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