State Legislature
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‘They Don’t Really Like Each Other’: Republican Infighting Could Delay Budget Passage, Lawmaker Says
Despite a decade of control, Assembly and Senate Republicans have a history of squabbling and missing budget deadlines.
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GOP Lawmakers Take an Axe to Evers’ Proposals on BadgerCare, Tenant Protections, Legal Pot, Minimum Wage
Republicans begin detailed work on a new state budget by announcing they’ll also kill the governor’s standards for clean water.
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Judge Stops GOP Lawyering Up For Gerrymandering Fight That Hasn’t Happened Yet
Elections Commission also begins updating registration records in routine maintenance that could drop thousands of inactive voters.
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‘No More Corners to Cut’: Northern Wisconsin Asks Legislature for More Money In Budget
Dollars for schools, local governments, and other services needed to continue services, advocates say
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Racial Disparities Task Force Releases 18 Police Reform Recommendations
The recommendations, which carry no legal weight, have an uncertain path to becoming law.
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Virtually Unprecedented: GOP Says No to Online Participation for Democratic Senator in COVID Quarantine
The Legislature successfully tested a virtual attendance option, but Republican leadership has stopped allowing it.
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Evers and Timberlake Find a Way to Bypass Vos’ Willingness to Lose Millions in Food Aid for Families
Assembly Speaker demanded governor accept a package of poison pills he’d already vetoed
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Here’s Why Republicans Are Introducing Bills All Over the US for Things Nobody in Wisconsin Is Asking For
Legislators work on cookie-cutter proposals sent out by right wing groups because gerrymandering means they don’t need to get bill ideas from their constituents.
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Evers Signs Cocktails-to-Go Bill
The law allows bars and restaurants to sell alcoholic drinks to-go.
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Wisconsin Republicans Reintroduce and Pass Controversial COVID-19 Provisions
Several provisions that killed the Legislature’s first proposed COVID-19 package this year now passed as individual bills.
