| 1 | 1 | | 2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE |
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| 2 | 2 | | LRB-1656/1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | 2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 39 |
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| 5 | 5 | | February 17, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives NEDWESKI, ALLEN, BEHNKE, |
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| 6 | 6 | | BRILL, DITTRICH, GREEN, GUNDRUM, B. JACOBSON, KNODL, MAXEY, MURPHY, |
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| 7 | 7 | | PENTERMAN, SWEARINGEN, TUSLER and VOS, cosponsored by Senators |
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| 8 | 8 | | TOMCZYK, CABRAL-GUEVARA, QUINN, STAFSHOLT and WANGGAARD. Referred to |
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| 9 | 9 | | Committee on State Affairs. |
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| 11 | 11 | | ***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*** |
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| 12 | 12 | | AN ACT to create 230.35 (6) of the statutes; relating to: requiring state |
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| 13 | 13 | | employees to perform their work at the offices of their employer. |
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| 14 | 14 | | Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau |
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| 15 | 15 | | Under this bill, state agencies must require employees to perform their work |
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| 16 | 16 | | in person at state agency offices during the employee[s regularly scheduled work |
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| 17 | 17 | | hours, beginning July 1, 2025. The bill exempts telehealth services and duties that |
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| 18 | 18 | | were performed off site before March 1, 2020. |
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| 19 | 19 | | For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as |
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| 20 | 20 | | an appendix to this bill. |
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| 21 | 21 | | The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do |
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| 22 | 22 | | enact as follows: |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 1. 230.35 (6) of the statutes is created to read: |
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| 24 | 24 | | 230.35 (6) (a) In this subsection, Xstate agencyY has the meaning of XagencyY |
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| 25 | 25 | | given in s. 230.03 (3), except that Xstate agencyY includes the Board of Regents of |
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| 26 | 26 | | the University of Wisconsin System, the legislature, the courts, and a board, a |
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| 32 | 32 | | 6 2025 - 2026 Legislature |
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| 33 | 33 | | ASSEMBLY BILL 39 |
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| 34 | 34 | | - 2 - LRB-1656/1 |
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| 36 | 36 | | SECTION 1 |
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| 37 | 37 | | commission, a committee, a council, or a department or unit thereof or an authority |
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| 38 | 38 | | created under subch. II of ch. 114 or under ch. 231, 232, 233, 234, 237, 238, or 279. |
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| 39 | 39 | | (b) Each state agency shall require employees of that state agency to perform |
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| 40 | 40 | | their assigned work duties at the offices of the state agency during the employee[s |
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| 41 | 41 | | regularly scheduled work hours. This paragraph does not apply to telehealth |
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| 42 | 42 | | services or duties that were performed off site, rather than at the offices of the state |
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| 43 | 43 | | agency, before March 1, 2020. |
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| 44 | 44 | | SECTION 2. Effective date. |
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| 45 | 45 | | (1) This act takes effect on July 1, 2025. |
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