Date of enactment: November 16, 2023
2023 Senate Bill 555 Date of publication*: November 17, 2023
2023 WISCONSIN ACT 39
AN ACT relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the State of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State
Building Trades Negotiating Committee, for the 2023−24 fiscal year, covering employees in the building trades crafts
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 2023−24
fiscal year between the State of Wisconsin, the division
of personnel management in the department of adminis-
tration, and the Wisconsin State Building Trades Negoti-
ating Committee, covering employees in the building
trades crafts collective bargaining unit under subch. V of
ch. 111, as approved by the employees of the building
trades crafts 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 informal 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 building trades crafts collective bar-
gaining 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.”