Lame duck session

There is a lame duck session next week, the first week of December. The Wheeler Report has the bills that will be passed. LRB-6074 LRB-6073 LRB-6072 LRB-6071 LRB-6070 These bills are a mess. The Legislative Reference Bureau evidently has been responding to multiple demands and then rushed all those demands together into these bills. As a result, the same changes are included in multiple bills. For instance, the elimination of the solicitor general’s office is in both LRB 17-6074 and 17-6071. Many other changes are double-listed in these bills. The media is focusing on the simpler changes to when the 2020 Supreme Court election will occur and changes to WEDC appointments. Those are small potatoes to what is going on with these bills, however. These bills represent a massive expansion of legislative oversight alongside sharp limitations on executive discretion and authority through administrative agency action. In this light, the changes in unemployment law are relatively…

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