2023 Wisconsin Act 21

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes: 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.”

  Date of enactment: July 19, 2023
2023 Assembly Bill 322   Date of publication*: July 20, 2023

2023 WISCONSIN ACT 21

An Act relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Law Enforcement Association, for the 2021-23 biennium, covering employees in the public safety collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

21,1 Section 1. Agreement ratified. The legislature ratifies the tentative agreement negotiated for the 2021-23 biennium between the state of Wisconsin, the division of personnel management in the department of administration, and the Wisconsin Law Enforcement Association, covering employees in the public safety collective bargaining unit under subch. V of ch. 111, as approved by the employees of the public safety collective bargaining unit and approved and recommended by the joint committee on employment relations, and authorizes the necessary expenditure of moneys for implementation from the appropriations made by s. 20.865 (1), subject to s. 20.865 (intro.). The administrator of the division of personnel management in the department of administration shall file an official copy of the agreement, certified by the cochairpersons of the joint committee on employment relations, with the secretary of state. No formal or informal agreement between the parties that is not a part of the official copy is deemed to be approved by the legislature under this act.

21,2 Section 2. Effective date.

(1) This act takes effect on the day after publication, except that those provisions specifically identified as having other effective dates in the agreement covering employees in the public safety collective bargaining unit are effective on the dates provided in that agreement.