Subjects

Wisconsin works

30 bills across 6 sessions, from the Legislature's subject index.

• SB 45 State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE) Became law 2025
• AB 162 Workforce metrics. (FE) Vetoed 2025
• SB 201 Workforce metrics. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 151 Workforce metrics. (FE) Vetoed 2023
• AB 249 Expanding Wisconsin Works eligibility for at-risk pregnancy. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• AB 705 The mandatory stay of eviction proceedings against a tenant who has applied for emergency assistance. Died at session end 2023
• SB 234 Workforce metrics. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 244 Expanding Wisconsin Works eligibility for at-risk pregnancy. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 657 The mandatory stay of eviction proceedings against a tenant who has applied for emergency assistance. Died at session end 2023
• AB 56 State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2019 legislature. Became law 2019
• SB 59 State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2019 legislature. Died at session end 2019
• AB 883 The exclusion of certain amounts from the calculation of income for purposes of Wisconsin Works eligibility and sources of funding for the Brighter Futures Initiative (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Children and Families). Died at session end 2019
• SB 805 The exclusion of certain amounts from the calculation of income for purposes of Wisconsin Works eligibility and sources of funding for the Brighter Futures Initiative (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Children and Families). Died at session end 2019
• AB 64 State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2017 legislature. Became law 2017
• SB 30 State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2017 legislature. Died at session end 2017
• AB 242 Substance abuse screening, testing, and treatment requirements for certain work experience programs, providing an exemption from emergency rule-making procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• AB 263 Incentive programs for counties and tribes that identify fraudulent activity in certain public assistance programs, removing inactive FoodShare accounts, expunging unused FoodShare benefits, limiting the number of FoodShare replacement cards, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• AB 288 Eligibility for a job access loan to repair or purchase a vehicle. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• SB 174 Incentive programs for counties and tribes that identify fraudulent activity in certain public assistance programs, removing inactive FoodShare accounts, expunging unused FoodShare benefits, limiting the number of FoodShare replacement cards, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• SB 221 Eligibility for a job access loan to repair or purchase a vehicle. (FE) Became law 2017
• AB 21 State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2015 legislature. Died at session end 2015
• SB 21 State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2015 legislature. Became law 2015
• AB 191 Requiring drug testing and treatment for eligibility for certain work experience programs; requiring the Department of Health Services to request a waiver to screen and, if indicated, test and provide treatment to FoodShare employment and training participants for illegal use of a controlled substance; and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 40 State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2013 legislature. (FE) Became law 2013
• AB 232 An optional incentive program for counties and tribes that identify fraudulent activity in certain public assistance programs, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• AB 741 The requirement that a Wisconsin works agency establish a children's services network and the membership of the Milwaukee Child Welfare Partnership Council. Became law 2013
• SB 238 An optional incentive program for counties and tribes that identify fraudulent activity in certain public assistance programs, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• SB 245 Applications for public assistance programs, offenses in public assistance programs, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) Became law 2013
• SB 551 The requirement that a Wisconsin works agency establish a children's services network and the membership of the Milwaukee Child Welfare Partnership Council. Died at session end 2013
• SB 676 Education and training under Wisconsin Works; reducing Wisconsin Works benefits; a minimum copayment, maximum child care hours, and reducing income based on marriage for eligibility under Wisconsin Shares; changes to the food stamp program relating to financial eligibility for benefits, allowing an election to reduce benefits, recouping unused benefits, and prohibiting supplier discounts; prohibiting advertising concerning means-tested public assistance on radio or television; requiring consideration of the income and assets of all individuals in a household for purposes of eligibility for any means-tested public assistance; eligibility requirements for persons or families of low and moderate income to receive certain housing, housing assistance, grants, loans, or benefits from the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority, the Department of Administration, and local housing authorities; reducing the authority of local housing authorities; eligibility requirement for purposes of receiving low-income energy assistance; prohibiting new claims under the earned income tax credit; limiting eligibility for the homestead tax credit; elimination of certain grant programs administered by the Higher Educational Aids Board and transfer of the unencumbered balances in the appropriations for those programs to the University of Wisconsin System for the purpose of tuition reduction; consideration of the income and assets of both parents of a student under 22 years of age for purposes of awarding a grant or scholarship to such a student and the permissible uses of grant or scholarship moneys awarded; income eligibility requirements for enrollment in a private school participating in a parental choice program; the school lunch program; and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2013