Recently Passed Legislation
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Eliminating exceptional performance awards
- 1997 Wisconsin Act 14
- 1997 Assembly Bill 520
Publication date*: Oct. 10, 1997
Relating to: Eliminating exceptional performance awards
under the compensation plan for nonrepresented state employees.
Ratifying the 1997-99 Wisconsin Education Association Council
agreement
- 1997 Wisconsin Act 15
- 1997 Assembly Bill 521
Publication date*: Oct. 10, 1997
Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated
between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Education Association
Council, for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employees in the
professional education collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an
expenditure of funds.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the day following
publication, except that those provisions specifically identified as
having other effective dates in the agreement covering employees in the
professional education collective bargaining unit are effective on the
dates provided in that agreement.
Ratifying the 1997-99 Professional Employees in Research, Statistics
and Analysis agreement
- 1997 Wisconsin Act 16
- 1997 Assembly Bill 522
Publication date*: Oct. 10, 1997
Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated
between the state of Wisconsin and the Professional Employees in
Research, Statistics and Analysis, WFT/AFT, AFL-CIO, for the 1997-99
biennium, covering employees in the professional research, statistics
and analysis collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure
of funds.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the day following
publication, except that those provisions specifically identified as
having other effective dates in the agreement covering employees in the
professional research, statistics and analysis collective bargaining
unit are effective on the dates provided in that agreement.
Ratifying the 1997-99 Wisconsin State Building Trades Negotiating
Committee agreement
- 1997 Wisconsin Act 17
- 1997 Assembly Bill 523
Publication date*: Oct. 10, 1997
Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated
between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Building Trades
Negotiating Committee, AFL-CIO, and its appropriate affiliated locals,
for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employees in the building trades
crafts collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of
funds.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the day following
publication, except that those provisions specifically identified as
having other effective dates in the agreement covering employees in the
building trades crafts collective bargaining unit are effective on the
dates provided in that agreement.
Ratifying the 1997-99 State Engineering Association agreement
- 1997 Wisconsin Act 18
- 1997 Assembly Bill 524
Publication date*: Oct. 10, 1997
Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated
between the state of Wisconsin and the State Engineering Association for
the 1997-99 biennium, covering employees in the professional engineering
collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the day following
publication, except that those provisions specifically identified as
having other effective dates in the agreement covering employees in the
professional engineering collective bargaining unit are effective on the
dates provided in that agreement.
Ratifying the 1997-99 Wisconsin Science Professionals agreement
- 1997 Wisconsin Act 19
- 1997 Assembly Bill 525
Publication date*: Oct. 10, 1997
Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated
between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Science Professionals,
AFT, Local 3732, for the 1997-99 biennium, covering employees in the
professional science collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an
expenditure of funds.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the day following
publication, except that those provisions specifically identified as
having other effective dates in the agreement covering employees in the
professional science collective bargaining unit are effective on the
dates provided in that agreement.
Ratifying the 1997-99 Wisconsin State Employees Union agreement for
professional social services employees
- 1997 Wisconsin Act 20
- 1997 Assembly Bill 526
Publication date*: Oct. 10, 1997
Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated
between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union,
AFSCME Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for
the 1997-99 biennium, covering employees in the professional social
services collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of
funds.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the day following
publication, except that those provisions specifically identified as
having other effective dates in the agreement covering employees in the
professional social services collective bargaining unit are effective on
the dates provided in that agreement.
Ratifying the 1997-99 Wisconsin State Employees Union agreement for
law enforcement employees
- 1997 Wisconsin Act 21
- 1997 Assembly Bill 527
Publication date*: Oct. 10, 1997
Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated
between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union,
AFSCME Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for
the 1997-99 biennium, covering employees in the law enforcement
collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the day following
publication, except that those provisions specifically identified as
having other effective dates in the agreement covering employees in the
security and public safety collective bargaining unit are effective on
the dates provided in that agreement.
Ratifying the 1997-99 Wisconsin State Employees Union agreement for
security and public safety employees
- 1997 Wisconsin Act 22
- 1997 Assembly Bill 528
Publication date*: Oct. 10, 1997
Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated
between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union,
AFSCME Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for
the 1997-99 biennium, covering employees in the security and public
safety collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of
funds.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the day following
publication, except that those provisions specifically identified as
having other effective dates in the agreement covering employees in the
security and public safety collective bargaining unit are effective on
the dates provided in that agreement.
Ratifying the 1997-99 Wisconsin State Employees Union agreement for
technical employees
- 1997 Wisconsin Act 23
- 1997 Assembly Bill 529
Publication date*: Oct. 10, 1997
Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated
between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union,
AFSCME Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for
the 1997-99 biennium, covering employees in the technical collective
bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the day following
publication, except that those provisions specifically identified as
having other effective dates in the agreement covering employees in the
technical collective bargaining unit are effective on the dates provided
in that agreement.
Ratifying the 1997-99 Wisconsin State Employees Union agreement for
administrative support employees
- 1997 Wisconsin Act 24
- 1997 Assembly Bill 530
Publication date*: Oct. 10, 1997
Relating to: Changing the name of the clerical and related
collective bargaining unit to the administrative support collective
bargaining unit, ratification of the agreement negotiated between the
state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME
Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for the
1997-99 biennium, covering employees in the administrative support
collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Effective date*: This act takes effect on the day following
publication, except that those provisions specifically identified as
having other effective dates in the agreement covering employees in the
former clerical and related collective bargaining unit are effective on
the dates provided in that agreement.
Ratifying the 1997-99 Wisconsin State Employees agreement for blue
collar and nonbuilding trades employees
- 1997 Wisconsin Act 25
- 1997 Assembly Bill 531
Publication date*: Oct. 10, 1997
Relating to: Ratification of the agreement negotiated
between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union,
AFSCME Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for
the 1997-99 biennium, covering employees in the blue collar and
nonbuilding trades collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an
expenditure of funds.
Effective date: This act takes effect on the day following
publication, except that those provisions specifically identified as
having other effective dates in the agreement covering employees in the
blue collar and nonbuilding trades collective bargaining unit are
effective on the dates provided in that agreement.
Providing supplemental benefits to certain Wisconsin retirement
system annuitants
- 1997 Wisconsin Act 26
- 1997 Assembly Bill 534
Publication date*: Oct. 10, 1997
Relating to: Providing supplemental benefits to certain
Wisconsin retirement system annuitants and making an appropriation.
The executive budget act of the 1997 Legislature
- 1997 Wisconsin Act 27 (vetoed in part)
- 1997 Assembly Bill 100
Publication date*: Oct. 13, 1997
Relating to: State finances and appropriations, constituting
the executive budget act of the 1997 Legislature, and making
appropriations.
Effective date: Several sections take effect on different
dates. For complete information, please request a full copy of 1997
Wisconsin Act 27. See ordering information at the beginning of this
article.
*Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 1995-96: 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 as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of
publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of
enactment].
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