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AB68-SSA1,1914 6Section 1914. 111.825 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,913,207 111.825 (5) Although supervisors are not considered employees for purposes
8of this subchapter, the commission may consider a petition for a statewide collective
9bargaining unit of professional supervisors or a statewide unit of nonprofessional
10supervisors in the classified service, but the representative of supervisors may not
11be affiliated with any labor organization representing employees. For purposes of
12this subsection, affiliation does not include membership in a national, state, county
13or municipal federation of national or international labor organizations. The
14certified representative of supervisors who are not public safety employees or
15frontline workers
may not bargain collectively with respect to any matter other than
16wages as provided in s. 111.91 (3), and the certified representative of supervisors who
17are public safety employees may not bargain collectively with respect to any matter
18other than wages and fringe benefits as provided in s. 111.91 (1) , and the certified
19representative of supervisors who are frontline workers may bargain as provided in
20s. 111.91 (1w)
.
AB68-SSA1,1915 21Section 1915. 111.83 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,914,1022 111.83 (1) Except as provided in sub. (5), a representative chosen for the
23purposes of collective bargaining by at least 51 percent of the general employees in
24a collective bargaining unit shall be the exclusive representative of all of the
25employees in such unit for the purposes of collective bargaining. A
representative

1chosen for the purposes of collective bargaining by a majority of the public safety
2employees voting in a collective bargaining unit shall be the exclusive representative
3of all of the employees in such unit for the purposes of collective bargaining. Any
4individual employee, or any minority group of employees in any collective bargaining
5unit, may present grievances to the employer in person, or through representatives
6of their own choosing, and the employer shall confer with the employee or group of
7employees in relation thereto if the majority representative has been afforded the
8opportunity to be present at the conference. Any adjustment resulting from such a
9conference may not be inconsistent with the conditions of employment established
10by the majority representative and the employer.
AB68-SSA1,1916 11Section 1916. 111.83 (3) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 111.83 (3).
AB68-SSA1,1917 12Section 1917. 111.83 (3) (b) of the statutes is repealed.
AB68-SSA1,1918 13Section 1918. 111.83 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,914,2214 111.83 (4) Whenever an election has been conducted under sub. (3) (a) in which
15the name of more than one proposed representative appears on the ballot and results
16in no conclusion, the commission may, if requested by any party to the proceeding
17within 30 days from the date of the certification of the results of the election, conduct
18a runoff election. In that runoff election, the commission shall drop from the ballot
19the name of the representative who received the least number of votes at the original
20election. The commission shall drop from the ballot the privilege of voting against
21any representative if the least number of votes cast at the first election was against
22representation by any named representative.
AB68-SSA1,1919 23Section 1919. 111.84 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,915,824 111.84 (1) (d) To refuse to bargain collectively on matters set forth in s. 111.91
25(1), (1w), or (3), whichever is appropriate, with a representative of a majority of its

1employees in an appropriate collective bargaining unit. Where the employer has a
2good faith doubt as to whether a labor organization claiming the support of a majority
3of its employees in appropriate collective bargaining unit does in fact have that
4support, it may file with the commission a petition requesting an election as to that
5claim. It is not deemed to have refused to bargain until an election has been held and
6the results thereof certified to it by the commission. A violation of this paragraph
7includes, but is not limited to, the refusal to execute a collective bargaining
8agreement previously orally agreed upon.
AB68-SSA1,1920 9Section 1920. 111.84 (1) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,915,1810 111.84 (1) (f) To deduct labor organization dues from the earnings of a public
11safety employee or an employee who is in a collective bargaining unit containing a
12frontline worker
, unless the employer has been presented with an individual order
13therefor, signed by the public safety employee personally, and terminable by at least
14the end of any year of its life or earlier by the public safety employee giving at least
1530 but not more than 120 days' written notice of such termination to the employer
16and to the representative labor organization, except if there is a fair-share or
17maintenance of membership agreement in effect. The employer shall give notice to
18the labor organization of receipt of such notice of termination.
AB68-SSA1,1921 19Section 1921. 111.84 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,916,320 111.84 (2) (c) To refuse to bargain collectively on matters set forth in s. 111.91
21(1), (1w), or (3), whichever is appropriate, with the duly authorized officer or agent
22of the employer which is the recognized or certified exclusive collective bargaining
23representative of employees specified in s. 111.81 (7) (a) or (ag) in an appropriate
24collective bargaining unit or with the certified exclusive collective bargaining
25representative of employees specified in s. 111.81 (7) (ar) to (f) in an appropriate

1collective bargaining unit. Such refusal to bargain shall include, but not be limited
2to, the refusal to execute a collective bargaining agreement previously orally agreed
3upon.
AB68-SSA1,1922 4Section 1922. 111.85 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,916,145 111.85 (1) (a) No fair-share or maintenance of membership agreement
6covering public safety employees under this subchapter may become effective unless
7authorized by a referendum. The commission shall order a referendum whenever it
8receives a petition supported by proof that at least 30 percent of the public safety
9employees in a collective bargaining unit or at least 30 percent of the employees in
10a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker
desire that a fair-share or
11maintenance of membership agreement be entered into between the employer and
12a labor organization. A petition may specify that a referendum is requested on a
13maintenance of membership agreement only, in which case the ballot shall be limited
14to that question.
AB68-SSA1,916,2515 (b) For a fair-share agreement to be authorized, at least two-thirds of the
16eligible public safety employees voting in a referendum shall vote in favor of the
17agreement or at least two-thirds of the employees in a collective bargaining unit
18containing a frontline worker shall vote in favor of the agreement
. For a
19maintenance of membership agreement to be authorized, at least a majority of the
20eligible public safety employees voting in a referendum shall vote in favor of the
21agreement or at least a majority of the employees in a collective bargaining unit
22containing a frontline worker shall vote in favor of the agreement
. In a referendum
23on a fair-share agreement, if less than two-thirds but more than one-half of the
24eligible public safety employees vote in favor of the agreement, a maintenance of
25membership agreement is authorized.
AB68-SSA1,917,15
1(c) If a fair-share or maintenance of membership agreement is authorized in
2a referendum ordered under par. (a), the employer shall enter into such an
3agreement with the labor organization named on the ballot in the referendum. Each
4fair-share or maintenance of membership agreement shall contain a provision
5requiring the employer to deduct the amount of dues as certified by the labor
6organization from the earnings of the public safety employees affected by the
7agreement and to pay the amount so deducted to the labor organization. Unless the
8parties agree to an earlier date, the agreement shall take effect 60 days after
9certification by the commission that the referendum vote authorized the agreement.
10The employer shall be held harmless against any claims, demands, suits and other
11forms of liability made by public safety the employees affected by the agreement or
12by local labor organizations which may arise for actions taken by the employer in
13compliance with this section. All such lawful claims, demands, suits , and other forms
14of liability are the responsibility of the labor organization entering into the
15agreement.
AB68-SSA1,917,2216 (d) Under each fair-share or maintenance of membership agreement, a public
17safety
an employee affected by the agreement who has religious convictions against
18dues payments to a labor organization based on teachings or tenets of a church or
19religious body of which he or she is a member shall, on request to the labor
20organization, have his or her dues paid to a charity mutually agreed upon by the
21public safety employee and the labor organization. Any dispute concerning this
22paragraph may be submitted to the commission for adjudication.
AB68-SSA1,1923 23Section 1923. 111.85 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,918,1524 111.85 (2) (a) Once authorized under sub. (1), a fair-share or maintenance of
25membership agreement covering public safety employees shall continue in effect,

1subject to the right of the employer or labor organization concerned to petition the
2commission to conduct a new referendum. Such petition must be supported by proof
3that at least 30 percent of the public safety employees in the collective bargaining
4unit or at least 30 percent of the employees in a collective bargaining unit containing
5a frontline worker
desire that the fair-share or maintenance of membership
6agreement be discontinued. Upon so finding, the commission shall conduct a new
7referendum. If the continuance of the fair-share or maintenance of membership
8agreement is approved in the referendum by at least the percentage of eligible voting
9public safety employees required for its initial authorization, it shall be continued
10in effect, subject to the right of the employer or labor organization to later initiate a
11further vote following the procedure prescribed in this subsection. If the
12continuation of the agreement is not supported in any referendum, it is deemed
13terminated
terminates at the termination of the collective bargaining agreement, or
14one year from the date of the certification of the result of the referendum, whichever
15is earlier.
AB68-SSA1,918,2516 (b) The commission shall declare any fair-share or maintenance of
17membership agreement suspended upon such conditions and for such time as the
18commission decides whenever it finds that the labor organization involved has
19refused on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, as
20defined in s. 111.32 (7j), gender identity, as defined in s. 111.32 (7k),
or creed to receive
21as a member any public safety employee in the collective bargaining unit involved,
22and the agreement shall be made subject to the findings and orders of the
23commission. Any of the parties to the agreement, or any public safety employee
24covered thereby, may come before the commission, as provided in s. 111.07, and
25petition the commission to make such a finding.
AB68-SSA1,1924
1Section 1924. 111.85 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,919,52 111.85 (4) The commission may, under rules adopted for that purpose, appoint
3as its agent an official of a state agency or authority whose public safety employees
4are entitled to vote in a referendum to conduct a referendum provided for herein
5under this section.
AB68-SSA1,1925 6Section 1925. 111.86 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,919,137 111.86 (2) The division shall charge a state department or, agency, or authority
8the employer's share of the cost related to grievance arbitration under sub. (1) for any
9arbitration that involves one or more employees of the state department or, agency,
10or authority
. Each state department or, agency, or authority so charged shall pay the
11amount that the division charges from the appropriation account or accounts used
12to pay the salary of the grievant. Funds received under this subsection shall be
13credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.505 (1) (ks).
AB68-SSA1,1926 14Section 1926. 111.88 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,919,2515 111.88 (1) If a dispute has not been settled after a reasonable period of
16negotiation and after the settlement procedures, if any, established by the parties
17have been exhausted, the representative which has been certified by the commission
18after an election, or, in the case of a representative of employees specified in s. 111.81
19(7) (a) or (ag), has been duly recognized by the employer, as the exclusive
20representative of employees in an appropriate collective bargaining unit, and the
21employer, its officers and agents, after a reasonable period of negotiation, are
22deadlocked with respect to any dispute between them arising in the collective
23bargaining process, the parties jointly, may petition the commission, in writing, to
24initiate fact-finding under this section, and to make recommendations to resolve the
25deadlock.
AB68-SSA1,1927
1Section 1927. 111.90 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,920,42 111.90 (1) Carry out the statutory mandate and goals assigned to a state agency
3or authority by the most appropriate and efficient methods and means and utilize
4personnel in the most appropriate and efficient manner possible.
AB68-SSA1,1928 5Section 1928. 111.90 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,920,86 111.90 (2) Manage the employees of a state agency or authority; hire, promote,
7transfer, assign or retain employees in positions within the agency or authority; and
8in that regard establish reasonable work rules.
AB68-SSA1,1929 9Section 1929. 111.91 (1w) of the statutes is created to read:
AB68-SSA1,920,1810 111.91 (1w) (a) Except as provided in pars. (b) and (c), with regard to a collective
11bargaining unit that contains at least one frontline worker, matters subject to
12collective bargaining to the point of impasse are wage rates, consistent with sub. (2),
13the assignment and reassignment of classifications to pay ranges, determination of
14an incumbent's pay status resulting from position reallocation or reclassification,
15and pay adjustments upon temporary assignment of classified employees to duties
16of a higher classification or downward reallocations of a classified employee's
17position; fringe benefits consistent with sub. (2); hours and conditions of
18employment.
AB68-SSA1,920,2319 (b) With regard to a collective bargaining unit that contains at least one
20frontline worker, the employer is not required to bargain on management rights
21under s. 111.90, except that procedures for the adjustment or settlement of
22grievances or disputes arising out of any type of disciplinary action referred to in s.
23111.90 (3) shall be a subject of bargaining.
AB68-SSA1,920,2524 (c) The employer is prohibited from bargaining on matters contained in sub. (2)
25with a collective bargaining unit that contains at least one frontline worker.
AB68-SSA1,1930
1Section 1930. 111.91 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,921,42 111.91 (2) (intro.) The employer is prohibited from bargaining with a collective
3bargaining unit under s. 111.825 (1) (g) or with a collective bargaining unit that
4contains a frontline worker
with respect to all of the following:
AB68-SSA1,1931 5Section 1931. 111.91 (3) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,921,86 111.91 (3) (intro.) The employer is prohibited from bargaining with a collective
7bargaining unit containing a only general employee employees with respect to any
8of the following:
AB68-SSA1,1932 9Section 1932. 111.91 (3q) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,921,1410 111.91 (3q) For purposes of determining compliance with sub. (3), the
11commission shall provide, upon request, to the employer or to any representative of
12a collective bargaining unit containing a only general employee employees, the
13consumer price index change during any 12-month period. The commission may get
14the information from the department of revenue.
AB68-SSA1,1933 15Section 1933. 111.91 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,921,2416 111.91 (4) The administrator of the division, in connection with the
17development of tentative collective bargaining agreements to be submitted under s.
18111.92 (1) (a) 1., shall endeavor to obtain tentative agreements with each recognized
19or certified labor organization representing employees or supervisors of employees
20specified in s. 111.81 (7) (a) or (ag) and with each certified labor organization
21representing employees specified in s. 111.81 (7) (b) to (e) which do not contain any
22provision for the payment to any employee of a cumulative or noncumulative amount
23of compensation in recognition of or based on the period of time an employee has been
24employed by the state.
AB68-SSA1,1934 25Section 1934. 111.92 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,922,3
1111.92 (3) (a) Agreements covering a collective bargaining unit specified under
2s. 111.825 (1) (g) or a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker shall
3coincide with the fiscal year or biennium.
AB68-SSA1,1935 4Section 1935. 111.92 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,922,85 111.92 (3) (b) No agreements covering a collective bargaining unit containing
6 a only general employee employees may be for a period that exceeds one year, and
7each agreement must coincide with the fiscal year. Agreements covering a collective
8bargaining unit containing a only general employee employees may not be extended.
AB68-SSA1,1936 9Section 1936. 111.93 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,922,1910 111.93 (3) (a) If a collective bargaining agreement exists between the employer
11and a labor organization representing employees in a collective bargaining unit
12under s. 111.825 (1) (g) or in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline
13worker
, the provisions of that agreement shall supersede the provisions of civil
14service and other applicable statutes, as well as rules and policies of the University
15of Wisconsin-Madison and the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin
16System, and policies or determinations of an authority, that are related to wages,
17fringe benefits, hours, and conditions of employment, whether or not the matters
18contained in those statutes, rules, and policies , and determinations are set forth in
19the collective bargaining agreement.
AB68-SSA1,1937 20Section 1937. 111.93 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,923,221 111.93 (3) (b) If a collective bargaining agreement exists between the employer
22and a labor organization representing only general employees in a collective
23bargaining unit, the provisions of that agreement shall supersede the provisions of
24civil service and other applicable statutes, as well as rules and policies of the board
25of regents of the University of Wisconsin System, related to wages, whether or not

1the matters contained in those statutes, rules, and policies are set forth in the
2collective bargaining agreement.
AB68-SSA1,1938 3Section 1938 . 114.09 (2) (bm) 1. (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,923,104 114.09 (2) (bm) 1. (intro.) Except as provided in subd. 1. a. or b., the court shall
5order the person violating sub. (1) (b) 1. or 1m. to submit to and comply with an
6assessment by an approved public treatment facility as defined in s. 51.45 (2) (c) for
7examination of the person's use of alcohol, tetrahydrocannabinols, controlled
8substances, or controlled substance analogs and development of an airman safety
9plan for the person. The court shall notify the person, the department, and the proper
10federal agency of the assessment order. The assessment order shall:
AB68-SSA1,1939 11Section 1939 . 114.09 (2) (bm) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,923,2212 114.09 (2) (bm) 4. The assessment report shall order compliance with an
13airman safety plan. The report shall inform the person of the fee provisions under
14s. 46.03 (18) (f). The safety plan may include a component that makes the person
15aware of the effect of his or her offense on a victim and a victim's family. The safety
16plan may include treatment for the person's misuse, abuse, or dependence on alcohol,
17tetrahydrocannabinols, controlled substances, or controlled substance analogs. If
18the plan requires inpatient treatment, the treatment shall not exceed 30 days. An
19airman safety plan under this paragraph shall include a termination date consistent
20with the plan that shall not extend beyond one year. The county department under
21s. 51.42 shall assure notification of the department of transportation and the person
22of the person's compliance or noncompliance with assessment and treatment.
AB68-SSA1,1940 23Section 1940. 114.138 of the statutes is created to read:
AB68-SSA1,923,25 24114.138 Airport sound mitigation. (1) The department shall develop and
25administer an airport sound mitigation grant program.
AB68-SSA1,924,11
1(2) From the appropriation under s. 20.395 (2) (da), the department shall
2award grants for airport sound mitigation projects that mitigate the impact of airport
3sound on structures located near airports that include a military base or installation.
4The department shall prescribe the form, nature, and extent of information that
5shall be contained in applications for grants under this subsection and shall
6establish criteria for evaluating applications and for awarding grants under this
7subsection. The department shall give highest priority in awarding grants under
8this subsection to projects involving schools and child care centers and secondary
9priority to projects involving private residences. A project that is eligible for
10participation in an airport sound mitigation project under a federal airport sound
11mitigation grant is not eligible for a grant under this subsection.
AB68-SSA1,924,13 12(3) If the department does not receive an application for a grant under sub. (2)
13for 2 consecutive fiscal years, the program shall be terminated.
AB68-SSA1,1941 14Section 1941. 115.28 (7) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,924,2515 115.28 (7) (b) Subject to the same rules and laws concerning qualifications of
16applicants and granting and revocation of licenses or certificates under par. (a), the
17state superintendent shall grant certificates and licenses to teachers in private
18schools and tribal schools, except that teaching experience requirements for such
19certificates and licenses may be fulfilled by teaching experience in public, private,
20or tribal schools. An applicant is not eligible for a license or certificate unless the
21state superintendent finds that the private school or tribal school in which the
22applicant taught offered an adequate educational program during the period of the
23applicant's teaching therein. Private Except as provided under ss. 115.7915 (2) (i),
24118.60 (2) (a) 6m., and 119.23 (2) (a) 6m., private
schools are not obligated to employ
25only licensed or certified teachers.
AB68-SSA1,1942
1Section 1942. 115.28 (10m) of the statutes is repealed.
AB68-SSA1,1943 2Section 1943. 115.28 (10o) of the statutes is repealed.
AB68-SSA1,1944 3Section 1944. 115.28 (28) of the statutes is created to read:
AB68-SSA1,925,64 115.28 (28) Recollection Wisconsin. Annually distribute the amount
5appropriated under s. 20.255 (3) (dg) to Wisconsin Library Services, Inc., to support
6the digitization of historic materials in public libraries throughout the state.
AB68-SSA1,1945 7Section 1945. 115.28 (45) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,925,138 115.28 (45) Grants for bullying prevention. From the appropriation under
9s. 20.255 (3) (eb), beginning in the 2021-22 school year, annually award grants a
10grant
to a the nonprofit organization, as defined in s. 108.02 (19), that received a
11grant under this subsection in the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years
to provide
12training and an online bullying prevention curriculum for pupils in grades
13kindergarten to 8.
AB68-SSA1,1946 14Section 1946. 115.28 (54s) of the statutes is created to read:
AB68-SSA1,925,2015 115.28 (54s) Climate change; model academic standards. If the state
16superintendent adopts model academic standards for any of the following subjects,
17incorporate an understanding of climate, the interconnected nature of climate
18change, the potential local and global impacts of climate change, and individual and
19societal actions that may mitigate the harmful effects of climate change into the
20model academic standards for that subject:
AB68-SSA1,925,2121 (a) Science.
AB68-SSA1,925,2222 (b) Mathematics.
AB68-SSA1,925,2323 (c) Social studies.
AB68-SSA1,925,2424 (d) English language arts.
AB68-SSA1,925,2525 (e) Agriculture.
AB68-SSA1,926,1
1(f) Food and natural resources.
AB68-SSA1,926,22 (g) Environmental literacy and sustainability.
AB68-SSA1,926,33 (h) Nutrition education.
AB68-SSA1,1947 4Section 1947. 115.28 (63) (d) of the statutes is created to read:
AB68-SSA1,926,55 115.28 (63) (d) Social and emotional learning.
AB68-SSA1,1948 6Section 1948. 115.28 (66) of the statutes is created to read:
AB68-SSA1,926,127 115.28 (66) General educational development test fee payments. (a) Subject
8to pars. (b) and (c), from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (3) (bm), pay to GED
9Testing Service LLC the $30 testing service fee for an eligible individual who takes
10a content area test given under the general educational development test. In this
11subsection, “eligible individual” means an individual who satisfies all of the
12following conditions before taking the content area test:
AB68-SSA1,926,1513 1. The individual meets the eligibility requirements promulgated by the
14department by rule for a high school equivalency diploma or certificate of general
15educational development.
AB68-SSA1,926,1716 2. The individual takes and receives a passing score on a practice test for the
17content area that is developed by GED Testing Service LLC.
AB68-SSA1,926,1918 (b) For each eligible individual under par. (a), pay for no more than one testing
19service fee for each content area test taken in a calendar year.
AB68-SSA1,926,2220 (c) Pay the testing service fee for a content area test under par. (a) only if the
21eligible individual takes the test on or after January 1, 2022, at a testing site in
22Wisconsin that is approved by the state superintendent.
AB68-SSA1,1949 23Section 1949. 115.28 (67) of the statutes is created to read:
AB68-SSA1,927,224 115.28 (67) Report on homeless children and youths. Annually, submit to the
25chief clerk of each house of the legislature, for distribution to the legislature under

1s. 13.172 (2), a report on the number of homeless children and youths, as defined in
242 USC 11434a (2), in the public schools of this state.
AB68-SSA1,1950 3Section 1950. 115.28 (68) of the statutes is created to read:
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