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Senate GOP to Amend Assembly COVID-19 Bill
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | January 11, 2021
From WisPolitics.com …
Senate Republicans plan to amend the Assembly’s COVID-19 bill to drop provisions that would bar employers from requiring a vaccine as a condition of employment and strip local and state officials of the power to restrict gatherings at places of worship.
The substitute amendment a Senate committee plans to take up today also would drop an Assembly provision that would require a two-thirds vote by school boards before providing virtual instruction. Under the Assembly bill, that approval would have to be renewed every 14 days.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, introduced his bill a week ago, expressing confidence the Senate would take it up and pass it. But not long before the Assembly went to the floor, Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, told reporters there wasn’t an agreement on the bill.
Senate GOP leaders had originally planned to have the Finance Committee have a public hearing on the bill before amending it. They instead will put the bill before Senate Org for the public hearing later this morning and then an exec.
Read the substitute amendment here.
See the Assembly bill here.
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