Legislature

GOP lawmakers send a therapy-related bill to the committee. Democrats predict the measure will stall.

Wisconsin Republicans are poised to block a new policy from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers requiring students to get vaccinated against meningitis and tightening student chickenpox vaccination mandates.

The "independent state legislature" theory could change the future of all elections in Wisconsin and around the nation.

A dispute has broken out between Republicans and some business groups over state legislation that sponsors say would make it easier to sell electric vehicles in Wisconsin.

On Thursday, Wisconsin’s Joint Committee on Finance held an executive session on the state’s biennial budget. One of the biggest sections of the budget is on the state’s Department of Corrections.

Republicans in control of the Wisconsin Legislature's budget committee approved nearly $1.5 billion in building projects around the state Tuesday, about $810 million less than Democratic Gov. Tony Evers proposed.

Wisconsin cities that cut their policing budgets would lose state funding under a GOP legislative proposal.

After recent deadly shootings in Atlanta, Colorado and California, and gun violence that continues to plague cities around the country, including Milwaukee, Democrats are urging the Wisconsin Legislature to act on gun reform.

The Wisconsin Legislature voted to take control of the state's share of the federal coronavirus stimulus package away Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and give lawmakers the ability to decide how to spend the money. The GOP-controlled Assembly also passed bills that would prohibit the government and employers from requiring people to be vaccinated for COVID-19.