Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 406

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Relating to: unemployment insurance contribution rates. (FE)

Budget bills and process Unemployment insurance

Introduced, completed
Passes Assembly, completed
Passes Senate, completed
Governor signs, completed
Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law provides four schedules of unemployment insurance contribution

(tax) rates, with Schedule D containing the lowest rates and Schedule A containing

the highest. Which schedule is in effect for a given calendar year depends on the cash

balance of the state's unemployment reserve fund as of the preceding June 30.

Schedule D, which is in effect in calendar year 2021, is otherwise in effect for any

calendar year whenever, as of the preceding June 30, the state's unemployment

reserve fund has a cash balance of at least $1,200,000,000.

This bill requires Schedule D of the unemployment insurance contribution (tax)

rates to remain in effect through the end of calendar year 2023, regardless of the cash

balance of the state's unemployment reserve fund as of June 30, 2021, and June 30,

2022. However, the bill provides that it applies only if the 2021-23 budget bill, as

enacted, provides for transfers of $60,000,000 in each of fiscal years 2021-22 and

2022-23.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Fiscal Estimate From DWD

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 14, Noes 0

Passed 14–0 Jun 28, 2021 official source full page

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

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Jun 30, 2021 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 32–0 Jun 30, 2021 official source full page

Aye · 32

Not voting · 1

Roger Roth (19)

Full history

Jun 23, 2021 · Assembly
Introduced by Joint Committee on Finance
Jun 23, 2021 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Joint Committee on Finance
Jun 23, 2021 · Assembly
Public hearing held
Jun 23, 2021 · Assembly
Executive action taken
Jun 28, 2021 · Assembly
Report passage recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 14, Noes 0
Jun 28, 2021 · Assembly
Referred to calendar of 6-29-2021 pursuant to Assembly Rule 93
Jun 29, 2021 · Assembly
Ordered immediately messaged
Jun 29, 2021 · Assembly
Read a second time
Jun 29, 2021 · Assembly
Ordered to a third reading
Jun 29, 2021 · Assembly
Rules suspended
Jun 29, 2021 · Assembly
Read a third time and passed
Jun 30, 2021 · Senate
Received from Assembly
Jun 30, 2021 · Senate
Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0
Jun 30, 2021 · Senate
Placed on calendar 6-30-2021 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
Jun 30, 2021 · Senate
Senator Carpenter added as a cosponsor
Jun 30, 2021 · Senate
Read a second time
Jun 30, 2021 · Senate
Ordered to a third reading
Jun 30, 2021 · Senate
Rules suspended
Jun 30, 2021 · Senate
Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 32, Noes 0
Jun 30, 2021 · Senate
Ordered immediately messaged
Jul 1, 2021 · Assembly
Received from Senate concurred in
Jul 1, 2021 · Assembly
Report correctly enrolled on 7-1-2021
Jul 2, 2021 · Assembly
Presented to the Governor on 7-2-2021 by directive of the Speaker
Jul 8, 2021 · Assembly
Report approved by the Governor on 7-8-2021. 2021 Wisconsin Act 59
Jul 8, 2021 · Assembly
Published 7-9-2021
Jul 13, 2021 · Assembly
Fiscal estimate received