Date of enactment:
2023 Assembly Bill 322 Date of publication*:
2023 WISCONSIN ACT
AN ACT relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Law
Enforcement Association, for the 2021−23 biennium, covering employees in the public safety collective bargaining
unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.0Agreement ratified. The legislature rat-
ifies the tentative agreement negotiated for the 2021−23
biennium between the state of Wisconsin, the division of
personnel management in the department of administra-
tion, and the Wisconsin Law Enforcement Association,
covering employees in the public safety collective bar-
gaining unit under subch. V of ch. 111, as approved by the
employees of the public safety collective bargaining unit
and approved and recommended by the joint committee
on employment relations, and authorizes the necessary
expenditure of moneys for implementation from the
appropriations made by s. 20.865 (1), subject to s. 20.865
(intro.). The administrator of the division of personnel
management in the department of administration shall
file an official copy of the agreement, certified by the
cochairpersons of the joint committee on employment
relations, with the secretary of state. No formal or infor-
mal agreement between the parties that is not a part of the
official copy is deemed to be approved by the legislature
under this act.
SECTION 2.0Effective date.
(1) This act takes effect on the day after publication,
except that those provisions specifically identified as
having other effective dates in the agreement covering
employees in the public safety collective bargaining unit
are effective on the dates provided in that agreement.
* Section 991.11, WISCONSIN STATUTES: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor’s
partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”