-Date 2026of LEGISLATUREenactment: LRB-1253/1 MIM:amn ASSEMBLY BILL 241 May 2, 2025 - Introduced by RepresentatiAXEY, NEYLON, RMSTRONG , BRIL, BROOKS , DITTRICH, FRANKLIN, GOEBEN , GREEN, GUNDRUM , GUSTAFSON, KNODL , M ELOTIK, M URPHY, N OVAK, O'CONNOR , PENTERMAN , T UCKER, W ICHGERS, WITTKE and ZIMMERMAN , cosponsored by Senators APENGA, CABRAL -GUEVARA, EYEN , UTTON , ACQUE, AMES and STAFSHOLT.

ReferredAssembly toBill Committee241 onDate Workforceof Development,publication*: Labor, and Integrated Employment.

WISCONSIN ACT A N A CT to renumber and amend 106.015 (1)(1); of the statutes;

to amend 106.015 (2);

to create 106.015 (1g) and 106.015 (1s) of the statutes;

AnalysisThe bypeople theof Legislative Reference Bureau Under current law, the Departmentstate of WorkforceWisconsin, Developmentrepresented mayin notsen- prescribe,under enforce,this orchapter, authorizeidentified aas ratiobeing ofa apprenticesconstruction toate journeyworkersand forassembly, apprenticeshipdo programsenact oras apprenticefollows: contracts that requires more than one journeyworker for each apprentice.

Thistrade. bill increases the allowable ratio to one journeyworker to two apprentices.

TheS peopleECTION of1g. the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

106.015 (1s) of the statutes is created SECTION 1.1b.

106.015 (1) of the statutes is amendedrenum- to read:

bered 106.015 (1)(1m) Exceptand asamended providedto inread: sub.

(2),106.015 the(1m) departmentExcept mayas notprovided prescribe,in enforce,sub. or authorize, whether through the promulgation of a rule, the issuance of a general or special order, the approval of an apprenticeship program or apprentice contract, or otherwise, a ratio of apprentices to journeyworkers for apprenticeship - 2026 Legislature - 2 - LRB-1253/1 MIM:amn ASSEMBLY BILL 241 S ECTION 1 programs or apprentice contracts that requires more than one journeyworker for each apprentice 2 apprentices.

SECTIONsubs. 2.

Initial(1s) applicability.106.015 (1s) Except as provided in subs.

(1)(1m) Thisand actand first(2), appliesthe todepartment may not prescribe, enforce, or (2), the department may not prescribe, enforce, or au- authorize, whether through the promulgation of a rule, thorize, whether through the promulgation of a rule, the the issuance of a general or special order, the approval of issuance of a general or special order, the approval of an apprenticeship contractprogram governedor byapprentice contract, or other- an apprenticeship program or apprentice contract, or otherwise, a collectiveratio bargainingof agreementapprentices thatto containsjourneyworkers provisionsfor thatwise, area inconsistentratio withof thisapprentices actto onjourneyworkers thefor dayap- apprenticeship programs or apprentice contracts that there- agreementprenticeship expiresprograms or isapprentice extended,contracts modifiedthat re- quires more than one journeyworker for each apprentice quires more than one journeyworker for 2 apprentices in in any trade, craft, or renewed,business whicheverthat occursis first.not a construction a construction trade.

ENDtrade. )

S ECTION 1r.

106.015 (2) of the statutes is amended SECTION 1e.

106.015 (1g) of the statutes is created to read:

to read:

106.015 (2) The prohibition prohibitions under sub.

106.015 (1g) In this section, “construction trade” (1) does subs.

(1m) and (1s) do not apply with respect to means a trade, craft, or business that the department has, apprentices whose employment is governed by a collec- for purposes of its approval of apprenticeship programs tive bargaining agreement.

ernor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”