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April 14, 2025 - Introduced by Senator JACQUE, cosponsored by Representatives B.
JACOBSON, SNYDER, DALLMAN, DUCHOW, GREEN, GUNDRUM, KNODL,
KREIBICH, MURPHY, NEDWESKI, O'CONNOR, WICHGERS, WITTKE and ALLEN.
Referred to Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic
Development.
AN ACT to renumber and amend 108.04 (2) (a) 4., 108.04 (15) (a) 2. and 108.13
(4) (a) 4.; to consolidate, renumber and amend 108.04 (15) (a) (intro.) and
1.; to amend 40.02 (22) (b) 3., 40.65 (5) (b) 2., 49.147 (3) (ac) 2., 49.163 (3) (a)
3. c., 71.67 (7) (title), 105.01 (1) (b) 1., 105.115 (2) (b), 105.115 (2) (c), 105.115
(3) (a) 1., 105.115 (4) (b) 1., 105.115 (4) (b) 3., 106.38 (3) (c) 3., 108.04 (2) (a) 3.,
108.04 (12) (b), 108.14 (1), 108.141 (1) (b) 3., 108.142 (1) (h) 3., 108.19 (1m),
111.39 (4) (c), 230.43 (4), 230.85 (3) (d) and 779.01 (2) (am); to repeal and
recreate chapter 108 (title); to create 15.223 (2), 108.01 (2m), 108.013, 108.02
(21r), 108.04 (2) (a) 4. c., 108.04 (2) (a) 5., 108.04 (15) (a) 2. b., 108.04 (15) (am)
and (ao) and 108.14 (8o) of the statutes; relating to: various changes to the
unemployment insurance law and federal Reemployment Services and
Eligibility Assessment grants.
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Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill makes various changes in the unemployment insurance (UI) law,
which is administered by the Department of Workforce Development. Significant
changes include all of the following:
Program name change
The bill changes references in the statutes to Xunemployment insuranceY to
Xreemployment assistanceY and requires the program and its benefits to be known
as reemployment assistance. The bill also requires DWD to have a division known
as the Division of Reemployment Assistance and requires the reemployment
assistance law to be administered by that division.
General qualifying requirements
Under current law, a claimant for UI benefits is generally required to 1)
register for work, 2) be able to work and available for work, and 3) conduct a work
search for each week in order to remain eligible. A claimant is required to conduct
at least four work search actions each week, and DWD may require, by rule, that an
individual conduct more than four work search actions per week. Finally, if a
claimant is claiming benefits for a week other than an initial week, the claimant
must provide information or job application materials that are requested by DWD
and participate in a public employment office workshop or training program or in
similar reemployment services required by DWD.
The bill does the following:
1. Requires, for the third and subsequent weeks of a claimant[s benefit year,
that at least two of the required weekly work search actions be direct contacts with
potential employers.
2. Requires a claimant who resides in this state, for each week other than an
initial week, to submit and keep posted on the DWD[s job center website a current
resume.
3. Requires, when a claimant is claiming benefits with less than three weeks
of benefits left, that the claimant complete a reemployment counseling session.
Additionally, current law allows DWD to use information or job application
materials described above to assess a claimant[s efforts, skills, and ability to find or
obtain work and to develop a list of potential opportunities for a claimant to obtain
suitable work. However, current law provides that a claimant who otherwise
satisfies the required weekly work search requirement is not required to apply for
any specific positions on the list of potential opportunities in order to satisfy the
work search requirement. The bill requires, instead of allows, DWD to provide this
assistance. The bill also repeals the language in current law providing that a
claimant who otherwise satisfies the weekly work search requirement is not
required to apply for specific positions provided by DWD and requires DWD to
provide each claimant with at least four potential opportunities each week, one or
more of which may be opportunities with a temporary help company.
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public employment office workshop or training program. The bill provides that
DWD must require a claimant to participate in a public employment office
workshop or training program if the claimant is likely to exhaust regular UI
benefits. DWD may also require other claimants to participate in a public
employment office workshop or training program, but must prioritize claimants
more likely to have difficulty obtaining reemployment.
Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment grants
Under federal law, the United States Department of Labor (USDOL) operates
the Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) program,
whereby grants are awarded to states to provide reemployment services to
claimants. Participation in the RESEA program is voluntary and requires that a
state submit a state plan to USDOL that outlines how the state intends to conduct
a program of reemployment services and eligibility assessments.
The bill requires that DWD act to continue to participate in the RESEA
program and requires DWD to provide certain RESEA services to all UI claimants.
For further information see the state and local 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. 15.223 (2) of the statutes is created to read:
15.223 (2) DIVISION OF REEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE. There is created in the
department of workforce development a division of reemployment assistance.
SECTION 2. 40.02 (22) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
40.02 (22) (b) 3. Unemployment insurance or reemployment assistance
benefits.
SECTION 3. 40.65 (5) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
40.65 (5) (b) 2. Any unemployment insurance or reemployment assistance
benefit payable to the participant because of his or her work record.
SECTION 4. 49.147 (3) (ac) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
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49.147 (3) (ac) 2. State and federal unemployment reemployment assistance
contributions or federal unemployment taxes.
SECTION 5. 49.163 (3) (a) 3. c. of the statutes is amended to read:
49.163 (3) (a) 3. c. State reemployment assistance contributions and federal
unemployment insurance contributions or taxes, if any.
SECTION 6. 71.67 (7) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
71.67 (7) (title) WITHHOLDING FROM UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION
INSURANCE REEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.
SECTION 7. 105.01 (1) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
105.01 (1) (b) 1. The person employing the individuals in addition to wages or
salaries pays federal social security taxes, state reemployment assistance
contributions, and federal unemployment contributions or taxes, carries worker[s
compensation insurance as required by state law, and maintains liability insurance
covering the acts of its employees while rendering services to, for or under the
direction of a 3rd person; and
SECTION 8. 105.115 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
105.115 (2) (b) A statement of the employment status of the home care worker,
specifically, whether the home care worker is an employee of the home care
placement agency or of the home care consumer or is an independent contractor
and a statement identifying which party is responsible for paying the wages or
salary of the home care worker, paying federal social security taxes and state
reemployment assistance contributions and federal unemployment contributions or
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taxes with respect to the home care worker, and procuring worker[s compensation
or liability insurance covering injury to the home care worker.
SECTION 9. 105.115 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
105.115 (2) (c) A statement that, notwithstanding the employment status of
the home care worker specified in the notice, the home care consumer may be
determined to be the employer of the home care worker for purposes of certain state
and federal labor laws and that, if that is the case, the home care consumer may be
held responsible for paying the wages or salary of the home care worker, paying
federal social security taxes and state reemployment assistance contributions and
federal unemployment contributions or taxes with respect to the home care worker,
procuring worker[s compensation or liability insurance covering injury to the home
care worker, and complying with various other state and federal labor laws.
SECTION 10. 105.115 (3) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
105.115 (3) (a) 1. A statement identifying which party is responsible for
paying the wages or salary of the home care worker, paying federal social security
taxes and state reemployment assistance contributions and federal unemployment
contributions or taxes with respect to the home care worker, and procuring worker[s
compensation or liability insurance covering injury to the home care worker.
SECTION 11. 105.115 (4) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
105.115 (4) (b) 1. If the department finds that a home care placement agency
has failed to provide a home care consumer with the notice required under sub. (2)
and that the home care consumer is liable for the payment of federal social security
taxes or state reemployment assistance contributions or federal unemployment
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contributions or taxes with respect to the home care worker, for the provision of
worker[s compensation or liability insurance covering injury to the home care
worker, for the payment of any fine or penalty imposed on the home care consumer
for noncompliance with any state or federal labor law with respect to the home care
worker, or for any injury to the home care worker, the department may recover from
the home care placement agency, on behalf of the home care consumer, an amount
equal to the total cost of those liabilities.
SECTION 12. 105.115 (4) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
105.115 (4) (b) 3. In the case of a home care consumer who commences an
action in circuit court under par. (a), if the circuit court finds that the home care
placement agency has failed to provide the home care consumer with the notice
required under sub. (2) and that the home care consumer is liable for the payment
of federal social security taxes or state reemployment assistance contributions or
federal unemployment contributions or taxes with respect to the home care worker,
for the provision of worker[s compensation or liability insurance covering injury to
the home care worker, for the payment of any fine or penalty imposed on the home
care consumer for noncompliance with any state or federal labor law with respect to
the home care worker, or for any injury to the home care worker, the court may order
the home care placement agency to pay to the home care consumer an amount equal
to the total cost of those liabilities, together with costs under ch. 814 and,
notwithstanding s. 814.04 (1), reasonable attorney fees.
SECTION 13. 106.38 (3) (c) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
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106.38 (3) (c) 3. State reemployment assistance contributions and federal
unemployment insurance contributions or taxes, if any.
SECTION 14. Chapter 108 (title) of the statutes is repealed and recreated to
read:
CHAPTER 108
REEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE
SECTION 15. 108.01 (2m) of the statutes is created to read:
108.01 (2m) The federal Social Security Act requires that, in order for an
individual to be eligible for reemployment assistance benefits, the individual must
be able to work, available to work, and actively seeking work. The reemployment
assistance program in Wisconsin should enact and focus on policies that
complement individuals[ efforts to find employment.
SECTION 16. 108.013 of the statutes is created to read:
108.013 Name of program. The program established under this chapter
and administered by the department shall be referred to as the XReemployment
Assistance Program,Y and the benefits available under this chapter shall be
referred to as Xreemployment assistance benefits.Y This section applies
notwithstanding any provision referring to Xunemployment insurance.Y
SECTION 17. 108.02 (21r) of the statutes is created to read:
108.02 (21r) REEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE. XReemployment assistance,Y when
used in reference to the law of another state or jurisdiction or the federal
government, includes an unemployment insurance law of that state or jurisdiction
or the federal government.
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SECTION 18. 108.04 (2) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
108.04 (2) (a) 3. The claimant conducts a reasonable search for suitable work
during that week and provides verification of that search to the department. The
search for suitable work must include at least 4 actions per week that constitute a
reasonable search as prescribed by rule of the department. The department shall
require, for the 3rd or subsequent week of the claimant[s benefit year, that at least
2 actions per week be direct contacts with potential employing units. In addition,
the department may, by rule, require a claimant to take more than 4 reasonable
work search actions in any week. The department shall require a uniform number
of reasonable work search actions for similar types of claimants. The department
may require a claimant to apply for one or more of the potential opportunities
provided to the claimant under sub. (15) (a) 1. and may refer a claimant to
opportunities with a temporary help company as part of the required search for
suitable work under this subdivision.
SECTION 19. 108.04 (2) (a) 4. of the statutes is renumbered 108.04 (2) (a) 4.
(intro.) and amended to read:
108.04 (2) (a) 4. (intro.) If the claimant is claiming benefits for a week other
than an initial week, the claimant provides does all of the following:
a. Provides information or job application materials that are requested by the
department and participates.
b. Participates in a public employment office workshop or training program or
in similar reemployment services that are required by the department under sub.
(15) (a) 2.
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SECTION 20. 108.04 (2) (a) 4. c. of the statutes is created to read:
108.04 (2) (a) 4. c. Submits and keeps posted on the department[s job center
website a current resume, if the claimant resides in this state.
SECTION 21. 108.04 (2) (a) 5. of the statutes is created to read:
108.04 (2) (a) 5. The claimant completes any reemployment counseling
session required of the claimant under sub. (15) (ao) 1.
SECTION 22. 108.04 (12) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
108.04 (12) (b) Any individual who receives, through the department, any
other type of unemployment or reemployment assistance benefit or allowance for a
given week is ineligible for benefits for that same week under this chapter, except as
specifically required for conformity with 19 USC 2101 to 2497b.
SECTION 23. 108.04 (15) (a) (intro.) and 1. of the statutes are consolidated,
renumbered 108.04 (15) (a) 1. and amended to read:
108.04 (15) (a) 1. Except as provided in par. (b), the department may do any of
the following shall, for the purpose of assisting claimants to find or obtain work: 1.
Use, use the information or, materials, and resume provided under sub. (2) (a) 4. to
assess a claimant[s efforts, skills, and ability to find or obtain work and to develop a
list of potential opportunities for a the claimant to obtain suitable work. A
claimant who otherwise satisfies the requirement under sub. (2) (a) 3. is not
required to apply for any specific positions on the list in order to satisfy that
requirement The department shall provide each claimant, prior to the claimant
filing a weekly claim for benefits, with at least 4 such potential opportunities each
week, one or more of which may be opportunities with a temporary help company.
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SECTION 24. 108.04 (15) (a) 2. of the statutes is renumbered 108.04 (15) (a) 2.
a. and amended to read:
108.04 (15) (a) 2. a. Require Except as provided in par. (b), the department
shall require a claimant whom the department identifies as likely to exhaust
regular benefits to participate in a public employment office workshop or training
program or in similar reemployment services that do not charge the claimant a
participation fee and that offer instruction to improve the claimant[s ability to
obtain suitable work.
SECTION 25. 108.04 (15) (a) 2. b. of the statutes is created to read:
108.04 (15) (a) 2. b. Except as provided in par. (b), in addition to the claimants
described in subd. 2. a., the department may require other claimants to participate
in the reemployment services described in subd. 2. a., but the department shall
prioritize claimants who are more likely to have difficulty obtaining reemployment.
SECTION 26. 108.04 (15) (am) and (ao) of the statutes are created to read:
108.04 (15) (am) In carrying out this state[s program of reemployment
services and eligibility assessments using grant funds awarded under 42 USC 506,
the department shall, except as provided in par. (b), provide reemployment services
to all claimants receiving benefits, including benefits under ss. 108.141 and
108.142, including by doing all of the following for each such claimant:
1. Requiring the claimant to complete an online assessment aimed at
identifying the claimant[s skills, abilities, and career aptitude.
2. Coordinating with the claimant to develop an individualized employment
plan for the claimant.
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3. Requiring the claimant to participate in the services described under par.
(a) 2. a. as needed pursuant to the individualized employment plan described in
subd. 2.
(ao) Except as provided in par. (b), the department shall, when a claimant[s
remaining benefit entitlement under s. 108.06 (1) is 3 or less times the claimant[s
weekly benefit rate under s. 108.05 (1), do all of the following:
1. Require the claimant to participate in a live, one-on-one reemployment
counseling session between the claimant and an employee of the department.
2. Provide the claimant information about services and benefits that are
available to the claimant pursuant to the federal Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act of 2014, 29 USC 3101 to 3361, once the claimant exhausts his or
her benefit entitlement.
SECTION 27. 108.13 (4) (a) 4. of the statutes is renumbered 108.13 (4) (a) 2m.
and amended to read:
108.13 (4) (a) 2m. XUnemployment insuranceY XReemployment assistanceY
means any compensation payable under this chapter, including amounts payable by
the department pursuant to an agreement under any federal law providing for
compensation, assistance or allowances with respect to unemployment.
SECTION 28. 108.14 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
108.14 (1) This chapter shall be administered by the department through its
division of reemployment assistance.
SECTION 29. 108.14 (8o) of the statutes is created to read:
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108.14 (8o) The department shall act to continue to receive grants for
reemployment services and eligibility assessments under 42 USC 506.
SECTION 30. 108.141 (1) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
108.141 (1) (b) 3. Has no right to unemployment reemployment assistance
benefits or allowances, as the case may be, under the railroad unemployment
insurance act or such other federal laws as are specified in regulations issued by the
U.S. secretary of labor, and has not received and is not seeking unemployment
reemployment assistance benefits under the unemployment insurance
reemployment assistance law of Canada, but if the individual is seeking such
benefits and the appropriate agency finally determines that he or she is not entitled
to benefits under such law he or she is an exhaustee.
SECTION 31. 108.142 (1) (h) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
108.142 (1) (h) 3. Has no right to unemployment reemployment assistance
benefits or allowances under the railroad unemployment insurance act or such
other federal laws as are specified in regulations issued by the U.S. secretary of
labor, and has not received and is not seeking unemployment reemployment
assistance benefits under the unemployment insurance reemployment assistance
law of Canada, but if the individual is seeking such benefits and the appropriate
agency finally determines that he or she is not entitled to benefits under that law,
the individual is an XexhausteeY.
SECTION 32. 108.19 (1m) of the statutes is amended to read:
108.19 (1m) Each employer subject to this chapter as of the date a rate is
established under this subsection shall pay an assessment to the unemployment
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reemployment assistance interest payment fund at a rate established by the
department sufficient to pay interest due on advances from the federal
unemployment account under Title XII of the federal social security act, 42 USC
1321 to 1324. The rate established by the department for employers who finance
benefits under s. 108.15 (2), 108.151 (2), or 108.152 (1) shall be 75 percent of the
rate established for other employers. The amount of any employer[s assessment
shall be the product of the rate established for that employer multiplied by the
employer[s payroll of the previous calendar year as taken from quarterly
employment and wage reports filed by the employer under s. 108.205 (1) or, in the
absence of the filing of such reports, estimates made by the department. Each
assessment made under this subsection is due within 30 days after the date the
department issues the assessment. If the amounts collected from employers under
this subsection exceed the amounts needed to pay interest due, the department
shall use any excess to pay interest owed in subsequent years on advances from the
federal unemployment account. If the department determines that additional
interest obligations are unlikely, the department shall transfer the excess to the
balancing account of the fund, the unemployment reemployment assistance
program integrity fund, or both in amounts determined by the department.
SECTION 33. 111.39 (4) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
111.39 (4) (c) If, after hearing, the examiner finds that the respondent has
engaged in discrimination, unfair honesty testing or unfair genetic testing, the
examiner shall make written findings and order such action by the respondent as
will effectuate the purpose of this subchapter, with or without back pay. If the
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examiner awards any payment to an employee because of a violation of s. 111.321 by
an individual employed by the employer, under s. 111.32 (6), the employer of that
individual is liable for the payment. If the examiner finds a respondent violated s.
111.322 (2m), the examiner shall award compensation in lieu of reinstatement if
requested by all parties and may award compensation in lieu of reinstatement if
requested by any party. Compensation in lieu of reinstatement for a violation of s.
111.322 (2m) may not be less than 500 times nor more than 1,000 times the hourly
wage of the person discriminated against when the violation occurred. Back pay
liability may not accrue from a date more than 2 years prior to the filing of a
complaint with the department. Interim earnings or amounts earnable with
reasonable diligence by the person discriminated against or subjected to unfair
honesty testing or unfair genetic testing shall operate to reduce back pay otherwise
allowable. Amounts received by the person discriminated against or subject to the
unfair honesty testing or unfair genetic testing as unemployment reemployment
assistance benefits or welfare payments shall not reduce the back pay otherwise
allowable, but shall be withheld from the person discriminated against or subject to
unfair honesty testing or unfair genetic testing and immediately paid to the
unemployment reserve fund or, in the case of a welfare payment, to the welfare
agency making the payment.
SECTION 34. 230.43 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
230.43 (4) RIGHTS OF EMPLOYEE. If an employee has been removed, demoted
or reclassified, from or in any position or employment in contravention or violation
of this subchapter, and has been restored to such position or employment by order of
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the commission or any court upon review, the employee shall be entitled to
compensation therefor from the date of such unlawful removal, demotion or
reclassification at the rate to which he or she would have been entitled by law but
for such unlawful removal, demotion or reclassification. Interim earnings or
amounts earnable with reasonable diligence by the employee shall operate to
reduce back pay otherwise allowable. Amounts received by the employee as
unemployment reemployment assistance benefits or welfare payments shall not
reduce the back pay otherwise allowable, but shall be withheld from the employee
and immediately paid to the unemployment reserve fund or, in the case of a welfare
payment, to the welfare agency making such payment. The employee shall be
entitled to an order of mandamus to enforce the payment or other provisions of such
order.
SECTION 35. 230.85 (3) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
230.85 (3) (d) Interim earnings or amounts earnable with reasonable
diligence by the person subjected to the retaliatory action or threat shall reduce
back pay otherwise allowable. Amounts received by the person subjected to the
retaliatory action or threat as unemployment reemployment assistance benefits or
welfare payments do not reduce the back pay otherwise allowable, but shall be
withheld from the person subjected to the retaliatory action or threat and
immediately paid to the unemployment reserve fund or to the welfare agency
making the payment.
SECTION 36. 779.01 (2) (am) of the statutes is amended to read:
779.01 (2) (am) XLaborY includes any wages and related contributions for
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state employment taxes, worker[s compensation and unemployment compensation
insurance reemployment assistance, and other fringe benefits.
SECTION 37. Terminology changes.
(1) UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE; TERMINOLOGY CHANGES.
(a) Wherever Xunemployment insuranceY appears in the following, as affected
by the acts of 2025, Xreemployment assistanceY is substituted: ss. 6.10 (9), 13.63 (1)
(b), 15.227 (3), 16.48 (1) (intro.), (am), (bm), and (f) and (3), 19.85 (1) (ee), 29.024 (2r)
(title) and (d) 1., 46.272 (7) (e), 47.035 (1), 48.715 (7), 49.163 (2) (am) 5., 49.19 (4)
(dm) 4., 50.498 (title) and (4) (b), 51.032 (title) and (4), 59.40 (2) (e), 59.57 (2) (b),
66.1103 (1) (a), 71.01 (10) (b), 71.05 (6) (b) 47m., 71.26 (1) (h), 71.45 (1) (c), 71.52 (6),
71.67 (7) (a) and (b) 2., 71.80 (16) (a) and (b), 73.0301 (2) (c) 2., 73.09 (8), 93.135
(title) and (4), 101.654 (2) (c), 102.17 (1) (c) 2., 102.28 (7) (b) 2., 102.315 (2m) (d),
103.34 (10) (title), 103.92 (3) and (8) (title), 105.13 (1), 108.02 (15) (c) 1., (dm) 1., (e),
(i) 2., and (k) 9., 10., and 19. b., (21) (a) 2. and (b), and (21e) (e), 108.04 (2) (ae), (4)
(c), (5) (intro.), (5g) (a) (intro.), (7) (a) and (L) (intro.), (8) (a) and (c), (11) (g) 2. d., (12)
(c) and (d), and (13) (g) 2., 108.06 (5) (a), 108.065 (3), 108.068 (6), 108.07 (3m) and
(5m), 108.13 (2) and (4) (b), (c) (intro.), (e), and (f), 108.135 (1) (intro.) and (a), 108.14
(5) (a), (ag), and (ar), (6), (7) (a), (8) (a), (8m) (a), (8n) (a) and (b), (8s) (a) and (b), (8t),
(9), (13), (14), (18), (19), (23) (b) 1., and (24), 108.141 (1) (h) and (3g) (a) 2., (c), and
(d), 108.142 (1) (i), 108.155 (6), 108.16 (5) (b), 108.161 (3) and (3e), 108.162 (1),
108.19 (1e) (d), (1f) (b), and (4), 108.20 (2m), 108.227 (title) and (2) (c) 2., 115.31
(6m), 116.03 (4), 118.19 (1m) (b), 120.25 (2) (a) and (6), 138.09 (3) (am) 2. and (4) (c),
138.12 (4) (b) 5m. and (5) (am) 1. b. and 3., 138.14 (5) (b) 2m. and (9) (cm), 146.40
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(4d) (d), 165.066 (title), 169.35 (title) and (3), 170.12 (8) (b) 1. bm. and 4., 175.46 (5)
(a), 202.021 (4) (a) 6., 202.06 (2) (g), 202.23 (2), 203.03 (8) (c), 203.07 (3), 217.05 (5)
(e) 6. and (7) (d), 218.0116 (1g) (b) and (1m) (a) 2m. and (d), 218.02 (3) (dm), (6) (d),
and (9) (a) 1m., 218.04 (4) (am) 2m. and (5) (at), 218.05 (4) (c) 2m., (11) (bm), and
(12) (at), 218.11 (6m) (c), 218.12 (3m) (c), 218.22 (3m) (c), 218.32 (3m) (c), 218.41
(3m) (b) 3., 218.51 (4m) (b) 3., 224.44 (title), 224.72 (7m) (bm), 224.725 (6) (bm),
224.77 (2m) (e), 224.95 (1) (bm), 230.26 (4), 238.31 (1) (e) 4. c., 238.397 (2) (a) 4. c.,
254.115 (title) and (5), 254.176 (5), 254.20 (7), 256.18 (title) and (4m), 299.07 (title)
and (3), 303.08 (3), (4), and (5) (intro.), 341.51 (4m) (c), 343.305 (6) (e) 6., 343.66
(3m), 440.12 (title) and (2), 463.14 (title) and (5), 551.412 (4g) (a) 2m. and (d), 562.05
(5) (a) 11. and (8) (f), 563.285 (title) and (1m), 628.097 (title) and (2m), 628.10 (2)
(cm), 628.93 (2) (title), 632.69 (2) (d) 2. and (4) (d), 633.14 (2m) (b), 633.15 (2) (d),
751.155 (title) and (3), 815.18 (13) (j), 859.02 (2) (a), and 949.06 (3) (b).
(b) Wherever Xunemployment compensationY appears in the following, as
affected by the acts of 2025, Xreemployment assistanceY is substituted: ss. 49.45
(23b) (a) 2. f., 71.07 (6n) (c) 3., 71.28 (6n) (c) 3., 71.47 (6n) (c) 3., 108.04 (13) (g) 1. b.,
108.11 (2), 701.0508 (2), 756.04 (2) (c) 4., and 767.75 (3m) (title).
(c) Wherever XunemploymentY appears in the following, as affected by the acts
of 2025, Xreemployment assistanceY is substituted: ss. 25.17 (1) (xe) and (xf), 108.04
(2) (bb) 5., 108.16 (6) (i) and (m) and (6m) (b), 108.19 (title), (1f) (a), (1q), and (1s) (a)
(intro.) and 2. and (b), 108.221 (3), 108.225 (4) (b), and 111.15.
(d) The legislative reference bureau shall, when preparing the statutes for
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publication, make other changes necessary to effect the terminology changes in
pars. (a) to (c).
SECTION 38. Nonstatutory provisions.
(1) The department of workforce development shall submit a notice to the
legislative reference bureau for publication in the Wisconsin Administrative
Register when the department determines that the department has any rules in
place that are necessary to implement the treatment of s. 108.04 (2) (a) 3. by this
act.
SECTION 39. Initial applicability.
(1) The treatment of s. 108.04 (2) (a) 3. first applies with respect to weeks of
unemployment beginning on the effective date of this subsection.
(2) The renumbering and amendment of s. 108.04 (2) (a) 4. and (15) (a) 2., the
consolidation, renumbering, and amendment of s. 108.04 (15) (a) (intro.) and 1., and
the creation of s. 108.04 (2) (a) 4. c. and 5. and (15) (a) 2. b., (am), and (ao) first apply
with respect to weeks of unemployment beginning on the effective date of this
subsection.
SECTION 40. Effective dates. This act takes effect on July 5, 2026, except as
follows:
(1) The treatment of s. 108.04 (2) (a) 3. and SECTION 39 (1) of this act take
effect on the Sunday after the notice under SECTION 38 (1) of this act is published in
the Wisconsin Administrative Register or on January 4, 2026, whichever occurs
first.
(2) The treatment of ss. 108.01 (2m) and 108.14 (8o) and (30), the
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renumbering and amendment of s. 108.04 (2) (a) 4. and (15) (a) 2., the consolidation,
renumbering, and amendment of s. 108.04 (15) (a) (intro.) and 1., and the creation
of s. 108.04 (2) (a) 4. c. and 5. and (15) (a) 2. b., (am), and (ao) and SECTIONS 38 (1)
and 39 (2) of this act take effect on the first Sunday after publication.
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