Amendment AA6-ASA2-AB50

2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE

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ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 6, TO ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 2, TO ASSEMBLY BILL 50

July 2, 2025 - Offered by Representatives Sinicki, Anderson, Andraca, Arney, Bare, Billings, Brown, Clancy, Cruz, DeSanto, DeSmidt, Doyle, Emerson, Fitzgerald, Goodwin, Haywood, Hong, Hysell, J. Jacobson, Joers, Johnson, Kirsch, Madison, Mayadev, McCarville, McGuire, Miresse, Moore Omokunde, Neubauer, Palmeri, Phelps, Prado, Rivera-Wagner, Roe, Sheehan, Snodgrass, Spaude, Stroud, Stubbs, Subeck, Taylor, Tenorio, Udell and Vining.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,1,1 At the locations indicated, amend the substitute amendment, as follows:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,1,2 1. At the appropriate places, insert all of the following:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,1,3 “Section 1. 71.07 (8b) (a) 7. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,2,2 71.07 (8b) (a) 7. “Qualified development” means a qualified low-income housing project under section 42 (g) of the Internal Revenue Code that is financed with tax-exempt bonds, pursuant to section 42 (i) (2) described in section 42 (h) (4) (A) of the Internal Revenue Code, allocated the credit under section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code, and located in this state; except that the authority may waive, in the qualified allocation plan under section 42 (m) (1) (B) of the Internal Revenue Code, the requirements of tax-exempt bond financing and federal credit allocation to the extent the authority anticipates that sufficient volume cap under section 146 of the Internal Revenue Code will not be available to finance low-income housing projects in any year.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,2 Section 2. 71.28 (8b) (a) 7. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,2,13 71.28 (8b) (a) 7. “Qualified development” means a qualified low-income housing project under section 42 (g) of the Internal Revenue Code that is financed with tax-exempt bonds, pursuant to section 42 (i) (2) described in section 42 (h) (4) (A) of the Internal Revenue Code, allocated the credit under section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code, and located in this state; except that the authority may waive, in the qualified allocation plan under section 42 (m) (1) (B) of the Internal Revenue Code, the requirements of tax-exempt bond financing and federal credit allocation to the extent the authority anticipates that sufficient volume cap under section 146 of the Internal Revenue Code will not be available to finance low-income housing projects in any year.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,3 Section 3. 71.47 (8b) (a) 7. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,3,2 71.47 (8b) (a) 7. “Qualified development” means a qualified low-income housing project under section 42 (g) of the Internal Revenue Code that is financed with tax-exempt bonds, pursuant to section 42 (i) (2) described in section 42 (h) (4) (A) of the Internal Revenue Code, allocated the credit under section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code, and located in this state; except that the authority may waive, in the qualified allocation plan under section 42 (m) (1) (B) of the Internal Revenue Code, the requirements of tax-exempt bond financing and federal credit allocation to the extent the authority anticipates that sufficient volume cap under section 146 of the Internal Revenue Code will not be available to finance low-income housing projects in any year.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,4 Section 4. 76.639 (1) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,3,13 76.639 (1) (g) “Qualified development” means a qualified low-income housing project under section 42 (g) of the Internal Revenue Code that is financed with tax- exempt bonds, pursuant to section 42 (i) (2) described in section 42 (h) (4) (A) of the Internal Revenue Code, allocated the credit under section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code, and located in this state; except that the authority may waive, in the qualified allocation plan under section 42 (m) (1) (B) of the Internal Revenue Code, the requirements of tax-exempt bond financing and federal credit allocation to the extent the authority anticipates that sufficient volume cap under section 146 of the Internal Revenue Code will not be available to finance low-income housing projects in any year.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,5 Section 5. 234.45 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,4,2 234.45 (1) (e) “Qualified development” means a qualified low-income housing project under section 42 (g) of the Internal Revenue Code that is financed with tax- exempt bonds, pursuant to section 42 (i) (2) described in section 42 (h) (4) (A) of the Internal Revenue Code, allocated the credit under section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code, and located in this state; except that the authority may waive, in the qualified allocation plan under section 42 (m) (1) (B) of the Internal Revenue Code, the requirements of tax-exempt bond financing and federal credit allocation to the extent the authority anticipates that sufficient volume cap under section 146 of the Internal Revenue Code will not be available to finance low-income housing projects in any year.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,6 Section 6. 234.45 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,4,11 234.45 (4) Allocation limits. In any calendar year, the aggregate amount of all state tax credits for which the authority certifies persons in allocation certificates issued under sub. (3) in that year may not exceed $42,000,000 $100,000,000, including all amounts each person is eligible to claim for each year of the credit period, plus the total amount of all unallocated state tax credits from previous calendar years and plus the total amount of all previously allocated state tax credits that have been revoked or cancelled or otherwise recovered by the authority.”.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,4,12 2. At the appropriate places, insert all of the following:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,4,13 “Section 7. 16.75 (1p) of the statutes is repealed.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,8 Section 8. 16.855 (1p) of the statutes is repealed.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,9 Section 9. 66.0901 (1) (ae) of the statutes is repealed.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,10 Section 10. 66.0901 (1) (am) of the statutes is repealed.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,11 Section 11. 66.0901 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,5,6 66.0901 (6) Separation of contracts; classification of contractors. In public contracts for the construction, repair, remodeling or improvement of a public building or structure, other than highway structures and facilities, a municipality may bid projects based on a single or multiple division of the work. Public contracts shall be awarded according to the division of work selected for bidding. Except as provided in sub. (6m), the The municipality may set out in any public contract reasonable and lawful conditions as to the hours of labor, wages, residence, character and classification of workers to be employed by any contractor, classify contractors as to their financial responsibility, competency and ability to perform work and set up a classified list of contractors. The municipality may reject the bid of any person, if the person has not been classified for the kind or amount of work in the bid.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,12 Section 12. 66.0901 (6m) of the statutes is repealed.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,13 Section 13. 66.0901 (6s) of the statutes is repealed.”.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,5,9 3. At the appropriate places, insert all of the following:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,5,10 “Section 14. 20.425 (1) (i) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,5,23 20.425 (1) (i) Fees, collective bargaining training, publications, and appeals. The amounts in the schedule for the performance of fact-finding, mediation, certification, and arbitration functions, for the provision of copies of transcripts, for the cost of operating training programs under ss. 111.09 (3), 111.71 (5m), and 111.94 (3), for the preparation of publications, transcripts, reports, and other copied material, and for costs related to conducting appeals under s. 230.45. All moneys received under ss. 111.09 (1) and (2), 111.70 (4) (d) 3. b., 111.71 (1) and (2), 111.83 (3) (b), 111.94 (1) and (2), and 230.45 (3), all moneys received from arbitrators and arbitration panel members, and individuals who are interested in serving in such positions, and from individuals and organizations who participate in other collective bargaining training programs conducted by the commission, and all moneys received from the sale of publications, transcripts, reports, and other copied material shall be credited to this appropriation account.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,15 Section 15. 20.505 (1) (ks) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,6,8 20.505 (1) (ks) Collective bargaining grievance arbitrations. The amounts in the schedule for the payment of the state’s share of costs related to collective bargaining grievance arbitrations under s. 111.86. All moneys received from state agencies or authorities for the purpose of reimbursing the state’s share of the costs related to grievance arbitrations under s. 111.86 and to reimburse the state’s share of costs for training related to grievance arbitrations shall be credited to this appropriation account.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,16 Section 16. 20.921 (1) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,6,12 20.921 (1) (a) 2. If the state employee is a public safety employee under s. 111.81 (15r) or is in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker under s. 111.81 (9b), payment of dues to employee organizations.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,17 Section 17. 40.51 (7) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,7,2 40.51 (7) (a) Any employer, other than the state, including an employer that is not a participating employer, may offer to all of its employees a health care coverage plan through a program offered by the group insurance board. Notwithstanding sub. (2) and ss. 40.05 (4) and 40.52 (1), the department may by rule establish different eligibility standards or contribution requirements for such employees and employers. Beginning on January 1, 2012, except as otherwise provided in a collective bargaining agreement under subch. IV of ch. 111 that covers public safety employees, transit employees, or frontline workers and except as provided in par. (b), an employer may not offer a health care coverage plan to its employees under this subsection if the employer pays more than 88 percent of the average premium cost of plans offered in any tier with the lowest employee premium cost under this subsection.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,18 Section 18. 46.2895 (8) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,7,16 46.2895 (8) (a) 1. If the long-term care district offers employment to any individual who was previously employed by a county, which participated in creating the district and at the time of the offer had not withdrawn or been removed from the district under sub. (14), and who while employed by the county performed duties relating to the same or a substantially similar function for which the individual is offered employment by the district and whose wages were established in who was covered by a collective bargaining agreement with the county under subch. IV of ch. 111 that is in effect on the date that the individual commences employment with the district, with respect to that individual, abide by the terms of the collective bargaining agreement concerning the individual’s wages until the time of the expiration of that collective bargaining agreement or adoption of a collective bargaining agreement with the district under subch. IV of ch. 111 covering the individual as an employee of the district, whichever occurs first.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,19 Section 19. 109.03 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,7,22 109.03 (1) (b) School district employees, cooperative educational service agency employees, and private school employees who voluntarily request payment over a 12-month period for personal services performed during the school year, unless, with respect to private school employees, the employees are covered under a valid collective bargaining agreement which precludes this method of payment.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,20 Section 20. 111.70 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,8,16 111.70 (1) (a) “Collective bargaining” means the performance of the mutual obligation of a municipal employer, through its officers and agents, and the representative of its municipal employees in a collective bargaining unit, to meet and confer at reasonable times, in good faith, with the intention of reaching an agreement, or to resolve questions arising under such an agreement, with respect to wages, hours, and conditions of employment for public safety employees or, for transit employees and, or for municipal employees in a collective bargaining unit that contains a frontline worker; with respect to wages for general municipal employees, who are in a collective bargaining unit that does not contain a frontline worker; and with respect to a requirement of the municipal employer for a municipal employee to perform law enforcement and fire fighting services under s. 60.553, 61.66, or 62.13 (2e), except as provided in sub. (4) (mb) and (mc) and s. 40.81 (3) and except that a municipal employer shall not meet and confer with respect to any proposal to diminish or abridge the rights guaranteed to any public safety employees under ch. 164. Collective bargaining includes the reduction of any agreement reached to a written and signed document.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,21 Section 21. 111.70 (1) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,9,2 111.70 (1) (f) “Fair-share agreement” means an agreement between a municipal employer and a labor organization that represents public safety employees or, transit employees, or a frontline worker under which all or any of the public safety employees or transit employees in the collective bargaining unit or all or any of the employees in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker are required to pay their proportionate share of the cost of the collective bargaining process and contract administration measured by the amount of dues uniformly required of all members.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,22 Section 22. 111.70 (1) (fd) of the statutes is created to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,9,5 111.70 (1) (fd) “Frontline worker” means a municipal employee who is determined to be a frontline worker under sub. (4) (bm) 2.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,23 Section 23. 111.70 (1) (fm) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,9,8 111.70 (1) (fm) “General municipal employee” means a municipal employee who is not a public safety employee or, a transit employee, or a frontline worker.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,24 Section 24. 111.70 (1) (n) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,9,14 111.70 (1) (n) “Referendum” means a proceeding conducted by the commission in which public safety employees or transit employees in a collective bargaining unit or municipal employees in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker may cast a secret ballot on the question of authorizing a labor organization and the employer to continue a fair-share agreement.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,25 Section 25. 111.70 (1) (p) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,9,17 111.70 (1) (p) “Transit employee” means a municipal employee who is determined to be a transit employee under sub. (4) (bm) 1.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,26 Section 26. 111.70 (2) of the statutes is renumbered 111.70 (2) (a) and amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,9,23 111.70 (2) (a) Municipal employees have the right of self-organization, and the right to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in lawful, concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. Municipal employees have the right to refrain from any and all such activities. A general municipal employee may not be covered by a fair-share agreement unless the general municipal employee is in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker. Unless the general municipal employee is covered by a fair-share agreement, a general municipal employee has the right to refrain from paying dues while remaining a member of a collective bargaining unit. A public safety employee or, a transit employee, however, or a municipal employee in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker may be covered by a fair-share agreement and be required to pay dues in the manner provided in a the fair-share agreement; a fair- share agreement covering a public safety employee or a transit employee must contain a provision requiring the municipal employer to deduct the amount of dues as certified by the labor organization from the earnings of the employee affected by the fair-share agreement and to pay the amount deducted to the labor organization. A fair-share agreement covering a public safety employee or transit employee is subject to the right of the municipal employer or a labor organization to petition the commission to conduct a referendum. Such petition must be supported by proof that at least 30 percent of the employees in the collective bargaining unit desire that the fair-share agreement be terminated. Upon so finding, the commission shall conduct a referendum. If the continuation of the agreement is not supported by at least the majority of the eligible employees, it shall terminate. The commission shall declare any fair-share agreement suspended upon such conditions and for such time as the commission decides whenever it finds that the labor organization involved has refused on the basis of race, color, sexual orientation, creed, or sex to receive as a member any public safety employee or transit eligible municipal employee of the municipal employer in the bargaining unit involved, and such agreement is subject to this duty of the commission. Any of the parties to such agreement or any public safety employee or transit municipal employee covered by the agreement may come before the commission, as provided in s. 111.07, and ask the performance of this duty.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,27 Section 27. 111.70 (2) (b) of the statutes is created to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,11,15 111.70 (2) (b) General municipal employees who are not in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker have the right to have their municipal employer consult with them, through a representative of their own choosing, with no intention of reaching an agreement, with respect to wages, hours, and conditions of employment. The right may be exercised either when the municipal employer proposes or implements policy changes affecting wages, hours, or conditions of employment or, if no policy changes are proposed or implemented, at least quarterly.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,28 Section 28. 111.70 (3) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,11,20 111.70 (3) (a) 3. To encourage or discourage a membership in any labor organization by discrimination in regard to hiring, tenure, or other terms or conditions of employment; but the prohibition shall not apply to a fair-share agreement that covers public safety employees or transit employees.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,29 Section 29. 111.70 (3) (a) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,12,8 111.70 (3) (a) 5. To violate any collective bargaining agreement previously agreed upon by the parties with respect to wages, hours, and conditions of employment affecting public safety employees or, transit employees, or municipal employees in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker, including an agreement to arbitrate questions arising as to the meaning or application of the terms of a collective bargaining agreement or to accept the terms of such arbitration award, where previously the parties have agreed to accept such award as final and binding upon them or to violate any collective bargaining agreement affecting a collective bargaining unit containing only general municipal employees, that was previously agreed upon by the parties with respect to wages.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,30 Section 30. 111.70 (3) (a) 6. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,12,17 111.70 (3) (a) 6. To deduct labor organization dues from the earnings of a public safety employee or, a transit employee, or a municipal employee who is in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker unless the municipal employer has been presented with an individual order therefor, signed by the employee personally, and terminable by at least the end of any year of its life or earlier by the public safety employee or transit municipal employee giving at least 30 days’ written notice of such termination to the municipal employer and to the representative organization, except when a fair-share agreement is in effect.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,31 Section 31. 111.70 (3) (a) 9. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,12,23 111.70 (3) (a) 9. If the collective bargaining unit contains a public safety employee or, transit employee, or frontline worker, after a collective bargaining agreement expires and before another collective bargaining agreement takes effect, to fail to follow any fair-share agreement in the expired collective bargaining agreement.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,32 Section 32. 111.70 (3g) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,13,5 111.70 (3g) Wage deduction prohibition. A municipal employer may not deduct labor organization dues from the earnings of a general municipal employee, unless the general municipal employee is in a collective bargaining unit that contains a frontline worker, or from the earnings of a supervisor.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,33 Section 33. 111.70 (4) (bm) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,13,7 111.70 (4) (bm) (title) Transit employee or frontline worker determination.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,34 Section 34. 111.70 (4) (bm) of the statutes is renumbered 111.70 (4) (bm) 1.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,35 Section 35. 111.70 (4) (bm) 2. of the statutes is created to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,13,15 111.70 (4) (bm) 2. The commission shall determine that a municipal employee is a frontline worker if the commission finds that the municipal employee has regular job duties that include interacting with members of the public or with large populations of people or that directly involve the maintenance of public works. The commission may not determine that a public safety employee or a transit employee is a frontline worker.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,36 Section 36. 111.70 (4) (cg) (title), 1., 2., 3., 4. and 5. of the statutes are amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,14,7 111.70 (4) (cg) (title) Methods for peaceful settlement of disputes; transit employees and municipal employees in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker. 1. ‘Notice of commencement of contract negotiations.’ To advise the commission of the commencement of contract negotiations involving a collective bargaining unit containing transit employees or a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker, whenever either party requests the other to reopen negotiations under a binding collective bargaining agreement, or the parties otherwise commence negotiations if no collective bargaining agreement exists, the party requesting negotiations shall immediately notify the commission in writing. Upon failure of the requesting party to provide notice, the other party may provide notice to the commission. The notice shall specify the expiration date of the existing collective bargaining agreement, if any, and shall provide any additional information the commission may require on a form provided by the commission.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,14,15 2. ‘Presentation of initial proposals; open meetings.’ The meetings between parties to a collective bargaining agreement or proposed collective bargaining agreement under this subchapter that involve a collective bargaining unit containing a transit employee or a frontline worker and that are held to present initial bargaining proposals, along with supporting rationale, are open to the public. Each party shall submit its initial bargaining proposals to the other party in writing. Failure to comply with this subdivision does not invalidate a collective bargaining agreement under this subchapter.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,14,21 3. ‘Mediation.’ The commission or its designee shall function as mediator in labor disputes involving transit employees or municipal employees in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker upon request of one or both of the parties, or upon initiation of the commission. The function of the mediator is to encourage voluntary settlement by the parties. No mediator has the power of compulsion.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,15,4 4. ‘Grievance arbitration.’ Parties to a dispute pertaining to the meaning or application of the terms of a written collective bargaining agreement involving a collective bargaining unit containing a transit employee or a frontline worker may agree in writing to have the commission or any other appropriate agency serve as arbitrator or may designate any other competent, impartial, and disinterested person to serve as an arbitrator.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,15,14 5. ‘Voluntary impasse resolution procedures.’ In addition to the other impasse resolution procedures provided in this paragraph, a municipal employer that employs a transit employee or a municipal employee in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker and a labor organization may at any time, as a permissive subject of bargaining, agree in writing to a dispute settlement procedure, including binding interest arbitration, which is acceptable to the parties for resolving an impasse over terms of any collective bargaining agreement under this subchapter. The parties shall file a copy of the agreement with the commission. If the parties agree to any form of binding interest arbitration, the arbitrator shall give weight to the factors enumerated under subds. 7. and 7g.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,37 Section 37. 111.70 (4) (cg) 6. a. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,16,8 111.70 (4) (cg) 6. a. If, in any collective bargaining unit containing transit employees or a frontline worker, a dispute has not been settled after a reasonable period of negotiation and after mediation by the commission under subd. 3. and other settlement procedures, if any, established by the parties have been exhausted, and the parties are deadlocked with respect to any dispute between them over wages, hours, or conditions of employment to be included in a new collective bargaining agreement, either party, or the parties jointly, may petition the commission, in writing, to initiate compulsory, final, and binding arbitration, as provided in this paragraph. At the time the petition is filed, the petitioning party shall submit in writing to the other party and the commission its preliminary final offer containing its latest proposals on all issues in dispute. Within 14 calendar days after the date of that submission, the other party shall submit in writing its preliminary final offer on all disputed issues to the petitioning party and the commission. If a petition is filed jointly, both parties shall exchange their preliminary final offers in writing and submit copies to the commission when the petition is filed.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,38 Section 38. 111.70 (4) (cg) 7r. d., e. and f. of the statutes are amended to read: