The Legislative Fiscal Bureau has prepared a memorandum comparing 2007-09 budget recommendations of the Governor, Joint Committee on Finance, Senate, and Assembly. Comparisons are shown in the following areas: All funds appropriations General fund appropriations …
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WI Budget Conference Committee Explained
From the JS Online Capitol Podcast: In the coming weeks, a conference committee of state legislators will sit down at the bargaining table — peace-treaty style — in an attempt to develop a compromise version …
WisconsinEye Hits Airwaves Today
Live WisconsinEye cable television coverage of the State Legislature begins at noon today. From the press release posted on WisPolitics.com: The WisconsinEye 24/7 cable channel will be available beginning tomorrow to Time Warner Cable Wisconsin …
Bill Drafts Can Stay Secret
JS Online reports that: A Dane County judge ruled Wednesday that drafts of what may become formal bills in the Legislature do not have to be made public under the open records law, even if …
Recent WI Attorney General Opinions
WI Attorney General Van Hollen has recently issued several new opinions – two formal and one informal. They are available on the Attorney General’s web site. I created a crude RSS feed using Ponyfish. It’s …
WisconsinEye Set to Start Cable Broadcast Next Week
According to today’s Wisconsin State Journal, WisconsinEye could start broadcasting gavel-to-gavel coverage from the state Capitol to cable-television viewers as early as next Tuesday. WisconsinEye began broadcasting from its web site about a month ago. …
LRB to Put 2005 Drafting Records on Web
More news from the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau: According to Allan Marty, the LRB and LTSB (Legislative Technology Services Bureau) are in the process of putting the 2005 Legislative Drafting Records on the LRB website. …
Change in Terms for RSB Move
I spoke with LRB Chief Steve Miller this afternoon and he informed me that there has been some changes regarding the Revisor of Statutes move. As I posted earlier, in an amendment to the proposed …
More on the Proposed Elimination of the Revisor of Statutes Bureau
There is an article in the May 28th edition of the Wisconsin Law Journal on the proposed elimination of the Revisor of Statutes Bureau. If passed, the workload would be split amongst the Legislative Reference …
GPO Authenticating Laws for 110th Congress
GPO has announced that authenticated Public and Private Laws for the 110th Congress are now available on GPO Access as a searchable and browseable application in beta form. GPO’s Authentication initiative focuses on the primary …