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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
SENATE SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1,
TO SENATE BILL 120
April 26, 2023 - Offered by Senator
James.
SB120-SSA1,1,2
1An Act to amend 111.70 (4) (mc) 6. of the statutes;
relating to: the design of
2health care coverage plans for public safety employees.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, municipal employees who are public safety employees, such
as police officers, fire fighters, and emergency medical service providers for
emergency medical services departments, may bargain collectively over wages,
hours, and conditions of employment. Public safety employees, however, may not
bargain over a subject that is identified as a prohibited subject of bargaining. Under
current law, all costs and payments associated with health care coverage plans and
the design and selection of health care coverage plans by a municipal employer for
public safety employees, as well as the impact of the costs and payments and the
design and selection of the plans on wages, hours, and conditions of employment of
public safety employees, are prohibited subjects of bargaining for public safety
employees.
This bill clarifies that for purposes of the prohibition against bargaining over
the design of a health care coverage plan selected by a municipal employer, design
does not include the coverage of current employees and their dependents, including
coverage upon an employee's retirement, death, or disability. In other words, public
safety employees may bargain with a municipal employer about the coverage of
current employees and their dependents by a health care coverage plan selected by
the municipal employer. In addition, this bill clarifies that the initial decision of
whether or not to provide health care coverage is a permitted subject of bargaining
between a municipal employer and public safety employees.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SB120-SSA1,1
1Section
1. 111.70 (4) (mc) 6. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB120-SSA1,2,102
111.70
(4) (mc) 6. Except for
whether or not to provide health care coverage and 3the employee premium contribution, all costs and payments associated with health
4care coverage plans and the design and selection of health care coverage plans by the
5municipal employer for public safety employees, and the impact of such costs and
6payments and the design and selection of the health care coverage plans on the
7wages, hours, and conditions of employment of the public safety employee.
For
8purposes of this subdivision, “design” does not include the coverage of current
9employees and their dependents, including coverage upon an employee's retirement,
10death, or disability, by a health care coverage plan selected by a municipal employer.
SB120-SSA1,2,1412
(1)
Legislative intent statement. The legislature intends that the treatment
13of s. 111.70 (4) (mc) 6. by this act is to clarify the intent of
2011 Wisconsin Acts 10 and
1432 and that this act is to be considered a restatement of current law.
