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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

SB 50

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Relating to: counting of tips for tipped employees and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

Data processing Employment Wage Wage — Minimum Workforce development department of

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Senate, completed
  3. Passes Assembly, 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, minimum wage is generally $7.25 per hour. However, if the

employer of a tipped employee can demonstrate through payroll records that the

employee has earned at least the applicable minimum wage in a week, based on the

employee's tips and wages paid to the employee in that week, the employer may pay

a minimum wage of $2.13 for opportunity employees, and $2.33 for general tipped

employees.

This bill requires the Department of Workforce Development to promulgate

rules allowing an employer to require tipped employees to use an electronic

signature or other electronic means that uniquely identifies the employee when the

employee is acknowledging the counting of tips toward fulfillment of the employer's

obligation to pay the minimum wage.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Bernier (R) , Felzkowski (R)

15 cosponsors

Brooks (R) , Callahan (R) , Haywood (D) , Kitchens (R) , Knodl (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Moses (R) , Rozar (R) , Schraa (R) , Skowronski (R) , Swearingen (R) , Tauchen (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Wichgers (R) , Zimmerman (R)

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Labor and Regulatory Reform, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Feb 11, 2021 official source full page

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

Assembly: SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND

Passed 54–37 Apr 13, 2021 official source full page

Aye · 54

Full history

  1. Jan 28, 2021 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Bernier and Felzkowski; cosponsored by Representatives Schraa, Brooks, Callahan, Haywood, Kitchens, Knodl, Kuglitsch, Moses, Rozar, Skowronski, Tauchen, Thiesfeldt, Wichgers, Zimmerman and Swearingen

  2. Jan 28, 2021 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Labor and Regulatory Reform

  3. Feb 8, 2021 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  4. Feb 10, 2021 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Feb 11, 2021 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  6. Feb 11, 2021 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Labor and Regulatory Reform, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  7. Feb 11, 2021 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  8. Feb 12, 2021 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-16-2021 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  9. Feb 16, 2021 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  10. Feb 16, 2021 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  11. Feb 16, 2021 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  12. Feb 16, 2021 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  13. Feb 16, 2021 · Senate

    Read a second time

  14. Feb 16, 2021 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  15. Apr 8, 2021 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  16. Apr 8, 2021 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 4-13-2021 by Committee on Rules

  17. Apr 13, 2021 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up

  18. Apr 13, 2021 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  19. Apr 13, 2021 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Anderson, S. Rodriguez, Andraca, Baldeh, Billings, Bowen, Brostoff, Cabrera, Conley, Considine, Doyle, Drake, Emerson, Goyke, Haywood, Hebl, Hesselbein, Hintz, Hong, McGuire, B. Meyers, Milroy, Moore Omokunde, L. Myers, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Ortiz-Velez, Pope, Riemer, Shankland, Shelton, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Spreitzer, Stubbs, Subeck, Vining and Vruwink

  20. Apr 13, 2021 · Assembly

    Point of order that Assembly Amendment 1 not germane under Assembly Rule 54 (3)(f) well taken

  21. Apr 13, 2021 · Assembly

    Decision of the Chair appealed

  22. Apr 13, 2021 · Assembly

    Decision of the Chair upheld, Ayes 54, Noes 37

  23. Apr 13, 2021 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  24. Apr 13, 2021 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  25. Apr 13, 2021 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  26. Apr 13, 2021 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  27. Apr 14, 2021 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  28. Apr 19, 2021 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  29. Apr 22, 2021 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 4-22-2021

  30. Apr 26, 2021 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 4-23-2021. 2021 Wisconsin Act 26

  31. Apr 26, 2021 · Senate

    Published 4-24-2021