LRB-1395/1
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2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
February 5, 2021 - Introduced by Senators Petrowski, Wanggaard, L. Taylor,
Carpenter, Feyen, Ringhand, Jacque, Felzkowski, Roys, Darling, Testin,
Larson and Pfaff, cosponsored by Representatives Loudenbeck, Born,
Schraa, Ramthun, Tauchen, Novak, Snyder, Skowronski, Rozar, Zimmerman,
Edming, Mursau, Knodl, James, Doyle, Cabrera, Summerfield,
VanderMeer, Dittrich, Sinicki, Milroy, Spiros, Moses, Neubauer, Hong,
Duchow, Drake, Tranel, Riemer, Bowen, Andraca, Spreitzer, B. Meyers,
Subeck and Brostoff. Referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety.
SB62,1,1
1An Act relating to: merit pay raises for state public defenders.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, there is an assistant state public defender pay progression
plan, which consists of 17 hourly salary steps, with each step equal to
one-seventeenth of the difference between the lowest hourly salary and the highest
hourly salary. The plan provides that no salary adjustment under the plan may
increase an assistant state public defender's salary by more than 10 percent of his
or her base pay during a fiscal year.
This bill allows the Public Defender Board to provide merit-based pay raises
under the assistant state public defender pay progression plan in fiscal year 2021-22
that may exceed 10 percent of an assistant state public defender's base pay.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SB62,1
2Section
1.
Nonstatutory provisions.
SB62,2,23
(1) Notwithstanding s. 230.12 (11) (c), from the appropriation under s. 20.550
4(1) (a), the public defender board may provide merit-based pay raises under the
5assistant state public defender pay progression plan under s. 230.12 (11) to increase
6the base pay of assistant public defenders in fiscal year 2021-22. Notwithstanding
1s. 230.12 (11) (c), a salary adjustment for an assistant state public defender under
2this subsection may exceed 10 percent of his or her base pay during a fiscal year.
