Assembly Bill 33
Merit pay raises for state public defenders
Stopped in committee
It had a but no committee vote, so it never came up for a vote. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.
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Introduced, passed
Feb 5, 2021
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. It had a hearing but no committee vote.
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Senate vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Mar 15, 2022: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
It sat with the Assembly Committee on Judiciary.
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Committee
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Public hearing
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Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
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Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
Under current law, there is an assistant state public defender pay progression plan, which 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. The plan provides that no salary adjustment under the plan may increase an assistant state public defender's salary by more than 10 percent of his or her base pay during a fiscal year.
This bill allows the Public Defender Board to provide merit-based pay raises under the assistant state public defender pay progression plan in fiscal year 2021-22 that may exceed 10 percent of an assistant state public defender's base pay.
Who's behind it
35 lawmakers are its . 21 are Republicans and 14 are Democrats.
18 more lawmakers .
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Authors (35)
- Deb Andraca · Democrat, Assembly
- Beth Meyers · Democrat, Assembly
- Mark Born · Republican, Assembly
- David Bowen · Democrat, Assembly
- Jonathan Brostoff · Democrat, Assembly
- Marisabel Cabrera · Democrat, Assembly
- Barbara Dittrich · Republican, Assembly
- Steve Doyle · Democrat, Assembly
- Dora Drake · Democrat, Senate
- Cindi Duchow · Republican, Assembly
- James Edming · Republican, Assembly
- Francesca Hong · Democrat, Assembly
- Jesse James · Republican, Senate
- Dan Knodl · Republican, Assembly
- Amy Loudenbeck · Republican, Assembly
- Nick Milroy · Democrat, Assembly
- Clint Moses · Republican, Assembly
- Jeff Mursau · Republican, Assembly
- Greta Neubauer · Democrat, Assembly
- Todd Novak · Republican, Assembly
- Timothy Ramthun · Republican, Assembly
- Daniel Riemer · Democrat, Assembly
- Donna Rozar · Republican, Assembly
- Michael Schraa · Republican, Assembly
- Christine Sinicki · Democrat, Assembly
- Ken Skowronski · Republican, Assembly
- Pat Snyder · Republican, Assembly
- John Spiros · Republican, Assembly
- Mark Spreitzer · Democrat, Senate
- Lisa Subeck · Democrat, Assembly
- Rob Summerfield · Republican, Assembly
- Gary Tauchen · Republican, Assembly
- Travis Tranel · Republican, Assembly
- Nancy VanderMeer · Republican, Assembly
- Shannon Zimmerman · Republican, Assembly
Signed on in support (18)
- Jimmy Anderson · Democrat, Assembly
- Tim Carpenter · Democrat, Senate
- Alberta Darling · Republican, Senate
- Mary Felzkowski · Republican, Senate
- Dan Feyen · Republican, Senate
- André Jacque · Republican, Senate
- Lena Taylor · Democrat, Senate
- Chris Larson · Democrat, Senate
- Tip McGuire · Democrat, Assembly
- Jerry Petrowski · Republican, Senate
- Brad Pfaff · Democrat, Senate
- Janis Ringhand · Democrat, Senate
- Kelda Roys · Democrat, Senate
- Sara Rodriguez · Democrat, Assembly
- Jeff Smith · Democrat, Senate
- Patrick Testin · Republican, Senate
- Robyn Vining · Democrat, Assembly
- Van Wanggaard · Republican, Senate
What happened
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Mar 15, 2022
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Mar 1, 2021 to Mar 10, 2022
2 more representatives signed on in support.
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Feb 16, 2021
The committee held a public hearing.
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Feb 9, 2021 to Feb 16, 2021
2 more representatives signed on in support.
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Feb 5, 2021
Sent to the Assembly Committee on Judiciary.
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Feb 5, 2021
Introduced in the Assembly.
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- Feb 5, 2021 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Loudenbeck, Born, Schraa, Ramthun, Tauchen, Novak, Snyder, Skowronski, Rozar, Zimmerman, Edming, Mursau, Knodl, James, Doyle, Cabrera, Summerfield, VanderMeer, Dittrich, Sinicki, Milroy, Spiros, Moses, Neubauer, Hong, Duchow, Drake, Tranel, Riemer, Bowen, Andraca, Spreitzer, B. Meyers, Subeck and Brostoff; cosponsored by Senators Petrowski, Wanggaard, L. Taylor, Carpenter, Feyen, Ringhand, Jacque, Felzkowski, Roys, Darling, Testin, Larson, Pfaff and Smith
- Feb 5, 2021 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary
- Feb 9, 2021 · Assembly
Representative Vining added as a coauthor
- Feb 16, 2021 · Assembly
Representative McGuire added as a coauthor
- Feb 16, 2021 · Assembly
Public hearing held
- Mar 1, 2021 · Assembly
Representative S. Rodriguez added as a coauthor
- Mar 10, 2022 · Assembly
Representative Anderson added as a coauthor
- Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor