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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 251

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Relating to: members of the Council on Veterans Programs.

Veterans affairs 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, the Council on Veterans Programs advises the Board of

Veterans Affairs and Department of Veterans Affairs on solutions and policy

alternatives relating to the problems of veterans. The council consists of numerous

representatives of various veterans organizations who are appointed by those

organizations for one-year terms.

This bill adds the following members to the council, selected by the member's

peers, to serve one-year terms:

1. A veteran services coordinator who is employed at a Wisconsin technical

college.

2. A veteran services coordinator who is employed at a University of Wisconsin

System institution.

The bill also removes the following members from the council, due to the

organizations they represent being inactive:

1. A representative of the Navy Club of the U.S.A.

2. A representative of the American Ex-prisoners of War.

3. A representative of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc.

4. A representative of the Catholic War Veterans of the U.S.A.

5. A representative of the Army and Navy Union of the United States of

America.

6. A representative of the U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II.

7. A representative of the Blinded Veterans Association of Wisconsin.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Cowles (R) , Hesselbein (D) , James (R) , Marklein (R) , Quinn (R)

20 cosponsors

Bare (D) , C. Anderson (D) , Conley (D) , Considine (D) , Edming (R) , Green (R) , Haywood (D) , Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Kurtz (R) , Novak (R) , O'Connor (R) , Ohnstad (D) , Penterman (R) , Ratcliff (D) , Rozar (R) , Sinicki (D) , Spiros (R) , Steffen (R) , Stubbs (D)

Votes

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Labor, Regulatory Reform, Veterans and Military Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Sep 6, 2023 official source full page

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

Senate: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Labor, Regulatory Reform, Veterans and Military Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Sep 6, 2023 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. Apr 20, 2023 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Quinn, Hesselbein, Cowles, James and Marklein; cosponsored by Representatives Kurtz, Penterman, Jacobson, C. Anderson, Bare, Conley, Considine, Edming, Green, Joers, Novak, O'Connor, Ohnstad, Rozar, Sinicki, Spiros and Stubbs

  2. Apr 20, 2023 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Labor, Regulatory Reform, Veterans and Military Affairs

  3. Apr 26, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Haywood added as a cosponsor

  4. Aug 21, 2023 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Quinn

  5. Aug 28, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Ratcliff added as a cosponsor

  6. Aug 29, 2023 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  7. Sep 5, 2023 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  8. Sep 6, 2023 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Labor, Regulatory Reform, Veterans and Military Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  9. Sep 6, 2023 · Senate

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Labor, Regulatory Reform, Veterans and Military Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  10. Sep 6, 2023 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  11. Sep 12, 2023 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 9-14-2023 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  12. Sep 14, 2023 · Senate

    Read a second time

  13. Sep 14, 2023 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 adopted

  14. Sep 14, 2023 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  15. Sep 14, 2023 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  16. Sep 14, 2023 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  17. Sep 14, 2023 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  18. Sep 14, 2023 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  19. Oct 11, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  20. Oct 12, 2023 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 10-17-2023 by Committee on Rules

  21. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up

  22. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  23. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  24. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  25. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  26. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Steffen added as a cosponsor

  27. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  28. Oct 18, 2023 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  29. Oct 19, 2023 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  30. Nov 30, 2023 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 11-30-2023

  31. Dec 7, 2023 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 12-6-2023. 2023 Wisconsin Act 70

  32. Dec 7, 2023 · Senate

    Published 12-7-2023