Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Senate Bill SB224 Compare Versions

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3	3	2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
4	4	2023 SENATE BILL 224
5	5	April 14, 2023 - Introduced by Senators FELZKOWSKI, BRADLEY, HUTTON, QUINN,
6	6	STROEBEL and TOMCZYK, cosponsored by Representatives STEFFEN, GREEN, C.
7	7	ANDERSON, BEHNKE, BINSFELD, BODDEN, BRANDTJEN, BROOKS, EDMING,
8	8	GUSTAFSON, HURD, MAGNAFICI, MURPHY, PENTERMAN, ROZAR, SCHMIDT and
9	9	TRANEL. Referred to Committee on Government Operations, Elections and
10	10	Consumer Protection.
11	11	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
12	12	AN ACT to amend 13.121 (4); and to create 13.121 (5) of the statutes; relating
13	13	to: sick leave for state legislators.
14	14	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
15	15	Under current law, state legislators and state employees are generally entitled
16	16	to receive paid sick leave as part of their compensation. If a state legislator or
17	17	employee does not use all of his or her sick leave during a calendar year, he or she
18	18	may accumulate unused sick leave from year to year in a sick leave account.
19	19	Generally, if a state legislator leaves office or a state employee terminates
20	20	employment and meets certain conditions related to age or years of employment, his
21	21	or her accumulated unused sick leave may be converted, at his or her highest basic
22	22	pay rate, to credits for the payment of postretirement health insurance premiums
23	23	under a health insurance plan administered by the Group Insurance Board.
24	24	This bill provides that no state legislator may accrue any new sick leave as a
25	25	state legislator during any term of office that begins after the bill's effective date. The
26	26	bill does not affect any sick leave accrued by a state legislator during a term of office
27	27	that began before the bill's effective date.
28	28	For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
29	29	an appendix to this bill.
30	30	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
31	31	enact as follows:
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35	35	SECTION 1 SENATE BILL 224
36	36	SECTION 1. 13.121 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
37	37	13.121 (4) INSURANCE. For the purpose of premium determinations under s.
38	38	40.05 (4) and (5) each member of the legislature shall accrue sick leave at a rate
39	39	equivalent to a percentage of time worked recommended for such positions by the
40	40	administrator of the division of personnel management in the department of
41	41	administration and approved by the joint committee on employment relations in the
42	42	same manner as compensation for such positions is determined under s. 20.923,
43	43	except as provided in sub. (5). This percentage of time worked shall be applied to the
44	44	sick leave accrual rate established under s. 230.35 (2). The approved percentage
45	45	shall be incorporated into the compensation plan under s. 230.12 (1).
46	46	SECTION 2. 13.121 (5) of the statutes is created to read:
47	47	13.121 (5) SICK LEAVE. No member of the legislature may accrue any new sick
48	48	leave as a member of the legislature during any term of office that begins after the
49	49	effective date of this subsection .... [LRB inserts date]. Nothing in this subsection
50	50	affects any sick leave accrued by a member of the legislature during a term of office
51	51	that began before the effective date of this subsection .... [LRB inserts date].
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