$2,900,000 in fiscal year 2020-21 and subsequent fiscal years.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Bowen (D) , Considine (D) , Dittrich (R) , Edming (R) , Kerkman (R) , Kolste (D) , Krug (R) , Loudenbeck (R) , Milroy (D) , Mursau (R) , Novak (R) , Shankland (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Subeck (D) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Tusler (R)

6 cosponsors

Bewley (D) , Carpenter (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Larson (D) , Schachtner (D) , Testin (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 14, Noes 0

Passed 14–0 Jan 28, 2020 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 98–0 Feb 18, 2020 official source full page

Aye · 98

Not voting · 1

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0

Passed 16–0 Feb 18, 2020 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 33–0 Feb 19, 2020 official source full page

Full history

  1. Nov 15, 2019 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Mursau, Krug, Considine, Anderson, Bowen, Dittrich, Kolste, Loudenbeck, Milroy, Novak, Shankland, Spreitzer, Thiesfeldt, Tusler, Subeck, Kerkman and Edming; cosponsored by Senators Testin, Bewley, Carpenter, Schachtner and L. Taylor

  2. Nov 15, 2019 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety

  3. Dec 18, 2019 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Jan 9, 2020 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Jan 23, 2020 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  6. Jan 28, 2020 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 14, Noes 0

  7. Jan 28, 2020 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  8. Feb 10, 2020 · Assembly

    Withdrawn from committee on Rules and referred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Assembly Rule 24 (3)(a)

  9. Feb 12, 2020 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  10. Feb 18, 2020 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  11. Feb 18, 2020 · Assembly

    Senator Larson added as a cosponsor

  12. Feb 18, 2020 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from committee on Rules and take up

  13. Feb 18, 2020 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  14. Feb 18, 2020 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  15. Feb 18, 2020 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  16. Feb 18, 2020 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 98, Noes 0

  17. Feb 18, 2020 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  18. Feb 18, 2020 · Assembly

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

  19. Feb 19, 2020 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  20. Feb 19, 2020 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

  21. Feb 19, 2020 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  22. Feb 19, 2020 · Senate

    Rules suspended to withdraw from committee on Senate Organization and take up

  23. Feb 19, 2020 · Senate

    Read a second time

  24. Feb 19, 2020 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  25. Feb 19, 2020 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  26. Feb 19, 2020 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 33, Noes 0

  27. Feb 19, 2020 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  28. Feb 20, 2020 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  29. Feb 25, 2020 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 2-25-2020

  30. Feb 28, 2020 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 2-28-2020 by directive of the Speaker

  31. Mar 4, 2020 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 3-3-2020. 2019 Wisconsin Act 139

  32. Mar 4, 2020 · Assembly

    Published 3-4-2020