Senate Bill 980
An online dashboard relating to the state's receipt and expenditure of federal COVID-19 relief funds. (FE)
Stopped in committee
It never got a , 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 17, 2022
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Senate vote, not reached
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Assembly 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 never got a hearing in the Senate Committee on Government Operations, Legal Review and Consumer Protection. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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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
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
Under current law, the governor has authority to accept aid made available to the state by the U.S. government, including moneys the federal government makes available to the state in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic.
This bill requires the Department of Administration to develop, maintain, and update at least weekly a publicly available and fully searchable dashboard on its Internet site that provides a full accounting of all of the following:
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1. The amount of federal COVID-19 relief funds DOA reasonably anticipates that this state will receive and when the state will receive the funds.
2. The amount of federal COVID-19 relief funds accepted by the state and the date of each acceptance of the funds.
3. The amount of federal COVID-19 relief funds allocated to each state agency, including an identification of the state agency and a detailed description of the purposes for which the funds were allocated.
4. The amount of federal COVID-19 relief funds allocated to each nonentitlement unit of local government, as defined under federal law, including an identification of each nonentitlement unit of local government and a detailed description of the purposes for which the funds were allocated.
5. The amount of federal COVID-19 relief funds expended by each state agency, an identification of the appropriation from which the funds were expended, the purposes for which the funds were expended, and the date of each expenditure.
6. An identification of each vendor, including zip code, receiving COVID-19 relief funds from the state, the amount of the funds expended by each vendor, and the date of each expenditure.
Who's behind it
4 senators are its . All 4 are Republicans.
13 more lawmakers .
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Authors (4)
- Joan Ballweg · Republican, Senate
- Alberta Darling · Republican, Senate
- Mary Felzkowski · Republican, Senate
- Patrick Testin · Republican, Senate
Signed on in support (13)
- Janel Brandtjen · Republican, Assembly
- Rachael Cabral-Guevara · Republican, Senate
- Barbara Dittrich · Republican, Assembly
- Cindi Duchow · Republican, Assembly
- James Edming · Republican, Assembly
- Samantha Kerkman · Republican, Assembly
- Mike Kuglitsch · Republican, Assembly
- Gae Magnafici · Republican, Assembly
- Ken Skowronski · Republican, Assembly
- Jeremy Thiesfeldt · Republican, Assembly
- Travis Tranel · Republican, Assembly
- Chuck Wichgers · Republican, Assembly
- Shannon Zimmerman · Republican, Assembly
What happened
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Mar 15, 2022
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Feb 18, 2022
1 more representative signed on in support.
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Feb 17, 2022
Sent to the Senate Committee on Government Operations, Legal Review and Consumer Protection.
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Feb 17, 2022
Introduced in the Senate.
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- Feb 17, 2022 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Testin, Ballweg, Darling and Felzkowski; cosponsored by Representatives Cabral-Guevara, Dittrich, Duchow, Edming, Kerkman, Kuglitsch, Magnafici, Thiesfeldt, Tranel, Skowronski, Zimmerman and Brandtjen
- Feb 17, 2022 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations, Legal Review and Consumer Protection
- Feb 18, 2022 · Senate
Representative Wichgers added as a cosponsor
- Mar 15, 2022 · Senate
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