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55h. Page 732, line 7: delete "
System," and substitute "
, credited to the
5appropriation account under s. 20.285 (1) (k)".
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55L. Page 894, line 17: delete the material beginning with that line and ending
7with page 895, line 4.
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55p. Page 902, line 3: delete the material beginning with that line and ending
9with page 908, line 3.
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55x. Page 919, line 1: delete "
department of commerce Wisconsin" and
13substitute "department of
commerce administration.".
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56g. Page 926, line 25: delete the material beginning with that line and ending
17with page 928, line 3, and substitute:
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86.31
(2) (b) Except as provided in par. (d), improvements for highway
20construction projects funded under the program shall be under contracts. Such
21contracts shall be awarded on the basis of competitive bids and shall be awarded to
22the lowest responsible bidder. If a city or village does not receive a responsible bid
23for an improvement, the city or village may contract with a county for the
24improvement.
A Subject to s. 59.52 (30), a town may contract with a county for the
1improvement subject to the criteria and procedures promulgated as rules under sub.
2(6) (h).".
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86.31
(6) (h)
Criteria Subject to s. 59.52 (30), criteria and procedures for
7contracting with a county for a town road improvement that includes at least all of
8the following:".
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56n. Page 933, line 17: delete lines 17 and 18 and substitute "(a) 3. to the
11appropriation account under s. 20.285 (1)
(hm) (k) for the University of
12Wisconsin-Extension".
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108.04
(8) (b) 1. An employee's failure to accept an offer of work under par. (a)
21includes:
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a. The employee's refusal without good cause to take a test for illegal drugs
23given on behalf of the employer as a condition of employment; or
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b. The employer's withdrawal of or failure to extend an offer of work due to a
25positive test result.
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12. For purposes of this paragraph, a drug test shall not be found to be positive
2for illegal drugs unless the test was conducted and certified in a manner approved
3by the department.
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3. This paragraph applies only to the extent permitted by federal law.
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108.04
(13) (cm) An employer shall report to the department an employee's
7positive drug test or refusal to take such a test under sub. (8) (b), as the department
8requires or approves.".
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108.09
(4r) Departmental records relating to drug test information. The
12department shall retain drug test information obtained under s. 108.04 (13) (cm) for
13the purpose of determining eligibility for benefits.".
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57b. Page 973, line 21: delete the material beginning with that line and ending
15on page 975, line 8, and substitute:
AB40-ASA1-AA1-AA1,26,618
111.70
(1) (a) "Collective bargaining" means the performance of the mutual
19obligation of a municipal employer, through its officers and agents, and the
20representative of its municipal employees in a collective bargaining unit, to meet and
21confer at reasonable times, in good faith, with the intention of reaching an
22agreement, or to resolve questions arising under such an agreement, with respect to
23wages, hours, and conditions of employment for public safety employees or transit
24employees and with respect to wages for general municipal employees, and with
25respect to a requirement of the municipal employer for a municipal employee to
1perform law enforcement and fire fighting services under s. 60.553, 61.66, or 62.13
2(2e), except as provided in sub. (4) (mb) and (mc) and s. 40.81 (3) and except that a
3municipal employer shall not meet and confer with respect to any proposal to
4diminish or abridge the rights guaranteed to any public safety employees under ch.
5164. Collective bargaining includes the reduction of any agreement reached to a
6written and signed document.
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111.70
(1) (f) "Fair-share agreement" means an agreement between a
10municipal employer and a labor organization that represents public safety
11employees or transit employees under which all or any of the public safety employees
12or transit employees in the collective bargaining unit are required to pay their
13proportionate share of the cost of the collective bargaining process and contract
14administration measured by the amount of dues uniformly required of all members.
AB40-ASA1-AA1-AA1,26,1817
111.70
(1) (fm) "General municipal employee" means a municipal employee
18who is not a public safety employee or a transit employee.
AB40-ASA1-AA1-AA1,26,2321
111.70
(1) (mm) "Public safety employee" means any municipal employee who
22is employed in a position that, on the effective date of this paragraph .... [LRB inserts
23date], is one of the following:
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1. Classified as a protective occupation participant under any of the following:
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a. Section 40.02 (48) (am) 9., 10., 13., 15., or 22.
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1b. A provision that is comparable to a provision under subd. 1. a. that is in a
2county or city retirement system.
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2. An emergency medical service provider for the emergency medical services
4departments in Door and Waushara counties.
AB40-ASA1-AA1-AA1,27,107
111.70
(1) (n) "Referendum" means a proceeding conducted by the commission
8in which public safety employees or transit employees in a collective bargaining unit
9may cast a secret ballot on the question of authorizing a labor organization and the
10employer to continue a fair-share agreement.
AB40-ASA1-AA1-AA1,27,1312
111.70
(1) (p) "Transit employee" means a municipal employee who is
13determined to be a transit employee under sub. (4) (bm).
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111.70
(2) Rights of municipal employees. Municipal employees have the right
17of self-organization, and the right to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to
18bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in
19lawful, concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual
20aid or protection. Municipal employees have the right to refrain from any and all
21such activities. A general municipal employee has the right to refrain from paying
22dues while remaining a member of a collective bargaining unit. A public safety
23employee or a transit employee, however, may be required to pay dues in the manner
24provided in a fair-share agreement; a fair-share agreement covering a public safety
25employee or a transit employee must contain a provision requiring the municipal
1employer to deduct the amount of dues as certified by the labor organization from the
2earnings of the employee affected by the fair-share agreement and to pay the amount
3deducted to the labor organization. A fair-share agreement covering a public safety
4employee or transit employee is subject to the right of the municipal employer or a
5labor organization to petition the commission to conduct a referendum. Such
6petition must be supported by proof that at least 30% of the employees in the
7collective bargaining unit desire that the fair-share agreement be terminated. Upon
8so finding, the commission shall conduct a referendum. If the continuation of the
9agreement is not supported by at least the majority of the eligible employees, it shall
10terminate. The commission shall declare any fair-share agreement suspended upon
11such conditions and for such time as the commission decides whenever it finds that
12the labor organization involved has refused on the basis of race, color, sexual
13orientation, creed, or sex to receive as a member any public safety employee or transit
14employee of the municipal employer in the bargaining unit involved, and such
15agreement is subject to this duty of the commission. Any of the parties to such
16agreement or any public safety employee or transit employee covered by the
17agreement may come before the commission, as provided in s. 111.07, and ask the
18performance of this duty.
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111.70
(3) (a) 3. To encourage or discourage a membership in any labor
22organization by discrimination in regard to hiring, tenure, or other terms or
23conditions of employment; but the prohibition shall not apply to a fair-share
24agreement that covers public safety employees or transit employees.
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111.70
(3) (a) 5. To violate any collective bargaining agreement previously
4agreed upon by the parties with respect to wages, hours and conditions of
5employment affecting public safety employees or transit employees, including an
6agreement to arbitrate questions arising as to the meaning or application of the
7terms of a collective bargaining agreement or to accept the terms of such arbitration
8award, where previously the parties have agreed to accept such award as final and
9binding upon them or to violate any collective bargaining agreement affecting
10general municipal employees, that was previously agreed upon by the parties with
11respect to wages.
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111.70
(3) (a) 6. To deduct labor organization dues from the earnings of a public
15safety employee or a transit employee, unless the municipal employer has been
16presented with an individual order therefor, signed by the employee personally, and
17terminable by at least the end of any year of its life or earlier by the public safety
18employee or transit employee giving at least 30 days' written notice of such
19termination to the municipal employer and to the representative organization,
20except when a fair-share agreement is in effect.
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111.70
(3) (a) 7m. To refuse or otherwise fail to implement an arbitration
23decision lawfully made under sub. (4) (cg).
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1111.70
(3) (a) 9. If the collective bargaining unit contains a public safety
2employee or transit employee, after a collective bargaining agreement expires and
3before another collective bargaining agreement takes effect, to fail to follow any
4fair-share agreement in the expired collective bargaining agreement.
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111.70
(3) (b) 6m. To refuse or otherwise fail to implement an arbitration
7decision lawfully made under sub. (4) (cg).".
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111.70
(4) (bm)
Transit employee determination. The commission shall
11determine that any municipal employee is a transit employee if the commission
12determines that the municipal employer who employs the municipal employee would
13lose federal funding under
49 USC 5333 (b) if the municipal employee is not a transit
14employee.
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111.70
(4) (c) 2. `Arbitration.' Parties to a dispute pertaining to the meaning
18or application of the terms of a written collective bargaining agreement involving a
19collective bargaining unit containing a public safety employee may agree in writing
20to have the commission or any other appropriate agency serve as arbitrator or may
21designate any other competent, impartial and disinterested person to so serve.
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111.70
(4) (cg)
Methods for peaceful settlement of disputes; transit employees. 241. `Notice of commencement of contract negotiations.' To advise the commission of
25the commencement of contract negotiations involving a collective bargaining unit
1containing transit employees, whenever either party requests the other to reopen
2negotiations under a binding collective bargaining agreement, or the parties
3otherwise commence negotiations if no collective bargaining agreement exists, the
4party requesting negotiations shall immediately notify the commission in writing.
5Upon failure of the requesting party to provide notice, the other party may provide
6notice to the commission. The notice shall specify the expiration date of the existing
7collective bargaining agreement, if any, and shall provide any additional information
8the commission may require on a form provided by the commission.
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2. `Presentation of initial proposals; open meetings.' The meetings between
10parties to a collective bargaining agreement or proposed collective bargaining
11agreement under this subchapter that involve a collective bargaining unit
12containing a transit employee and that are held to present initial bargaining
13proposals, along with supporting rationale, are open to the public. Each party shall
14submit its initial bargaining proposals to the other party in writing. Failure to
15comply with this subdivision does not invalidate a collective bargaining agreement
16under this subchapter.
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3. `Mediation.' The commission or its designee shall function as mediator in
18labor disputes involving transit employees upon request of one or both of the parties,
19or upon initiation of the commission. The function of the mediator is to encourage
20voluntary settlement by the parties. No mediator has the power of compulsion.
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4. `Grievance arbitration.' Parties to a dispute pertaining to the meaning or
22application of the terms of a written collective bargaining agreement involving a
23collective bargaining unit containing a transit employee may agree in writing to have
24the commission or any other appropriate agency serve as arbitrator or may designate
25any other competent, impartial, and disinterested person to serve as an arbitrator.
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15. `Voluntary impasse resolution procedures.' In addition to the other impasse
2resolution procedures provided in this paragraph, a municipal employer that
3employs a transit employee and labor organization may at any time, as a permissive
4subject of bargaining, agree in writing to a dispute settlement procedure, including
5binding interest arbitration, which is acceptable to the parties for resolving an
6impasse over terms of any collective bargaining agreement under this subchapter.
7The parties shall file a copy of the agreement with the commission. If the parties
8agree to any form of binding interest arbitration, the arbitrator shall give weight to
9the factors enumerated under subds. 7. and 7g.
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6. `Interest arbitration.' a. If in any collective bargaining unit containing
11transit employees a dispute has not been settled after a reasonable period of
12negotiation and after mediation by the commission under subd. 3. and other
13settlement procedures, if any, established by the parties have been exhausted, and
14the parties are deadlocked with respect to any dispute between them over wages,
15hours, or conditions of employment to be included in a new collective bargaining
16agreement, either party, or the parties jointly, may petition the commission, in
17writing, to initiate compulsory, final, and binding arbitration, as provided in this
18paragraph. At the time the petition is filed, the petitioning party shall submit in
19writing to the other party and the commission its preliminary final offer containing
20its latest proposals on all issues in dispute. Within 14 calendar days after the date
21of that submission, the other party shall submit in writing its preliminary final offer
22on all disputed issues to the petitioning party and the commission. If a petition is
23filed jointly, both parties shall exchange their preliminary final offers in writing and
24submit copies to the commission when the petition is filed.
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1am. Upon receipt of a petition under subd. 6. a. to initiate arbitration, the
2commission shall determine, with or without a formal hearing, whether arbitration
3should be commenced. If in determining whether an impasse exists the commission
4finds that the procedures under this paragraph have not been complied with and
5compliance would tend to result in a settlement, it may order compliance before
6ordering arbitration. The validity of any arbitration award or collective bargaining
7agreement is not affected by failure to comply with the procedures. Prior to the close
8of the investigation each party shall submit in writing to the commission its single
9final offer containing its final proposals on all issues in dispute that are subject to
10interest arbitration under this subdivision. If a party fails to submit a single,
11ultimate final offer, the commission shall use the last written position of the party.
12Such final offers may include only mandatory subjects of bargaining, except that a
13permissive subject of bargaining may be included by a party if the other party does
14not object and is then treated as a mandatory subject. At that time, the parties shall
15submit to the commission a stipulation, in writing, with respect to all matters that
16they agree to include in the new or amended collective bargaining agreement. The
17commission, after determining that arbitration should be commenced, shall issue an
18order requiring arbitration and immediately submit to the parties a list of 7
19arbitrators. The parties shall alternately strike names from the list until one name
20is left that person shall be appointed arbitrator. The petitioning party shall notify
21the commission in writing of the identity of the arbitrator. The commission shall then
22formally appoint the arbitrator and submit to him or her the final offers of the
23parties. The final offers are public documents and the commission shall make them
24available. In lieu of a single arbitrator and upon request of both parties, the
25commission shall appoint a tripartite arbitration panel consisting of one member
1selected by each of the parties and a neutral person designated by the commission
2who shall serve as a chairperson. An arbitration panel has the same powers and
3duties provided in this section as any other appointed arbitrator, and all arbitration
4decisions by a panel shall be determined by majority vote. In lieu of selection of the
5arbitrator by the parties and upon request of both parties, the commission shall
6establish a procedure for randomly selecting names of arbitrators. Under the
7procedure, the commission shall submit a list of 7 arbitrators to the parties. Each
8party shall strike one name from the list. From the remaining 5 names, the
9commission shall randomly appoint an arbitrator. Unless both parties to an
10arbitration proceeding otherwise agree in writing, every individual whose name is
11submitted by the commission for appointment as an arbitrator must be a resident of
12this state at the time of submission and every individual who is designated as an
13arbitration panel chairperson must be a resident of this state at the time of
14designation.
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b. The arbitrator shall, within 10 days of his or her appointment under subd.
166. am., establish a date and place for the arbitration hearing. Upon petition of at least
175 citizens of the jurisdiction served by the municipal employer, filed within 10 days
18after the date on which the arbitrator is appointed, the arbitrator shall hold a public
19hearing in the jurisdiction to provide both parties the opportunity to present
20supporting arguments for their positions and to provide to members of the public the
21opportunity to offer their comments. The final offers of the parties, as transmitted
22by the commission to the arbitrator, are the basis for continued negotiations, if any,
23between the parties with respect to the issues in dispute. At any time prior to the
24arbitration hearing, either party, with the consent of the other party, may modify its
25final offer in writing.
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1c. Before issuing his or her arbitration decision, the arbitrator shall, on his or
2her own motion or at the request of either party, conduct a meeting open to the public
3to provide the opportunity to both parties to present supporting arguments for their
4complete offer on all matters to be covered by the proposed agreement. The
5arbitrator shall adopt without further modification the final offer of one of the parties
6on all disputed issues submitted under subd. 6. am., except those items that the
7commission determines not to be mandatory subjects of bargaining and those items
8that have not been treated as mandatory subjects by the parties, and including any
9prior modifications of the offer mutually agreed upon by the parties under subd. 6.
10b. The decision shall be final and binding on both parties and shall be incorporated
11into a written collective bargaining agreement. The arbitrator shall serve a copy of
12his or her decision on both parties and the commission.
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e. Arbitration proceedings may not be interrupted or terminated by reason of
14any prohibited practice complaint filed by either party at any time.
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f. The parties shall divide the costs of arbitration equally. The arbitrator shall
16submit a statement of his or her costs to both parties and to the commission.
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g. If a question arises as to whether any proposal made in negotiations by either
18party is a mandatory, permissive, or prohibited subject of bargaining, the
19commission shall determine the issue under par. (b). If either party to the dispute
20petitions the commission for a declaratory ruling under par. (b), the proceedings
21under subd. 6. c. shall be delayed until the commission renders a decision in the
22matter, but not during any appeal of the commission order. The arbitrator's award
23shall be made in accordance with the commission's ruling, subject to automatic
24amendment by any subsequent court reversal.
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17. `Factor given greatest weight.' In making any decision under the arbitration
2procedures under this paragraph, the arbitrator or arbitration panel shall consider
3and shall give the greatest weight to the economic conditions in the jurisdiction of
4the municipal employer. The arbitrator or arbitration panel shall give an accounting
5of the consideration of this factor in the arbitrator's or panel's decision.
AB40-ASA1-AA1-AA1,36,116
7g. `Factor given greater weight.' In making any decision under the arbitration
7procedures under this paragraph, the arbitrator or arbitration panel shall consider
8and shall give greater weight to any state law or directive lawfully issued by a state
9legislative or administrative officer, body, or agency that places limitations on
10expenditures that may be made or revenues that may be collected by a municipal
11employer than to any of the factors specified in subd. 7r.
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7r. `Other factors considered.' In making any decision under the arbitration
13procedures under by this paragraph, the arbitrator or arbitration panel shall give
14weight to the following factors:
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a. The lawful authority of the municipal employer.
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b. Stipulations of the parties.
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c. The interests and welfare of the public and the financial ability of the unit
18of government to meet the costs of any proposed settlement.