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SB671,10 12Section 10 . 108.05 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB671,7,213 108.05 (3) (a) Except as provided in pars. (c), (cm), (d) and (dm) and s. 108.062,
14if an eligible employee earns wages in a given week, the first $30 of the wages shall
15be disregarded and the employee's applicable weekly benefit payment shall be
16reduced by 67 percent of the remaining amount, except that no such employee is
17eligible for benefits if the employee's benefit payment would be less than $5 for any
18week. For purposes of this paragraph, “wages" includes any salary reduction
19amounts earned that are not wages and that are deducted from the salary of a
20claimant by an employer pursuant to a salary reduction agreement under a cafeteria
21plan, within the meaning of 26 USC 125, and any amount that a claimant would have
22earned in available work under s. 108.04 (1) (a) which is treated as wages under s.
23108.04 (1) (bm), but excludes any amount that a claimant earns for services
24performed as a volunteer fire fighter, volunteer emergency medical services
25practitioner, or volunteer emergency medical responder. In applying this paragraph,

1the department shall disregard discrepancies of less than $2 between wages reported
2by employees and employers.
SB671,11 3Section 11 . 108.05 (3) (c) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB671,7,74 108.05 (3) (c) (intro.) Except as provided in par. (cm) and when otherwise
5authorized in an approved work-share program under s. 108.062, a claimant is
6ineligible to receive any benefits for a week in which one or more of the following
7applies to the claimant for 32 or more hours in that week:
SB671,12 8Section 12 . 108.05 (3) (cm) of the statutes is created to read:
SB671,7,119 108.05 (3) (cm) The department shall disregard an employee's hours worked
10for an employer in a week and wages payable to the employee for the week when
11determining the employee's benefit eligibility if all the following apply:
SB671,7,1312 1. The employer requires the employee to work during the week as a condition
13of continued employment with the employer.
SB671,7,1514 2. The employer is unable to pay wages because a government unit or the
15federal government fails to appropriate funds to the employer.
SB671,7,1816 3. The employer is not expected to pay the employee for the services performed
17or the employer will, until funds are appropriated by a government unit or the federal
18government, indefinitely delay payment for the services performed.
SB671,13 19Section 13 . 108.065 (1e) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB671,7,2320 108.065 (1e) (intro.) Except as provided in subs. (2) and (3) to (3m), if there is
21more than one employing unit that has a relationship to an employee, the
22department shall determine which of the employing units is the employer of the
23employee by doing the following:
SB671,14 24Section 14 . 108.065 (3m) of the statutes is created to read:
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1108.065 (3m) A private agency that serves as a fiscal agent or contracts with
2a fiscal intermediary to serve as a fiscal agent to recipients of services under ch. 46,
347, or 51 may elect to be the employer of one or more employees providing those
4services. As a condition of eligibility for election to be the employer of one or more
5employees providing those services, the private agency shall notify in writing the
6recipient of any such services of its election, for purposes of the unemployment
7insurance law, to be the employer of any worker providing such services to the
8recipient, and must be treated as the employer under 26 USC 3301 to 3311 for
9purposes of federal unemployment taxes on the worker's services.
SB671,15 10Section 15 . 108.101 (5) of the statutes is created to read:
SB671,8,1611 108.101 (5) Notwithstanding sub. (4), a final order or judgment of conviction
12for a crime entered by a court is binding on the convicted person in an action or
13proceeding under this chapter that relates to the criminal conviction. A person
14convicted of a crime is precluded from denying the essential allegations of the
15criminal offense that is the basis for the conviction in an action or proceeding under
16this chapter.
SB671,16 17Section 16. 108.151 (7) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB671,9,518 108.151 (7) (c) The fund's treasurer shall determine the total amount due from
19employers electing reimbursement financing under this section that is uncollectible
20as of June 30 of each year, but not including any amount that the department
21determined to be uncollectible prior to before January 1, 2004. No amount may be
22treated as uncollectible under this paragraph unless the department has exhausted
23all reasonable remedies for collection of the amount, including liquidation of the
24assurance required under sub. (4). The department shall charge the total amounts
25so determined to the uncollectible reimbursable benefits account under s. 108.16

1(6w). Whenever, as of June 30 of any year, this that account has a negative balance
2of $5,000 or more, the treasurer shall, except as provided in par. (i), determine the
3rate of an assessment to be levied under par. (b) for that year, which shall then
4become payable by all employers that have elected reimbursement financing under
5this section as of that date.
SB671,17 6Section 17. 108.151 (7) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB671,9,107 108.151 (7) (f) If any employer would otherwise be assessed an amount less
8than $10 $20 for a calendar year, the department shall, in lieu of requiring that
9employer to pay an assessment for that calendar year, apply the amount that the
10employer would have been required to pay to the other employers on a pro rata basis.
SB671,18 11Section 18. 108.151 (7) (i) of the statutes is created to read:
SB671,9,1812 108.151 (7) (i) In lieu of or in addition to assessing employers as provided in
13par. (c), the fund's treasurer may apply amounts set aside in the fund's balancing
14account under s. 108.155 (2) (a) to amounts determined to be uncollectible under par.
15(c) by transferring those amounts to the account under s. 108.16 (6w). The fund's
16treasurer may not act under this paragraph whenever the balance remaining of the
17amount set aside under s. 108.155 (2) (a) is less than $1,750,000 and may not act to
18reduce the amount set aside below that amount.
SB671,19 19Section 19. 108.155 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB671,9,2520 108.155 (2) (a) On October 2, 2016, the fund's treasurer shall set aside
21$2,000,000 in the balancing account for accounting purposes. On an ongoing basis,
22the fund's treasurer shall tally the amounts allocated to reimbursable employers'
23accounts under s. 108.04 (13) (d) 4. c. and all amounts transferred to the account
24under s. 106.16 (6w) as provided in s. 108.151 (7) (i) and shall
deduct those amounts
25from the amount set aside plus any interest calculated thereon.
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1Section 20. 108.16 (6m) (j) of the statutes is created to read:
SB671,10,32 108.16 (6m) (j) Any amount transferred to the account under sub. (6w) as
3provided in s. 108.151 (7) (i).
SB671,21 4Section 21. 108.16 (6w) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB671,10,85 108.16 (6w) The department shall maintain within the fund an uncollectible
6reimbursable benefits account to which the department shall credit all amounts
7received from employers under s. 108.151 (7)
and all amounts transferred from the
8fund's balancing account as provided in s.
108.151 (7) (i).
SB671,22 9Section 22 . 108.22 (10) of the statutes, as affected by 2019 Wisconsin Act 9,
10is amended to read:
SB671,10,2511 108.22 (10) A private agency that serves as a fiscal agent under s. 46.2785 or
12contracts with a fiscal intermediary to serve as a fiscal agent under s. 46.272 (7) (e)
13or 47.035 as to any individual performing services for a person receiving long-term
14support services under s. 46.272 (7) (b), 46.275, 46.277, 46.278, 46.2785, 46.286,
1546.495, 51.42, or 51.437 or personal assistance services under s. 47.02 (6) (c) may be
16found jointly and severally liable for the amounts owed by the person under this
17chapter, if, at the time the person's quarterly report is due under this chapter, the
18private agency served as a fiscal agent for the person. The liability of the agency as
19provided in this subsection survives dissolution, reorganization, bankruptcy,
20receivership, assignment for the benefit of creditors, judicially confirmed extension
21or composition, or any analogous situation of the person and shall be set forth in a
22determination or decision issued under s. 108.10. An appeal or review of a
23determination under this subsection shall not include an appeal or review of
24determinations of amounts owed by the person. This subsection does not apply with
25respect to a private agency that has made an election under s. 108.065 (3m).
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1Section 23. Initial applicability.
SB671,11,32 (1) The treatment of s. 108.02 (10e) (c) first applies to determinations issued
3under s. 108.09 on the effective date of this subsection.
SB671,11,54 (2) The treatment of s. 108.05 (3) (a), (c) (intro.), and (cm) first applies to claims
5filed on the effective date of this subsection.
SB671,24 6Section 24. Effective dates. This act takes effect on the first Sunday after
7publication, except as follows:
SB671,11,98 (1) The treatment of s. 16.48 (1) (a) (intro.), 1., 2., 3., 4., 5. and 6. and (b), (2),
9(3), and (4) takes effect on February 1, 2020.
SB671,11,1110 (2) The treatment of ss. 108.02 (13) (k) and 108.065 (1e) (intro.) and (3m) takes
11effect on January 1, 2021.
SB671,11,1212 (End)
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