Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session Status: To Executive Bipartisan · 5 R · 3 D cosponsors

SB 28 — Relating to: classifying county jailers as protective occupation participants under the Wisconsin Retirement System and the treatment of county jailers under the Municipal Employment Relations Act. (FE)

Last action — Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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This bill died with 2023-2024 Regular Session. It reached “To Executive” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there is no live prognosis. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

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Plain-language change summary

The amendments to Senate Bill 28 clarify the definition and eligibility of county jailers for classification as protective occupation participants under the Wisconsin Retirement System. Previously, this classification required evidence of active law enforcement duties, but the changes allow county jailers to qualify regardless of whether they are sworn officers or work full-time, making it easier for them to receive retirement benefits tailored for high-risk jobs. This change is significant because it recognizes the demanding nature of jail work and aims to offer better financial security to those who manage the safety and supervision of inmates.

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- 2024 LEGISLATURE LRBa0030/1 MIM:amn/wlj/cjs SENATE AMENDMENT 1, TO SENATE BILL 28 March 10, 2023 - Offered by Senator MARKLEIN.
- 2024 LEGISLATURE LRB-1299/1 MIM:skw SENATE BILL 28 February 3, 2023 - Introduced by Senators ARKLEIN, BALLWEG, FEYEN, JACQUE, JAGLER, J AMES, L .
At the locations indicated, amend the bill as follows:
JOHNSON , SMITH and S PREITZE, cosponsored by Representatives BORN, ALLEN, ARMSTRONG , EHNKE , BROOKS, CALLAHAN, C.
1.
ANDERSON , ITTRICH, ONOVAN , DMING , MERSON , GREEN, USTAFSON , OERS, KITCHENS, KRUG , MACCO, M AGNAFIC, MOSES, M URPHY, MURSAU , NEDWESKI, NOVAK , C ONNOR , ENTERMAN , ETRYK, PLUMER, RATCLIF, ODRIGUEZ, ROZAR, SCHRAA, SHANKLAND , SNYDER , SORTWELL , SPIROS, STEFFEN , S UBECK, SUMMERFIELD , TRANEL, T USLER, VANDER M EER, W ITTKE and Z IMMERMAN .
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Referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety.
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A N A CT to renumber and amend 40.05 (2) (ar);
“40.02 (48) (b) 5.
to amend40.02 (27), 40.02 (48) (b) 3., 40.02 (48) (c), 40.05 (1) (b) 1., 40.23 (3) (a), 40.28 (1) (a) 2.
A “county jailer" is an employee of a county whose principal duties involve supervising, controlling, or maintaining a jail or the persons confined in a jail, as assigned by the sheriff under s.
and 40.73 (1) (am) 3.;
59.27 (1), regardless of whether the employee has been sworn regarding his or her duties or whether the employee serves on a full-time basis, provided the department receives notification of the participant's name as provided in s.
and to create 40.02 (17) (n), 40.02 (48) (am) 23., 40.02 (48) (b) 5., 40.05 (1) (a) 7., 40.05 (1) (b) 1a., 40.05 (2) (ap), 40.05 (2) (ar) 2., 40.23 (3) (c), 40.65 (4w), 59.52 (8m) and 111.70 (4) (bn) of the statutes;
40.06 (1) (d) and (dm).
relating to:
classifying county jailers as protective occupation participants under the Wisconsin Retirement System and the treatment of county jailers under the Municipal Employment Relations Act.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau Under current law, participants under the Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) whose principal duties involve active law enforcement or fire suppression or prevention and require frequent exposure to a high degree of danger or peril and a high degree of physical conditioning are classified as protective occupation participants.
Current law classifies police officers, fire fighters, and various other individuals as protective occupation participants.
Under the WRS, the normal retirement age of a protective occupation participant is lower than that of other participants and the percentage multiplier used to calculate retirement annuities is higher for protective occupation participants.
- 2024 Legislature - 2 - LRB-1299/1 MIM:skw SENATE BILL 28 This bill classifies county jailers as protective occupation participants without a requirement that their principal duties involve active law enforcement or active fire suppression or prevention.
The bill defines county jailers as persons employed by a county whose principal duties involve supervising, controlling, or maintaining a jail or persons confined in a jail, regardless of whether the jailers have been sworn regarding their duties or whether they serve on a full-time basis.
Under the bill, county jailers who become protective occupation participants on or after the bill's effective date and are employed by a county that did not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants on July 1, 2022, are required to pay all additional employer costs resulting from their classification as protective occupation participants, including the cost of the duty disability program.
County jailers who were classified as protective occupation participants before the bill's effective date and county jailers hired on or after the bill's effective date in counties that did classify county jailers as protective occupation participants on July 1, 2022, are not required to pay the additional employer costs.
The bill also allows a county jailer to elect at the time of hire not to become a protective occupation participant.
Finally, under the Municipal Employment Relations Act, public safety employees may collectively bargain over wages, hours, and conditions of employment, and general employees may bargain collectively over only an annual percentage wage increase that does not exceed the annual percentage increase in the consumer price index.
Under MERA, public safety employees and general employees may not be in the same collective bargaining unit.
The bill amends MERA so that a county that treats a county jailer as a public safety employee on the effective date of this bill shall continue to treat any person it employs as a county jailer as a public safety employee except that, if the county subsequently raises a question regarding the appropriateness of including county jailers in a collective bargaining unit containing public safety employees, no person the county employs as a county jailer may be treated as a public safety employee.
Because this bill relates to public employee retirement or pensions, it may be referred to the Joint Survey Committee on Retirement Systems for a report to be printed as an appendix to the bill.
For further information see the state and local 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:
S ECTION 1.
40.02 (17) (n) of the statutes is created to read:
40.02 (17) (n) Notwithstanding par.
(d), each participant who is a county jailer and who is classified as a protective occupation participant shall be granted creditable service as a protective occupation participant for all covered service as a LRB-1299/1 - 2024 Legislature - 3 - MIM:skw SECTION 1 SENATE BILL 28 county jailer that was earned on or after the effective date of this paragraph ....
[LRB inserts date], but may not be granted creditable service as a protective occupation participant for any covered service as a county jailer that was earned before the effective date of this paragraph ....
[LRB inserts date], unless that service was earned while the participant was classified under sub.
(48) (a) and s.
40.06 (1) (d) as a protective occupation participant.
SECTION 2.
40.02 (27) of the statutes is amended to read:
40.02 (27) “Employee required contribution" means the contribution made by an employee under s.
40.05 (1) (a) 1.
to 4.
and 7.
SECTION 3.
40.02 (48) (am) 23.
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of the statutes is created to read:
40.02 (48) (am) 23.
A county jailer.
SECTION 4.
40.02 (48) (b) 3.
of the statutes is amended to read:
40.02 (48) (b) 3.
A “deputy sheriff" or a “county traffic police officer" is any officer or employee of a sheriff's office or county traffic department, except one whose principal duties are those of a telephone operator, clerk, stenographer, machinist or mechanic and whose functions do not clearly fall within the scope of active law enforcement even though such an employee is subject to occasional call, or is occasionally called upon, to perform duties within the scope of active law enforcement.
Deputy sheriff or county traffic police officer includesnclude a county jailer, but does include any person regularly employed and qualifying as a deputy sheriff or county traffic police officer, even if temporarily assigned to other duties.
SECTION 5.
40.02 (48) (b) 5.
of the statutes is created to read:
40.02 (48) (b) 5.
A “county jailer" is an employee of a county whose principal duties involve supervising, controlling, or maintaining a jail or the persons confined - 2024 Legislature - 4 - LRB-1299/1 MIM:skw SENATE BILL 28 SECTION 5 in a jail, as assigned by the sheriff under s.
59.27 (1), regardless of whether the employee has been sworn regarding his or her duties or whether the employee serves on a full-time basis.
A determination under this subdivision may not be LRBa0030/1 - 2024 Legislature - 2 - MIM:amn/wlj/cjs appealed under s.
A determination under this subdivision may not be appealed under s.
(this act).”.
(this act).
2.
SECTION 6.
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40.02 (48) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
delete lines 11 to 22 and substitute:
40.02 (48) (c) In s.
“40.02 (48) (c) In s.
(a) or (bm) to be a protective occupation participant, county undersheriff, deputy sheriff, county jailer who is categorized as a protective occupation participant, state probation and parole officer, county traffic police officer, conservation warden, state forest ranger, field conservation employee of the department of natural resources who is subject to call for forest fire control or warden duty, member of the state traffic patrol, state motor vehicle inspector, University of Wisconsin System full-time police officer, guard or any other employee whose principal duties are supervision and discipline of inmates at a state penal institution, excise tax investigator employed by the department of revenue, person employed under s.
(a) or (bm) to be a protective occupation participant, county undersheriff, deputy sheriff, county jailer,obation and parole officer, county traffic police officer, conservation warden, state forest ranger, field conservation employee of the department of natural resources who is subject to call for forest fire control or warden duty, member of the state traffic patrol, state motor vehicle inspector, University of Wisconsin System full-time police officer, guard or any other employee whose principal duties are supervision and discipline of inmates at a state penal institution, excise tax investigator employed by the department of revenue, person employed under s.
60.553 (1), 61.66 (1), or 62.13 (2e) (a), or special criminal investigation agent employed by the department of justice.”.
60.553 (1), 61.66 (1), or 62.13 (2e) (a), or special criminal investigation agent employed by the department of justice.
3.
SECTION 7.
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40.05 (1) (a) 7.
delete the material beginning with that line and ending with page 5, line 17, and substitute:
of the statutes is created to read:
“40.05 (1) (a) 7.
40.05 (1) (a) 7.
3., the percentage of earnings equal to the total actuarially required contribution rate, as approved by the board under s.
3., the percentage of earnings equal to the total actuarially required contribution rate, as approved by the LRB-1299/1 - 2024 Legislature - 5 - MIM:skw SECTION 7 SENATE BILL 28 board under s.
Contributions under this section for an employee LRBa0030/1 - 2024 Legislature - 3 - MIM:amn/wlj/cjs who first becomes a participating employee as a county jailer in a county that did not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants on the effective date of this subdivision ....
Contributions under this section for an employee who first becomes a participating employee as a county jailer and is certified as a protective occupation participant on or after the effective date of this subdivision ....
[LRB inserts date], and is certified as a protective occupation participant on or after the effective date of this subdivision ....
[LRB inserts date], and is employed by a county that did not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants on July 1, 2022, shall be made by a reduction in salary and, for tax purposes, shall be treated as employer contributions under section 414 (h) (2) of the Internal Revenue Code.
[LRB inserts date], shall be made by a reduction in salary and, for tax purposes, shall be treated as employer contributions under section 414 (h) (2) of the Internal Revenue Code.
A participating employee may not elect to have contributions required by sub.
Such a participating employee may not elect to have contributions required by sub.
[LRB inserts date], in a county that did not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants on the effective date of this subdivision ....
[LRB inserts date], and are employed in a county that did not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants on July 1, 2022, shall make the contribution under this section on an after-tax basis.
[LRB inserts date], shall make the contribution under this section on a post-tax basis.
SECTION 8.
For employees who are employed as county jailers in a county that classified county jailers as protective occupation participants on the effective date of this subdivision ....
40.05 (1) (b) 1.
[LRB inserts date], the county may at a subsequent date determine to categorize county jailers as general participating employees.
of the statutes is amended to read:
In such instance, a county jailer who is employed by the county on the date the county determines to categorize county jailers as general participating employees may make a one-time irrevocable election to not be a protective occupation participant.
40.05 (1) (b) 1.
A county jailer in such a county who opts to remain a protective occupation participant shall make the contribution under this section on a post-tax basis.
Except as otherwise provided in a collective bargaining agreement entered into under subch.
A county jailer who is first hired as a county jailer by such a county after the date the county determines to categorize county jailers as general participating employees may make a one-time irrevocable election to not LRBa0030/1 - 2024 Legislature - 4 - MIM:amn/wlj/cjs become a protective occupation participant.
IV or V of ch.
A county jailer who is first hired as a county jailer by such a county after the date the county determines to categorize county jailers as general participating employees and who opts to become a protective occupation participant shall make the contribution under this section on a pre-tax basis.”.
111 and except as provided in subd.
4.
2., an employer may not pay, on behalf of a participating employee, any of the contributions required by par.
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(a)The Except as provided in subd.
delete lines 10 to 18 and substitute:
1a., the contributions required by par.
“40.05 (2) (ap) The contributions under par.
(a) shall be made by a reduction in salary and, for tax purposes, shall be considered employer contributions under section 414 (h) (2) of the Internal Revenue Code.
A participating employee may not elect to have - 2024 Legislature - 6 - LRB-1299/1 MIM:skw SENATE BILL 28 SECTION 8 contributions required by par.
(a) paid directly to the employee or make a cash or deferred election with respect to the contributions.
SECTION 9.
40.05 (1) (b) 1a.
of the statutes is created to read:
40.05 (1) (b) 1a.
Contributions under par.
(a) 7.
that are made by county jailers who are first certified as protective occupation participants on or after the effective date of this subdivision ....
[LRB inserts date], and who are employed in a county that did not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants on July 1, 2022, shall be treated as employee contributions.
SECTION 10.
40.05 (2) (ap) of the statutes is created to read:
40.05 (2) (ap) The contributions under par.
[LRB inserts date], and is one of the following:
[LRB inserts date], and is employed in a county that did not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants on July 1, 2022.
1.
SECTION 11.
Employed in a county that did not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants on the effective date of this subdivision ....
40.05 (2) (ar) of the statutes is renumbered 40.05 (2) (ar) 1.
[LRB inserts date].
and amended to read:
2.
40.05 (2) (ar) 1.
Employed in a county that classified county jailers as protective occupation participants on the effective date of this subdivision ....
Participatingcept as provided in subd.
[LRB inserts date], and the county subsequently determines to not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants and instead classify county jailers as general participating employees.”.
2., participating employers of employees subject to s.
5.
40.65 shall contribute an additional percentage or percentages of those employees' earnings based on the experience rates determined to be appropriate by the board with the advice of the actuary.
Page 7, line 1:
SECTION 12.
delete lines 1 to 10 and substitute:
40.05 (2) (ar) 2.
LRBa0030/1 - 2024 Legislature - 5 - MIM:amn/wlj/cjs “40.05 (2) (ar) 2.
of the statutes is created to read:
LRB-1299/1 - 2024 Legislature - 7 - MIM:skw S ECTION 12 SENATE BILL 28 40.05 (2) (ar) 2.
[LRB inserts date], in a county that did not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants on the effective date of this subdivision ....
[LRB inserts date], and are employed in a county that did not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants on July 1, 2022, may make the contribution under subd.
[LRB inserts date], may make the contribution under subd.
[LRB inserts date], in a county that did not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants on the effective date of this subdivision ....
[LRB inserts date], and are employed in a county that did not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants on July 1, 2022, shall make the contribution under subd.
[LRB inserts date], shall make the contribution under subd.
For employees who are employed as county jailers in a county that classified county jailers as protective occupation participants on the effective date of this subdivision ....
SECTION 13.
[LRB inserts date], the county may at a subsequent date determine to categorize county jailers as general participating employees.
40.23 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
In such instance, a county jailer who is employed by the county on the date the county determines to categorize county jailers as general participating employees may make a one-time irrevocable election to not be a protective occupation participant.
40.23 (3) (a) Except as provided in par.
A county jailer in such a county who opts to remain a protective occupation participant shall make the contribution under subd.
pars.
1.
(b) and (c), the initial monthly amount of any retirement annuity in the normal form shall not be less than the money purchase annuity which can be provided by applying the sum of the participant's accumulated additional and required contributions, including interest credited to the accumulations, plus an amount from the employer accumulation reserve equal to the participant's accumulated required contributions, less any accumulated contributions to purchase other governmental service under s.
on a post-tax basis.
40.25 (7), 2001 stats., or s.
A county jailer who is first hired as a county jailer by such a county after the date the county determines to categorize county jailers as general participating employees may make a one-time irrevocable election to not become a protective occupation participant.
40.285 (2) (b) to fund the annuity in accordance with the actuarial tables in effect on the annuity effective date.
Acounty jailer who is first hired as a county jailer by such a county after the date the county determines to categorize county jailers as general participating LRBa0030/1 - 2024 Legislature - 6 - MIM:amn/wlj/cjs employees and who opts to become a protective occupation participant shall make the contribution under subd.
SECTION 14.
1.
40.23 (3) (c) of the statutes is created to read:
on a pre-tax basis.”.
40.23 (3) (c) Under par.
6.
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delete the material beginning with that line and ending with page 8, line 3, and substitute:
“40.23 (3) (c) Under par.
This paragraph applies only to a county jailer who becomes a protective occupation participant on or after the effective date of this paragraph ....
This paragraph applies only to a county jailer who becomes a - 2024 Legislature - 8 - LRB-1299/1 MIM:skw SENATE BILL 28 SECTION 14 protective occupation participant on or after the effective date of this paragraph ....
[LRB inserts date], and is one of the following:
[LRB inserts date], and is employed in a county that did not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants on July 1, 2022.
1.
SECTION 15.
Employed in a county that did not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants on the effective date of this subdivision ....
40.28 (1) (a) 2.
[LRB inserts date].
of the statutes is amended to read:
2.
40.28 (1) (a) 2.
Employed in a county that classified county jailers as protective occupation participants on the effective date of this subdivision ....
[LRB inserts date], and the county subsequently determines to not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants and instead classify county jailers as general participating employees.”.
7.
Page 8, line 5:
delete lines 5 to 14 and substitute:
“40.28 (1) (a) 2.
40.05 (2) (a), including interest, LRBa0030/1 - 2024 Legislature - 7 - MIM:amn/wlj/cjs reserved for a variable annuity on the date the annuity begins.
40.05 (2) (a), including interest, reserved for a variable annuity on the date the annuity beginsThe amount applicable for a county jailer only applies to a county jailer who becomes a protective occupation participant on or after the effective date of this subdivision ....
The amount applicable for a county jailer applies only to a county jailer who becomes a protective occupation participant on or after the effective date of this subdivision ....
[LRB inserts date], and who is employed in a county that did not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants on July 1, 2022;
[LRB inserts date], and who is either employed in a county that did not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants on the effective date of this subdivision ....
and SECTION 16.
[LRB inserts date], or employed in a county that classified county jailers as protective occupation participants on the effective date of this subdivision ....
40.65 (4w) of the statutes is created to read:
[LRB inserts date], and the county subsequently determines to not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants and instead classify county jailers as general participating employees;
40.65 (4w) A county jailer who becomes a protective occupation participant on or after the effective date of this subsection ....
and”.
[LRB inserts date], is not entitled to a duty disability benefit under this section for an injury or disease occurring before the effective date of this subsection ....
8.
[LRB inserts date].
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SECTION 17.
delete the material beginning with that line and ending with page 9, line 5, and substitute:
“S ECTION17g.
of the statutes is renumbered 40.73 (1) (am) 3.
of the statutes is amended to read:
(intro.) and amended to read:
(intro.) Twice the employee required contributions, after first subtracting the accumulations under subd.
Twice the employee required contributions, after first subtracting the accumulations under subd.
40.05 (2) (a), after first subtracting the accumulations under subd.
40.05 (2) (a), after first subtracting the LRB-1299/1 - 2024 Legislature - 9 - MIM:skw S ECTION 17 SENATE BILL 28 accumulations under subd.
The amount applicable for a county jailer applies only to a county jailer who becomes a protective occupation participant on or after the effective date of this subdivision ....
The amount applicable for a county jailer only applies to a county jailer who becomes a protective occupation participant on or after the effective date of this subdivision ....
[LRB inserts date], and who is one of the following:
[LRB inserts date], and who is employed in a county that did not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants on July 1, 2022.
S ECTION 17r.
SECTION 18.
40.73 (1) (am) 3.
59.52 (8m) of the statutes is created to read:
a.
59.52 (8m) E MPLOYMENT OF COUNTY JAILERS.
and b.
The board shall provide to an individual who is employed as a county jailer an option to elect not to be a protective occupation participant under s.
of the statutes are created to read:
LRBa0030/1 - 2024 Legislature - 8 - MIM:amn/wlj/cjs 40.73 (1) (am) 3.
a.
Employed in a county that did not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants on the effective date of this subd.
3.
a.
....
[LRB inserts date].
b.
Employed in a county that classified county jailers as protective occupation participants on the effective date of this subd.
3.
b.
....
[LRB inserts date], and the county subsequently determines to not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants and instead classify county jailers as general participating employees.”.
9.
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delete lines 7 to 11 and substitute:
“59.52(8m) E MPLOYMENT OF COUNTY JAILERS.
(a) The board of an employer that did not classify county jailers as protective occupation participants on the effective date of this paragraph ....
[LRB inserts date], shall provide to an individual who is employed as a county jailer the irrevocable option to elect not to be a protective occupation participant under s.
when hired after the effective date of this paragraph ....
at the time the individual is hired as a county jailer.
[LRB inserts date], as a county jailer for the employer.
An individual shall make an election under this subsection in writing on a form provided by the board.
An individual shall make an election under this paragraph within 60 days of being hired, in writing and on a form provided by the board.
SECTION 19.
(b) The board of an employer that classified county jailers as protective occupation participants on the effective date of this paragraph ....
111.70 (4) (bn) of the statutes is created to read:
[LRB inserts date], and that subsequent to that date determines to classify county jailers as general participating employees shall provide to an individual who is employed as a county jailer on the date the board of the employer determines to classify county jailers as general participating employees the irrevocable option to not be a protective occupation participant under s.
111.70 (4) (bn) Public safety employee determination regarding county jailers.
40.02 (48) (b) 5.
1.
Such a board shall provide notice LRBa0030/1 - 2024 Legislature - 9 - MIM:amn/wlj/cjs to county jailers of the board's determination and a jailer's opportunity to remain a protective occupation participant in writing, in a manner that the employer typically uses to provide notices to employees, and shall post such a notice where notices to employees are customarily posted.
Except as provided under subd.
An individual shall make an election under this paragraph within 60 days after the determination by the board of the employer to classify county jailers as general participating employees, in writing and on a form provided by the board.
2., a county jailer, as defined in s.
(c) The board of an employer that classified county jailers as protective occupation participants on the effective date of this paragraph ....
40.02 (48) (b) 5., is a general municipal employee.
[LRB inserts date], and that subsequent to that date determines to classify county jailers as general participating employees shall provide to an individual who is hired as a county jailer after the date the board of the employer determines to classify county jailers as general participating employees the irrevocable option to elect to not become a protective occupation participant under s.
2.
40.02 (48) (b) 5.
A county that treats a county jailer as a public safety employee on the effective date of this subdivision ....
An individual shall make an election under this paragraph within 60 days after being hired, in writing and on a form provided by the board.”.
[LRB inserts date], shall continue to treat any person it employs as a county jailer as a public safety employee except that, if the county raises a question concerning the appropriateness of including county jailers in a collective bargaining unit that includes public safety employees, no person it employs as a county jailer may be treated as a public safety employee.
10.
SECTION 20.0Nonstatutory provision.
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(1) C OUNTY JAILER OPT OUT FROM PROTECTIVE OCCUPATION PARTICIPANT STATUS UNDER WISCONSINR ETIREMENTS YSTEM.No later than 60 days after the effective date of this subsection, if an individual employed as a county jailer on the effective date - 2024 Legislature - 10 - LRB-1299/1 MIM:skw SENATE BILL 28 SECTION 20 of this subsection does not want to be a protective occupation participant under the Wisconsin Retirement System, the individual shall notify his or her employer in writing on a form provided by the employer.
after “subsection” insert “who is not a protective occupation participant on the effective date of this subsection”.
An election not to be a protective occupation participant is irrevocable.
SECTION 21.0Effective date.
(1) This act takes effect on the January 1 after publication.
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Action History

  1. Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  2. Senator Wirch added as a coauthor

  3. Available for scheduling

  4. Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0

  5. Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 8, Noes 0

  6. Executive action taken

  7. Public hearing held

  8. Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Marklein

  9. Representatives Andraca and Pronschinske added as cosponsors

  10. Fiscal estimate received

  11. Senator Quinn added as a coauthor

  12. Fiscal estimate received

  13. Representative Jacobson added as a cosponsor

  14. Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety

  15. Introduced by Senators Marklein, Ballweg, Feyen, Jacque, Jagler, James, L. Johnson, Smith and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Born, Allen, Armstrong, Behnke, Brooks, Callahan, C. Anderson, Dittrich, Donovan, Edming, Emerson, Green, Gustafson, Joers, Kitchens, Krug, Macco, Magnafici, Moses, Murphy, Mursau, Nedweski, Novak, O'Connor, Penterman, Petryk, Plumer, Ratcliff, Rodriguez, Rozar, Schraa, Shankland, Snyder, Sortwell, Spiros, Steffen, Subeck, Summerfield, Tranel, Tusler, VanderMeer, Wittke and Zimmerman

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Who sponsors SB 28?
SB 28 is sponsored by Marklein, Howard (Republican), Ballweg, Feyen, Dan (Republican), Jacque, André (Republican), Jagler, John (Republican), James, Jesse (Republican), Johnson, LaTonya (Democrat), Smith, Jeff (Democrat), and Spreitzer, Mark (Democrat).
What is the current status of SB 28?
This bill died with 2023-2024 Regular Session. It reached “To Executive” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
Where can I track SB 28?
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