SB 131

This bill provides that when the legislature is a party to an action, the

Wisconsin Supreme Court will assign venue at random. Under the bill, if an action

is filed in which the legislature is a party, the clerk of courts for the county in which

that action has been filed must notify the clerk of the supreme court within five days.

Upon receipt of the notice, the supreme court must select at random a judicial circuit

and then assign that circuit as the venue for the case. The clerk of the supreme court

must then notify both the clerk of courts for the county in which the case was initially

filed and the clerk of courts for the county where the action is assigned, and the case

will be treated as if it was filed in the judicial circuit assigned by the supreme court.

Under the bill, neither a court, acting on its own, nor a party may move for a change

of venue once the case has been assigned to a judicial circuit.