Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB120 Compare Versions

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3	3	2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 120
5	5	March 24, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives DONOVAN, MCGUIRE, C. ANDERSON,
6	6	J. ANDERSON, ANDRACA, BALDEH, BRANDTJEN, CALLAHAN, DUCHOW, EDMING,
7	7	EMERSON, GOEBEN, GUNDRUM, JOERS, KURTZ, NEDWESKI, NOVAK, OHNSTAD,
8	8	PALMERI, RETTINGER, RODRIGUEZ, ROZAR, SCHMIDT, SCHUTT, SHANKLAND, SINICKI,
9	9	SORTWELL, SPIROS, STEFFEN, SUBECK, TUSLER, WICHGERS, WITTKE, MURSAU and
10	10	HAYWOOD, cosponsored by Senators WANGGAARD, WIRCH, BRADLEY, CARPENTER,
11	11	COWLES, FELZKOWSKI, HUTTON, JACQUE, JAMES, PFAFF, SMITH, SPREITZER and
12	12	TESTIN. Referred to Committee on State Affairs.
13	13	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
14	14	AN ACT to amend 111.70 (4) (mc) 6. of the statutes; relating to: the design of
15	15	health care coverage plans for public safety employees.
16	16	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
17	17	Under current law, municipal employees who are public safety employees, such
18	18	as police officers, fire fighters, and emergency medical service providers for
19	19	emergency medical services departments, may bargain collectively over wages,
20	20	hours, and conditions of employment. Public safety employees, however, may not
21	21	bargain over a subject that is identified as a prohibited subject of bargaining. Under
22	22	current law, all costs and payments associated with health care coverage plans and
23	23	the design and selection of health care coverage plans by a municipal employer for
24	24	public safety employees, as well as the impact of the costs and payments and the
25	25	design and selection of the plans on wages, hours, and conditions of employment of
26	26	public safety employees, are prohibited subjects of bargaining for public safety
27	27	employees.
28	28	This bill clarifies that for purposes of the prohibition against bargaining over
29	29	the design of a health care coverage plan selected by a municipal employer, design
30	30	does not include who is covered by the health care coverage plan. In other words,
31	31	public safety employees may bargain with a municipal employer about who will be
32	32	covered by a health care coverage plan selected by the municipal employer. In
33	33	addition, this bill clarifies that the initial decision of whether or not to provide health
34	34	care coverage is a permitted subject of bargaining between a municipal employer and
35	35	public safety employees.
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39	39	ASSEMBLY BILL 120
40	40	For further information see the local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
41	41	an appendix to this bill.
42	42	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
43	43	enact as follows:
44	44	SECTION 1. 111.70 (4) (mc) 6. of the statutes is amended to read:
45	45	111.70 (4) (mc) 6. Except for whether or not to provide health care coverage and
46	46	the employee premium contribution, all costs and payments associated with health
47	47	care coverage plans and the design and selection of health care coverage plans by the
48	48	municipal employer for public safety employees, and the impact of such costs and
49	49	payments and the design and selection of the health care coverage plans on the
50	50	wages, hours, and conditions of employment of the public safety employee. For
51	51	purposes of this subdivision, “design” does not include the decision as to who is
52	52	covered by a health care coverage plan selected by the municipal employer.
53	53	SECTION 2.0Nonstatutory provisions.
54	54	(1) LEGISLATIVE INTENT STATEMENT. The legislature intends that the treatment
55	55	of s. 111.70 (4) (mc) 6. by this act is to clarify the intent of 2011 Wisconsin Acts 10 and
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