Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB227 Compare Versions

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3	3	2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 227
5	5	April 5, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives STEFFEN, GREEN, C. ANDERSON,
6	6	BEHNKE, BINSFELD, BODDEN, BRANDTJEN, BROOKS, EDMING, GUSTAFSON, HURD,
7	7	MAGNAFICI, MURPHY, PENTERMAN, ROZAR, SCHMIDT and TRANEL, cosponsored by
8	8	Senators FELZKOWSKI, BRADLEY, HUTTON, QUINN, STROEBEL and TOMCZYK.
9	9	Referred to Committee on State Affairs.
10	10	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
11	11	AN ACT to amend 13.121 (4); and to create 13.121 (5) of the statutes; relating
12	12	to: sick leave for state legislators.
13	13	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
14	14	Under current law, state legislators and state employees are generally entitled
15	15	to receive paid sick leave as part of their compensation. If a state legislator or
16	16	employee does not use all of his or her sick leave during a calendar year, he or she
17	17	may accumulate unused sick leave from year to year in a sick leave account.
18	18	Generally, if a state legislator leaves office or a state employee terminates
19	19	employment and meets certain conditions related to age or years of employment, his
20	20	or her accumulated unused sick leave may be converted, at his or her highest basic
21	21	pay rate, to credits for the payment of postretirement health insurance premiums
22	22	under a health insurance plan administered by the Group Insurance Board.
23	23	This bill provides that no state legislator may accrue any new sick leave as a
24	24	state legislator during any term of office that begins after the bill's effective date. The
25	25	bill does not affect any sick leave accrued by a state legislator during a term of office
26	26	that began before the bill's effective date.
27	27	For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
28	28	an appendix to this bill.
29	29	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
30	30	enact as follows:
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34	34	SECTION 1 ASSEMBLY BILL 227
35	35	SECTION 1. 13.121 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
36	36	13.121 (4) INSURANCE. For the purpose of premium determinations under s.
37	37	40.05 (4) and (5) each member of the legislature shall accrue sick leave at a rate
38	38	equivalent to a percentage of time worked recommended for such positions by the
39	39	administrator of the division of personnel management in the department of
40	40	administration and approved by the joint committee on employment relations in the
41	41	same manner as compensation for such positions is determined under s. 20.923,
42	42	except as provided in sub. (5). This percentage of time worked shall be applied to the
43	43	sick leave accrual rate established under s. 230.35 (2). The approved percentage
44	44	shall be incorporated into the compensation plan under s. 230.12 (1).
45	45	SECTION 2. 13.121 (5) of the statutes is created to read:
46	46	13.121 (5) SICK LEAVE. No member of the legislature may accrue any new sick
47	47	leave as a member of the legislature during any term of office that begins after the
48	48	effective date of this subsection .... [LRB inserts date]. Nothing in this subsection
49	49	affects any sick leave accrued by a member of the legislature during a term of office
50	50	that began before the effective date of this subsection .... [LRB inserts date].
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