Environmental Policy: DNR Budget, PFAS Legislation, NRB Appointments

...EIF, including the following notable provisions and funding changes: Create a PFAS trust fund to address and prevent PFAS contamination; provide $125 million in initial funding Increase the revenue bonding...

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Senate and Assembly Floor Sessions: June 7

...professions, and cultural heritage events, as well as 20 gubernatorial appointments to various state boards and commissions. Assembly (floor calendar) The Assembly also met on June 7, passing 14 bills...

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Joint Finance Committee Budget Votes: May 23 and 25, June 1

...sessions, committee hearings, and other events at the State Capitol. To access the endowment, the network must raise matching funds, dollar-for-dollar, and would have until June 1, 2025, to do...

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Broad Support for Regulating Nonrecourse Litigation Advances Heard by Assembly Consumer Protection Committee

...financiers worked together to bundle 700 cases with each claim standing to make $100,000, or $70 million total. AB 464 would prevent such a situation from ever arising in Wisconsin...

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Senate and Assembly Floor Sessions: November 14 (Brewers Stadium, Alcohol Regulation, Special Session Bill, PFAS)

...the state’s financial commitment of funding and loans, increase the team’s rental payments, add a per-ticket surcharge on non-baseball events held at the stadium, and further change the composition of...

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Assembly Floor Session: January 25, 2024

...school premises or at a school-sponsored event. AB 975 Abortion Abortion if the probable postfertilization age of an unborn child is 14 or more weeks and requiring a referendum. Passed,...

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Senate Floor Session: February 20, 2024 (Health, Education, Transportation, Executive Appointments)

...devices for snow removal vehicles. AB 914 Bronchodilators The supply and use of short-acting bronchodilators on school premises or at a school-sponsored event. AB 1020 Tax Bracket Expansion Expansion of...

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Session in Review: Wisconsin Legislature 2023-24

...and vetoed each time) or funding for child care programs (strongly advocated for by Gov. Evers). Following is our coverage of the most important issues and events this session: Evers...

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