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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 739

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Relating to: compensation for certain employees of the Department of Corrections who are transferred to the Department of Health Services. (FE)

Corrections department of Health services department of — Corrections Mental health — Hospitals and institutes Public employee

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill provides that employees of the Department of Corrections who provide

security services at the Wisconsin Resource Center and who are transferred to the

Department of Health Services by

2023 Wisconsin Act 19

, the biennial budget act,

are entitled to any raises, wage supplements, or enhancements while employed by

DHS to perform security operations at the Wisconsin Resource Center that they

would have received or been entitled to receive if the employee's position had

remained with DOC, and any raises, wage supplements, or enhancements that are

provided to similarly situated employees of DOC who are employed at maximum

security facilities.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Brandtjen (R) , Maxey (R) , O'Connor (R) , Penterman (R) , Sapik (R) , Schraa (R)

3 cosponsors

Ballweg (R) , Felzkowski (R) , Feyen (R)

Full history

  1. Dec 6, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Schraa, Brandtjen, Maxey, O'Connor, Penterman, Sapik and Stubbs; cosponsored by Senators Feyen, Ballweg and Felzkowski

  2. Dec 6, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs

  3. Jan 4, 2024 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Feb 2, 2024 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Feb 7, 2024 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. Feb 8, 2024 · Assembly

    Representative Stubbs withdrawn as a coauthor

  7. Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1