Date of enactment: July 19, 2023
2023 Assembly Bill 323 Date of publication*: July 20, 2023
2023 WISCONSIN ACT 22
AN ACT relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State
Attorneys Association for the 2022−23 fiscal year, covering employees in the professional legal 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 2022−23
fiscal year between the state of Wisconsin, the division of
personnel management in the department of administra-
tion, and the Wisconsin State Attorneys Association,
covering employees in the professional legal collective
bargaining unit under subch. V of ch. 111, as approved by
the employees of the professional legal collective bar-
gaining 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 administra-
tion shall file an official copy of the agreement, certified
by the cochairpersons of the joint committee on employ-
ment relations, with the secretary of state. No formal or
informal agreement between the parties that is not a part
of the official copy is deemed to be approved by the legis-
lature 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 professional legal 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.”