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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

SB 62

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Relating to: merit pay raises for state public defenders.

Public defender Public employee — Salary

  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, 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.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Carpenter (D) , Darling (R) , Felzkowski (R) , Feyen (R) , Jacque (R) , L. Taylor (D) , Larson (D) , Petrowski (R) , Pfaff (D) , Ringhand (D) , Roys (D) , Testin (R) , Wanggaard (R)

40 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Andraca (D) , B. Meyers (D) , Born (R) , Bowen (D) , Brostoff (D) , Cabrera (D) , Dittrich (R) , Doyle (D) , Drake (D) , Duchow (R) , Edming (R) , Hong (D) , James (R) , Knodl (R) , Loudenbeck (R) , McGuire (D) , Milroy (D) , Moses (R) , Mursau (R) , Neubauer (D) , Novak (R) , Ramthun (R) , Riemer (D) , Rozar (R) , S. Rodriguez (D) , Schraa (R) , Sinicki (D) , Skowronski (R) , Smith (D) , Snyder (R) , Spiros (R) , Spreitzer (D) , Subeck (D) , Summerfield (R) , Tauchen (R) , Tranel (R) , VanderMeer (R) , Vining (D) , Zimmerman (R)

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 7, Noes 0

Passed 7–0 Feb 12, 2021 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. Feb 5, 2021 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Petrowski, Wanggaard, L. Taylor, Carpenter, Feyen, Ringhand, Jacque, Felzkowski, Roys, Darling, Testin, Larson and Pfaff; cosponsored 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

  2. Feb 5, 2021 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety

  3. Feb 9, 2021 · Senate

    Senator Smith added as a coauthor

  4. Feb 9, 2021 · Senate

    Representative Vining added as a cosponsor

  5. Feb 11, 2021 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  6. Feb 12, 2021 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  7. Feb 12, 2021 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 7, Noes 0

  8. Feb 12, 2021 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  9. Feb 12, 2021 · Senate

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

  10. Feb 16, 2021 · Senate

    Read a second time

  11. Feb 16, 2021 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  12. Feb 16, 2021 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  13. Feb 16, 2021 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  14. Feb 16, 2021 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  15. Feb 16, 2021 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  16. Feb 16, 2021 · Assembly

    Read

  17. Feb 16, 2021 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from Senate message and take up

  18. Feb 16, 2021 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  19. Feb 16, 2021 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  20. Feb 16, 2021 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  21. Feb 16, 2021 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  22. Feb 16, 2021 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  23. Feb 16, 2021 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  24. Feb 16, 2021 · Senate

    Representative McGuire added as a cosponsor

  25. Feb 19, 2021 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  26. Feb 24, 2021 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 2-24-2021

  27. Mar 1, 2021 · Senate

    Representative S. Rodriguez added as a cosponsor

  28. Mar 2, 2021 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 3-1-2021. 2021 Wisconsin Act 7

  29. Mar 2, 2021 · Senate

    Published 3-2-2021

  30. Mar 10, 2022 · Senate

    Representative Anderson added as a cosponsor