This is the preview version of the Wisconsin State Legislature site.
Please see http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov for the production version.
AB68,1728 8Section 1728 . 106.52 (3) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68,1035,159 106.52 (3) (a) 3. Directly or indirectly publish, circulate, display or mail any
10written communication which the communicator knows is to the effect that any of
11the facilities of any public place of accommodation or amusement will be denied to
12any person by reason of sex, race, color, creed, disability, sexual orientation, national
13origin, or ancestry or because a person holds or does not hold a license under s. 343.03
14(3r)
or that the patronage of a person is unwelcome, objectionable or unacceptable
15for any of those reasons.
AB68,1729 16Section 1729 . 106.52 (3) (a) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68,1035,1917 106.52 (3) (a) 4. Refuse to furnish or charge another a higher rate for any
18automobile insurance because of race, color, creed, disability, national origin, or
19ancestry or because a person holds or does not hold a license under s. 343.03 (3r).
AB68,1730 20Section 1730 . 106.52 (3) (a) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68,1035,2521 106.52 (3) (a) 5. Refuse to rent, charge a higher price than the regular rate or
22give preferential treatment, because of sex, race, color, creed, sexual orientation,
23national origin, or ancestry or because a person holds or does not hold a license under
24s. 343.03 (3r)
, regarding the use of any private facilities commonly rented to the
25public.
AB68,1731
1Section 1731. 106.52 (4) (a) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68,1037,112 106.52 (4) (a) 4. If the department finds probable cause to believe that any act
3prohibited under sub. (3) has been or is being committed, the department may
4endeavor to eliminate the act by conference, conciliation and persuasion. If the
5department determines that such conference, conciliation and persuasion has not
6eliminated the alleged act prohibited under sub. (3), the department shall issue and
7serve a written notice of hearing, specifying the nature and acts prohibited under
8sub. (3) which appear to have been committed, and requiring the person named, in
9this subsection called the “respondent", to answer the complaint at a hearing before
10an examiner. The notice shall specify a time of hearing, not less than 10 days after
11service of the complaint, and a place of hearing within the county in which the
12violation of sub. (3) is alleged to have occurred
. The department shall designate the
13place of hearing, which may include a remote, web-based, or in-person hearing in
14a location accessible and in proximity to the parties
. The attorney of record for any
15party may issue a subpoena to compel the attendance of a witness or the production
16of evidence. A subpoena issued by an attorney must be in substantially the same
17form as provided in s. 805.07 (4) and must be served in the manner provided in s.
18805.07 (5). The attorney shall, at the time of issuance, send a copy of the subpoena
19to the appeal tribunal or other representative of the department responsible for
20conducting the proceeding. The testimony at the hearing shall be recorded by the
21department. In all hearings before an examiner, except those for determining
22probable cause, the burden of proof is on the party alleging an act prohibited under
23sub. (3). If, after the hearing, the examiner finds by a fair preponderance of the
24evidence that the respondent has violated sub. (3), the examiner shall make written
25findings and order such action by the respondent as will effectuate the purpose of this

1subsection and sub. (3). The department shall serve a certified copy of the examiner's
2findings and order on the respondent and complainant. The order shall have the
3same force as other orders of the department and shall be enforced as provided in this
4subsection, except that the enforcement of the order is automatically stayed upon the
5filing of a petition for review with the commission. If the examiner finds that the
6respondent has not engaged in an act prohibited under sub. (3) as alleged in the
7complaint, the department shall serve a certified copy of the examiner's findings on
8the complainant and the respondent together with an order dismissing the
9complaint. If the complaint is dismissed, costs in an amount not to exceed $100 plus
10actual disbursements for the attendance of witnesses may be assessed against the
11department in the discretion of the department.
AB68,1732 12Section 1732 . 108.02 (18r) of the statutes is created to read:
AB68,1037,1313 108.02 (18r) Marijuana. “Marijuana” has the meaning given in s. 111.32 (11m).
AB68,1733 14Section 1733. 108.02 (26m) of the statutes is repealed.
AB68,1734 15Section 1734. 108.04 (2) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68,1037,1816 108.04 (2) (a) (intro.) Except as provided in pars. par. (b) to (bd), sub. (16) (am)
17and (b), and s. 108.062 (10) and (10m) and as otherwise expressly provided, a
18claimant is eligible for benefits as to any given week only if all of the following apply:
AB68,1735 19Section 1735. 108.04 (2) (a) 3. of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
AB68,1038,720 108.04 (2) (a) 3. The claimant conducts a reasonable search for suitable work
21during that week and provides verification of that search to the department. The
22search for suitable work must include at least 4 actions per week that constitute a
23reasonable search as prescribed by rule of the department. In addition, the
24department may, by rule, require a claimant to take more than 4 reasonable work
25search actions in any week. The department shall require a uniform number of

1reasonable work search actions for similar types of claimants. This subdivision does
2not apply to a claimant if the department determines that the claimant is currently
3laid off from employment with an employer but there is a reasonable expectation of
4reemployment of the individual by that employer. In determining whether the
5claimant has a reasonable expectation of reemployment by an employer, the
6department shall request the employer to verify the claimant's employment status
7and shall consider all of the following:
AB68,1038,88 a. The history of layoffs and reemployments by the employer.
AB68,1038,109 b. Any information that the employer furnished to the claimant or the
10department concerning the claimant's anticipated reemployment date.
AB68,1038,1211 c. Whether the claimant has recall rights with the employer under the terms
12of any applicable collective bargaining agreement.
AB68,1736 13Section 1736. 108.04 (2) (b) of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
AB68,1038,1614 108.04 (2) (b) The department may, by rule, establish waivers from the
15registration for work requirement under par. (a) 2. and the work search requirement
16under par. (a) 3.
AB68,1737 17Section 1737. 108.04 (2) (bb) of the statutes is repealed.
AB68,1738 18Section 1738. 108.04 (2) (bd) of the statutes is repealed.
AB68,1739 19Section 1739. 108.04 (2) (bm) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68,1039,220 108.04 (2) (bm) A claimant is ineligible to receive benefits for any week for
21which there is a determination that the claimant failed to comply with the
22registration for work and work search requirements under par. (a) 2. or 3. or failed
23to provide verification to the department that the claimant complied with those
24requirements, unless the department has waived those requirements under par. (b),

1(bb), or (bd)
or s. 108.062 (10m). If the department has paid benefits to a claimant
2for any such week, the department may recover the overpayment under s. 108.22.
AB68,1740 3Section 1740. 108.04 (2) (h) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68,1039,104 108.04 (2) (h) A claimant shall, when the claimant first files a claim for benefits
5under this chapter and during each subsequent week the claimant files for benefits
6under this chapter, inform the department whether he or she is receiving social
7security disability insurance payments, as defined in sub. (12) (f) 2m s. 108.05 (7m)
8(b). If the claimant is receiving social security disability insurance payments, the
9claimant shall, in the manner prescribed by the department, report to the
10department the amount of the social security disability insurance payments
.
AB68,1741 11Section 1741. 108.04 (3) of the statutes is repealed.
AB68,1742 12Section 1742 . 108.04 (5g) of the statutes is repealed.
AB68,1743 13Section 1743 . 108.04 (5m) of the statutes is created to read:
AB68,1039,1814 108.04 (5m) Discharge for use of marijuana. (a) Notwithstanding sub. (5),
15“misconduct," for purposes of sub. (5), does not include the employee's use of
16marijuana off the employer's premises during nonworking hours or a violation of the
17employer's policy concerning such use, unless termination of the employee because
18of that use is permitted under s. 111.35.
AB68,1039,2219 (b) Notwithstanding sub. (5g), “substantial fault," for purposes of sub. (5g), does
20not include the employee's use of marijuana off the employer's premises during
21nonworking hours or a violation of the employer's policy concerning such use, unless
22termination of the employee because of that use is permitted under s. 111.35.
AB68,1744 23Section 1744. 108.04 (7) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68,1040,724 108.04 (7) (e) Paragraph (a) does not apply if the department determines that
25the employee accepted work that the employee could have failed to accept under sub.

1(8) and terminated the work on the same grounds and within the first 30 calendar
2days
10 weeks after starting the work, or that the employee accepted work that the
3employee could have refused under sub. (9) and terminated the work within the first
430 calendar days 10 weeks after starting the work. For purposes of this paragraph,
5an employee has the same grounds for voluntarily terminating work if the employee
6could have failed to accept the work under sub. (8) (d) to (em) when it was offered,
7regardless of the reason articulated by the employee for the termination.
AB68,1745 8Section 1745. 108.04 (7) (t) 1. of the statutes is repealed.
AB68,1746 9Section 1746. 108.04 (7) (t) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68,1040,1210 108.04 (7) (t) 2. The employee's spouse was required by the U.S. armed forces
11his or her employing unit to relocate to a place to which it is impractical for the
12employee to commute.
AB68,1747 13Section 1747. 108.04 (8) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68,1041,314 108.04 (8) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), if If an employee fails, without good
15cause, to accept suitable work when offered, the employee is ineligible to receive
16benefits until the employee earns wages after the week in which the failure occurs
17equal to at least 6 times the employee's weekly benefit rate under s. 108.05 (1) in
18employment or other work covered by the unemployment insurance law of any state
19or the federal government. For purposes of requalification, the employee's weekly
20benefit rate shall be that rate which would have been paid had the failure not
21occurred. This paragraph does not preclude an employee from establishing a benefit
22year during a period in which the employee is ineligible to receive benefits under this
23paragraph if the employee qualifies to establish a benefit year under s. 108.06 (2) (a).
24Except as provided in par. (b), the The department shall charge to the fund's
25balancing account any benefits otherwise chargeable to the account of an employer

1that is subject to the contribution requirements under ss. 108.17 and 108.18
2whenever an employee of that employer fails, without good cause, to accept suitable
3work offered by that employer.
AB68,1748 4Section 1748. 108.04 (8) (b) of the statutes is repealed.
AB68,1749 5Section 1749. 108.04 (8) (d) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68,1041,86 108.04 (8) (d) (intro.) With respect to the first 6 10 weeks after the employee
7became unemployed, “suitable work," for purposes of par. (a), means work to which
8all of the following apply:
AB68,1750 9Section 1750. 108.04 (8) (dm) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68,1041,1510 108.04 (8) (dm) With respect to the 7th 11th week after the employee became
11unemployed and any week thereafter, “suitable work," for purposes of par. (a), means
12any work that the employee is capable of performing, regardless of whether the
13employee has any relevant experience or training, that pays wages that are above
14the lowest quartile of wages for similar work in the labor market area in which the
15work is located, as determined by the department.
AB68,1751 16Section 1751 . 108.04 (11) (bm) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68,1041,2517 108.04 (11) (bm) The department shall apply any ineligibility under par. (be)
18against benefits and weeks of eligibility for which the claimant would otherwise be
19eligible after the week of concealment and within 6 years after the date of an initial
20determination issued under s. 108.09 finding that a concealment occurred. The
21claimant shall not receive waiting period credit under s. 108.04 (3) for the period of
22ineligibility applied under par. (be).
If no benefit rate applies to the week for which
23the claim is made, the department shall use the claimant's benefit rate for the
24claimant's next benefit year beginning after the week of concealment to determine
25the amount of the benefit reduction.
AB68,1752
1Section 1752. 108.04 (12) (f) 1m. and 2m. of the statutes are renumbered
2108.05 (7m) (a) and (b) and amended to read:
AB68,1042,53 108.05 (7m) (a) The intent of the legislature in enacting this paragraph
4subsection is to prevent the payment of duplicative government benefits for the
5replacement of lost earnings or income, regardless of an individual's ability to work.
AB68,1042,86 (b) In this paragraph subsection, “ social security disability insurance payment"
7means a payment of social security disability insurance benefits under 42 USC ch.
87
subch. II.
AB68,1753 9Section 1753. 108.04 (12) (f) 3. of the statutes is repealed.
AB68,1754 10Section 1754. 108.04 (12) (f) 4. of the statutes is renumbered 108.05 (7m) (e).
AB68,1755 11Section 1755. 108.05 (1) (am) of the statutes is created to read:
AB68,1042,1412 108.05 (1) (am) On or before June 30 of each year, the department shall
13calculate, from quarterly wage reports under s. 108.205 for the prior calendar year,
14the state's annual average weekly wage in employment covered under this chapter.
AB68,1756 15Section 1756. 108.05 (1) (cm) of the statutes is created to read:
AB68,1042,1716 108.05 (1) (cm) The department shall set the maximum weekly benefit amount
17as follows:
AB68,1042,1918 1. For benefits paid for a week of total unemployment that commences on or
19after January 5, 2014, but before January 2, 2022, $370.
AB68,1042,2120 2. For benefits paid for a week of total unemployment that commences on or
21after January 2, 2022, but before January 1, 2023, $409.
AB68,1042,2422 3. For benefits paid for a week of total unemployment that commences on or
23after January 1, 2023, but before January 7, 2024, $409 or 50 percent of the state's
24annual average weekly wage, rounded up to the nearest dollar, whichever is greater.
AB68,1043,4
14. For benefits paid for a week of total unemployment that commences on or
2after January 7, 2024, the department shall set an annual maximum weekly benefit
3amount that takes effect on the 1st Sunday in January of each calendar year and that
4is equal to the greater of the following:
AB68,1043,65 a. Seventy-five percent of the state's annual average weekly wage, rounded up
6to the nearest dollar.
AB68,1043,77 b. The maximum benefit amount in effect in the previous calendar year.
AB68,1757 8Section 1757. 108.05 (1) (r) of the statutes is renumbered 108.05 (1) (r) (intro.)
9and amended to read:
AB68,1043,1710 108.05 (1) (r) (intro.) Except as provided in s. 108.062 (6) (a), each eligible
11employee shall be paid benefits for each week of total unemployment that
12commences on or after January 5, 2014,
at the a weekly benefit rate specified in this
13paragraph. Unless sub. (1m) applies, the weekly benefit rate shall
equal to 4 percent
14of the employee's base period wages that were paid during that quarter of the
15employee's base period in which the employee was paid the highest total wages,
16rounded down to the nearest whole dollar, except that, if that amount as provided
17under sub. (1m), and unless one of the following applies:
AB68,1043,19 181. If the employee's weekly benefit rate calculated under this paragraph is less
19than $54, no benefits are payable to the employee and, if that amount.
AB68,1043,22 202. If the employee's weekly benefit rate is more than $370 the maximum weekly
21benefit amount under par. (cm)
, the employee's weekly benefit rate shall be $370 and
22except that, if
the maximum weekly benefit amount under par. (cm).
AB68,1043,25 233. If the employee's benefits are exhausted during any week under s. 108.06 (1),
24the employee shall be paid the remaining amount of benefits payable to the employee
25under s. 108.06 (1).
AB68,1044,3
1(s) The department shall publish on its Internet site a weekly benefit rate
2schedule of quarterly wages and the corresponding weekly benefit rates as
3calculated in accordance with this paragraph subsection.
AB68,1758 4Section 1758. 108.05 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68,1044,195 108.05 (3) (a) Except as provided in pars. (c) , and (d) and (dm) and s. 108.062,
6if an eligible employee earns wages in a given week, the first $30 of the wages shall
7be disregarded and the employee's applicable weekly benefit payment shall be
8reduced by 67 percent of the remaining amount, except that no such employee is
9eligible for benefits if the employee's benefit payment would be less than $5 for any
10week. For purposes of this paragraph, “wages" includes any salary reduction
11amounts earned that are not wages and that are deducted from the salary of a
12claimant by an employer pursuant to a salary reduction agreement under a cafeteria
13plan, within the meaning of 26 USC 125, and any amount that a claimant would have
14earned in available work under s. 108.04 (1) (a) which is treated as wages under s.
15108.04 (1) (bm), but excludes any amount that a claimant earns for services
16performed as a volunteer fire fighter, volunteer emergency medical services
17practitioner, or volunteer emergency medical responder. In applying this paragraph,
18the department shall disregard discrepancies of less than $2 between wages reported
19by employees and employers.
AB68,1759 20Section 1759. 108.05 (3) (dm) of the statutes is repealed.
AB68,1760 21Section 1760. 108.05 (7m) (title), (c) and (d) of the statutes are created to read:
AB68,1044,2222 108.05 (7m) (title) Social security disability insurance payments.
AB68,1045,223 (c) If a monthly social security disability insurance payment is issued to a
24claimant, the department shall reduce benefits otherwise payable to the claimant for
25a given week in accordance with par. (d). This subsection does not apply to a lump

1sum social security disability insurance payment in the nature of a retroactive
2payment or back pay.
AB68,1045,53 (d) The department shall allocate a monthly social security disability insurance
4payment by allocating to each week the fraction of the payment attributable to that
5week.
AB68,1761 6Section 1761. 108.05 (9) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68,1045,107 108.05 (9) Rounding of benefit amounts. Notwithstanding sub. (1), benefits
8payable for a week of unemployment as a result of applying sub. (1m), (3) or, (7), or
9(7m)
or s. 108.04 (11) or (12), 108.06 (1), 108.13 (4) or (5) or 108.135 shall be rounded
10down to the next lowest dollar.
AB68,1762 11Section 1762. 108.05 (10) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68,1045,1512 108.05 (10) Deductions from benefit payments. (intro.) After calculating the
13benefit payment due to be paid for a week under subs. (1) to (7) (7m), the department
14shall make deductions from that payment to the extent that the payment is sufficient
15to make the following payments in the following order:
AB68,1763 16Section 1763. 108.133 of the statutes is repealed.
AB68,1764 17Section 1764. 108.14 (2e) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68,1046,818 108.14 (2e) The department may shall provide a secure means of electronic
19interchange between itself and employing units, claimants, and other persons that,
20upon request to and with prior approval by the department, may
shall be used for
21departmental transmission or receipt of any document specified by the department
22that is related to the administration of this chapter in lieu of any other means of
23submission or receipt specified in this chapter. The secure means of electronic
24interchange shall be used by employing units, claimants, and other persons unless
25a person demonstrates good cause for not being able to use the secure means of

1electronic interchange. The department shall determine by rule what constitutes
2good cause, for purposes of this subsection. Subject to s. 137.25 (2) and any rules
3promulgated thereunder, the department may permit the use of the use of electronic
4records and electronic signatures for any document specified by the department that
5is related to the administration of this chapter.
If a due date is established by statute
6for the receipt of any document that is submitted electronically to the department
7under this subsection, then that submission is timely only if the document is
8submitted by midnight of the statutory due date.
AB68,1765 9Section 1765. 108.14 (8n) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68,1046,2310 108.14 (8n) (e) The department shall charge this state's share of any benefits
11paid under this subsection to the account of each employer by which the employee
12claiming benefits was employed in the applicable base period, in proportion to the
13total amount of wages he or she earned from each employer in the base period, except
14that if s. 108.04 (1) (f), (5), (7) (a), (c), (cg), (e), (L), (q), (s), or (t), (7m), or (8) (a) or (b),
15or 108.07 (3), (3r), or (5) (am) 2., or 108.133 (3) (f) would have applied to employment
16by such an employer who is subject to the contribution requirements of ss. 108.17 and
17108.18, the department shall charge the share of benefits based on employment with
18that employer to the fund's balancing account, or, if s. 108.04 (1) (f) or (5) or 108.07
19(3) would have applied to an employer that is not subject to the contribution
20requirements of ss. 108.17 and 108.18, the department shall charge the share of
21benefits based on that employment in accordance with s. 108.07 (5) (am) 1. and 2.
22The department shall also charge the fund's balancing account with any other state's
23share of such benefits pending reimbursement by that state.
AB68,1766 24Section 1766 . 108.14 (26m) of the statutes is created to read:
AB68,1047,3
1108.14 (26m) (a) The department shall allocate all available federal funding
2for the purpose specified in s. 108.19 (1e) (d) before allocating any general purpose
3revenue for that purpose.
AB68,1047,114 (b) If federal funding is received for the purpose specified in s. 108.19 (1e) (d)
5prior to July 1, 2023, the secretary of administration may, to the extent permitted
6under federal law, lapse from the appropriation under s. 20.445 (1) (nc) to the general
7fund an amount not to exceed the amounts in the schedule under s. 20.445 (1) (ar)
8or the amount of federal funding received, whichever is less. This paragraph does
9not apply with respect to amounts received as administrative grants by the state
10under 42 USC 502 or to amounts received by this state under section 903 (d) of the
11federal Social Security Act, as amended, 42 USC 1103.
AB68,1767 12Section 1767. 108.141 (7) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68,1047,2013 108.141 (7) (a) The department shall charge the state's share of each week of
14extended benefits to each employer's account in proportion to the employer's share
15of the total wages of the employee receiving the benefits in the employee's base
16period, except that if the employer is subject to the contribution requirements of ss.
17108.17 and 108.18 the department shall charge the share of extended benefits to
18which s. 108.04 (1) (f), (5), (7) (a), (c), (cg), (e), (L), (q), (s), or (t), (7m), or (8) (a) or (b),
19or 108.07 (3), (3r), or (5) (am) 2., or 108.133 (3) (f) applies to the fund's balancing
20account.
AB68,1768 21Section 1768 . 108.16 (6m) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68,1047,2522 108.16 (6m) (a) The benefits thus chargeable under s. 108.04 (1) (f), (5), (5g),
23(7) (h), (8) (a) or (b), (13) (c) or (d) or (16) (e), 108.07 (3), (3r), (5) (am) 2. and (bm) 3.
24a., (5m), and (6), 108.133 (3) (f), 108.14 (8n) (e), 108.141, 108.151, or 108.152 or sub.
25(6) (e) or (7) (a) and (b).
Loading...
Loading...