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Lawmakers try again for material sales-tax exemption

Published: April 1, 2013
Tags: Assembly, sales tax, use tax

A state Assembly committee will take public testimony Wednesday on a bill that would prevent contractors from paying sales and use taxes on materials bought for nonprofit organizations’ projects.

Legislature returns with little on agenda (UPDATE)

Published: September 13, 2011
Tags: Assembly, Dan Kapanke, Jennifer Shilling, Jessica King, Randy Hopper, Scott Walker

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Legislature returned to work Tuesday to a light agenda and a new makeup, with two Democrats who defeated Republican incumbents in recall elections this summer taking their seats. They eased into their new jobs. The Senate didn’t take up any bills and it was not [...]

Assembly votes to increase enterprise zones

Published: April 12, 2011
Tags: Assembly, enterprise zones, Joint Finance Committee, Scott Walker

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The number of enterprise zones designed to foster business development and growth in targeted areas across the state would increase under a bill passed by the state Assembly. The bill passed on a bipartisan 79-12 vote Tuesday by the Assembly is backed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker. The proposal would increase [...]

Lawmakers cut public worker bargaining rights

Published: March 10, 2011
Tags: Assembly, collective bargaining, Scott Walker, unions
Comments: 9

By  SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin lawmakers have voted to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from the state’s public workers in one of the strongest blows to the power of unions in years. The state’s Assembly passed Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s explosive proposal 53-42 Thursday. The state’s Senate approved it [...]

Assembly speaker says union bill will pass

Published: March 10, 2011
Tags: Assembly, collective bargaining, Jeff Fitzgerald, unions

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald says a bill taking away collective bargaining rights from public workers will pass the Assembly on Thursday. Fitzgerald said he believes Republicans are doing what they said they would do on the campaign trail. He said when Republicans took control of the Legislature and the governor’s [...]

Wis. Assembly debates amendments to union bill

Published: February 22, 2011
Tags: Assembly, collective bargaining, unions
Comments: 1

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Assembly has voted down the first of dozens of proposed Democratic amendments to a bill that would cut collective bargaining rights for most public employees. Debate on the amendments started Tuesday afternoon and was expected to last for hours as the Democrats try to derail a plan they call [...]

Splits bubble up at state Capitol

Published: December 23, 2010
Tags: Assembly, Chvala, collective bargaining, Doyle, Jeff Plale, Legislature, Pommer, Russ Decker, Scott Walker, Senate

By Matt Pommer Old divisions among Democratic legislators bubbled up during the recent votes on new labor contracts for more than 35,000 unionized state workers. The Democratic-controlled Assembly narrowly approved the agreements, but the contract measures failed in the state Senate on tie votes. Democrats had an 18-15 margin in the now lame-duck Senate. The [...]

Wis. lawmakers officially end session with no state contracts (UPDATE)

Published: December 16, 2010
Tags: Assembly, Beil, contracts, Risser, Russ Decker, union, Wisconsin State Employees Union
Comments: 2

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Dejected Democrats quietly ended a messy lame-duck session to approve state contracts Thursday, hours after one of their key leaders unexpectedly turned on them and voted the deals down. Senate President Fred Risser gaveled the Senate in and gaveled it out seconds later to officially end [...]

Democrats push to pass state worker contracts

Published: November 21, 2010
Tags: Assembly, Doyle, Scott Walker, SEIU, Service Employees International Union, union, Wisconsin State Employees Union
Comments: 1

By  SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrats are trying to approve state labor union contracts in a lame duck session before Republicans take over the Legislature in January. Republican Gov.-elect Scott Walker has asked that the process stop until he takes over on Jan. 3 because the deals could make his job [...]