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- 2026 LEGISLATURE LRBa0669/1 MED:cdc ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 1, TO ASSEMBLY BILL 650 December 29, 2025 - Offered by RepresentatiELOTIK.
- 2026 LEGISLATURE LRB-4813/1 MED:cjs ASSEMBLY BILL 650 November 13, 2025 - Introduced by OMMITTEE ON W ORKFORCE D EVELOPMENT , LABOR ,AND INTEGRATED E MPLOYMENT .
At the locations indicated, amend the bill as follows:
Referred to Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment.
1.
A N A CT to amend 20.445 (1) (aL) of the statutes;
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relating to:
delete “identity verification under the unemployment insurance law” and substitute “the department of workforce development”.
funding for identity verification under the unemployment insurance law and making an appropriation.
2.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau Current law appropriates funding to the Department of Workforce Development for various costs associated with drug testing under the unemployment insurance law, with the unspent funds being directed to the unemployment program integrity fund at the end of every fiscal year.
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This bill allows this funding to also be used for costs associated with identity proofing of claimants for which federal funding is unavailable.
after that line insert:
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
“SECTION 2m.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
20.445 (1) (sm) of the statutes is amended to read:
SECTION 1.
20.445 (1) (sm) Uninsured employers fund;
20.445 (1) (aL) of the statutes is amended to read:
payments.
20.445 (1) (aL) Unemployment insurance administration;
From the uninsured employers fund, a sum sufficient to make the payments under s.
controlled - 2026 Legislature - 2 - LRB-4813/1 MED:cjs ASSEMBLY BILL 650 S ECTION 1 substances testing and substance abuse treatment;
102.81 (1) and to obtain reinsurance pay the costs specified under s.
identity proofing.
102.81 (2).
Biennially, the amounts in the schedule for conducting screenings of applicants, testing applicants for controlled substances, the provision of substance abuse treatment to applicants and claimants, and related expenses under s.
No moneys may be expended or encumbered under this paragraph until the first day of the first July beginning after the day that the secretary of workforce development files the certificate under s.
108.133 and for costs related to identity proofing under s.
102.80 (3) (a).
108.14 (10m) for which federal funding is unavailable.
S ECTION 3m.
Notwithstanding s.
Fiscal changes.
20.001 (3) (b), the unencumbered balance on June 30 of each odd-numbered year shall be transferred to the unemployment program integrity fund.
- 2026 Legislature - 2 - LRBa0669/1 MED:cdc (1) In the schedule under s.
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20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the department of workforce development under s.
20.445 (1) (ra), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2025-26 is increased by $834,700 for the purpose for which the appropriation is made.
In the schedule under s.
20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the department of workforce development under s.
20.445 (1) (ra), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2026-27 is increased by $941,800 for the purpose for which the appropriation is made.”.
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