DOA:......Richter, BB0015 - SPD ARPA Project Positions Incumbents
For 2025-2027 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
STATE GOVERNMENT
State employment
Project employees of the Public Defender Board under ARPA
The bill provides that individuals who are in project positions that were funded by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and who are employed by the Public Defender Board may be appointed to equivalent permanent positions in those offices without going through the civil service hiring process as new hires.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 9133. Nonstatutory provisions; Public Defender Board.
(1) Incumbent staff. Individuals in project positions that were funded by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, P.L. 117-2, and funded from the appropriation under s. 20.550 (1) (m), and who are employed by the public defender board on the day before the effective date of this subsection may be appointed to the permanent equivalent of those positions, funded from the appropriation under s. 20.550 (1) (a), notwithstanding any provision of ch. 230. (end)
